Hard Drive Problems on the iMac It’s most certainly a lesson for me and it can also be a lesson for you. Drives do fail from time to time and you should always have a backup plan to avoid Mac hard drive problems. I do have a backup plan,

Day One 2 journalling application – first impressions I’ve been using the journalling application Day One for quite a few years now and now I have Day One 2 . I have written a book about Digital Journalling, you can get on iBooks and also on Amazon.

My week as a Mac user, or should I say my week as a Apple aficionado. I’m still enjoying using Siri first thing in the morning to get the day started. I like to have the iPad beside the bed with me at night time. I was able to thoroughly amuse my wife t

This weekend is the weekend of the Geek Photography Book. I was all excited and completely delighted to finally get the first * book out of the Scrivener application on my Mac and published with Amazon. This is a Kindle book and it will be exclusive wi...

If you have followed some of the Wizardgold video tutorials on Youtube you will see that I’m interested in encryption. I have video tutorials showing you how to encrypt your emails and you can use the same GPG encryption system to encrypt any of your f.

Talking to Allister Jenks from New Zealand Allister is a podcaster from New Zealand although he is of no fixed abode for a home podcast at the moment. He does do guest podcasting for Alison Sheridan on the Nosillacast and he also appears on other Mac-b

Journalling with Day One A good way to start the year for anything is to use a new diary or journal and the app I’ve been using for the last three years is called Day One. It has a number of really good features not least the fact that is available on.

Two old geezers talking tech Well that was the way that Bob from Japan described it and I had to say “Hang on a minute mate, less of the old!” Well, maybe I do have a few years under my belt, but in my head I’m still a teenager. It seems that at my

Fritz from near New York Fritz has an iPhone 6+ and a MacBook Pro and is a keen user of Apple gear. Like many of us Apple users we find it much easier to use Apple products to make videos and to work with photos. Fritz tells me that he likes to use Fin

When you’re lying in bed in the dark room, your eyes are not ready for looking at bright lights and in fact not even ready to open, what you really is Siri. The only trouble is, is that if your wife is in the other room listening she will think that yo.