Third time lucky? OK, I’ll stop marking the number of weeknotes now. I think this is a routine by this point.

Published stuff

A busy week over at Stuff. I wrote about how it’s time iPhone and iPad were useful when they’re doing nothing. This digs into the iPhone Lock Screen revamp rumour. But mostly, I’m pining for Panic’s Status Board.

My Retroid Pocket Flip review finally went live. I really like this device. And as someone who remembers even the original Atari 2600, from the first time round, it blows my mind that you can now carry around 30-odd years of games in your pocket, on a device that costs $160.

I also wrote a quick update to my best iPhone/iPad apps round-up (buy Soulver!), lusted after Lego’s new Pac-Man arcade set. and suggested everyone drop everything and download Logic Pro for iPad.

Over at Swipe, I mulled over Apple, Siri and AI, with Apple having had such a lead that long ago eroded. And the latest entry in my classic iPhone apps series is Things. I’ve really loved writing these, getting the stories behind some of my favourite apps.

Elsewhere, I made my debut for iMore, with a piece about getting classic Mac games running on a Silicon Mac. For which I reasoned you need: an internet connection; copies of games you want to play; Sheepshaver or Mini vMac; a mouse; and an inordinate amount of patience.

I also somehow last week missed by debut for Wireframe v2. The print mag’s sadly gone, but the publication has a second wind as part of whynow. I got to explore why the new Super Cat Tales game is a community driven indie.

In-progress stuff and other stuff

These are combined this week, because, well, I don’t have much on. I spent the past few weeks in a mad flurry of activity, trying to front-load a ton of articles so that I could chill with my wife and the nipper, and do some family things over half term.

This means I’ve spent chunks of today just doing… nothing. And it’s a little worrying how alien this feeling is to me right now. Too often in recent months, I’ve used even the time booting an iPad to squeeze in some other micro task. It’s mentally exhausting to live like that and extremely unhealthy.

So before I wrote this, I was staring out of the window. That… felt good. I need to remember this when I return to normality. Or, more accurately, I need to shift the nature of my normality in terms of work so that it is a little more normal.