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2018

hello world. (2) 23 March 2018

2017

Using AppleScript to collect data from your inbox. 12 March 2017

2016

In Case of Emergency. 2 May 2016
Further duplication. 2 May 2016
Another camera that follows you. 1 May 2016
When the OS X Installer can’t be verified. 22 February 2016

2015

Make a bootable USB drive with createinstallmedia. 23 November 2015
Download YouTube videos without dodgy software. 16 November 2015
Cheapest headphones. 8 July 2015
Panasonic RP-HJE125 earphones. 3 July 2015
The other camera that follows you. 3 July 2015
Apple Airport firmware updates. 3 July 2015
The camera that follows you. 16 May 2015
Plugs, plugs, plugs. 14 May 2015
Fixed embedded videos. 14 May 2015
Why is wifi onboard a train so slow? 17 April 2015
An update on the Google diet. 29 March 2015
Removing duplicate photos in iPhoto. 25 March 2015
Not dead. 25 March 2015

2014

iPod. 15 April 2014
The Finer Things. 15 April 2014

2013

Cheap headphones. 22 November 2013
The Bear and the Hare. 18 November 2013
On ideas. 30 October 2013
Disbelief. 13 September 2013
RHA MA350 earphones. 12 September 2013
Ess and cee. 5 September 2013
iPhone 5 challengers, one year on. 3 September 2013
Bono on Ive. 27 August 2013
Apple’s bulging sack. 22 August 2013
The upside down Apple logo. 10 July 2013
CLOADM. 3 July 2013
iOS 7 app icons. 11 June 2013
HP’s envy. 31 May 2013
Beginning a Google diet. 31 May 2013
Umbrella. 7 February 2013
Paperman. 7 February 2013

2012

Changes. 27 November 2012
“Today I want to tell you three stories from my life…” 5 October 2012
“I have opinions on most things, so…” 4 October 2012
Pixels. 14 August 2012
Fullscreen Firefox in Mountain Lion. 14 August 2012
iPhone 4 ownership two years on. 27 June 2012
Mountain Lion, iOS 6 and new MacBooks. 13 June 2012
Toshiba SD490EKB. 25 May 2012
Revealing your Facebook profile. 18 May 2012
MB706B. 15 May 2012
The Great British plug. 15 May 2012
The greatest geek who ever lived. 15 May 2012
Understanding Disney FastPlay. 23 April 2012
pA$$w0rD. 13 April 2012
Dropbox referrals. 10 April 2012
Invoked Computing. 26 March 2012
Power adaptor passwords. 26 March 2012
Out of the box. 20 March 2012
Fount. 14 March 2012
Folding plug. 12 March 2012
The new iPad. 8 March 2012
Design you don’t notice. (3) 7 March 2012
Ubuntu for Android. 7 March 2012
HP Z1. 6 March 2012
Windows UI concept. 5 March 2012
Software Update in Mountain Lion. 5 March 2012
iOS graphics glitches. 2 March 2012
Lytro reviewed. 2 March 2012
Cryoscope. 1 March 2012
Everything is a remix. (part 4) 29 February 2012
Dell’s MacBook Air. 29 February 2012
ADzero. 29 February 2012
41 megapixels!!!!one!! 27 February 2012
Spare One. 27 February 2012
That twin-screen laptop idea. 23 February 2012
iPhone Micro USB adapter. 23 February 2012
Mountain Lion. 16 February 2012
Magic carpet. 15 February 2012
Vee twelve. 9 February 2012
Moses! 9 February 2012
Kem. 6 February 2012
The Wirecutter. 6 February 2012
The Hidden Radio. 3 February 2012
Up close. 3 February 2012
Tittles, Ferrules and Morton’s Toe. 2 February 2012
On John Browett. 1 February 2012
Command and Conquer. 1 February 2012
Maut ka kuaa. 31 January 2012
Qlocks. 31 January 2012
Library. 30 January 2012
WinZip whinge. 26 January 2012
Long exposures. 26 January 2012
Remote capture. 24 January 2012
Dear Photograph. 23 January 2012
Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud some months on. 23 January 2012
Alan Sailer. 20 January 2012

2011

Design you don’t notice. (2) 24 November 2011
Swears. 24 November 2011
Fad or future? 26 October 2011
Rather alarming. 24 October 2011
Celebrating Steve. 24 October 2011
iPhone 4S reviews. 12 October 2011
Design you don’t notice. 10 October 2011
On the iPhone 4S. 10 October 2011
RIP Steve. 7 October 2011
5 ways to annoy computer users. 22 September 2011
A busy fortnight. 26 August 2011
Traffic egg-timer. 26 August 2011
Running from camera. 27 July 2011
Electricity. 27 July 2011
The exciting and the new. 27 July 2011
It could be me. A conclusion. 15 July 2011
Reducing the life of your lightbulbs. 11 July 2011
Fewer wet floors. 8 July 2011
Everything is a remix. 7 July 2011
Solar power. 6 July 2011
Apple censoring mail? 6 July 2011
iPhone 4 ownership one year on. 1 July 2011
I love my dad. 17 June 2011
Coincidence. 16 June 2011
iCloud. 8 June 2011
Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud. 7 June 2011
Looks like a Mac. 3 June 2011
The wireless viewfinder. 2 June 2011
Screw art. 2 June 2011
Twitter on the iPhone. 27 May 2011
On the Mac App Store. 26 May 2011
The Kit-Kat Hand. 5 May 2011
Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh. 1 April 2011
Older people’s perspective. 31 March 2011
iPhone 4 priced up. 25 March 2011
Installing Flash. 23 March 2011
Photographs. 14 March 2011
That’s how i roll. 4 March 2011
Keep an eye on YouGov. 2 March 2011
It could be me. (Draw #52) 28 February 2011
SMBC. 24 February 2011
Somebody, please make this a reality. 24 February 2011
Must reads. 22 February 2011
It could be me. (Draw #51) 21 February 2011
It could be me. (Draw #50) 14 February 2011
It could be me. (Draw #49) 7 February 2011
Top 3 searches. 4 February 2011
Now that’s entertainment. 3 February 2011
Bing caught out. 2 February 2011
Hey Dell. 2 February 2011
It could be me. (Draw #48) 31 January 2011
Dear Google. 26 January 2011
Try again Toshiba. 25 January 2011
Protection. 25 January 2011
Touch-sensitive walls. 25 January 2011
Restart computer. 24 January 2011
It could be me. (Draw #47) 24 January 2011
Want. 21 January 2011
You can’t believe your eyes. 21 January 2011
Go compare. 20 January 2011
It could be me. (Draw #46) 17 January 2011
It could be me. (Draw #45) 10 January 2011
It could be me. (Draw #44) 5 January 2011
It could be me. (Draw #43) 5 January 2011

2010

It could be me. (Draw #42) 20 December 2010
It could be me. (Draw #41) 13 December 2010
It could be me. (Draw #40) 6 December 2010
It could be me. (Draw #39) 29 November 2010
£100,000. 23 November 2010
It could be me. (Draw #38) 22 November 2010
It could be me. (Draw #37) 15 November 2010
It could be me. (Draw #36) 8 November 2010
It could be me. (Draw #35) 1 November 2010
It could be me. (Draw #34) 25 October 2010
It could be me. (Draw #33) 18 October 2010
A simple gallery. 15 October 2010
It could be me. (Draw #32) 11 October 2010
It could be me. (Draw #31) 4 October 2010
FaceNow. 30 September 2010
It could be me. (Draw #30) 27 September 2010
It could be me. (Draw #29) 27 September 2010
It could be me. (Draw #28) 27 September 2010
It could be me. (Draw#27) 27 September 2010
It could be me. (Draw #26) 31 August 2010
Features. 25 August 2010
Take off. 24 August 2010
It could be me. (Draw #25) 23 August 2010
It could be me. (Draw #24) 16 August 2010
It could be me. (Draw #23) 9 August 2010
It could be me. (Draw #22) 5 August 2010
iPhone 4 ownership one month on. 5 August 2010
It could be me. (Draw #21) 27 July 2010
It could be me. (Draw #20) 19 July 2010
That iPhone 4 antenna problem. 15 July 2010
It could be me. (Draw #19) 12 July 2010
It could be me. (Draw #18) 6 July 2010
My first iPhone. 5 July 2010
This is a test. 28 June 2010
It could be me. (Draw #17) 28 June 2010
Recent technological happenings 21 June 2010
A dual-screen laptop that you can buy. 21 June 2010
It could be me. (Draw #16) 21 June 2010
It could be me. (Draw #15) 14 June 2010
It could be me. (Draw #14) 11 June 2010
What, this old thing? 1 June 2010
It could be me. (Draws #12 & #13) 1 June 2010
It could be me. (Draw #11) 17 May 2010
It could be me. (Draw #10) 10 May 2010
It could be me. (Draw #09) 4 May 2010
It could be me. (Draw #08) 26 April 2010
It could be me. (Draw #07) 19 April 2010
Making the Joggler useful. 15 April 2010
It could be me. (Draw #06) 11 April 2010
It could be me. (Draw #05) 11 April 2010
It could be me. (Draw #04) 29 March 2010
Enable two-finger scrolling on your PC. 22 March 2010
It could be me. (Draw #03) 22 March 2010
Write to Amazon. 16 March 2010
How to get a refund on your broken XBOX360. 16 March 2010
It could be me. (Draw #02) 15 March 2010
It could be me. (Draw #01) 8 March 2010
It could be me. 6 March 2010
Flattering Apple. An update. 2 March 2010
iPad round-up. 29 January 2010
Apple’s Joggler. 28 January 2010
Nearly. 27 January 2010
Multi-touch in OSX. 18 January 2010
RT versus Via. 8 January 2010
Flattering Apple. 8 January 2010
DS. 8 January 2010
A long time coming. 7 January 2010
It’s all about touch. 7 January 2010
Sony’s Joggler. 7 January 2010

2009

Unforeseen, unfortunately. 18 December 2009
Amazon Spam. 18 December 2009
A Joggler app store? 16 November 2009
A joke. 10 November 2009
Adamo Ex Pee Es. 6 November 2009
Digital Mockups. 5 November 2009
On the Apple Magic Mouse. 30 October 2009
Underfoot. Again. 30 October 2009
FAT32 formatting in Windows XP. 22 October 2009
External hard drive internals. 22 October 2009
How popular is the O2 Joggler? 20 October 2009
That Palm Pre. 16 October 2009
Letmein. 12 October 2009
Underfoot. 7 October 2009
Decisions, decisions. 7 October 2009
All-Panel Laptop. 6 October 2009
Those new HP ENVY notebooks. 6 October 2009
Bliss. 23 September 2009
Renaming the iPhone. 17 September 2009
Eee Keyboard coming soon. 15 September 2009
Device Drivers Again. 15 September 2009
Bosanko and TalkTalk. 8 September 2009
This is a call… 4 September 2009
Snow Leopard performance. 4 September 2009
Shiny new Apple products. 19 August 2009
There are only 10 types of people… 17 August 2009
Secondary display. On a camera. 14 August 2009
On game pricing. 14 August 2009
Search online for. 7 August 2009
It doesn’t happen very often. 7 August 2009
No Twitter. 6 August 2009
RIP Friends Reunited? Part Deux. 6 August 2009
Please everybody. Please nobody. 31 July 2009
Selling shiny objects to magpies. 29 June 2009
Cheap laptops. 25 June 2009
Home video entertainment. 24 June 2009
WWDC round-up. 23 June 2009
On the Joggler. 12 June 2009
Another idea taken. 12 June 2009
Identifying cables. 11 June 2009
Two point eight. 11 June 2009
Neglect. 5 June 2009
Collecting pictures. 15 May 2009
WordPress.com Stats problem solved. 14 May 2009
Microsoft’s billions. 13 May 2009
Star Trek. 11 May 2009
Picking fault. 7 May 2009
Cover Art. 7 May 2009
Tagline. 7 May 2009
Spam at 30. 1 May 2009
The device between iPhone and Mac. 29 April 2009
Shortening. 24 April 2009
Just so… Microsofty. 22 April 2009
A Windows-user’s take on the Mac. 22 April 2009
Mirror’s Edge – A review in exactly 200 words. 22 April 2009
LCD-screen, multi-touch trackpad. 22 April 2009
Alternative To. 21 April 2009
iDemandCatchupPlayer. 20 April 2009
Operating System GUIs. 20 April 2009
One thousand frames per second. 20 April 2009
On Pirate Bay. 20 April 2009
Now with added twitter feed. 20 April 2009
Literally “unnecessary” apostrophe’s. 13 April 2009
Some things what i saw on twitter. 8 April 2009
On twitter. 8 April 2009
It’s easy to blame computers. 6 April 2009
Opening the Guardian. 6 April 2009
The iPhone platform. 2 April 2009
April 1st. 1 April 2009
Wearable Walkman. 30 March 2009
Sssssshhh. 30 March 2009
Non-Microsoft utilities for Windows. 26 March 2009
Microsoft add-ins and add-ons. 26 March 2009
Bugs and exploits. 23 March 2009
Adamo Again. 23 March 2009
Star Wars and Tesla coils. 20 March 2009
And now we have Street View. 20 March 2009
Imaging disk partitions. 20 March 2009
Adamo by Dell. 17 March 2009
Creation on the fly. 17 March 2009
iPhone OS 3.0 speculation. 17 March 2009
Autofill any iPod. 16 March 2009
Categorizing Small, Cheap Computers. 16 March 2009
Pre on O2? 13 March 2009
For education and delight. 13 March 2009
Apple’s virtual torch. 13 March 2009
Google’s aerial photography updated. 13 March 2009
When the media jumps the gun. 12 March 2009
More on Shuffles. 12 March 2009
When small is too small. 11 March 2009
Problems with WordPress.com Stats. 11 March 2009
Special Characters. 10 March 2009
LED Lightbulbs. 10 March 2009
Apple Wordle. 5 March 2009
SPAM. SPAM. SPAM. 5 March 2009
Gruber on the Safari 4 beta. 5 March 2009
Zavvi dot co dot uk. 5 March 2009
New Mac Mini. And other Apple updates. 4 March 2009
Not The Onion. 3 March 2009
This Life. 3 March 2009
Eee Keyboard. 3 March 2009
In ten years time… 2 March 2009
Collecting the morning dew in human skulls. 2 March 2009
Gmail attachments. 2 March 2009
Safari 4 beta (Mac) 26 February 2009
The other browser news. 25 February 2009
Safari 4 beta (Windows). 25 February 2009
Why Gmail broke. 25 February 2009
Gmail broken. 24 February 2009
New Mac Mini? 23 February 2009
A little more on headphones. 23 February 2009
Where dreams become heart attacks. 20 February 2009
On Headphones. 18 February 2009
PNGs Out. 18 February 2009
Microsoft’s Stores all about Propaganda? 18 February 2009
A second gPhone. 17 February 2009
RIP Friends Reunited? 16 February 2009
Nielsen on Macintosh. 16 February 2009
KEEP. 13 February 2009
Bosanko. 13 February 2009
A Keyboard for the XBOX360. 13 February 2009
White MacBook Reviewed. 13 February 2009
Microsoft Store. 13 February 2009
Gorman on Gravy. 11 February 2009
On Palm. 11 February 2009
gPhone lacks multi-touch because of Apple? 11 February 2009
New kit from Sony. 10 February 2009
On Kindles. 10 February 2009
Bolt (3D). 9 February 2009
xkcd and others. 9 February 2009
Number One. 9 February 2009
Apple Batteries. 6 February 2009
Recompute. 5 February 2009
True Geekery. 5 February 2009
Device Drivers. 2 February 2009
Price Comparison Sites. 30 January 2009
Giveaways. 30 January 2009
Chest-high Walls. 30 January 2009
When in Windows. 29 January 2009
Characters. 29 January 2009
Fry on Twitter. 29 January 2009
Uncategorized. 22 January 2009
White. 22 January 2009
Too Big? 21 January 2009
More on Steve Jobs. 21 January 2009
Dead Barracuda update... 21 January 2009
Conficker Removal. 21 January 2009
Dead Barracuda? 19 January 2009
Tweet-tweet. 17 January 2009
On Steve Jobs. 16 January 2009
Players. 14 January 2009
Google’s new favicon. 14 January 2009
WordPress. 14 January 2009
So, i lied. 14 January 2009

2008

hello world. 2 November 2008

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