Renny Willins

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Making your phone ring longer

It has happened to us all. Sitting next to the phone, waiting for an important call. You wait, and wait. Your buttocks are threatening to turn into fossilised fuel but still nothing. Then, you make the calamitous mistake of getting up and walking to the other end of the house for a much needed glass …

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All the exciting – new – stuff from Apple

It has been a few weeks now and I am possibly the last person on earth to cover the World Wide Developers Conference 2021. Or WWDC21 to the cool kids. Now before you click off this article thinking to yourself, “Renny, I am no developer, I don’t know about this coding malarkey …” fear not, …

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I won’t be buying an HP printer anytime soon

I am well known, in very small circles admittedly, that I have a love for Brother printers. It’s not that they are cheaper or have a larger range or even that they are better made than other major brands. My love for Brother stems from their software and how feature rich and Mac compatible it …

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Despite what I just said…

It was only February this year when I was banging on about Windows emulation software and that Parallels should  be avoided. If you missed that rant or have forgotten, check it out here. However, having just finished telling you that Parallels should be avoided it might be, in the face of Apple’s M1 chip revolution, …

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The Planned Obsolesce Myth

“Don’t you hate Apple’s planned obsolescence?!” This  is something I hear a lot, often after I have just delivered the bad news about someone’s Mac… something like they need an upgrade or this hardware is too old to install the latest and greatest OS. It is an understandable feeling when faced with the cost of …

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