Renny Willins

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Cloud storage for a Mac user

Editors Note: Originally this post was going to be a study of cloud services and how they work with the various desktop and iOS applications. However, as it is too often the case, I got side tracked into the new costs facing Microsoft Office users. This issue is a little more serious, and as it …

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Apple don’t make it obvious but it can be done

. Apple sure don’t help themselves with their choice of menus. Their classic habit of referring to “folders” in the Mail application as “mailboxes” has always been a head scratcher for me. Last year it became apparent that those who use iPad or iPhone can save documents to cloud based services like Dropbox. All of …

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Mistakes can be undone

A few years back I turned up to a party wearing a bow tie and shorts. Someone took a photo of this fashion nightmare and posted it on Facebook. Clearly this mistake cannot be undone but errors you make with your Mac can be reversed quickly and easily. Provided you are quick.   Typing Imagine …

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Smart Folders

It is very common for people to create folders in Mail or Outlook and drag various emails to those folders. These folders come in useful when you want to find email on a certain matter so perhaps you want to create a special folder for your trip to the UK or emails from the wife. …

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No CD drive. Don’t sweat it.

Sharing things is very important and this is very true when it comes to Apple and CD Roms. For a long time now Apple have been doing to the CD drive that they did to the floppy drive back in the 1990’s, namely killing it off. What with hi speed Internet, movie downloads and USB …

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