This year I have spent a lot of time driving through our ALStrays cat re-homing and transport project, transporting over 150 cats to their new homes in Germany. Rewarding is the word that best describes how I feel about this. People often ask if I don’t find the 4,400km round
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Is your network fast enough?
Everyone wants a faster network. But before you can do anything to speed up yours, you must ascertain how fast it’s currently going. Yet measuring network speed isn’t as straightforward as you might think. Tweet ShareTweetShare0 Shares
How to recycle your Mac
When your Mac is no longer the shiny new kid on the block, there’s no shortage of ways to extend its useful life. An old Mac can work as a recipe-storage library, for instance, and that antique iBook can be a backup drive Read an interesting article in Macworld over
Working From Home
I have written before about my workflow, and I recently read with interest how Skribit founder and blogger Paul Stamatiou was set up now he is working at home, all of which prompted me to write about my own ‘working pattern’. Now I know many will think that I am
Mobile Broadband
Last time I was in the UK I got fed up with having no WiFi, or having to pay stupid prices (£5 an hour in the hotel), or waiting for a 3G iPhone that I decided to look at a mobile broadband solution. The one I elected to go with
How NOT to pitch PR to bloggers
OK, so this may seem a little strange but the background to this post is twofold: 1. I have just gone through a cleansing of my email folders and removed in excess of 20 emails related to review items that I have been offered (and had confirmed) but that have
Camera Equipment
I still haven’t worked out which camera bag I want, or even need, and one of the reasons why is that I don’t think I have finished working out what I will carry in it. You see in the simple old Point & Shoot days it was so easy –
Syncing Notes
What is the deal with Notes on the iPhone and the new Mail App? Yesterday I added a note for the first time to the iPhone and this morning I added my first note to the Mail App. The Mail App is now showing all my email accounts as Notes,
Leopard Application Issues
Following on from the Leopard Experiences Gary suggested that we pool our experiences and share any issues that we have come across or know about with Leopard and specific applications. Here’s a thought for you. How about a post which asks your community about which applications they’ve found problems with