Tag: Technology

• February 22, 2019

  How to declutter your Twitter timeline

  I recent­ly changed my Twit­ter iPhone app from Tweet­bot 3 to the default Twit­ter iOS app. Twit­ter for iOS app is large­ly good. But I noticed that my Twit­ter time­line both in the brows­er and iPhone app got noisy than they should be for the fifty peo­ple I fol­low. This is mak­ing me spend (not waste) more time… Read more

• September 19, 2018

  Pretty much my relationship with my phone

  My phone is always on silent. I don’t even know if I have a ring tone. If some­one ever needs to con­tact me in an emer­gency, I sug­gest they you some­one else. Read more

• April 11, 2018

  Gave up on Mac’s Hot Corners

  I recent­ly learned some Mac tips and one of the things I was excit­ed about and tried is Hot Cor­ners. But after a few months of try­ing them they proved to be Annoy­ing Cor­ners. I often acci­den­tal­ly send my mouse point­er to one of the cor­ners of the screen and invoke them inad­ver­tent­ly. So I dis­abled Hot Cor­ners today.… Read more

• January 15, 2018

  Fibre, finally!

  After 6 years of putting up with sub-stan­dard inter­net speeds, tech­nolo­gies, and data caps, I am so glad to be final­ly on uncapped fibre con­nec­tion! Thank you Spark and Cho­rus for very quick set­up. Read more

• May 5, 2017

  Apps and attention

  I start­ed read­ing Rap­ti­tude from last year and it quick­ly became one of my favorite blogs. The recent post, How Bil­lion­aires Stole My Mind, opened up my mind to how social media com­pa­nies com­pete for our atten­tion first thing in the morn­ing and suc­ceed in dis­tract­ing us. After read­ing this post, I also delet­ed Tweet­bot app… Read more

• March 12, 2017

  WiFi and VPN

  I usu­al­ly don’t offer free advice. But I will make an excep­tion this time for the greater good. Don’t con­nect your phone and com­put­er to pub­lic WiFi net­works with­out VPN. Install VPN soft­ware in your com­put­er and phone and turn that on every time you are about to hook on to pub­lic WiFi. But how? Ask… Read more