Mac20Q

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, but I didn’t follow it as diligently as I should have done. I had a reminder to tell me every Monday to do a backup of my hard drives using the application SuperDuper. Three months went by without me actually doing those Super Duper backups. I thought that all my stuff was protected anyway by using Time Machine and also by … Continue reading →

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. I write every single day in Day One 2. It was five days ago that I got a message to say that the new version of Day One will be available on the 4th of February. So I’ve been having my own little countdown to when the new application became available. I couldn’t wait to get started with it. The good news is … Continue reading →

I made a switch over to Android for my phone and my tablet for about 18 months and I did enjoy the first 12 months of it. After that I became increasingly fed up with the inability to upgrade the operating system on the phone. What was more annoying though, was the completely useless applications for editing video on Android. I am completely delighted to be all Apple again. I keep on getting amazed by the great applications to edit video on iOS. This week I have been trying out video applications from Fly Video Inc. They have a number of applications and I started with the application called Clips … Continue reading →

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 this morning when I asked Siri “Who is the fairest of them all ?” And Siri told me of course – You are the fairest of all my friend. Is iBooks Author the best book authoring software?Click To Tweet Ninety Days Exclusive with KDP Select This week I’ve spent an awful lot of time sitting at my … Continue reading →

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 with Amazon for the first 90 days. This is because I have enrolled the book with KDP Select and there is a requirement to be exclusive. At the end of this period I will almost certainly publish the book in other digital bookstores including the iBookstore. I’m looking forward to making a version of the book in iBooks Author. Get the book for free … Continue reading →

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 files. With all of the bad things that are happening around the world at the moment, There are always bad things happening – there is renewed interest in privacy and security. Politicians that have no idea whatsoever about how technology works, are looking to have a crackdown on ordinary citizens using encryption. David Cameron, the British Priminister has made a statement in which he says … Continue reading →

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-based podcasts such as the Let’s Talk Apple Podcast which is run by Bart Busschots. Do have a listen to the whole interview with Allister as it is quite interesting we talk about various applications both for the Mac and for iOS. Looking to the Skies Allister has an interest in aeroplanes and this comes from his dad having been a pilot. He uses an … Continue reading →

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 iOS as well as on the Mac. A particularly useful tool is the setting that will remind you to write as many times per day as you would like to be reminded. I have mine set so that it will remind me twice per day, but you could go crazy if you wanted to and have it remind … Continue reading →

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 age it is easy to be amazed that the kids are not impressed by technology. On account of the fact that when I was a teenager if I wanted to make a phone call I would have to go out of the house walk a couple of hundred metres to a red telephone box. I would … Continue reading →

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 Final Cut Pro X and I was a little bit surprised when he told me that he bought videos in first using iPhoto. There are a lot of different ways to skin a cat, so lots of different approaches to take when you are working with Apple products. Sometimes I wonder why it is that the naysayers, … Continue reading →