Headworx

Hotel TVs are one of the artifacts of the past. No hotel probably even thinks of providing a room without a TV. Sure, you can have a room with a shared bathroom or without a window. But there is always a TS set. I wonder who watches them. These days most people watch their personalized content. Typically they are just fine with the endless scroll on social media but some do watch YouTube or other paid (subscription) Internet-based video services. And then they arrive at a hotel and do what? Watch the broadcast TV? I don't think so. At least I don't do it. Although it would be nice from time to time to watch something from a bigger distance and on a bigger screen (bigger than my 10" iPad). Some time ago I added a nice 90-degree USB-C - to - HDMI adapter to the cable bag  (other than that there have been no updates, and I'm very happy about the "cable" things have stabilized, mostly due to the USB-C all-capable standard). This adapter has two use cases. The pri...

Despite photography (electronic photography) continuing to be a category where most consumer product investments go, managing a photo library remains an unsolved problem. It works at a basic level thanks to mobile apps like Google Photos, but anything more advanced is full of process / conceptual gaps and a serious content management challenge. This is the reason why the compact / prosumer camera segment died. People simply got lost in the complexity of managing the photo sets, including how they access the photos on the road (when they do not have access to a computer), where / how they do edits and how they backup and share the photos. Things are super simple if you just have a phone. You take a photo, it gets geo-tagged and time-stamped automatically and gets uploaded to the cloud. Then you do some retouching edits and they are applied with an option to undo/redo on all "copies" (local / cloud) of the photo. Timestamping always uses a properly synchronized clock because th...

My trusty phone is aging. It's got a new battery and still works for days on a charge. But things start working slow. I believe this is is mostly due to the size of RAM (4GB) as most of "today's" phones have 8-12GB. RAM is being filled up with apps and when a new app is started, it takes time for the memory manager to clean up the RAM to make room for the launched app. And the other day I found what you can see on the attached screenshot - a configuration panel which controls which apps are loaded on startup. Clearly too many. I started turning them, off and then I realized most of them I did not actually used anymore. This led me to take a while (and yes it was a long while) to uninstall unused apps. I probably got rid of 80% of the apps. Of course I could remember why they ended up being installed but very often it was just a momentary use, contributing over the years to the app clutter. So there were apps I no longer used at all and there were apps I no longer used...

- "So you did not manage to release the product by the end of December as planned?" - "We didn't as almost half ot the month was eaten by the holiday season - Christmas and New Year" Oh how many times I heard that... Due to the surprise of Christmas and New Year happening barely a week from each other at the end of December we could not complete this or that. Yes, some people are really surprised Christmas in on Dec 25 and New Year starts on Jan 1. This is not a joke. This is a fact. Same with Summer holidays. There is always lament about the backlog after returning to the office after a week or two of vacation absence. Another surprise. People often talk about personal productivity tools. As you may know , I do not use almost any of that. Instead, I have developed a discipline of walking thorough the calendar, day by day and seein how much I would be able to accomplish in a day / week / month ahead. That helps me offer reliable commitments and avoid overpromisi...