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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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Catalina is dead

Sadly, it is that time again. Another MacOS has been forced to lay its head on the chopping block. This time around it is Catalina, the one they named after the island. Released in 2019 this operating system offered features such as only allowing 64 bit applications so all those old copies of Klondike no …

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Cables are not easy going

Nothing is ever as it seems. You’d be forgiven for thinking that a cable is a cable. It is a long string of plastic with plugs on either end that charges or  connects your device to the computer and it transfers data. It’s very straight forward right? Well, as it turns out, no! Service stations, …

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Don’t seek out your Keychain

Apple is very fond of keeping things simple. Double click on an app and it just works – usually. Generally stuff is exactly where you’d expect it to be and do what you’d expect it to do. But beneath the glitz and gooey glamor lies a metric ton of really odd and confusing folders, applications …

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Changing your Apple ID username

In recent days we have been helping grapevine and home mail customers change their email addresses to iCloud or Gmail. If we haven’t helped you yet, I hope you are on the list as time is running out and slots are filling fast. During the many users we have done, one thing has cropped up …

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Edit a photo in Photos

I have long been a critic of the editing tools found in Photos and iPhoto before it. They were limited in their scope and worked about as well as a handbrake made of pastry. So I forgot about them and, like a fool, purchased things like Photoshop Elements or suffered the excruciating interface of the …

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