Renny Willins

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iOS 13 is out. But wait a bit…

If you own an iPhone 5S, 6, 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad Mini 2 and 3 you might want to skip this article… or better still read it and then go and buy a new iDevice. iOS 13 is out today (20th Sept, 2019) and it is the biggest update for iOs in a very …

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Serious iPhone hack

UPDATE: TechCrunch reported on the 2nd Sept that this exploit was designed to target Uyghur Muslims in China. However, the overall message of this article remains the same. Over the weekend (30-31 August 2019) the tech papers were flooded with reports of “hundreds of thousands of iPhones hacked” and “biggest breach of iOS ever”. For …

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iTunes is NOT dead

I am writing this on an iPad Pro, sitting in the front seat of my new Aston Martin. The iPad is fast and the Aston Martin is very comfortable. So comfortable in fact I might never go back into the house. So how, I bet you are wondering, did I afford all of this luxury? …

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Your old software will soon retire for good

I know, it sounds terrible but it is true. In a few months time Apple will release 10.15 and with it full 64bit computing and that means 32bit apps will no longer function. Now I don’t want to get you bogged down in what 32bit and 64bit mean… (essentially it is how the application addresses …

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Chrome – don’t use it

Not that I needed another reason to hate Chrome and wish it nothing but harm but along comes a very interesting article about how Chrome is secretly tracking everything you do… despite your best efforts to stop it. Like everything else that Google does, Chrome is something that is designed to look as pretty as …

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