I don’t often take to these pages to rant about a subject that annoys me, but the USA annoys me. Okay so that’s an oversimplification as I’ve just returned from a very successful business trip to Microsoft in Redmond, Washington State. This is one of…
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Written: May 2022 For those of you who read my website blog regularly, you will know that since my late teens and early twenties, I have been a huge fan of handheld computing. I have my own personal computer museum in my home office that’s…
Written – April 2022 Many of you will know me as the author of The Green IT Guide (Apress, 2022) in which I talk about a wide range of subjects including the importance of Right to Repair. If you haven’t heard about Right to Repair I…
As we live in an ever-more connected world, we’ve found that we’re being bombarded by notifications and messages all the time, and all day and all night. Much of this is trying to draw our attention to social media, which frankly has a much bigger…
Written – April 2022 How many times in the last decade have you cracked or smashed the screen on your smartphone, or perhaps dropped your laptop and broken it? I remember a time a few years ago when a friend went on a fairground ride…
Written – March 2022 Recently I’ve been getting quite het up and angry about a few YouTubers that I’ve been following happily for the last few years. The reason being that they keep repeating the same, what I shall call a mistake, over and over,…
It’s very common for people to use plug-ins with their web browser, and there are tens of thousands to choose from. I only tend to use a small number of plug-ins that I consider essential. The reason for this is that too much going on…
When I published “The Windows 10 Accessibility Handbook” in 2015 I was completely astonished that this book was the first of its kind. Nobody had written any accessibility books about Windows 7, or any other version of Windows. Neither were there any for Apple’s MacOS…
