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Category Archive: General

Has The App Lost Its Value?

We now have a choice of models: those that grip you by the short and curlies, such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud, or the App Store’s take-it-or-leave-it, in which you pay full price for every major release irrespective of existing licences.

April 11, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

Tick tock too

In case you ask, yes, I have just ordered an Apple Watch. Well, strictly speaking two – one […]

April 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Plaster in Paris

We were returning from an idyllic Pyrenean holiday, and had just boarded the Eurostar in Paris, when my wife announced that she had lost her passport.

April 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Book Review: Ravilious, James Russell

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This accompanies The Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition of Ravilious’s watercolours, the largest to date, and impresses in several respects.

April 8, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Lost in Transcription

Can the Mac produce a transcribed account of important meetings using Dictation, or would an audio typist be better?

April 8, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Getting resilient

I am a great believer in the Internet remaining relatively unregulated, free to all, and free for all. But we need direction to provide better for disruption and disaster.

April 7, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The Internet of Threats

Just as drug cheats always seem several steps ahead of those trying to stop doping in sport, so computer security is always playing catch-up to hackers. And now they can hack into vending machines.

April 6, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

In a word – keen

From a brave king, to the pungent taste of mustard, with a wail on the side – all in the one word.

April 5, 2015 General, Language

The joy of TeX

Few computer products thrive for over 30 years: the Mac (31 years young), Unix in its many guises (46), and TeX (37) each spring to mind.

April 5, 2015 General, Language, Macs, Technology

SSL and HTTPS – should you trust them again?

Most of our financial and personal transactions should be protected by secure Internet connections. A year on, how has the Heartbleed bug changed this?

April 4, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

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