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Category: Mac

Do you still need Zoom?

We’ve already established that Zoom was a digital waiting room for the damned. It was a piece of software that turned our homes into open-plan offices and our personal lives into a series of “connection unstable” warnings. But even though the world has reopened and we are once again allowed to look at other humans …

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Hiding the subscription buttons from Pages and Numbers

For years, Apple Pages was a rare oasis of sanity. You opened it, you saw a beautifully blank, white sheet of paper, and you wrote. It didn’t judge you. It didn’t bother you. It just sat there, quietly doing exactly what it was told. But now, some bright spark at Apple has looked at this …

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Microsoft will soon kill your 2019 Office suite

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Imagine you buy a hammer. You take it home, you put it in your toolbox, and you use it to smash nails into pieces of wood. It is your hammer. You paid for it. Then, a few years later, a man in a grey suit from the hammer company knocks on your door, walks into your shed, …

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Consider Apple Pages instead of Word

It is no secret that I have been a fan of Pages, and I am always trying to convince people that Microsoft Word (in most cases) is something you just don’t need. Despite my best efforts, though, there are still those that think that Word is the only processor out there, that it is needed …

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Your Intel apps are doomed

In 2020, Apple did something truly remarkable. They decided that Intel—the company that has provided the “brains” for every serious computer since the dawn of time—was no longer invited to the party. They launched their own “M-series” chips, and to make sure the transition didn’t cause a global productivity meltdown, they gave us Rosetta 2. …

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