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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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Remove Flash?

You know something is bad when Facebook starts talking about security! A few weeks back Facebook urged Adobe to abandon Flash and take it off the market, echoing something Steve Jobs said back in 2010. In Steve’s famous letter to Adobe he called it out as buggy, slow and insecure and this is why, incidentally, …

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Force quitting an application

In ancient times, well ok the 1990’s, if an application failed it meant the whole Mac failed. You really did have the thrown the baby out with the bath water. But for a long time now you won’t lose the data in your unsaved* Excel spreadsheet if Word fails for some reason. If an application …

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Why do these applications keep popping up?

So you’d rather clean the shower with a toothbrush than reboot your mac because everytime you do half a dozen applications fire up making it a more tedious experience than watching an episode of Big Brother. There can be a couple of reasons for this and they are all easy to fix. A few years …

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Apple Watch

I don’t know about you but when thinking about spending nearly $500 on a watch I’d want to think long and hard about it. After all, its only a watch! I mean, telling the time can come to you for the princely sum of $10.00 and adding (in the case of the cheapest model) $489.00 …

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The Dock

Think of your Dock like the preloaded radio stations on your car stereo. The icons sit there waiting for you to click on them when needed but removing those icons doesn’t delete the application in the same way as deleting Button 1 on your car stereo doesn’t demolishes KIX 106 (unfortunately) To add an icon to the dock …

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