I am sure you have all been reading – with ever increasing waves of horror – that Facebook data (your data) was used by Cambridge Analytica to aid Donald Trump’s presidental campaign. If you haven’t read about this here is my breakdown… Facebook collects data about its users. Advertising companies use this data and Facebook …
Category: iPhone
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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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Dec 09 2017
Should you buy an iPhone X
There are literally thousands of videos and articles about the iPhone X so I am certainly not going to cover their ground here. Instead, I am going to try and answer a very simple question… should you buy one. Well, its the heaviest phone in a while and it feels thicker in the hand. But …
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Nov 26 2017
Getting a better internet speed
We have all been through this and if we make the mistake of asking our ISP for help the answer is always the same… “your line is fine”. And it is true, your line IS fine but the mechanics of the internet, as provided by your ISP, is broken. So here is a way to …
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