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Category: iPad

iTunes Radio arrives in Australia

Announced back in October 2013, iTunes Radio was to be Apple’s answer to services like Pandora and Rdio. Launched first in the US (predictably) it failed to win over many Pandora users not because there was anything wrong with it , but because it didn’t offer anything new. So why change? Well, for starters, iTunes …

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Don’t like the skinny font in iOS7?

Personally I don’t mind the new iOS for the iPhone or iPad. I think its stylish, breezy and thoroughly modern. But its not for everyone. Some find the icons bewilderedly childish or nonsensical (in some cases I agree), the font too hard to read and some of the design ideas to be nothing more than …

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Charge your iPhone (or iPad) quickly

It has happened to us all. You are about to leave the house and you grab your iPhone or iPad and you discover you’ve got about 5% battery life left. Experience tells you that this means the bloody thing will be dead before you get to the car. And sticking it on a charger won’t …

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iWork in the cloud – at last

Up till now if you wanted to sit down and compose a Pages document (or Keynote presentation or Numbers spreadsheet for that matter) you needed to do it at your Mac.  Its true that you could do this on your iPad or iPhone but sometimes you need a bigger screen. Sometimes to need more elbow …

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Proper RDC on an iPad- at last

If you work with PCs then you’ve probably heard of Remote Desktop Connection or RDC to its techy friends. The Mac has something similar called Screen Sharing but its not nearly as popular or as in demand as RDC. The mechanics of this desktop sharing is built into every PC and essentially it allows a …

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