Renny Willins

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Remove Genieo from your Mac

From time to time, when downloading legitimate applications, they come bundled with utilities that are both self promoting and buggy. MacKeeper comes to mind and I have written about that digital excrement before here but this time I need to warn you about Genieo. I first noticed Genieo a few years ago on a clients computer.  Back then thought it …

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Rules to deal with scams

This article is probably the kind of thing you should print out and put next to your computer. Its probably worth forwarding onto your friends as well.       Scams are getting more and more personal, with maggots masquerading as human beings calling you up to fleece you up close and personal. Sometimes it …

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What is Preview and how do I get the full version?

I will admit, Apple’s built in PDF and picture viewing application is badly named and most people think its a demo version of something. The word Preview, seems to suggest that you use this to look at something but if you actually want to DO anything with that document you need to find another application. …

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Friends don’t let friends use XP

Reading the title of this article you’ll be expecting me to start banging on about Windows and how bad it is, how the Mac is so much better and how you ought to be encouraging your friends to make the switch now. Not this time. Well….. not much anyway. Really this is about Windows XP had how …

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New operating system coming in Spring – Yosemite.

Come Spring Apple will be unleashing their latest operating system, Yosemite–and with it will come the usual questions and hand wringing. What’s going change? How will it affect my Mac and will I have to learn how to use it all over again? Is my Mac ready? The good news is, at least at this stage, there is very little …

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