Category: Mac

Time is up!

On the 24th of September Apple released 10.14 to the masses and in doing so doomed your Mac running El Capitan to the pages of history. If you see m@cservices regularly for a health check, or we’ve seen you for any other reason in the last little while, our mantra would likely have been “there …

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Pages in more detail

So since I am currently banging on about Pages and why it is the only word processor you need, I thought maybe I should address some of the top reasons people don’t. Other people (Word users) cannot read my documents. This is true, but very easy to get around. On my own Mac and for …

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Replacing Excel

I have been blabbing on about Pages over Word but we all know there is more to Office than just Word. What about, I hear you yell, Excel and PowerPoint? Very few people, outside of business, use Excel with anything like the same frequency of  Word. There are a lot more notes to the kids …

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Your hard drive IS probably slower than it used to be.

You might feel like you are going mad. You may even be getting the impression the IT community is conspiring against you but I am here to assure you that yes, your hard disk IS probably slower than it used to be. Yes, I am sure it has been tested (even perhaps by me) and …

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iPhone 8 logic board replacement

When the iPhone X (aka iPhone 10) was released last year, confusingly so was the iPhone 8. However, despite Apple’s second round of inconsistent numbering (remember them releasing the Apple Watch, then releasing a new one the following year and calling it the Series 1?) the iPhone 8 turned out to be a pretty good …

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