Steve Litchfield

There are two software suites I put onto every Windows PC I buy - one is Microsoft Office, now renamed annually and probably 365 CoPilot or similar by now - but you know the package I mean, and it comes with a Terabyte of cloud storage for a year, all for £60 (once you've said no to CoPilot!) Which I think is a decent deal and my family gets a lot from it. The other is Nero Platinum Suite 2026  - again the name has changed subtly over the years, (not least the year bit!) but the Nero bit is the important root - Nero is a German company and responsible for THE best 'burning' and 'media' software back in the day, by which I mean 20 years ago. Thankfully, it's not only still going, but has been updated regularly and expanded hugely, to the point where it has a tool for doing just about everything that Windows cannot. From upscaling images and videos , to video editing and transcoding, to removing photo duplicates, backing up your PC, screen recording, audio captur...

It occurs to me, browsing through my own extensive library of Shorts on YouTube (most now, since YouTube's expansion of the format, up to 3 minutes long), it's not trivial to find videos on a particular topic or of a particular type. Hence, I thought I'd try an index of sorts here. That I could point people towards and also refer back to myself when needed. NB. The video lists are sorted in approximate chronological order (i.e. oldest to newest) in each section. NB2. I've gone back only three years so as not to burden you with too much out of date or more primitive content. For the full set of videos, see my YouTube channel generally ! NB3. The lists below show just how much video content I've created in this format. If you'd like to show your appreciation via PayPal ? iPhone-related reviews and comment AirPods Pro 2nd gen: the best of three worlds? Clicks Keyboard review: part 1: Multi-tool, Multi-accessories Clicks Keyboard review: part 2: Why Clicks? Clicks ...

What's ultimately the point? People! It was trawling through my mother‘s 15,000 printed photographs a few years ago, after her death, that made me think about what a photo is and what it’s for. Alongside this, there are photographs of birds and planes (in my case) and general landscapes/scenes shot by others and submitted to social groups, and it has all made me think again about the point of taking a photo. For example, you’re in front of a robin in your garden. You use your skill and judgement and a good camera phone or camera to take a photograph of the robin, you crop in and zoom in, and you end up with a nice photograph of… a robin. Is this picture of a robin different from the literally tens of millions of other photographs of robins taken by other people in the past, in printed form and on the Internet? Effectively, it’s not.  Take planes, a passion of mine. An Airbus A380 is overhead, heading for (Heathrow), about a mile up. I use the lovely 8x telephoto in my high-end iP...