Category: tech related

  • Very Quick Thoughts on Mylio

    Very Quick Thoughts on Mylio

    Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen looking at hard disk options I noticed that with the Seagate One Touch Hub they offer six months with Mylio so I decided to try the app, without buying that app. My first thought is that it claims to replace Google Photos and iCloud and yet the cost is similar per…

  • Apple Vision Pro Stagnation

    Apple Vision Pro Stagnation

    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople want us to see the Apple Vision Pro VR kit as revolutionary but it isn’t, for a simple reason. Several years ago I was going to the World VR conference and loved playing with various VR kits but they almost all had the same problem. They cost an arm and a leg…

  • Wearing A Casio GBA-900

    Wearing A Casio GBA-900

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor years I have worn Suunto, Garmin and Apple watches. During this time I have tracked hikes, climbing, scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming and more. Recently I felt the desire to wear a Casio watch as I used to do when I was a child. Over the years these “watches” have given you live…

  • Waiting For Progress Bars To Be Full

    Waiting For Progress Bars To Be Full

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere was a time when I spent eight hours a day transferring footage from Beta SP, DV, DVcam, DVCpro and other tape formats to a digital format to be part of a media asset management system. A 63 minute tape would take at least 63 minutes to digitise. Back in those days…

  • Dormant Social Media Life While Sorting Through Drives

    Dormant Social Media Life While Sorting Through Drives

    Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently my Social Media Life has become dormant. I do visit Facebook every so often but I ignore Instagram, barely touch Mastodon or the fediverse, and in general have stopped looking at social media for a social life. It’s not that my life offline has become vibrant. It’s that online is empty…

  • Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Listening to Podcasts While Walking

    Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently I have been listening to plenty of [Late Night Linux](https://latenightlinux.com/) podcasts. I like them because they’re half an hour long, the adverts are half way through the show, and in general I don’t feel that they’re filling time to fill one and a half hours of podcast time. Plenty of other…

  • Journey Through Time

    Journey Through Time

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFor two weeks I have been sorting through terabytes of data and it has been a journey through time. It’s easy to collect data and every so often when the laptop is full, move that data to a hard drive until that drive is full, and then onto the next, and the…

  • Blogging with the Pi 5

    Blogging with the Pi 5

    Reading Time: 3 minutesOver at least a week I have been blogging with the Pi 5 and an Apple keyboard. I am using the Apple keyboard just because it’s the one I have, rather than out of a preference for their keyboards over others. I have a full size keyboard but it lost a part…

  • Apple and Dongles

    Apple and Dongles

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSeveral years ago I broke my most important rule. Never take a laptop with you that you are not willing to carry at all times. I had a Mac Book Pro stolen and this was extremely frustrating. The reason for which it was frustrating is that this Mac Book from still had…

  • Organising Terabytes Fast

    Organising Terabytes Fast

    Reading Time: 4 minutesImagine for a second that you have six hard drives filled with Data. Some are four terabytes. Others are one terabyte each, and you’ve already sorted personal videos and photos from other media files. Each drive is moved to its own folder Two Terabyte Seagate has gone from being a drive to a…