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Category Archive: Life

eMail without tears or fears

Six simple questions to make your messages more effective.

May 25, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Making My PowerPoint

She was reduced to giving her half-hour talk whilst pointing at successive thumbnails in PowerPoint’s overview. Members of the audience tucked into flasks of coffee, or rose and strode out.

May 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Thinking outside the books

It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.

May 22, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Missing the target: how fining banks does not come close

Do the huge fines for Big Bad Banks serve any useful purpose?

May 20, 2015 General, Life

Single Point of Failure

Most systems in everyday life had readily accessible fallbacks that you could rely on when the system of first choice was not available. We seem to have lost those now.

May 19, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

γνῶθι σεαυτόν (gnothi seauton, Know thyself)

Whilst we can improve our technology to enhance our abilities, our anatomical and physiological limitations also determine what we can and cannot do.

May 17, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Book review: The Disappearing Dictionary, David Crystal

This is a book to dip into only if you have good self-control: one word will lead to another, until you have visited each of the 500 or so.

May 16, 2015 General, Language, Life

VR: A bit of grit in the eye

The arrival of consumer VR is being delayed not because the headset can’t be done, but because current computers can’t deliver good enough graphics.

May 16, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

A D Too Far

Current 3D movies are a throwback to the old cinema of spectacle, first mastered by the Lumière brothers and travelling showmen.

May 15, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Watch power problem 

After nearly a week with my Apple Watch (Milanese loop), I am surprised at how rapidly it uses […]

May 13, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

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