Author: richard
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Walking In Heavy Rain
Reading Time: 3 minutesA few days ago I saw that heavy rain was announced for that afternoon so I thought that I would not go for a walk. In the end I did go for a walk in the heavy rain. I was wearing a reasonable rain coat so I could have stayed dry if…
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Being European and Paying for Facebook and Instagram
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor those of us living in Europe we now have the option of paying for Facebook and Instagram, not to see ads. In theory this is fantastic and we should be jumping on the opportunity. I don’t feel that way. I had plenty of conversations, with uni friends, colleagues and more, until…
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Books I Am Reading
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to Goodreads I am currently reading 97 books but in reality I am reading between three to five books consistently at the moment. I read several books at once because it gives me time to absorb ideas from one book whilst reading a second book, and then a third, and so…
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The Apple Watch As an Ipod Nano
Reading Time: 3 minutesFour or five years ago I tried to download an audiobook to the Apple Watch and I gave up. I saw that it would take hours so I gave up. At the time we would download podcasts to our laptops or phones, and play them once we had them stored locally. The…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAccording to Apple Health I take an average of 14,553 steps per day, over the last year. It doesn’t stop there. Not only do I take fourteen and a half thousands steps per day on average but I run up, up to fourty five floors per day and I walk at six…
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Replaceable Batteries and Wearable Tech
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith a user like me it takes a year or two for a mobile phone to become depleted. After this period of time I am stuck with the weight of an external battery that I have to plug in half way through the day to recharge the device. This is, in part,…
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The case for the Xiaomi Smart Band 8
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe more you read about gadgets and the more you read about devices that cost from 300 to 1200 CHF or more. I encourage you to look in the opposite direction, at the devices that cost 38 CHF. Within the last day the Xiaomi Smart Band 8 came out in the Swiss…
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Playing with Cleaning Robots
Reading Time: 3 minutesRoomba have been around for a long time. Every time I have the opportunity to experiment and learn from a roomba robot I do. I tell it to start vacuuming and then I watch as it explores room after room, gets jammed on a chair leg, a drying thing or even under…
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Post On Your Own Site and Syndicate Everywhere Applied
Reading Time: 3 minutesUntil the pandemic I used Facebook (FB), Twitter(TW) and Instagram(IG) daily. As pandemic solitude took its toll on me I dumped Facebook, and then I dumped Instagram. I started blogging again, and I continued to use Twitter for another two years, before finally dumping Twitter too. For years I was a daily…
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Forgotten Phones and eSIMs
Reading Time: 2 minutesA growing number of mobile phones are eSIM compatible. As a result by simply turning on a phone, and selecting the eSIM option you could make a spare phone your primary phone. When I activated my current phone I chose to use an eSIM, rather than a physical sim. Whilst this is…