Well.... It's finally here - obviously my earlier bleat was not required; it was obviously already in transit.
It doesn't make that post any less relevant as the delays were dreadful, but hey ho, it's another day and the Pebble has landed.
No doubt I'll write a proper review of it in the next week or so once I've had a chance to play with it a bit.
Ever wanted to add extra dictation sources to your copy of Dragon? Well here's how!
[* Updated 17 May 2013]
I decided to write this post because I've been playing a long-term waiting game for the pebble watch, and I really don’t want to take up half of a review with my views on the delivery process when it eventually arrives. Just to remind you the pebble is a smart watch where the greater percentage of the intelligence is in a Bluetooth connected smartphone whether that be an iOS or android device. However, the watch would allow you to interact with various bits of software on the phone without ever removing it from your pocket; oh and of course allow you to read the time! It turned out to be a hugely popular kickstarter campaign as they ended up with 68,929 backers and $10,266,845 of their original $100,000 goal.
As someone who works in IT and therefore spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen, I'd long realised that it's very easy to get distracted. One of the other areas that concerned me was the fact that because of the highly accessible nature of information, are we, (am I?!), losing the ability to learn?
This video from the YouTube Epipheo channel, (www.youtube.com/epipheo), addresses a lot of these points, and I guess the upshot is that we've got to learn to be less distracted.
Of course that means you shouldn't be reading posts like this or watching YouTube videos....
I started blogging occasionally some years back, circa 2008 I guess; and it's been pretty on and off since then. However it's been on a couple of platforms like wordpress and blogspot etc. Over the coming weeks I'm going to try and gather up all those old articles and republish them here. However I'm going to republish them with their original publication date, so that this site has some sense of chronological order. Please excuse the mess in the meantime, and perhaps enjoy some of these old musings. I will also tag them with the tag "old blog".
An occasional look at computer tools that I use whilst working on my PC, Mac or iOS devices.