Craig Grannell

2 days ago | tapsmart.com | Craig Grannell

For many people, daylight saving time (DST) is a nuisance. The clocks change, sleep is disrupted, and everyone ends up groggy and grumpy – so much so that there are growing movements to abolish DST entirely in both the US and EU. But for me, DST is a gift. And that comes down to two things. First, I live far north of the equator. Secondly, I have Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The further you are from the equator, the more extreme daylight shifts throughout the year.

5 days ago | stuff.tv | Craig Grannell

FOMO and gamification are terrible, evil things – which, in my case, happen to work wonders. Waggle a digital trinket in my general direction and I’ll dutifully perform a task I otherwise might have avoided. Learning a language? Sure. Tinkling some ivories? Done. It’s possible that if Reminders dished out stupid gold stars when I completed a job, I’d blaze through deadlines at such terrifying pace I’d have to source a new keyboard every few days due to over-exuberant key-smashage.

1 week ago | tapsmart.com | Craig Grannell

Even in our hyper-digital world, there’s a special joy in owning physical objects. That comforting feel of a paper book. The ritual of playing a record. A nostalgic thrill on gazing upon a shelf of action figures. Screens cannot replicate such things. However, your iPhone can help you keep track of what you own, bringing order to the chaos of physical collections.

1 week ago | stuff.tv | Craig Grannell

Samsung Ballie rolled back into view this week. The tech giant, momentarily distracted from churning out smartphones, announced that its dinky home assistant would soon be trundling around people’s homes, sucking up data and dispensing advice like a tiny robot guru. And probably not raising a robot army and quietly killing you in your sleep. But then it does now have Gemini AI inside – and Google were once the Boston Dynamics guys of scariest ever Christmas video fame. So who knows?

2 weeks ago | tapsmart.com | Craig Grannell

In February 2025, Photoshop arrived for iPhone. This should have felt like victory. Adobe’s image-editing giant has long been an app people associate with ‘proper work,’ like Microsoft Word. When Photoshop came to iPad, tech pundits breathlessly announced that – finally – Apple’s tablet was ready to take on the might of laptops and desktops. And now, even your smartphone could be capable, at a pinch, of ‘proper work.’For me, there was a flicker of excitement.