Weekly Roundup, Friday 29 September, 2017
Good morning Thank you this week to the very kind additional 61 readers who joined this year’s annual fund-raising drive during the last week, bringing us to 186 kind souls to date. And, of course, …
Month: September 2017
Boeing Bullies Bombardier, Bamboozles Bureaucrats
In April 2016 Delta announced an order to buy 75 of Canadian company Bombardier’s new CS100 commuter jets. Bombardier was desperate to get a validating order from a US airline, and indeed, desperate to get …
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Solving USB Connection Problems
For the longest time, I’ve been plagued by mysterious problems with various USB devices I have connected to my computer – particularly hard drives. I’ve even trashed some hard drives and replaced them, thinking them …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 22 September, 2017
Good morning It is a great pleasure to start off another week with another round of heartfelt thanks to the people who generously added their names to our 2017 Supporters list. We are now at …
Why You’re Never Going to See Bio-fuel Powering a Commercial Airplane
When airlines feel a desperate need for some good press, there are several standard things they can do. They can offer up any empty bit of corporate jingoism that is dutifully parroted by a slavish …
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New 10″ Big Screened Amazon Tablet, Amazing $150 Value
As we have anticipated for a while, Amazon have now released a new 10.1″ screened Fire tablet, the Fire HD 10, addressing an increasingly painful gap in their tablet product range. As hoped for, the …
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Weekly Roundup, Friday 15 September, 2017
Good morning Well, what a week it has been, some of it good, some of it disappointing. Let’s talk about the good first. Our Grand Tour of Great Britain next June had another person sign …
Apple’s Growing Jumble of Obsolete Under-featured Phones
Apple’s management of its iPhone range may be extremely clever – but just perhaps, increasingly it may be the opposite. Yes, we of course accept the iPhone’s extraordinary success by all measures to date, and …
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Android’s Answer to Apple : Excellent Phones for Only $50
Apple have just announced their newest three phones, priced at even higher prices than last year’s models, and culminating in a breathtaking $1150 for a top of the line iPhone X with extra memory. (We …
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Should You Line Up for an Iphone 8 or X?
Today was Apple’s official launch for its new range of iPhones. The event started off with a short tribute to Steve Jobs, but some of us were wondering what Jobs would have thought of the …
Weekly Roundup, Friday 8 September, 2017
Good morning Although official summer continues for another two weeks, traditional summer has finished, the schools are back, and traffic patterns, at least in Seattle, are returning to their terribly jammed state. Perhaps Amazon’s announcement …
Video Streaming on Your Television
Surely you know all about Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and the now literally thousands of other internet video streaming services. The internet has progressed astonishingly – do you remember, seemingly only ‘yesterday’, when the internet …