This Week with Taylor & Gordon

Gordon’s Blackpool Magic Convention Trip Trip to Las Vegas and Austin, Texas Lots of HUGE meals, and Starbucks (Pink Refresher drink) Lots of Escape Rooms Was shown around all the new machines at Props To You who all have names Enjoyed going to the Piano Bar (first time) Lots of great flavoured Dr Pepper and ... Read more

Back after a few weeks, due to major surgery Family and friends visited Taylor during his hospital visit to show we all loved him at his difficult time Recording ahead of release on Valentines day Able to work more for this “New Normal” Life is changing with new habits needing to be formed Blackpool Magic ... Read more

Have you seen the new build of our website – https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk End of year business accounts Reconcile once a week from now on Deal with accounts as you take payments or purchases Taylor uses Zoho Books – https://www.zoho.com/uk/books/ Do you accounts early so it’s done and out the way You also get to know what ... Read more

New Year / New Season – Season 4 New Website Design, Version 3 of the website https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Talking about decisions made on for the new design New Purple accent colour New Hero section on the home page The website is all dynamic, pulls in the content it needs Search facility New updated podcast services logos ... Read more

Last episode of Season 3 Year in review 31 episodes out of a potential 52 Illness and travel disrupted our schedule Moved from Oxygen to GeneratePress – https://generatepress.com/ Taylor’s personal website was rebuilt Many benefits of using GeneratePress with Gutenberg New technology, phones, watches, MacBooks for both of us, iPad Working together in the same ... Read more

Christmas Greeting in front of our Christmas Tree Magic-wise – best year for a long time We had some illness during the year, but we are all well now Gathering of the family for Christmas day We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas   Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative ... Read more

AI Tools GPT 3 is one of the more popular at the moment AI to generate code – https://chat.openai.com/chat Create AI Images with Midjourney – $10 a month – https://www.midjourney.com/home/ Remix images using tweaked text prompts The skill is in writing the prompts Training from open source resources Midjourney runs on Discord – https://discord.com/ Licensing ... Read more

A little late starting due to technical issues. Day out for Taylor’s birthday Back in Time Exhibition – https://backintimeexhibition.com/london/ Customer Survey – asking why people choose not to purchase from you, or decide to leave you Getting back to people quickly – strike while the iron is hot If you are really busy, then get ... Read more

Back from America – trip to Las Vegas Went to meet up with a friend Saw some shows – Ka, Mad Apple, Farrell Dillon, a comedy magic show, and Awakening. The stage and theatre for Ka is just phenomenal. Check out the trailer – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2dR7VQjek Technology and automation is really pushing theatre forward to become ... Read more

Recording ahead of time as Gordon is going to the USA this time My storage devices, Drobo are not being supported anymore so won’t work with Apple Mac OS Ventura – so I need to decide what to do New website re-design – January may bring a new design to this website There are a ... Read more

iPad iOS 16 and Apple Mac Ventura is out I always wait for the next version of Ventura before updating. See if it breaks anything. Apple TV update, and some new iPads What happened in America New York first, woke up early and wondered around. Lots of coffee shops and wifi Ohio was next, to ... Read more

Snippet Club lifetime deal is over Work Day Preparations Reflect on the previous day and think about the day ahead every morning Plan for your coming day by giving yourself time before you start work “Checking in” is the corporate world term Checking your schedule the night before Your subconscious brain thinks about things over ... Read more

Did you see our Easter Egg in our vidcast from last week? Snippetclub is going well. Email addons – using Mailbutler – https://www.mailbutler.io/ Scheduling emails and undo send coming soon in the next Mac OS – Ventura Pausing a scheduled email is a new feature of Mail Butler Lots of good features in this paid ... Read more

Snippet Club has been launched… Tutorial and Snippets for WordPress developers and website builders Helping people build better sites with code https://snippetclub.com Solutions built by Taylor from his own client work, or from suggestions from members There is a lifetime deal on until 9th October – https://snippetclub.com/lifetime-membership/ The site has taken two years to get ... Read more

EPISODE 100 !!!! Apple announcements from a couple of weeks ago Apple Watch Ultra iPhone 14 Pro – New camera system, always on display and the Dynamic Island iOS 16 and Watch OS 9 released – https://www.apple.com/uk/ios/ios-16/ Props To You – https://propstoyou.com/ High Quality Original Printed Photobooth Props They also do custom prints and ship worldwide ... Read more

Out of respect for the late Queen Elizabeth II we are not doing a full episode this week. Searching for Royalty Free images of the Queen is that an Oxymoron?   Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Facebook: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk/facebook Youtube: https://www....

Shorter week Angry Birds in VR Good enough is better than perfect Working so hard on something and then not launching it Building with the users so they can give you feedback The longer you wait, the more chance there is for competition to launch Good enough is important though People need to like it ... Read more

No recording last week as Taylor was away performing his “living alone” experience Cooking for himself Unsettled as it wasn’t his house, plus he was quite ill which didn’t help Preparing for Busy Times September is REALLY busy for me Knowing that I am going to be busy in one business means I need to ... Read more

Struggling with tiredness Living Experience – looking after a friends pets, living in their home Taking control of the day with less distractions Doing everything for myself Beta Testing Stress-testing and finding things that don’t work as expected User Experience is a part of it Common issues of websites on mobile Content glitching without you ... Read more

Car fixed from it’s battery drain Photoshoot, takes ages to set up my photo studio, I had forgotten how long it took Meta Quest 2 – (link down at the time of posting) – https://store.facebook.com/gb/en/quest/products/quest-2/ Sky World Beta app released – https://www.sky.com/pages/sky-immersive Sky Go app released on Apple TV – https://www.pocket-lint.com/tv/news/apple/162067-sky-go-available-on-a...

We are back after a few weeks off Busy with shows along with trips away and illness and tiredness America Trip was good, I got to go this time Chicago then Texas – Starbucks is such a big part of the American culture Big meals and drinks, and cinema trips Tax payments are due for ... Read more

Wordcamp Europe report Meeting new people, getting swag, watching talks Next year is Wordcamp is in Athens Gordon’s “new” Trip to America Generosity of people Getting a back up of a prop I already use – The Bunny Rabbit trick Saving up my paper round money to buy my first big prop Loss of video Give ... Read more

Guest: Jonathan Jernigan from Apex Web Solutions – https://goapex.io Specialising in Oxygen built websites – https://oxygenbuilder.com Youtube Channel – Permaslug – https://www.youtube.com/c/Permaslug Internet friend of Taylor’s – this was their first meeting First time in Europe – loving London so far Recording early due to a trip to Wordcamp Europe in Portugal for Jonathan and ... Read more

Very busy couple of weeks – giving a talk  to other entertainers Drayson Design Reviews – currently on sale for £30 – www.draysondesign.com/services/software/drayson-design-reviews/ Personal Website project – importing historical data Saving each data point in it’s own field meant the database would get huge very quickly, and make it slow to search and get results. ... Read more

News: EPIC Fortnite is back on iOS through Xbox Cloud Gaming Google Play is now also requiring all in-app purchases for apps in their store to go through them and not use a different payment method. This follows iOS and is what Apple’s court case with EPIC is based on currently. MacBook Pro Check-in – ... Read more