Wednesday, November 20, 2024 →
📸 The exchange rate with the yen was just too appealing. I upgraded to an Apple Watch series 10 while in Tokyo.
Technology
🔗 I’m considering buying the new Apple Watch… once I get to Japan
No thanks, Apple. Not yet, anyway,
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
While I’m enjoying Apple’s product announcements this week, I’m in no way tempted to part with my cash. I’m typing this on a nearly new MacBook Pro with an M3 chip, and in the bag to my right is an iPad Pro bought just a couple of months ago. So, I have absolutely no need for more hardware from the good fellows at Apple. (Except for a new Apple Watch, but I’ll share my tortured reasoning to justify that purchase in another post).✏️ I added a ‘Now’ page on my blog (seems all the kids are doing it these days…)
🍏 Oooh… new iPad mini announcement. I’m very tempted, but it’ll be so much cheaper in Japan. And I’m going to be in Osaka in less than the month. The difference makes it definitely worthwhile to hold off on ordering until then.
🧠 Another evening when my thoughts turn to simplifying my life and deleting some social media accounts. There are just too many of them for me to maintain, too many subscriptions, too much…hassle.
⚡️ Looks like I can finally update my M4 iPad Pro to iPadOS 18. While I’m glad I didn’t get caught up in all the ‘bricking’ of iPads that was going on, it’s still nuts that the latest iPad Pro can only be updated nearly three weeks after the OS is released.
Anyway. I just know that my life will be changed forever by the addition of a calculator app.
📱 Another iOS update where I’m loving the updates to the Reminders app, yet still don’t see it as a suitable replacement for Things 3. For me, at least.
Wish we could select our own default reminders app. Maybe it’s on Margrethe Vesteger’s todo list for the year ahead… 😉
Saturday, September 21, 2024 →
📱 Please don’t yuck other people’s yum:
You do you, let me do me. We can’t all like the same things, nor should we. But at the risk of boring repetition, please pause before you hit ‘post’. You might be yucking someone else’s yum and take just a little bit of spark out of their day.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 →
📱 Once again attempting to update my Apple Watch to the latest OS. Thoughts and prayers…
📱 I’ve updated my iPhone 15 Pro and my iPad mini.
The MacBook Pro will need to wait until I’m back in London, as there’s work to be done! Haven’t had time to dive deeply into the new functionality of iOS yet, but noticed a few nice interface and design changes. So far, so good!
📱 Updating to iOS18… see you on the other side.
📱 So I’m assuming that those of us in Europe will have to wait until much later in the day before iOS18 is available for download?
Thursday, September 12, 2024 →
📱 Still naked
Over a week ago, I took off my case to clean the phone and didn’t put it back on.
👉🏻 Read on…
📸 Settling in at home to watch the Apple event.
📱 Preoccupied with today’s Apple announcements.
👉🏻 Apple event expectations. I’m hoping to spend absolutely nothing (none of my gadgets need upgrading) and just get excited about the OS updates.
💻 A summary of what I did, thought and experienced this week:
✈️ Considering airborne productivity
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
A brief layover at home before heading out after dinner to a local pub quiz. If I’m honest, I’d much prefer to stay in and get some more work done ahead of this weekend’s holidays. But I’ve agreed, so I’ll have to make the most of it. It’s a nice bunch of friends and it’s my first time attending this particular quiz. Plus, it was a nightmare finding a date and time that suited us all.💻 Currently setting up my new Macbook Pro
🗑️ Got a reminder from Amazon that Prime was going to renew in just a few days. The perfect opportunity to cancel! I barely use the video service, am actively trying to buy less junk online, and never touched any of the other Prime ‘benefits’.
A very easy way to save £95 per year.
Disappointed to see no mention of “banning speakerphone in public” in this morning’s King’s Speech to parliament.
Time to start a petition, I think…
💻 One month of blogging with Pika: a review
If a blogging platform’s success is measured in how many posts you write, then Pika is the best platform I’ve used in an age! I’ve been writing almost daily (or sometimes more than once per day) as there’s zero friction.
💡 I spent the weekend intentionally disconnecting from work and instead spending time with family.
And you know what? I came back to London feeling great!
New blog post: Disconnecting.
🍏 Reflecting on working with my iPad Pro:
So can you do work on the iPad Pro? Of course, and I’m living proof. Can you do every kind of work – well, I certainly can’t, not without making a lot of sacrifices or incurring a lot of hassle I just don’t need when I’m at work.
I’m left pretty underwhelmed by that Apple announcement. Nothing I need / want right now. I’m just excited for the potentially huge updates to iOS and PadOS to be announced at WWDC next month.
🍏 Where’s my iPad excitement?
💾 It’s PKM love!
There’s no such thing as the perfect app or method. But there is the app that works for me. The app that ticks the majority of my boxes and allows me to gather, organise and use information with the minimum of fuss and friction.
👉🏻 Read on…
WWDC planning fail
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
I just spotted the Apple WWDC 2024 announcement and quickly opened my calendar to put the keynote in, so I can watch along live. This geek has to know immediately how Apple are introducing new bells and whistles to all my favourite apps. But horror of horrors, I’m not going to be able to watch live! A quick look at my calendar shows me I’m actually going to be in the middle of Sitges Pride, so I think sitting in front of a tech keynote is going to be the last thing on my mind.In light of developments at Wordpress: A place on the web.
Time to start afresh and not depend 100% on a company that might sell my data.
A good night’s sleep, a fresh perspective and a cup of coffee this morning mean I’ve cancelled my order for an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
It occurs to me that squinting to read a screen indicates a need for less screen time, not a bigger phone screen! There is absolutely nothing wrong with my iPhone 15 Pro. But looking at it too much leads to tired eyes. So I’ll keep the (relatively to the Max) smaller screen and if I need something bigger, there’s always my iPad Mini.