by Neil | Jun 3, 2011 | Digital, technology, Thoughts
I work in digital. As such, I tend to justify an every increasing social media addiction on the grounds I need to play with new social sites and digital bits of kit in order to “understand” the audience. This isn’t a lie, you understand, just...by Neil | Jan 28, 2010 | Apple, Comment, Gadgets, Steve Jobs, technology, Thoughts
As everyone and their goat seems to be posting about the iPad I thought I’d join in. First some background: I am 30 year old, professional with no children and a reasonable amount of disposable income each month and yes: I own many Apple products. Our computer...by Neil | Mar 9, 2008 | Blog, Family, Internet, Personal, technology
Boo. Bet you thought I’d run away to become a sheep farmer. No? Oh, that’s embarrassing. Forget the sheep. Anyway: The Woodsman, work and related sundry have prevented me from blogging as regularly as I would like. Some of my family have commented that I...by Neil | Mar 9, 2008 | Apple, Computers, Gadgets, Mac, Software, technology
Recently – in a move wrapped in common sense and taste – a friend of mine purchased an Apple Mac. And so I sent her a list. A list of software I can’t do without on my own Mac. It occurred to me others might be interested so here’s my...by Neil | Nov 20, 2007 | Comment, Gadgets, Kindle, Neil Gaiman, technology, Thoughts
Amazon have released the Kindle reigniting the debate over the future of the book pulling in comments from many people such as John Scalzi over at Whatever and Paul Raven over at Velcro City. Meanwhile Neil Gaiman’s got in on the action, you can check out his...by Neil | Sep 9, 2007 | BBC, Internet, technology, Thoughts
Just occasionally you (the BBC) really get my goat. I can use my Mac to watch content on most sites, yes I had to download a plugin (the excellent flip4mac) in order to do so but it works. Yet on the BBC’s site I cannot watch any content – even though I...