Renny Willins

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Flipboard- better than a newspaper

I hadn’t read a paper based magazine or newspaper in ages. Not until this morning anyway. My primary reason for avoiding magazines is the news is generally old by the time I buy it, so the laptop I am reading about in the ‘latest’ Macworld has already been superseded by the time the magazine went …

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Switching between applications

With Macs having lots of ram and faster processors there is a temptation, or perhaps a need, to have as many applications open as possible. So, with all these applications open, the question is how do you switch between one application and the next. There are several methods, the method you have probably been using …

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Make your Mac play every type of video

In the past there was Quicktime (that played MOV, MPEG and everything in between) and there was Windows Media Player that ran only WMV type files. Now, while there was a copy of Windows Media Player for the Mac it was terribly featureless and the web integration was pathetic – meaning that if there was  …

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iOS is growing, Android and others are dying

Just a couple of days after RIM (makers of Blackberry) announces that they ‘Got it wrong’, Neilson releases a report showing that the hemroid – sorry, Android, has stalled, iOS is growing and the others are dying a slow death. None of this is a great surprise – everyone knows that the Blackberry is so …

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Who needs 4G anyway?

The media and the ACCC have recently gone after Apple claiming they potentially misled the Australian public by labelling their recent iPad as 4G when–at least in this country–that is not the case. As it turns out we are better off without 4G. Regardless of Apple’s fuzzy marketing there really wasn’t any question of them …

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