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Renny Willins

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  1. Too many Photos? — 7 comments
  2. Urgent Upgrade Recommended — 6 comments
  3. Apple stores – posed the same question. — 6 comments
  4. Working from home — 5 comments
  5. There is an answer to slow internet — 5 comments

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Getting ready for Big Sur

No, you aren’t imagining things and you aren’t suffering from Deja vu either. This is the second time I have spoken about Big Sur recently… an OS that isn’t even here yet. But it is close and, unless something goes terribly wrong between now and when it is finally released, I am going to install …

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iOS 14 is here

Apple just (on the 17th of Sept 2020 for the historians reading this in 2045) released iOS 14 for iPad and iPhone. I have been playing with it for the last little while and let me give you my top 7 things I think you will find most interesting. As well as a special bonus …

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Your newish Mac is exposed

Apple, or rather a European security firm, recently announced that Apple’s T2 chip (the one that handles security) has a fundamental flaw. This flaw leaves the chip subject to attack and can allow key loggers and other snooping applications to be installed. This is bad news and what is worse it cannot be patched. Because …

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Too many Photos?

About ten minutes after you start using your first digital camera or iPhone to take and store photos you’ll realise three things; 1) you already have too many photos and; 2) you have thousands of duplicates. And not long after this… you’ll begin to realise 3) you cannot find anything. Let’s address all three… but …

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Yes, you have google

This article comes on the heels of a conversation I had with my mother-in-law a few days back. A mac user for many years she confidently claimed that she couldn’t go to a particular website because it required google and she didn’t have google. If she could have seen my face (fortunately this was one …

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