Renny Willins

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You CAN stop the music

Apple introduce some odd features sometimes. It makes me wonder if they ever bother to consult with their customers before inserting them into iOS or if they are just the love children of drugged up and over caffeinated developers. One such feature, that has been around for a long time and is showing no signs …

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Scanning – correctly – with iPhone

Paper is dying. At least it is supposed to be. When I started in this business 30 something years ago I was promised the future was paperless. Umph. So, it is inevitable that you are going to come across paper and that paper is going to be in the need of scanning. Whether it be …

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27 inch iMac is dead

Last year Apple released their new 24 inch iMac with the fantastically fast and energy efficient M1 chip… the worst chip they were ever destined to release. Along with this announcement they promised a new 27 inch (or rumoured 30 inch) iMac with the same M1 chip. This was something that, as James May might …

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Cannot open some apps

Over the last few years Apple have been tightening the screws on security to make our Macs safer… effectively wrapping us up in a tight blanket of permissions, confirmations and many (oh so many) preferences. However, sometimes this blanket can be so tight we cannot move. One such confusing dialog box, which as been around …

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Friends don’t let friends use El Capitan

In 2015 Apple described El Capitan as… “OS X El Capitan improves system performance across your Mac, making many of the things you do everyday faster and more responsive.” How things change! El Capitan, 10.11, hasn’t been supported for over a year now but that hasn’t stopped people from continuing to use it everyday sometimes …

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