Renny Willins

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  1. Too many Photos? — 7 comments
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iPhone 8 logic board replacement

When the iPhone X (aka iPhone 10) was released last year, confusingly so was the iPhone 8. However, despite Apple’s second round of inconsistent numbering (remember them releasing the Apple Watch, then releasing a new one the following year and calling it the Series 1?) the iPhone 8 turned out to be a pretty good …

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Consider moving to Pages

A few months back I took on the role as the Profit of Doom. Raining down on the parade of all those who had enjoyed the same Mac applications since 2008. I condemned all those screen recording apps, all the utilities that changed the default Mac icons to those of Disney characters and all the …

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This is the new way to order photos

It was a feature that I loved and a feature that I would often demonstrate as one of the best cross overs of the old and the new. It is also a feature that, to my shame, I only used three or four times in its ten year life cycle. Perhaps this is why the …

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Your modem could be at risk – again

It is not only US and UK elections that the Russians meddle with, they are also after your router. Last month the FBI started asking everyone to reboot their routers in order to flush out a virus that the Russians had been sending modems all over the world. In the beginning it was thought this …

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It’s probably not your mouse

Just before we begin I’d like to make the point that while this article talks about a mouse, a lot of the issues and fixes also apply to track pads. There comes a time in every Mac users life when they think their mouse sucks. In 1996 it was, justifiably, because it was round and …

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