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How to edit an Apple Watch workout 2021
Have you forgotten to turn off your workout on your Apple Watch. It happens to me too often and I’ve finally gotten around to working out how to change a workout so it reflects the reality of what I did. Apple keep changing their Fitness app, so other sites’ instructions can be confusing. So as… [Continue Reading]
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Review: If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
Before the start of this review, I should state that I know Matthew R. Davis. We have met at local writing events, and we do follow each other on social media. The thirteen stories in his first anthology “If only tonight we could sleep”, showcases the broad range of Matthew’s imagination. In this book, there is… [Continue Reading]
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The Best Eighties Music Mashups Ever
What a discovery I made thanks to a friend on Facebook. The Hood Internet have created what are nothing short of masterpieces as far as music mashups. The level of work that has gone into these are incredible. Each year showcases 50 songs in around 3 minutes, and as you’ll hear, it’s a long way… [Continue Reading]
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Distrokid: A 2020 Review
We are not a click-bait site that strings things out to get you to stay on the page, so here’s the summary. We found Distrokid to be non-communicative over more than two weeks when trying to submit music. Tech support is essentially non-existent so we pulled the music and went elsewhere. The fuller story It’s… [Continue Reading]
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