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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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A melt down

I am afraid during testing the new website fell over so all that good work went to the bit bucket in the sky. So I am rebuilding the site slowly but surely and pages and menus should start to yield some useful information in the next day or so.   -Renny

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Mountain Lion and Windows 8

There is something happening to desktop interfaces on both sides of the divide and I am not sure I like it. The push seems to be the interface used on smartphones – the ones that rely on touch screens and finger swipes – is to be shoehorned onto the desktop. It was Apple, in 2007, …

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Apple announce Mountain Lion

Apple’s approach to the release of their next operating system is something of a surprise and is perhaps a sign of things to come. Without warning and certainly without a media event they released a number of details about the next operating system due this year. OS X Mountain Lion–10.8 is yet another attempt to …

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Smartphones are uploading your data to the mothership

Earlier this week it was discovered that a few applications on the iPhone and iPad (As well as other smart phones it must be said) where secretly uploading our address book data to remote servers and I find this shocking–not because these apps were doing it–but more because Apple allowed it. Don’t get me wrong …

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Mountain Lion will kill your (not so old) iMac

No sooner had the dust settled on the shock announcement of Mountain Lion when Chris Rawson of “The Unofficial Apple Website” exposed the horrible truth that some not so old iMacs would not be able to run Mountain Lion  when it is released later this year. Rather then reinventing the wheel here is Chris’s very revealing article that not …

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