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Renny Willins

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  1. Too many Photos? — 7 comments
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  4. There is an answer to slow internet — 5 comments
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Remove duplicates from iPhoto

When IPhoto was released it was called the “digital shoebox” in which to put all your photos. It has moved on since then to allow you to sort and share in all manner of ways it is essentially remains the dumping ground of all your photos – just like that shoebox you used to use …

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No more squinting

There is no doubt that the screen on an iphone is sharp and the icons clean and precise. But with a screen only 3.5 inches it can be hard to see your emails or messages. Fortunately there is a simple way to make your text bigger and easy to see. 1. Tap on Settings 2. …

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Is Siri really that bad?

There was a recent survey among iPhone users who were asked what they thought of Siri. It seems only about half of iPhone 4S owners use Siri and of those only about half would rate it as acceptable. Even the ones that like it only used it about once a month. This this far from …

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Following the life of a photo

It used to be so simple. You took a photo on your iPhone and it stayed there until you synced it to your Mac. From there, if you could be bothered, you crop it or changed the colouring, but mostly you’d just file it. But now Apple have tried to get clever with photo stream, …

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Stop Lion from opening windows

Do you remember the good old days when a computer would cheerfully close all windows when you shut down your computer? These days it is a ‘feature’ that Lion reopens all your windows and relaunches all your applications upon reboot. This is often the very thing you don’t want at reboot time, so its not …

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