Ages ago I wrote an article about the best place to buy a second hand Mac and since that time I have always referred people to it. However, recently a new rich source of second hand macs has come to light and it comes from a company I have dealt with for well over a …
Category: Hardware
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Jan 29 2025
The new Photos app is magic!
Now you see them, now you don’t. Credit where credit is due and heavy sighs where they belong as well. No doubt, the new Photos app (running on a New M series Mac) and newer iPhones and iPads has a magic feature. It also has a terrible new layout… but more on that later. Specifically, …
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Nov 04 2024
The new Mac Mini
It has been a long held belief of mine that the fastest way to find anything that you lose is to buy it again. Time and time again headphones, watches, wallets and so on have gone missing. Weeks have been spent turning the house upside down but to no avail and the very day a …
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Oct 04 2023
Tesla and Apple CarPlay
Ask me what I think of Apple Car Play and you will have signed yourself up for a good hour of enthusiastic raving and overt hand gestures. Since day one I found Apple Car Play (referred to as ACP for expedience) to be the greatest way to interact with your iPhone safely in the car. …
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Sep 11 2023
Time to ditch the Time Capsule?
If you had more than one Mac or a laptop that was always moving around, an Apple Time Capsule was the best backup solution. End of story. At least it would have been if Apple hadn’t discontinued this marvellous product back in 2018. This stunningly stupid move left us in the hands of network hard …
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