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Crypto Technology

Opening NBA TopShot Pack

I’ve been extending my interest in NFT’s and digital collectables and it’s taken me over to NBA Top Shot. As a 10 year old I used to love collecting cricket cards and keeping them in a folder, I even remember unwrapping a Shane Warne hatrick special edition card that was worth $300 (and is now […]

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Technology

Getting started with NFTX index funds

NFTX, a community-owned protocol for NFT index funds on Ethereum. It can be a daunting process when you’re looking to extend outside of simple apps like Coinbase and begin to look at buying Crypto through other areas. QuickStart guide to buying NFTX Follow these steps to get up and running with NFTX. Download and create […]

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Technology

Masks and Face ID on the iPhone

This article from WiredUK is claiming that the Although the company has made changes to the system so that your iPhone will now prompt you to enter your passcode if it detects you’re wearing a mask, tasks such as unlocking your smartphone and paying for your shopping using Apple Wallet have become frustrating. The other […]

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Share this post as a Twitter Thread

When writing the last post on my to-do list for 2020 I noticed a new option in the WordPress pre-publish check list. Twitter Threads Twitter threads are a neat way to link a series of rants about a particular topic into a more digestible read. A reader can then go through each of your tweets […]

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Technology

Mouth Blogging

It’s been awhile since I tried to do a mouth blog. I talked about it awhile ago in one of the posts about how to use your phone to take dictation so that you can write a blog post just while you talk. When I tried it out last time I found it really hard […]

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Adding punctuation to dictation on the iPad

Today I was testing out the dictation capabilities of the keyboard on the iPad Pro. As I was dictating, I added pauses for commas and long pauses for full stops. Unfortunately, the dictation doesn’t consider long pauses to be anything but a pause in thought, and didn’t add any punctuation in for me. Below are […]

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Technology Writing

Supporting Multiple Authors in an Eleventy Blog

One of the great things about WordPress is the easy nature in which you can have multiple contributors, or authors, working on a single site. Each author has their own archive page and a list of all the articles that they’ve written in the past. It’s something that comes default with WordPress and it’s one […]

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Technology

Adding emojis with iPad Pro Magic Keyboard

Yesterday my daughter was “helping” me in my home office (bedroom). While I tapped away on the keyboard with the laptop she was writing her memoirs using the Magic Keyboard. Somehow she wound up with the Emoji options on the screen, and then they disappeared again. She tapped me on the shoulder and asked “How […]

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iPad Pro

Six and half years ago I went camping with my wife and our 6 month old son. It was over the Easter weekend which turned out to be rather cold for camping, but a lot of fun none the less. Just after we set up at the camping site my wife pulled out an early […]

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Technology Work

Semi-sentient, voice-first, dynamic websites are (not) coming anytime soon

One of my amazing colleagues wrote an article on a new form of Careers Website that is ready to launch right now (at least according to this article). Now let me be super clear: We produce some of the best Careers sites in the market using the tools/tech that is currently available in the wild. […]