Just before we begin I’d like to make the point that while this article talks about a mouse, a lot of the issues and fixes also apply to track pads. There comes a time in every Mac users life when they think their mouse sucks. In 1996 it was, justifiably, because it was round and …
Category: Hardware
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Jun 04 2018
NBN and Airport router
With NBN creeping its way into more and more homes and yet more moving to VDSL, it is inevitable that your Airport/modem setup is going to get broken along the way. While I won’t go into the specific behaviour of your average internet tech, it does seem like they are given a crash course in …
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Mar 28 2018
That little orange light
If you have an Airport (Express or Time Capsule) chances are you’ve seen a little orange light flashing at you from time to time. Chances are you have rebooted the Airport and it has gone away for a few minutes, only to return. This little orange light is designed to tell you that the Airport …
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Jan 15 2018
POS for the rest of us
Ok, picture this. You have a small business, or you sell cakes at the bus depot markets or do anything that requires the taking of money. In the past you have been limited to cash or spending bigly (thank you Mr Trump) on renting a credit card machine from the bank. If you are running …
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Jan 11 2018
Meltdown and Spectre
Another year and another round of exploits and serious ones at that. This time it’s the fault of Intel and over curious security experts that have discovered a serious flaw in the very chip that powers almost every device on the planet. IBM, Dell, Acer, and sadly Apple are embroiled in this very serious security …
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