Category: Good and Geeky

I finally managed to watch the Apple presentation for WWDC 23 and the Apple Vision Pro does look kind of stunning. The price is huge, but what you get from it means the value is also huge. I can’t wait to actually try one out in person and see if it’s as good in augmented…

What’s The Best To Use For A Reminders App I have a number of tasks I have to complete while at work which I need to be reminded about. In previous years I used the application Due. I was happy using it and it worked really well for what I needed to do. The best…

Two Factor Authentication Is Good but What Level of 2FA Do You Need There are different levels of two factor authentication. There are some places you can sign in and the website will push out a time-limited code. It’ll come out either as an email or it’ll come out through a message to your phone.…

Tana versus Logseq and Obsidian I put in my application to get the access to the beta version of Tana, waited for quite a long time and forgot about it. Then the invitation arrived and I couldn’t wait to give it a try. Here are my first impressions of Tana. You have to login to…

I’ve recently come across a new terminal called Warp and it looks a lot better than using iTerm. The only thing it doesn’t do is to allow me to use Power Level 10K to configure the command line prompt. It doesn’t look like it’s going to do that any time soon. I could change the…

Serif have made available the new versions with a 40% discount from what the price is going to be as standard. If you buy the whole kit and caboodle it’s costing €119 and that covers all three applications across three platforms. I use these applications across the Mac and iOS platforms and that makes it…

Using Obsidian To Make A Database For Books, Television Series And Movies I’ve heard many people get excited over Obsidian and say how wonderful it is. A couple of years ago I gave it a try and I didn’t really like it very much. I gravitated towards Craft, because it’s a proper Mac application and…

Getting properly good and geeky using Kasm. This is a service which lets you have total anonymity online. If you need to do any hacking and you don’t want to let anyone know you are there, then this is the tool to use. The Ultimate Hacking Tool. I followed the tutorial from Network Chuck (See…

I’ve had the Raspberry Pi 4 for about a month now and I’m really pleased with it. It is really ticking all the boxes for my good and geekiness. I’m learning a lot about the Linux command line while I am setting up a whole lot of different things. Using the command line application Nano…

In the world of personal knowledge management applications Craft and Logseq are two really good options. Each with their strengths and weaknesses. The main thing to note is that Logseq is an Electron application like Obsidian and for some people this might be a big red flag. There are things you can do with a…