Steve Litchfield

Well, almost free. You will need a piece of paper (e.g. printed, as here, from your printer) and some blu-tac (or similar - other brands are available).  What started as a 'what if' idea ended up on my wall only a minute or so later. Having found an inspirational bible verse that I wanted on my wall, I racked my brains to see if I could remember where there was a spare picture frame. And then I wondered... Here's the final result: It seems to float off the wall, is held securely, and is - literally - just a piece of paper. And, yes, takes 60 seconds to make: Print off the artwork or photo you want onto A4 paper, ideally sizing it to be about 60-70% the width of the paper. The exact size and aspect ratio isn't critical. Turn the paper over and fold in the two shorter ends, as shown, so that the fold is roughly a centimetre from the top and bottom of your artwork, which you can hopefully roughly see through the paper. Similarly, and again as shown, fold in the left and ri...

From 2013 until, arguably, today (2025), Google had a solution for every home without a fancy Internet-connected TV. So that's most people.  The idea was that you could 'cast' a video streaming app from your smartphone - Netflix, YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Prime Video, and so on, and Google's Chromecast gadget, plugged into an HDMI port on your otherwise 'dumb' TV, would handle the content and let you watch things on your much larger screen. On the face of it, users would think that it was their phone's app directly streaming the video content to the TV, and it's here that the misunderstanding occurred. You see, Chromecast was in fact a tiny Internet-connected and media-savvy computer in its own right and all the user phone/app was doing was passing a specific playback/streaming URL to the Chromecast, for it to handle playback from then on. So the user could then do other things on the phone, or even wander off for a walk and leave someone else watching, eve...