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Category: Technology

  • Building up to WWDC 2020.

    One more week to go before the start of WWDC 2020 and the rumour mill is starting to kick into high gear with discussions of an extra session, rumours that this will be the time that Apple will announce the transition from x86 to their own ARM based SoC designs that’ll form the foundation of…

  • Out with the old, in with the new.

    Well, that was relatively quick – I put my router, switch and cloud key up on a technology website I frequent and within a few hours it was sold and today I sent it off via courier. I’m looking forward to Ubiquiti releasing the update that brings UDM and UDM Pro into line but so…

  • More job anxiety and network hardware upgrades.

    Well, after a week of preparing myself for the bad news I ended up the week receiving good news – I still have a job! I really feel for my work mates who didn’t make it through although I have heard that a few of them have contacts in their old job so hopefully that’ll translate…

  • Job anxiety and security update released.

    Well, I had my interview today and I think I went ok – sure, there were some parts where I could probably have given better examples as answers but I doubt that extra ‘study’ would have made a lick of difference. Oh well, on Friday they hope to have a decision made and we’ll all…

  • Apple releases security updates and general bug fixes.

    Well, that was delivered on time as expected (as noted in my previous post) when woke up this morning. There are a lot of security updates included in the update (link) as well as general fixes too along with new features such as the ‘Battery Health Management’ feature which manages recharging as to maximise the…

  • Apple Messages and Catalyst platform.

    It appears that Apple is moving to replace the Messages app within macOS with a Catalyst based Messages application which will mean that as the iOS/iPadOS receive improvements that the macOS version will automatically inherit those improvements as well (link). It re-enforces what I’ve said in the past that in the long term I could…

  • Back in the office.

    I had my first day back at the office on Sunday and it was a bit strange getting back into the routine of getting out of bed, breakfast, put on some business casual then jumping on my scooter off to work after over a month of working from home. We’ve got a new phone system…

  • Changes at Google, comparing Google Drive to Microsoft One Drive.

    It appears that after many months of Google keeping tight lipped over the future of Google Play Music they have added migration functionality to YouTube Music to allow Google Play Music customers to migrate their uploaded music collection, settings, personalisation etc. from Google Play Music over to YouTube Music. Coinciding with that announcement has been…

  • Level 3 lockdown and ARM processors.

    Another day another pay – we’re in level 3 but hopefully level 3 doesn’t last too long and we can get back to normal soon but not too soon because one doesn’t want to see what happened in 1918 when cities relaxed their restrictions believing that the worst of it was over only to find…

  • Samsung, Exynos SoC and Microsoft’s attempt at a dual screen smartphone.

    I’ve been reading up on the Samsung S20 range with the Exynos 990 SoC that was bundled with it – the pitch forks are being bought in bulk as the gap, in terms of performance, between Qualcomm 865 and Exynos 990 grows and customers (who don’t have access to the Qualcomm 865 model) voice their…