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Last year I worked on rebuilding the Great British Bee Count iPhone app for Friends of the Earth. Today, an updated version of the app has gone live to support this years count which runs from 19th May until 30th June 2016:

When I started out as a web developer I was fascinated by APIs; the ability to hook into other data sources or update other applications from my own had huge potential that is finally being realised with the Internet of Things1. It is now possible to write ...

I’m currently in the process of switching from my Xbox One to a gaming PC1 and have been spending a lot of time curating my Steam collection on my Mac. One thing I’ve noticed recently is that I often see games being updated but then have to go to their indi...

A few years ago, I wrote a convoluted AppleScript that allowed me to use my Apple TV as an alarm clock. It worked by waking up iTunes, selecting a playlist, shuffling it, and then playing it via AirPlay. Unfortunately, it stopped working when iTunes 11 was ...

The 12th episode of The Divide podcast is now available in which we have a lengthy discussion on reboots, particularly in movie franchises like Spiderman, Batman, and that film by that director we’re not allowed to mention in front of Chris. In addition, we...

I’m working on a personal project currently that works heavily with country codes and the selection of countries. To make it look better, I wanted to use a flag icon for each country in the list. In the past, this would have been done with a load of importe...

I don’t tend to make many Apple predictions but I’ve been meaning to write about the rumour of the lack of a headphone port on the iPhone 7 for some time. It seems almost certain that the iPhone 7 will drop the 3.5mm headphone jack in favour of using the pr...

An iPhone app I worked on throughout 2015 has finally gone live in the App Store today; Clinix:

I’m very happy to announce that a new podcast I’ve been working on with John Wordsworth has gone live today; Connecting To Host.

Today I spent a little bit of time making a new iPhone message tone1 and it reminded me of how terrible the entire ringtone system is on iOS. I have a number of specific issues: It’s Han Solo shouting ‘BEN!!’ from Star Wars: The Force Awakens ↩︎