Steve Litchfield

32GB is quite a lot, really. 32,000 Megabytes, or 32,000,000,000 bytes of information. give or take some rounding errors. But it's actually a problem in the iPad world.  You see, iPads are kept far longer than iPhones. It's not unusual for someone's main iPad to be five or six years old, they just carry on doing the job they've done for so long. So keeping the software updated year on year is a larger project than on phones, where people normally upgrade after three or four years. Over The Air updates are wonderful, of course. No need to do anything except say 'Install' when Apple auto-downloads and offers the iPadOS update. Except in the modern era, when iPadOS 26 minor updates can still "need up to 12.5GB" in order to unpack and install in-place, on the iPad directly. With a modern iPad with 128GB or 256GB of storage, this isn't a problem. But for iPads of a certain age, in this case six years (2020), launched with a 32GB storage option, these la...

Just because you can see me doesn't mean that I can't see you. And run into you. Bikes, bikes, pedestrians, accidents are on the increase. And unnecessarily so. When I was a child, road safety on a bike or on foot was drummed into me. Lights, reflective bands, torches, the works. At night, such things are vital to keeping everyone safe in suburbia. Yet, in 2026, I see - everywhere around me - cyclists, escooter riders (already illegal in the UK by definition) and pedestrians, all moving around dressed in black or other dark colours, with no lights or reflectors of any kind.  At least once a week, at night, I have a narrow escape with one of these - let's face it - stupid people. And if there was a collision then I content that it would be 100% their fault. Careful lighting or reflecting should still be mandatory. As it was in the 1960s and 1970s when I was growing up.  I've ranted about this before , but an incident last night causes me to rise up once again... I was tu...

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. [Updated March 2026] 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...