David Allen Wizardgold's posts

Bluetooth switches by Flic I also mention the iPhone and how I'd like to get the new Nissan Leaf

Sounds of bread being delivered to the campsite and sounds of seagulls and campers looking for a croissant. Young ones just come back from the bars and have the munchies because they've been drinking a bit. And crickets

Music is quite repetitive but it's enjoyable all the same and the dancing is absolutely completely boring.

I enjoyed the story and I thought a talk about it on this audio boom. There was lots of action shooting and people get smacked in the face and it was completely Fast and Furious from start to finish. At the end of the story the other guy was in a book to read and a couple of other extra bits and pieces to enjoy as well so I'll probably end up buying one of his books later on.

Sheltering from the rain next to the beach. Having a chat about using my iPad through and my iPhone to go post-PC. This is due to the iMac hard disk thing broken. I'm going to have two weeks of using just iOS.

A Good and Geeky look at comments I heard in a discussion about whether we are getting too much screen time. There are some people who are complaining that we spend too much time hooked up to our iPhones, iPads and computers and that it devoted ourselves from real life. There are videos on YouTube of people walking down the street so engrossed by what's happening in the iPhone that they managed to walk directly into a bear. Screen time doesn't have to be that dangerous though you could just as easily walk into a lamppost or fall down a hole in the street.

Are you becoming divorced from real-life because you have your head in the cloud? Maybe you're becoming a bit of a robot because you're always using your mobile computing devices to enhance what you do with life and how you do it?

I like to think that it is good to use technology to Record a Life in a good and geeky way. Record your life in something much more than a boring old journal filled with scribbled writings. We can now make videos, record audios to add to our photographs and about writing. Some of it which make public input into the social networks and some of it we can just keep to ourselves.

I'd like to think about technology in an optimistic way in that it will make lives better for us overall. It doesn't have to turn us into thinking robots and it can enhance our lives in so many different ways.

What about you? Are you into technology as much as I am and eager to incorporate it into your life as much is possible?

Down by the beach

Mac20Q Podcast 125

Talking about what is coming up with the Good and Geeky books with a book about life logging. The application I like to use for this task is Day One and it will be covered in detail in the book. The book will also look at how to use applications which will do a certain amount of automatic journalling for you. There are applications such as #Chronos and #Heyday. I was trying a system which is called Gift Today which automatically brought in posts made in Twitter and Facebook and put them into Day One. It was working for a couple of weeks but something must have changed in the settings and I need to get back in again to reset it up.

What's coming with IOS 9 and El Capitan

in particular i like the keyboard improvements to the standard keyboard. i can't understand why it is taken so long for Apple to give us pictures of the letters we are typing lower case or upper case. This has been available already on other third-party keyboards such as #Swiftkey and #Swype. These are the keyboards are great to use as swapping from letter to letter is easier than tapping them. The problem comes with the fact that you can't see the microphone button to let you use every dictation in the third-party keyboards. I do prefer to dictate as much as possible and so I ended up using the standard keyboard even though it wasn't the best.

I'm looking forward to this news application coming from Apple. It's going to be interesting to see how it worked out in comparison to Flipboard. I will probably have to install the beta of IOS 9 so I get early access to the news app. I want to be up to see how it works out with my news channel for all of my websites I have set up already. There is a hint that we might get a separate application we can use to create posts directly to put into the news application. Then again, it might just be the ability to export out of something like Pages or even iBooks Author.

#iOS9 #ElCapitan #GoodandGeeky

I have been using the Apple Watch for a couple of weeks now and loving it. I use it to control audio on my iPhone, for making timers and alarms. Great to see the notifications coming in and to use to make the quick and dirty journal posts in apps like Heyday and Day One. I can go into the apps on the iPhone or on the Mac later and add more with these Apple Watch posts used and markers to remind me what to write about in detail.

A bit of waffle about my new car. I have a Renault Clio and I think it would be great if I could upgrade it to Apple Car Play. I love to be able to interact with the car like I do with the Watch and the iOS devices - By talking to them to make them do my bidding. I don't have adaptive cruise control on the car and wish I did. I'll get that on the next car for sure. That's when the car uses radar to match the speed of the car in front, slowing you down to keep the distance.

I love technology.!