Renny Willins

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Make your Mac faster

  With all the good intentions of an aunt forcing Tupperware down your throat, Apple made FileVault an automatic standard when upgrading your Mac to Sierra back in 2016.  So there is a good chance its running on your Mac right now. Now in theory this is a great thing… after all, anyone with even …

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Bendgate – revisited

Back in 2014 when the iPhone 6 was the latest, it wasn’t long before Apple was embroiled in the scandal that became know as Bendgate. It was revealed that if the iPhone 6 was sat on or stressed in a particular way it was likely to bend. Many commentators, including this one, said they had …

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NBN and Airport router

With NBN creeping its way into more and more homes and yet more moving to VDSL, it is inevitable that your Airport/modem setup is going to get broken along the way. While I won’t go into the specific behaviour of your average internet tech, it does seem like they are given a crash course in …

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Turn off “Now Playing” on Apple Watch

Uri Geller managed it in the 70’s and I am going to try it now… I am going to make a prediction across the vastness of the internet and, depending on when you read this, into the unknowingness of the future as well.  Here goes…   You have an Apple Watch and when you lift …

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Siri lags behind Google and that is a good thing

It has been all over the TV news, splashed across every tech website on the internet and chatted about endlessly on breakfast radio. I am, of course, talking about Google Assistant and how it is now so smart it can fool a human into thinking they are talking to a real person as opposed to …

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