Author: Marc
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Moving Away From LastPass Premium
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. I’ve been a paid LastPass subscriber for over 5 years, and over that time it has become a critical part of both my professional and home workflows. The problem is the […]
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Chrome Uses More RAM by Design
Great video by Matt that shows that Chrome isn’t always that different to Safari in its memory consumption as others have found. Most of my daily collaboration is done using Microsoft Teams, which is an Electron app – which is to say a web application bundled in its own Chromium wrapper so it can run […]
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‘M1 Mac Users Report Excessive SSD Usage’
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. The issue could eventually affect the lifespan of the internal SSD used in M1 Macs — not to mention the machine itself. […]
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Botched Cosmetic Surgery
Riccardo Mori has written a thoroughly enjoyable critique of the the latest macOS user interface design. This passage in particular made me laugh: The Mac’s user interface is undergoing plastic surgery by the hand of surgeons who have studied on iOS books. The result is pretty much the same as when you see a favourite […]
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Squashing Services Into Apps
Lee asks Are Apple ruining user experience to promote their own services? – While using the Fitness app earlier today it occurred to me that the answer is most definitely yes! The current incarnation of the Fitness app (formally known as Activity) now squashes in Activity History, current day, workout lists, awards, and the recently […]
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Moderating Directories, Not Podcasts
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? Podcasting has, so far, avoided crowning one platform as king, meaning anyone, both […]
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The BBC Is Using It’s Own ‘Dot BBC’ Domain
The BBC has started using its own custom Top Level Domain (TLD). The entire BBC Online offering is available at https://the.bbc. Many large corporations such as Apple and T.K. Maxx own their own TLD, which were rumoured to cost around $185,000. Currently the site doesn’t seem to have officially switched as some components such as […]
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Twitter Muscle Memory
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). I made the … Twitter Muscle Memory (Via Lee) Pleased to see more and more people coming round to this view. As I wrote in January, we all need […]
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Working From Home in a Small Apartment
My girlfriend and I are currently trying to move to a bigger house, but with a global pandemic it has been a slow process. Hence we are currently both working from our 1 bedroom flat and are likely to continue this way for the next few months. Both our jobs involve lots of online calls, […]
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Making Siri Timers More Timely
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. Frequently I will start a timer using the “Hey Siri” wake word, either using my Apple […]
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