Moving to a full online streaming based music platform means I have to contend with rights issues. (Of course, you would be quick to say that that has never stopped me in the past and I would have to agree.) Therefore I have to consider artists and more predominately labels not signed up to Spotify […]
Time Is Running Out For Wires
The death of the cable has long been over exaggerated. My constant bug-bear is the fact that in 2017 we still use shoelaces. Anyhow, I can confidently predict the start of the wireless future for myself in exactly 96 days! Want to know more? Stay tuned! Patience is a virtue and I tend to live […]
Software Will Rule The Earth
At times I struggle to decide the most suitable home for a blog post. Do I really want to bore my readers with a geeky rambling on some niche piece of tech. My professional site, as rarely as I find the time to update, does have a now semi abandoned blog (or should that be […]
Sleeping With The Enemy
Do you stare at your smartphone in bed before you finally drift off to sleep? I too, am guilty as charged Your Honour! Now blue light is affecting our brains and well-being in multiple ways and as this is a recent phenomenon, research continues but the signs are not good. Therefore after many years of […]
King Of The Road
For many years I was a devout fan of the trusted TomTom. Just remember this was in the late 1990s when SatNav was a completely new product range and smartphones did not truly exist in their current form. When I went over to Germany for our lads weekend to the Nurburgring, we spent a good […]
Back In Time
Unsure exactly when but at some point in the past decade I stopped wearing a watch. Sure, I still wear a watch on special occasions but in the office, I could rely solely upon my smartphone. Once you are in a routine, there is little need for a watch, the time is on your computer […]
Patience Is A Virtue
In our modern fast pace lives, most people will confess to lacking one finite resource – time. I too, can get caught up in the rat race world of chasing the corporate dollar. However, I do believe that at times it is important to unplug, step back and ignore the shameless marketing that feeds constant […]
Life Before Shazam
How did we identify songs before the mobile app Shazam? Well, you would have to remember a key lyric in the song, ideally the chorus. In most cases, you would just have to record those words to memory, rather than write them down as a note on your smartphone. We are talking about the pre-smartphone […]
XBMC The Return – Tablet Edition
While I love my Asus Nexus 7 from Google, it has limitations as an all you can eat media device. I quickly hit a wall, particularly when trying to view HD footage. In same cases, the video would play with no audio. In other cases, the media file would refuse to stream from my server […]
Identifying Songs
When I hear a song I do not know, I have to quickly identify it. For a while, when my HTC Desire was brand spanking new (late 2010) I had Shazam installed and would use it at every available opportunity. However, over two years later, my Desire lacks the memory space to hold any useful […]
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