Weekly Roundup, Friday 28 June 2019
Good morning With 4 July staring us in the face, I can’t help noticing a change in things. Somehow, we’ve gone from signs joyously advertising fireworks for sale in the run up to 4 July …
Good morning With 4 July staring us in the face, I can’t help noticing a change in things. Somehow, we’ve gone from signs joyously advertising fireworks for sale in the run up to 4 July …
Amazon’s new Echo Show 5. You can see its wedge shape, large bezel, and the optional (unnecessary) stand. The new Echo Show 5 is Amazon’s most moderate priced fusion of a screen placed onto an …
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Good morning Happy 100th anniversary this week to trans-Atlantic air travel. Most people don’t even know it was John Alcock and Arthur Brown, two British fliers, who completed the first trans-Atlantic flight, traveling east from …
I was first puzzled why the Amazon service rep I had connected to was demanding a series of answers to verify my account, because the call had already been pre-validated, and then increasingly concerned that …
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Good morning Our redesign continues today with some more tweaking in the newsletter and now rolled out to all newsletter versions – the Express, the Daily, and the Weekly versions. Note that some people are …
This clearly shows the difference in actual screen size/coverage between the new Series 4 & 5 and the earlier series of Apple Watches. If you are now reaching the decision that perhaps you’d get value …
Apple’s Watch Series 4 is available in three colors and two screen sizes. In this fourth part of our series on smart watches, we take a careful and detailed look at Apple’s new family of …
Good morning If you are receiving this in the form of the once weekly newsletter, you can hopefully see that our redesigning continues apace (the daily and instant versions have yet to be updated). This …
Checking the weather forecast is a good use for a smart watch, but far from a compelling reason to spend $500 to buy one. In this third part of our series on smart watches, we …
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