Following from my earlier post, I like this blog short post on this issues and the need to protect our planet. This is an important issue and needs much, much more attention.

It’s madness that you can look at train options from, e.g. LNER, and be presented by a Transpennine service. Just another example of why the railways don’t function.

Very clever and emotive advertisement which deserves every one of it’s view counts. We all need act to stop this.

It says a lot when the Brexit deal under discussion is a 500page document but the original Brexit promise was a limited number of vague soundbites and a slogan written on the side of a bus

I’ve completely fallen in love with Plex. I’ve had an account for over a year, but never took full advantage of it until now.

Missed the course in the digital economy, in particular the one that serves the big companies. Only just learned that of my automatic and assumed acceptance of a bid on eBay, rather than my approval of there offer. As I said, this suits eBay if not the seller.

Jo Johnson describes Brexit as an Democratic travesty”. Cornyn: “We can’t stop it, the referendum took place”. It’s pathetic that the only opposition is from with the government.

Allergy Advice

I have to agree with Nilay Patel and my initial impressions, the hardware looks gory and is powerful, but iOS is still iOS.

Trialling Mailmate for macOS mail. Looks great and supports writing in Markdown. Feels like I’ve hardly scratched the surface of the app’s capabilities.

PowerPic. Brilliant design from Twelve South.

Black & White TV, not HD or HDR:

A total of 7,161 UK households have failed to start watching in colour despite transmissions starting in 1967.

Installed Scriptable to my iPad. All I need now is to know JavaScript.

C’mon America, you can do it!

For the 4th night in a row we have fireworks going off every few seconds. It’s really not fair for Minnie or any other pets.

I’m really starting to use the hell out of drafts dictate function… Even if it does get a few things wrong

My experience of Siri shortcuts is frustrated by Siri’s inability to launch shortcuts when the phone is locked

Someone is setting off World War III outside. Anyone who has animals will tell you that fireworks aren’t fun. There’s less “ohhh” and “ahhh”, and more whimpering and uncontrollable shaking. It’s distressing.

It’s incredible that the UK still has no policy in place to limit the use of fireworks. Anyone with pets knows all too well the terror they endure at this time of year.

Where the puck is going. micro.derekpeden

Recently the blog has taken a backseat to other activities, both personal and professional. Hope to change this in the coming weeks.

I really like the look of the new iPad Pros, with straight, non-tapered edges on the enclosure. However, I’d prefer my pro computing platform to have pro software, so I’m sticking with macOS.

Fantastic piece of marketing for the BBC Sounds App, combining music, radio and podcasts.

Ding Dong!!! What sounds like a doorbell, and every dog in the bar starts barking.

Beautiful product photography. All Macs that I really, really want even if I don’t need.