Dorchester — May 12th 2026
The first, which applies to the Calendar app across hardware, was to show that to set up an appointment, when you get to choosing the time, you must choose the time zone of the location of the appointment. The default is your current location, which is why many of us will not have spotted that feature.
The second was the use of a VPN. Many websites will not allow access from outside of their official operating area, the BBC being a good example. With a VPN, you access the site by bluffing that you are in the same area. When travelling, this can be useful to access home-based sites. Rick demonstrated Windscribe VPN, available from the App Store free of charge. Paying extra increases the number of connections, but Rick found those available to the free edition were more than adequate.
Finally, for his third point, Rick turned to the use of an eSIM whilst travelling and demonstrated how to purchase and set one up with Airalo as his example.
After the break, and staying with travel, Trevor Craven introduced us to the app Polarsteps, which can help plan a journey and then create a diary of the journey, which you can share online and eventually have turned into a book record of the trip. Trevor’s daughter and husband were using Polarsteps on an extensive trip round Japan and were able to follow the route of their journey together with photos that they uploaded to the app as part of their diary. It is a great way to share and record travel.
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