Very First News Blog - June 2020

This will be the first blog devoted to geek news. The original plan was to make a video of me telling the news, how wet, after recording and attempting an edit, it was not to my standards and was not useable. 

I shall keep working on it and hopefully have videos to go with these blogs. So until then, I thought I might as well release this blog as I had put the work into the stories.

 

"I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential." - Shirley Chisholm

Hi, my name is James … most people call me Jim though and I have MANY addictions. Whether they’re healthy ones are not is up to Doctors who get paid a lot more than me. I don’t feel they are that bad, they’re not drugs or alcohol or anything but nice ones like coffee, Under Armour workout clothing, notebooks and a country. That country is the good old US of A. Ok, so coffee could be harmful depending on how much I consume, my notebooks addiction means I COULD be buried under them all, but my god, what a burial that would be … give me a pen and I would be happy and the under armour clothing one isn’t too bad. The thought of working out is there, obviously, because I buy the clothing (to be fair, I do actually work out … maybe not as often or hard as maybe I should but I do go for runs and eventually will go back to the gym to do weight/resistance workouts … but knowing me I’ll catch a cold whilst there, and right now, I DON’T want that).

This Just In

Something blew my mind on Tuesday. Literally knocked me for six but when thinking about it more and more, it shouldn’t have. So I was doing my usual browse through Twitter, and I came across this post.

Streaming Wars

I have previously written a blog about the different streaming services but this one is slightly different. More and more and coming around now and the big players have released their initiation dates and prices …. And there’s gonna be a war … and we are all gonna be caught in the amazing content crossfire.

Life Update

So, I haven’t written any blogs or updates in a while. I’ve partly been busy with life and all that jazz but also haven’t had the motivation or inspiration to write something that would be good. I had an idea of writing a blog about my favouritecity (Manchester) as around the time I went for a day trip and hotel stay over and took plenty of pictures … but then getting around to writing something, and with having no actual goal or purpose for the piece, (other than me saying how much I love it), would have just been a whole lot of rambling which is what I fear I do anyways. 

WWDC2019 MacOS Catalina

Its been a few days since I’ve done one of these posts from WWDC19 as I discovered that other features would be written about by people attending the conference that I wouldn’t have been able to access by being at home in England. For the macOS Catalina update there wasn’t a great deal of new things announced. It already had the dark mode in a previous update so that wasn’t a new thing this time. There were more connectivity with other device announcements that were cool though.

WWDC 2019 watchOS 6

Another announcement done at WWDC19 was watchOS 6. This wasn’t as big an announcement as in previous years but there were a few notable points. With there being so few I might as well jump straight into them. 

WWDC 2019 iOS 13

Last night (3rd June 2019), Apple did their annual WWDC (world wide developer conference) keynote where they announce the new updates to Apple operating systems. Here they demonstrate and announce the new phone, laptop, watch, iPad and tv software. iOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS and now ipadOS. I always love it when Apple do their keynotes, they fill me with joy and awe, sometimes for the good but i often get caught up in it all and my judgement gets clouded. It usually takes me a day afterwards to realise that even though a lot of them are great changes … some of them just aren’t for me.

“Ido not fear computers, I fear a lack of them” - Issac Asimov

Ive been thinking a lot about technology lately. Some for future tech, but whilst watching the Goldberg’s today I also thought about past tech and how far we’ve come with technology. I was born in 1987, too young to remember them (the 80’s), but I still love 80’s movies, tv, music and other things. The Goldbergs is a great show as a lot of the things shown on there I did grow up with, that’s why its so popular. So even though I was a 90’s child, with my siblings being born in the 80’s and being in england, I had a lot of hand me downs and had to watch, listen and play with things they used to (or still did at the time)

My Streaming Service Blog

So within the last month or so there have been a number of companies announcing video streaming services. Big companies coming into this market as it’s the future for most people. 

While it’s great to have a choice it’s becoming more and more like tv services (cable/satellite) and I think it’s coming to a stage where enough is enough.