TLDR: It is a bit hit and miss due to the current situation We have all seen how awful Manchester Airport is at the moment, and that’s putting it politely. Post pandemic staffing issues and continued covid related sickness leave mean that both the airport and flight operators are woefully understaffed. This is causing massive…
The Garmin Forerunner 955 and Forerunner 255 are two of the most hotly anticipated launches from Garmin. A Reddit user claimed to have been to a store in Germany and managed to see an early mail to retailers detailing the new watches. The Garmin Forerunner 955 will be the top of the range multi-sports watch…
The Sony PlayStation 5 is an amazing console with next-gen graphics that can compete with high-end gaming PCs. The problem is that next-gen graphics mean gigantic install sizes. Sadly, modern gaming means that even if you buy a physical copy of a game, you are likely going to have to download several gigabytes of data….
As a tight-fisted northerner, the thought of spending £200+ on running shoes has always felt like madness to me. The critic in me has always found it ridiculous that so many none competitive runners line up for marathons and the like with Nikes’ famous range of Alphafly/Varporfly shoes. But here I am, a none competitive…
Following on from my previous Insteon posts about setting up Home Assistant Windows Portable (HassWP) and cheap PCs to run as a server for Docker/Insteon. This post is a guide for anyone wanting to get Home Assistant Windows Portable working on a PC running Windows Home. In my HassWP original post, I installed Home Assistant…
If you thought the Nothing ear (1) marketing campaign was annoying, then you are going to be in for a bad time with the Nothing phone (1). Most companies keep things quiet until a few months or weeks out from launch, and then things “accidentally” start leaking. Not Nothing, they will be sending out weekly…
To answer the question “Can you download Microsoft Office for Free?” we need to consider a couple of elements. Firstly, although you may download Office free of charge, technically, you need to have an active Microsoft account and a valid product key linked to it. So, yes, once you have your valid, genuine license attached…
This is my second Home Assistant for Insteon post, and I will be writing a couple more to help anyone that is trying to get their Insteon smart home back up and running. Earlier this month, Insteon unexpectedly ceased trading and disabled all its cloud server functionality, effectively making the Insteon hub useless. Not all…
It’s difficult thinking back now to a time when we didn’t have the internet. It’s become an integral part of our lives, and we’re all connected. Whether it’s the cellular connections on our mobile devices when we’re out of the home to coming back and enjoying the home WiFi, if there’s one thing we like,…
Correction: I previously stated that RGT Cycling had lost its free tier, but Wahoo have informed me otherwise (though I am not convinced this will last forever). Three weeks after I wrote a post about the top free indoor cycling apps, highlighting RGT as the best option, Wahoo buys them up. For the time being…
When building a gaming setup, it is easy to focus on the computer and monitor and forget about or cheap out on the accessories. Accessories like the mouse are crucial to good gameplay and wins. A good mouse makes you more precise and allows even the smallest movements to be registered as in-game moves. This…
In our modern world, it has become increasingly difficult to market products. Thanks to the Internet, we live in a global marketplace, and whatever product you want to promote will likely have fierce competition from worldwide brands. Furthermore, distributing and selling products has become increasingly complex. You have millions of online sites that can sell…