The world, as we know it, is currently full of people trying to sell us things we do not want. If you are standing in a queue for a coffee, someone will try to sell you a pension. If you open your physical letterbox, you will be buried under five kilograms of glossy paper telling …
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Mar 07 2026
iCloud is great – but its not a backup for your Mac
In the modern world, we are told that the “Cloud” is a magical, ethereal vault where our digital lives go to be pampered by angels. Apple calls it iCloud, and they’ve spent billions of dollars making you believe it’s the ultimate safety net for your photos, your documents, and those “hilarious” videos of your dog …
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Mar 07 2026
Send that message later
We’ve all been there. It’s two in the morning. You’re wide awake, possibly because you’ve had a particularly robust piece of cheese, and suddenly—ping—your brain decides to function. You remember that you forgot to tell the plumber that the downstairs tap is making a noise like a dying bagpipe. Now, in the olden days—by which …
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Feb 02 2026
Do you want a simpler iPhone?
When Microsoft produced their iPhone competitor…no seriously they tried, they often accused the iPhone of just being a “sea of icons”. Well they were certainly onto something and indeed went on to sell their Metro interfaced phones by the bucket loa…no wait, that’s right…it went bust. But they did have a point because the iPhone …
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Aug 09 2025
The Sorting Hat no one asked for
Apple Mail has always been the quiet workhorse of macOS and iOS. It didn’t try to be flashy. It didn’t throw pop-ups in your face. – it just went about sorting your email without fanfare. It just delivered your email in a nice, boring list—like a responsible adult. But then came macOS Sequoia and iOS …
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