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Having set up a new phone recently, I started receiving “Breaking News” alerts from the BBC.

Earlier this week Apple announced a new version of the iPad Pro, a £749 tablet that includes pretty much the same internals as the other recent Macs including the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Mini.

I was searching Apple’s App Store for something and came across a bunch of apps from a developer who offers a suite of apps that seem designed to confuse customers into paying for in-app purchases and subscriptions under false pretences.

A quick tip for iOS users.

If you listen to only one podcast this week then it should be the latest episode of Talking Politics featuring the great documentary film-maker Adam Curtis.

It is 2021 and would you believe it, macOS is 20 years old.

The Guardian on Citigroup banning internal video calls on Fridays:: Global investment bank Citigroup has banned work video calls on Fridays in an attempt to help employees break free from the “relentlessness of the pandemic workday”.

I_mage courtesy of dbase.com_ Apple is ditching the word ‘Subscribe’ as a means to describe the act of telling your favourite podcast player to keep checking a particular feed and have the latest episode available at a moment’s notice.

That’s me (right) - want your logo on display?

Apple’s new M1 Macs use the same ‘always-on’ processor technology that mobile devices have been using for years.

Researchers at Stanford have identified four causes of what they call “Zoom fatigue”.

LastPass made headlines recently because it’s stripping back its free offering and asking users to pay for features that were once bundled for free.

Great video by Matt that shows that Chrome isn’t always that different to Safari in its memory consumption as others have found.

From 9to5 Mac: Some advanced users have been reporting an overuse of the SSD for writing and reading data on the newly-released Macs with M1, Apple’s first computer chip based on ARM architecture.

Riccardo Mori has written a thoroughly enjoyable critique of the the latest macOS user interface design.

The Fitness app in 2016 vs 2021 Lee asks Are Apple ruining user experience to promote their own services?

Great article over on The Verge, but I have one small issue with it: Asking it [Apple] to remove a show from its directory is like asking it to make a specific webpage inaccessible in Safari — is that something people want?

The BBC has started using its own custom Top Level Domain (TLD).

Great post by Greg about muscle memory and firing up the Twitter app as a habit, something I have struggled with (and continue to do so).

You don’t need to spend lots to be productive.

I can be a perfectionist when it comes to software, and one thing that bugs me when using Siri timers is the fact that the time taken for Siri to understand me is added on to the timer duration.

Opinions are understandably mixed as to whether it was right for Twitter, Facebook et al. to remove Donald Trump’s various accounts from their servers.

Is a console…?

According to Windows Central, Microsoft is planning to replace the aging native Outlook apps for both Windows and Mac with a Chromium-wrapped HTML app.

Your Default Network is a pattern of neurons that fire when you are not actively concentrating on anything.

2020 was such an unpredictable year, but hopefully 2021 will be much better.

A quick and boring housekeeping update: I’ve changed the domain of this site to be imarc.co.uk.

According to Loren Brichter, Chrome is bad.

The right airport is a year old, the left one a few weeks.

It would be an understatement to say that 2020 has been a strange year.

Christmas in 2020 will obviously be very different for many people, but like many people at Christmas I find myself looking back to my childhood, as let’s be honest, that’s when Christmas is at it’s best isn’t it?

I came across this fascinating blog post about how one man and a few Ruby scripts managed to register what he estimates amounts to $1,000,000 worth of domain names.

I’d really like to see mobile operating systems make less of a fuss when you have “Do Not Disturb” switched on.

The Guardian reports on a new study: It is one of the most contentious aspects of video game playing – a debate where opposing sides literally cannot see each other’s perspective.

Kudos to Apple for getting a replacement AirPod Pro out to me within three days of me reporting the fault.

After not switching on my Xbox One for a few months, it wouldn’t connected to my WiFi.

$27.7 billion, or $250,000 per paying user.

It’s crazy to see the British tabloids egging people on in trying and find loopholes in the UK Government’s Coronavirus restrictions.

Lots of headlines today about a feature called Productivity Score that is part of Microsoft Office 365.

In what seems to been an inevitable move in the march of awfulness that is much of the tech industry these days, Spotify has announced that it will be giving artists who pay for the privilege a boost in the algorithm that recommends music to its customers.

From The Guardian: Employees who continue working from home after the pandemic should be taxed for the privilege, with the proceeds used to help lower-paid workers, according to a new report.

This is a fascinating interview with David Heinemeier Hansson, of recent Hey.com fame.

I try to avoid Twitter or other social media, I’ve come to see it as the equivalent of trashy daytime TV - bad for the mind, and there’s always something much better I could be doing with my time.

In the beginning, Samsung TV owners were seeing ads for new streaming content, apps or Samsung products.

A reminder that you should make sure you have enabled the new ‘Reduce Loud Sounds’ option in both iOS 14 and watchOS 7, which puts a safe limit on headphone volume.

It’s hard to believe that the Apple Watch has been a product now for over five years.

Prediction: Apple’s ARM based Macs will not only have touch screens, but will employ a FaceID sensor capable of recognising a hand reaching for the screen.

For the past few years I have decided to play it safe and wait for a couple of months for new iOS releases to settle in before updating.

If you own an Apple Watch, I highly recommend turning off the “Notifications Indicator” - the red dot at the top of the screen that indicates something is waiting for your attention.

When you do the maths, it turns out a man in his 30s has a higher chance of developing a long-term illness than someone in their 60s does of dying.