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Category: iPhone

Working from home

Let’s not panic. Be informed not alarmed I think is the well worn phrase. A lot of people have been asking me about working from home and hurriedly wanting to set up Skype, Zoom or FaceTime in order to work or stay in contact with family and friends. They are also letting gormless looking technicians …

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Chrome – don’t use it

Not that I needed another reason to hate Chrome and wish it nothing but harm but along comes a very interesting article about how Chrome is secretly tracking everything you do… despite your best efforts to stop it. Like everything else that Google does, Chrome is something that is designed to look as pretty as …

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Simple Siri tasks

Siri (and other voice assistants) have been around for a long time. So long in fact that most people have forgotten a time when a smartphone didn’t have a digital assistant. And this is ironic because most people don’t use Siri and this is a shame. It is a bit like having a car with …

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How strong is your password?

This is not a long and rambling article about how passwords are managed. Indeed, it is instead a long and rambling article about how good your password actually is. Although it’s not that long, not that rambling and password managers are mentioned. All password managers give you their take on how good your password is. …

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