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Technology. We all use it, we all love it. We all hate it.

So I saw an Apple Watch …

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And after all that it just wasn’t as amazing as I thought it would be. It was also thicker than I thought it might be. I’m just not sure that it is for me right now. I also think that the price for a reasonable model is too high right now. It might come down, it might not, and I’m not sure that Apple will want to replicate the same update cycle as their other hardware. People just don’t replace and update their watches with the same frequency. Or maybe Apple wants to change that too.

Anyway, for now I’m going to see how things pan out with my Pebble Time.

At last, my iPhone 6 Lego case has arrived

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Since I first got my iPhone 6 I needed a case. The device itself is just too slippery to be used without one. So I got an Apple case and it was fine for a while, but in the last few months it’s just got too slippery and seems to attract grease.

I’d always wanted to get a Lego case but it took Belkin a long time to make the Lego case for the iPhone 6. At last I’ve got one, and it’s great. Much better than the Apple case.

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Can’t help but notice all the Apple Watch apps

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It seems that every app update now has something to do with the Apple Watch. There are going to be so many apps that extend to it soon.

It makes me start to wonder about my decision to go for a pebble time. Of course it’s too late to go back on that but it is nagging at me. I still think that the Apple Watch is too fat and I’m sure that within a couple of years there’ll be one much better and much thinner too. My money is on it being called the Apple Watch Air! Who knows.

Getting to grips with chromecast 

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I only got a Chromecast to try out a particular streaming service to get a specific show, and, that didn’t actually work out, which was a shame. However, the upside was that I’ve found the Chromecast itself really useful. Using it with my Nexus Android tablet has been really handy. I found that I got a load of really good offers which have almost paid for the device, and, talking to a colleague who’s already got a Chromecast, apparently the offers get refreshed, so I’m looking forward to getting more.

So it’s had a double upside, it’s been useful itself, and it’s showed another use for my Nexus which I’ve always sort of struggled to find a proper use for.

Getting to grips with Editorial workflows 

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I’ve been using Editorial for a while now and never really got to grips with using the workflow functionality in it. That is up until now. I found an actual use for workflows. I won’t bore you with what I’m using workflows for, but I’ve start using it in some very simple ways. Just using simple dialogues and markdown to record information.

It works. It saves me time, and it’s useful. That’s a good combination as far as I’m concerned. I’m hoping that I’ll continue to find new ways to make use of Editorial’s workflow as it has loads of capabilities, and as yet I’m just scratching the surface of what it can do.

So, hopefully you’ll be hearing more about my use of Editorial workflows in the not too distant future. Who knows, I may even share a few!

Congratulations to Artiphon with their funding for Instrument 1

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It’s great news and very well deserved in my opinion. I’ve been in touch with Artiphon for a long time now and I’m a big fan of what they’re doing and also very much about how they’re going about it too.

They’ve been very sensible in terms of how they’ve responded to feedback about the Instrument 1 and I think that they’ve made a lot of good choices about how to react to users and the wider community. I think that’s very much reflected in the success that they’ve had in this campaign