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A break in the clouds: when cloud services won’t work

A compilation of links to major service status pages and other resources to help you when that service is playing up.

April 10, 2020 General, Macs, Technology

Watch for Amazon Marketplace Rip-offs

How Amazon can offer a £25 book for £125, via its Marketplace associates.

September 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

A break in the clouds: what to do when a cloud service plays up

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When you can’t get iCloud or Adobe CC to work, do you just keep trying, or curse the cloud? Some practical suggestions can help.

August 18, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

How ranking may be polarising society

Facebook, Google, Amazon, and others now use AI to make choices for us. Are they changing our opinions too?

July 6, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Amazon wants me to stay in

Thanks, Amazon. I guess I’ll just have to stay in for the next two weeks, then.  

February 29, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Technology

It shouldn’t happen to an App Store

App stores are shop windows for their operating systems and host hardware. Getting them wrong is bad news for vendors.

October 31, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

A Boxing Match

Packaging is the new corporate forecasting tool.

October 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How to convert sRGB to RGB?

How can I convert illustrations in my book from sRGB to RGB, for publishing on Kindle?

September 30, 2015 General, Macs, Technology

While you were out

How hard can it get to discover when your parcel will be delivered?

September 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Amazon rewards pageturners in new royalties system

Not content with changing the publishing business, Amazon seems determined to change literature as a whole.

June 20, 2015 General, Language, Life, Technology

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