Are you the kind of person who brings an Apple TV with you when you go away on vacation? If you are, you might be a candidate for the gadget I’m about to tell you about. But first, the problem to be solved. When you go away from home for business or vacation, you may […]
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Security Bits – 30 August 2026
Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 8: Clicks, Breaths, Plosives
When repair tools start eating speech This part exists because I did the most tempting thing in the world: I tried to fix mouth noise with a tool. And it did not just smooth things out. It started deleting speech. Not subtly. Not “maybe it is a touch softer”. I mean full consonants disappearing. Occasionally, […]
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My Experience with “Vibe Coding”
On episode 1009, Allison spoke about her addiction to AI “vibe coding”. She mentioned many of her friends were also doing the same. I am one of those friends, and this is the story of my experience. First, a little background. I have been a programmer for around 45 years. I have done it for […]
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Peak Design Phone Bike Mount
The Apple Watch, all by itself, is a capable cycle computer, but when you add in Bluetooth cadence and heart-rate sensors (as previously reviewed), you get a superb cycle computer, just one with an awkwardly small screen! iOS 26 solved that final problem with the Workouts app’s live activity on the iPhone — you can […]
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Scrappy – Digital Scrapbook for Ideas, Research, and Fun
I’ve been a user of Reinvented Software’s Keep It for over 7 years. According to the product page, Keep It is used to create and edit notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, scan documents, edit PDFs, archive emails, save web links in a variety of formats, preview and search just about any kind […]
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Security Bits — 21 August 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. 🇬🇧 Here we go again 🙁: Apple challenges new UK demand to access encrypted iCloud data — cyberinsider.com/… (Another unconfirmed report from the FT because the court is secret and the law imposes a […]
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Visualising Trails with Google Earth Pro
Important info, before you read on… I wrote this article over a month prior to publication. After finishing the writing, and recording for the podcast, Google announced the Google Earth Pro desktop application was being sunsetted! You can still download the application until June 2027, so I decided to publish anyway. Just know that while it […]
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Audiobook Audio (V3) Part 7: The Noise You Notice
The noise that steals attention Quick experiment to start. Imagine you are listening to a narrator in a quiet room, and underneath the voice there is a faint something. Not loud. Not obviously bad audio. Just a little texture. Now imagine that texture changes every twenty seconds. That little moment of checking is the problem […]
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Apple Photos – Making Your Memories Last with an Easy to Access Archive
Over the last Christmas holidays, I saw a Toot on Mastodon from Rui Carmo saying that Apple Photos had dreadful exporting and archiving features. He thought there was a better way and so wrote a Mac command line tool, using Swift, to address what he saw as the shortcomings. Reading the instructions on GitHub, it […]
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