The Everyday Notes

New Phone Day - iPhone 16E

Well, technically, Monday was new phone day, but I didn't set it up until late afternoon. So Tuesday was the first full day with it. Coming from an iPhone 8, the size difference isn't that much, visually. Especially when I put the 8 in the 16E

Firefox 141.0 Release - Disable The AI Tab Grouping

Today, Firefox 141.0 was available as an update. One that I was keeping an eye on due to a specific feature: AI Tab Grouping. Just … why? Now Firefox can help you keep your tabs organized, automatically. A local AI model identifies similar tabs, automatically organizes them into groups, and

Weekly Roundup 2025 - W28

Much like last week, it's been a long, busy week with not a lot of personal stuff being done. So, not too many picks of the week for you. This was by far one of the best things of the week. "Make me laff, bastard!". Tickled

Weekly Roundup 2025 - W27

A slightly shorter one for this week. It's been pretty busy, and I've done very little news perusing in the evening. Introducing Pay per crawl- enabling content owners to charge AI crawlers for accessPay per crawl is a new feature to allow content creators to charge

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Running Belt Replacement Time

The time has finally come – some may say long past – for me to replace my trusty running belt. An elasticated belt that holds my phone and keys while I'm out in the world. But, it's not just my runs. It has been with me on most

Interesting Links This Week - 2025 W26

Let's see if I can get into the habit of making this a regular thing, shall we? Here are a few things that have caught my attention this week. Yes, my smart home is spying on me — and I don’t really careIt mostly benefits users, but there

Interesting Links This Week

Well, for the last couple of weeks if I'm honest because I'm bloody useless at finishing writing the posts and getting them out there. My Drafts section has well over 50 "in progress" items. This is but a snippet of things that have caught

A New Book - Stellar: A World Beyond Limits

I can't really remember how this book came to my attention, but somehow, my brain managed to lure me in to buying it. About the book: Stellar challenges conventional thinking and offers a vision of hope and optimism – a necessary antidote to the fear and despair that define

Chilling with the Squirrels

Spent the afternoon in the garden in the sun, replying to emails and doing all the boring admin/paperwork stuff. Had the company of two squirrels running around the tree next to me. Took them an hour or so to get used to me being here.

Cancelling my DAZN NFL Game Pass Subscription

I've been a subscriber to the NFL Game Pass for a little over 8 years now. As a fan of the Atlanta Falcons, it's been a rough ride. During that time, the price of the annual subscription fee has fluctuated. Mostly up. But it has absolutely

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Shogun by James Clavell

Set in Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life ...

Japan Post Digital Address System

This popped up in my feeds a few days ago, and I thought it was fascinating. Japan Post launches ‘digital address’ systemUnder the system, users can input seven-digit codes on online shopping websites, and their addresses will automatically appear on the sites.The Japan TimesThe Japan Times Rather than providing

Mozilla is Shutting Down Pocket

Pocket seemed to be a bit like Marmite for some people. They either loved it, or hated it. Some true hatred Mozilla got for bundling it into the browser was a bit much if you ask me. But here we are. As of 2025-07-08, Mozilla will be placing Pocket into

It's Always DNS - How Deleting the Final Linode Broke Everything

I'm going to start this by saying that this is my fault for not reading the documentation. However, I'm sure this never used to be the default functionality before Linode got swallowed by Akamai. A little while ago, I shifted my Ghost blog over to Magic

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Rediscovering my Creative Side

Every day, the news around technology just gets worse. I'd avoid it entirely if I could, but I can't. Working in the industry means having to have some idea about what's happening. And I can't say I like it much. This isn&

Yet Another Cow Related Post with Added Harmonica

Because why not. They're wonderful. Today's walk required two stops. The first on the way up the hill to say hello. And, then they bumbled across the field when they spotted me coming back down. They were far more interested and friendly today. It did result

Quick Note: New Friends Enjoying the Sun

Checking in on the cow beasties that said hello yesterday. They were happily settled in the middle of the field, enjoying the sun today. The black one did turn to face me a little more, and the brown one next to it sat up. So I left them too it

Quick Note: Repurposing my Old Planet-X TT Bike

Every time I look at the Red Devil hanging on the wall, I feel a deep sense of guilt that I no longer ride her. And haven't for a few years now. But, I don't think it's likely I'll be returning to

Quick Note: New Friends on a Morning Walk

As I was walking up the hill this morning, these little monsters were over the other side of the field, enjoying a morning plod. On my return back down the hill, a couple of them were at the fence. One mooed at me. I stopped, said good morning. That resulted

Quick note: CrucialTracks - Bringing back Memories with Music

Discovered this post randomly which resulted in me listening to some songs I haven’t heard in a while. Post by @gray@fosstodon.org View on Mastodon CrucualTracks seems like a pretty cool idea, although probably not one I’d use. Crucial Tracks is a music journal where you can

Returning to my Blog

If you look at the date on some of my previous posts, you'll soon realise that it has been a really, really long time since I've written a post. There are numerous reasons for this - mostly laziness. But, there are some real ones, too. One

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Packaging & Deploying FortiClient EMS with Jamf

If you've read my previous post on FortiClient, you'll already be aware that I'm a great fan of their top-tier methods for deploying this particular application … Well, it was only a matter of time before we had to delve deeper in to this topic.

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Packaging & Deploying uniFLOW SmartClient for macOS

When it comes to installing applications for end users at scale, especially for those on macOS, not every developer plays the game. The combination of packaging/zipping/goodness knows what is vast. uniFLOW is no exception when it comes to SmartClient. A .pkg, inside an .iso, with hidden files. I&

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Fully Automated Lab iMac Deployment with Jamf Pro & ADE: Part 6 - Post Series Summary

In this summary, we review the whole process of onboarding a Mac in a zero touch workflow.

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Fully Automated Lab iMac Deployment with Jamf Pro & ADE: Part 5 - User Ready

We take our final step on this fully automated journey, making the device user ready with NoMAD.