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The Fake Link Scam

The fake link scam, the digital equivalent of stepping on a rake—painful, embarrassing, and entirely avoidable if you’re paying attention.  But hey, who among us hasn’t been tempted by a too-good-to-be-true offer or a mysterious message from a “long-lost friend”? In fact, full disclosure… I fell for the “long lost friend” email just recently. I …

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Making Safari better

More and more people are buying laptops these days and they have small screens – as well as other deficiencies that don’t make for ideal desktop computers. In addition to this, Apple have, seemingly, abandoned the 27 inch iMac so the biggest screen you can look forward to on a desktop is 24 inches. This …

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Web apps… no coding needed

Sonoma has only a few features above Ventura but one of the best is creating web apps. I know this sounds like you need long hair and a leather waistcoat to achieve but trust me, no programming skills are required. A web app, in this instance, is bottling up a web page into a single …

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Updating your email

Many people are receiving an email from Microsoft and BigPond that appear, on the surface, to be fake. Both these emails say very similar things and offer similar instructions on how best to update your security before the deadline of September 2024. They tick all the boxes of a fake and scamming email but they, …

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Burning a CD

CDs. Remember those things? Exploding onto the scene in the 80’s they quickly became the replacement for our vinyl collections and garage sales everywhere were flogging off original 1970’s records for $2 a pop. I mean, who’d ever want records in the face of CDs ever again. History has a cruel sense of irony. Anyway, …

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