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Category: Mac

New Macbook Air heralds a new dawn

I know that sounds a bit dramatic, a little staring off into the distance looking all heroic and what not but I just couldn’t think of another way to title this article. You see, quite simply, this laptop is the first one – in such a long time – that is more easily repaired. And …

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Tips for Apple Mail Users

For ages I have been saying to people that Apple Mail is the best… well certainly better than Outlook. For starters, it is free. And for another thing it is easier to use and for more straight forward than Microsoft’s jumbled mess. But straight forward doesn’t mean that it isn’t powerful and that some of …

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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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A great free alternative to Photoshop

It is no secret that Adobe products are expensive. It is also no secret that they pretty much are the only tool in town that does the job well. Very well in fact. Professionals begrudgingly pay these prices but they get rewards in the kind of output they can achieve and charge accordingly. Fair enough. …

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Catalina – Wait a while!

Apple have, as they do this time every year, released their latest operating system; Catalina. And in theory it is fantastic. For starters you can now use your iPad as a second screen, a boon to those of us that like to have a spreadsheet on one screen and our email on the other… or …

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