About every 12 to 18 months, I make a habit of upgrading our hard drives. This keeps them nice and new, and so far, failure free*. Last time, I got the new (at

Over the last 3 months or so, I've been working with FreeAgent on an iOS app for people who are covered by the new HMRC rules around micro-businesses. I'll

Yesterday, FreeAgent announced that they have integrated with Barclays [http://www.freeagent.com/central/automated-bank-feeds-from-barclays], so your bank transactions are auto-loaded into FreeAgent. This is a huge step, which would cut out one

As might be abundantly obvious, I use and love the Xamarin tools for mobile development - mostly MonoTouch [http://xamar.in/r/nicwise/xamarin.com/monotouch] , which I've used for all

These panoramics were taken with AutoStitch on the iPhone 4S. No other retouching. All link to full sized versions. Captions link to Google Maps. [https://fastchicken.co.nz/content/images/uploads/old/2012/