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Before our son was born, I sold my old Olympus OM-D E-M5 and upgraded to its successor, the OM-D E-M5 ii, mostly for WiFi (which I almost never use) and the silent shutter feature (which did turn out to be really useful)…
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In 2018 I read 22 non-work related books, (down from 29 in 2017 – blame the baby). There were a bunch of different titles I really enjoyed, so I've tried to pick the three that stuck with me most. The Count of Monte Cris…
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Since most smart home devices need their own hub, you tend to end up with a lot of them. We currently have three: Philips Hue, IKEA Trådfri and HomematicIP. Since most of these hubs use Zigbee or another similar wireless…
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I'm a huge Kindle fan and have given three Kindle Paperwhites to family members over the years as gifts. [](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CXG6C9W/?tag=whitjetp-20) I've usually tried to make it easy for them to pick up imm…
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My wife has an iPhone 6, so when the iPhone Xr was announced, it looked like a good fit for an upgrade. The only downsides were: The size: it's quite a bit larger than the iPhone 6 The price: for all the talk of this bei…
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A song off the latest Punch Brothers album popped up in my recommendations recently and I‘ve really enjoyed the whole album. It‘s all part of the plan is the standout track though, definitely worth a listen… Watch the em…
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Despite not being hooked up to a landline internet connection yet (thanks Telekom), I recently set up our new WiFi system. Our house is a wooden frame construction by Danwood and while planning we had read that getting W…
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2018-02-24 2018-03-11 1 year and 7 months after buying a plot of land and beginning our new home, we finally moved into our first house. People always tell you that a building project will take longer than you’d hope – a…
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We went to Schloss Nymphenburg to watch the annual “Heilige Drei Könige” procession. We left just after sundown and I caught this shot of the palace illuminated from the back. The shot is a bit blurry, but I still really…
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Capturing fireworks can be tricky – it's dark, everyone's excited and had a few glasses of bubbly… challenging! On most other cameras, I’ve usually used manual mode with a smallish aperture (f5.6 - f8), and long shutter…
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I got the OM-D E-M5 six years ago as a birthday present from my wonderful wife. It’s been a fantastic camera and I love some of the shots I’ve taken with it: When the successor, the E-M5 mkii came out, there wasn’t reall…
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It was a dreary, rainy Sunday afternoon here in Munich – perfect time to go for a stroll around Nymphenburg Palace gardens and compare cameras! I was seriously impressed by the quality of the iPhone X camera, so I though…
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I’ve written about setting up TP-Link smart plugs to work with Homekit via Homebridge, so I thought I’d post an update on what I’m using at home now. We’re currently building our first house and trying to figure out whic…
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These two very similar lenses are hugely popular primes for Micro Four-Third owners. I’ve had the 25mm for a few years now, but occasionally found myself wanting something a bit wider. When I spotted a deal on a second h…
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This August, I had the opportunity to present at Litmus Live in London. All of us on the Mail Designer Team at TOWER ONE make heavy use of Litmus to verify our new design features work across all email clients, so it was…
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As a Brit who has lived in Germany for 26 years, it's fair to say I have a fairly selfish reasons to want Britain to stay in the EU. Once you've seen the benefits of the EU up close, it's impossible to see leaving Europe…
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This year I had the opportunity to give a talk at ioscon 2017 on how equinux builds apps for all three of Apple's major platforms. Shipping a product on multiple platforms adds additional overhead and effort, both of whi…
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I got some of these TP-Link wifi smart plugs on Amazon (US version / EU version), primarily to try out their Amazon Alexa integration. They work well enough and thanks to their terrible security, I was also able to rig u…
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There has been a lot of Apple Watch complaining recently, and mostly for good reason: Apps are unusably slow and some of the things it does well like Notifications and Complications feel underutilized. But I think there'…
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Amazon's Alexa Voice Service is shaping up to become a home appliance platform juggernaut.
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