This Week with Taylor & Gordon

75 Day Challenge Slightly modified to suit Taylor If you miss an activity or a day then you start over Physical and Mental Discipline Not about getting fit, but more about making yourself better We will come back to this and see how Taylor did Setting yourself a challenge will always improve you Use things ... Read more

Busy week as always – drama teaching, migrating sites to xcloud.host, clearing emails UPS using difficult to get to shops as a hub if you are not in Trying something new… Mango Tango – something new Food for the dog – cutting the food into quarters from factory Getting feedback on whether your customers like ... Read more

Making Notes to remember what was spoken about Write out action points Legal reasons Make sure they make sense when going back in a few months time Making notes when you think of them Expanding on the notes while you remember the details Using Apple Watch Voice Memo for this Record call and transcribe with ... Read more

iPhone 16 Pro arrived safely Protecting Your Investment Buying a bag for Ecoflow River 2 Pro to prevent damage Looking after equipment to prolong their usefulness 2 year old iPhone was pretty much spotless Padded camera bags Not lending cables to people Putting things in pouches when travelling Good quality bags – they are not ... Read more

Gordon went on holiday WordPress drama AI Moving forward Appsumo – https://www.appsumo.com Pismo – https://pismo.ai/ Similar but different to Apple Intelligence which is built into the Apple product OS’s Pismo – Desktop app to select text in any application and perform AI functions with it For example, translate, improve writing, fix spelling and grammar issues, ... Read more

iPhone 16 and Apple Intelligence information, new watches and AirPods Exploring Your Industry Showing starter sites to other professional We all live in our own bubble, not knowing much about what’s outside of it Other people using different tools and plugins that we don’t know about This is what makes the industry exciting and interesting ... Read more

Audacity update – https://www.audacityteam.org/ Word of Mouth advertising Best form of advertising for Gordon People like to recommend you if you do a good job 40th birthday party – led to a children’s summer school show 3 days later, booked on the morning of the show Website Design recommendations People trust their friends Recommendation between ... Read more

Comparing Products Missing a feature that Taylor wanted in his email client Ranking Mail apps with pro’s and con’s Action, Waiting and Read Folders, to get down to inbox zero Using Actionscripts Mailbutler as an add-on Canary or Spark are the alternatives Snooze emails to hide them Apple iPhone event is September 9th Mac OS ... Read more

Business Focus – finding out what you enjoy doing Taking off Graphic Design as a service which Taylor didn’t enjoy doing Adding services means you could possibly become a business that doesn’t specialise Downside is if your niche goes away or has a problem you can have no business Look at different scenarios to make ... Read more

AI Updates ChatGPT and Midjourney were the kings Claude, Gemini and Flex and up and coming and over-taking ChatGPT Chatbase.co chatbot on the website Moved over to Claude Check it out by clicking on the chatbot on the bottom right of the website Search will find content, but won’t summarise like AI will Getting ideas ... Read more