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Category: Mac

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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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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Apple watch series 3 – first month

  Regular readers of my website or FaceBook page will no doubt recall the unparalleled hell I experienced at the hands of Telstra when attempting to set up my Apple Watch S3 to a mobile network. I get that this is a new product and I understand that challenges are to be expected but there …

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There is a difference between a gimmick and a feature

If there is one thing that fries my burger it is twenty somethings using the word ‘like’ as if it were a comma! Please stop! But the other thing is when Apple bring out a product or feature and someone pops up and says “Oh well, you know – like – Samsung did that years …

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See if you have been hacked or not

  Mac or Windows, ACT or interstate, you might want pass this post onto your friends. Most people take their security very seriously. They lock windows, they don’t leave keys in the front door, they slap a password on their Mac and a pin code on their iPhone. We have all heard the mantra “don’t …

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