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Renny Willins

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  1. Too many Photos? — 7 comments
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  3. Apple stores – posed the same question. — 6 comments
  4. There is an answer to slow internet — 5 comments
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Sharing web pages

If you’ve ever found yourself reading something on the web and thought “oh, I bet <insert significant other here> would love to read this” I bet you’ve copied the address, opened Mail and pasted the link. There is nothing wrong with this of course but Apple made it much easier in Lion (and Mountain Lion) …

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Removing words from your Mac Dictionary

We have all done it, I know I have. Spell checking a document and I have inadvertently added a misspelt word into my dictionary. This might not be so bad if its a goof that you aren’t likely to repeat, by what about a word you ALLWAYS speel incorrectly? It is there forever!  Or is …

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Office 2013 just got very unattractive

UPDATE: Microsoft announced on tbe 6th of March 2013 that licences would now be transferrable. Microsoft have been known for producing software that is essential but annoying to use. I can’t think of many titles that have managed to muster up quite as much hatred as the ‘Ribbon’ interface design of Office 2010 for Windows. …

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Java Exploit – again – this time its very serious

In the past some spotty faced geek would decide that it has nothing better to do than to make our lives a misery by writing a virus or punching a hole into a piece of software we all rely on. I gather it has something to do with being inferior or not being breast fed …

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New Weather App points to everything that is wrong with iOS

Two things came together that motivated me to write this article, something I wasn’t planning on doing until the new year. The first was the upgrade to Weather Au from Shiftyjelly and the other was an article by Liz Gannes that appeared on the All Things D website. Shiftyjelly have been producing a weather application for …

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