HAL's tech help

05/08/2026

I guess I’m a man of many talents 🥰

27/06/2026

16/06/2026

No Oddjob

Enjoy this Rare classic with a modern Windows controller, online multiplayer, post-FX filters, and at great frame rates.

09/06/2026

If you have an old phone/tablet laying around you can turn it into a free security camera using the Alfred app 👇🏿

https://link.alfredcamera.app/alfredcamera_referral?referral_code=VImQYYLK-LQ

08/06/2026

If you don’t love my bug fixes you don’t deserve my performance enhancements

03/06/2026

Humans are like computers in the sense that if something goes wrong you should check the log 🪵 💩 for more information

01/06/2026

If you lost power for more than 12 hours ⛈️ you are eligible for a $120 rebate from Western Power

If you're affected by power outages lasting 12 hours or more, you may be eligible for a service standard payment. Learn more about the eligibility criteria.

29/05/2026

This image shows two separate recordings of two separate magpie calls. I'm fascinated by how accurately they repeat on a spectrogram. I wonder what she's saying.
Artificial Intelligence is making massive steps towards the first dialogues between birds and humans.

Hal can Halp you set up your own bird call tracker at home using open source software

27/05/2026

Last night I was helping a client who found benefit from an accessibility function in iOS that I didn’t even know existed!

Double pressing the side button for Apple Pay was impossible to do without the help of a support worker to be able to pay for things.
I incorrectly stated that I don’t think it’s something we could change, but I Googled it just to be sure and I’m so glad that I did because it must have been a new feature added!

It wasn’t the original reason for the visit, just an added extra but it felt so good to be able to give a friend some very well deserved independence back.

So much of IT isn’t necessarily about knowing all the answers but knowing where and how to find them and I love it when I can show my clients how to find the answers on their own

26/05/2026

Disconnect your smart TV from the internet - use Apple TV instead

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of everything on your screen 7,200 times every hour and sending that data to advertisers. Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense, and...