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I suffered through a packet of “John John No 1 ‘Deep Blue Sea Salt'” crips for you.
Let’s start with the basic questions:
* Apparently it is “from the coastlines of the Middle East”, which doesn’t sound very deep blue to me.
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Nice to (finally) see that Apple UK’s updated iPhone 6/7/8/X/SE battery replacement pricing – £25 (to December 18) – see https://support.apple.com/en-gb/iphone/repair/service/pricing.
If you want a definition of a more-ish snack, look no further. Continue reading “McVitie’s White Chocolate Digestive Nibbles”
To be honest, we almost never use it, preferring to play music via Apple TV. Given how frustrating navigating through AppleTV’s music app can be, that’s a fairly damming statement about the Sonos – or should I say about the Sonos’ software, which is the real problem. Because the player doesn’t really fit into the ecosystem, you have to do things differently to use it, and well, we don’t. Continue reading “Tech: Sonos Play 1 – one year on”
Surprisingly bitter for a milk chocolate, with a short-ish sharp and intense sour aftertaste. Ok mouth-feel and crumb.
Don’t like it.
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The thing I’ve found most frustrating about Apple’s wee iPhone 6 battery problem is the blogosphere/applefanboy’s willingness to parrot the party line and not think critically.
Techcrunch said yesterday that replacement batteries were now available – however only in the US, and only if they’re in stock at Apple stores.
Which doesn’t help customers in the rest of the world very much.
When is a replacement programme not actually a replacement programme?
Following a fairly justified public/media backlash about how Apple handles/manages battery life on iPhone 6s, just after Christmas Apple allegedly ‘solved’ the problem with a ‘message to customers about iPhone batteries and performance‘ which ends with an offer to set up a programme to start replacing batteries at a more reasonable cost – starting at the end of January 2018. Continue reading “Apple: Apple’s tone-deaf iPhone 6 battery replacement announcement”
£75M is a ridiculous amount of money for a football player. Still, have a better feeling about this than I did about signing Dejan Lovren.
In the long run it would be cheaper if Liverpool FC just bought Southampton FC.
Arguments about Apple’s lousy iPhone batteries* have got lost in a black hole where technology writing, the blogosphere and applefanboy-ery ‘overlap’.
*not a rhetorical statement: I have a dud battery, officially confirmed by a Genius.
If you have (and still use) an iPhone 6/6s/6Plus you’ll know them as once impressive phones that are now increasingly unreliable and erratic. Lots of people are in denial about this Continue reading “Apple: Apple, ‘old’ iPhones 6s, and poor battery life”
I do want to like Waitrose’s own brand chocolate. I do. But I’ve yet to have a bar (and I’ve tried most of the flavours) that was even moderately nice. Continue reading “Waitrose 1 Costa Rican Dark Chocolate”
There’s a reason why the white chocolate Snickers bar is a limited edition: it’s bloody awful. The white chocolate is thin and crumbly and breaks apart as soon as you bite it, and is absolutely horrible tasting.
One of the worst ‘chocolate’ bars I’ve ever had.