Sunday, March 29, 2020
Back at the turn of 2018/2019, I recorded and published five episodes of The Uncanny Alley podcast with my friend and technology journalist Andrea Nepori. The domain has since lapsed, so I’m publishing all five episodes here. Here’s the first. First published 23-11.2018 Andrea and Charlie discuss the new 2018 iPad Pro, Andrea’s disco music iPad, and argue about folders.
Saturday, March 28, 2020
My second song-a-week release. This one was started on a trip to the Bavarian Alps late last year, but most of the work was done in Berlin. The photo shows the Königssee lake. All the drums are done on the OP-Z, guitar is a guitar, and the trumpet is a fake trumpet. Any more questions, ask!
Friday, March 27, 2020
I’m kicking off a song-a-week project with a song that has sat almost-finished for a few months now.
Just sent a Brydge keyboard for iPad Pro back after a day. It puts enough pressure on the screen to distort the glass, and that’s when you’re not actually using the screen as a lever to move the hinges. Also, for a portable device, it’s really big and heavy. The keyboard itself is nice though.
Washing
Friday, March 22, 2019
Music demo made with the OP-1
Just one tap
Thursday, January 31, 2019
A new episode of my podcast Uncanny Alley is up!
Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Episode 3 of our podcast The Uncanny Alley is available: Holding Gelato. Like every single person who gets paid for writing, Andrea and Charlie like to talk about keyboards. Quiet, or clicky? Long travel distance or short jumpy keys? Why would Italian put a vowel at the end of many Spanish words? And, most importantly: Chinese Democracy.
If I host a podcast on micro.blog, is there any way to get the download numbers? That’s the only stat I want!
Tuesday, November 20, 2018
A description
I’ve switched off multi-finger gestures for the first time since it was available. The new single-finger app switcher is easily good enough, maybe better.
It seems to me that almost none of the iPad Pro reviews were written by people use them regularly, or even at all. No wonder they have trouble using it.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Some more shots from my ongoing iPhone 7/iPhone XS camera comparison. The full review will be on Cult of Mac tomorrow.
Having fun testing the new iPhone XS portrait mode. You can dial in the depth of field after shooting.
No.1
Friday, September 21, 2018
This is pretty rad: With Siri Shortcuts and Face ID, I can say “Hey Siri, record this,” and then look at my iPhone, and it’ll record a voice memo. Great for when I come up with an awesome guitar riff. You can do this without Face ID, but you need to unlock the iPhone to do the actual recording. With Face ID I can look at the phone and it starts.
I used to complete any cube I found, but now I leave it almost done, to torture the owner.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
2018 iPad Pro redesign is both brilliant and stupid – Cult of Mac The possibly-leaked pictures of the new 2018 iPad Pro look great. Somehow, though, some writers have gotten the idea that these pictures prove that Face ID will only work when the iPad is in portrait orientation. Cult of Mac’s Ed Hardy puts together some terrible arguments for why this is a disaster for Apple. Or for iPad users, at least.
Is anyone a using static blog software for longer posts, paired with their hosted micro.blog? I’d like to, but I don’t really want to pay again for hosting. How do you have it set up?