Life Trove

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.  Arthur C. Clarke   I love technology and feel extremely blessed to ha...

On a long-haul flight from Sydney to Cape Town, I settled in for some spiritual growth. I’d recently bought a book by an author I admire and...

I headed to the Apple Store with my MacBook Pro to solve a nagging technical glitch—the kind that makes you feel like an expert just for boo...

There I was, gliding from Waverton toward Cremorne on a Lime e-bike like a silent, motorized god of the asphalt. I had a date with a cinema ...

I love Notebook LM from Google. It is AI at its best. I gave it the link to Life Trove and here is what it had to say. Wonderfully insightf...

I've always wanted to be able to create special songs for people I love. Now it's possible. I'm so excited about it.      Listen...

There are an unusual number of e-bikes around Waverton at the moment. You activate and rent them with your phone. As an experiment, I cycled...

The camera now is effectively optically 0.5x to 5x zoom.  I love it. 

The sound on these is out of this world.  They are noise cancelling and a delight on plane flights or wanting to immerse myself in music. Th...

Utterly ground breaking.  Ever since Gavin alerted me to this, I've been utterly hooked. It's become my 2nd brain to which my real b...

I took this phone with its 0.5x - 3x optical zoom and 48-megapixel main sensor with me to Antarctica and Nepal. 

I bought this amazing camera to take with me to The Arctic thanks to the generosity of a cash gift from Michael in tribute to Sue .  I was...

This amazing software allows one to sharpen images, remove noise and increase the resolution of an image. It has proven invaluable, especial...

I bought 4 Airtags which allow me to find things if I lose them. I put on in my wallet, keys, backpack and suitcase. They have proved invalu...

 I've discovered some wonderful software for writing my book "Life is a Movie" called Scrivener. Benefits Organized Writing: C...

For some time now, I have been using Google Sheets and Google Docs instead of Microsoft Word and Excel. There are a number of reasons: Googl...

The iPhone 13 has a 3x lens which makes it possible to zoom in more on an object. It now provides an effective range of 0.5x - 3x making it ...

Apple has started creating it's own chips and they are incredibly powerful in terms of speed and battery life.  This felt like the perfe...

I upgraded to the 90D from my 70D. I retrospect I shouldn't have. I should have invested in a mirrorless camera. 

Having a 0.5x wide lens feels revolutionary for me.  It now has a 0.5x, 1x and 2x optical lens.  It greatly increases the versatility of the...