Category: Mac

Numbers is better than you think

Waaaay back in 2018 I wrote: “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 and letters to Aunt Joyce then there are budget forecasts or retirement schemes.  Besides, even businesses could use Numbers but they don’t.” This is …

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Turning a website into an App – quickly

On your iPhone or iPad, is there a website you are always going to? Whether it be checking the BOM because the website is better than the sanitised app or maybe info you rely on daily is only available via a website, you may find you are in Safari a lot.  Always going to the …

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For your friends sake please watch and share

This is less like an article and more like a public announcement. It is really a call to action. This is not my work. Not at all. In fact, the lengths these people have gone to in order to expose the scum that call, email and text us day in day out is nothing short …

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Searching in Apple Mail

In the area of email administration there are really only three options. There is Outlook, the over priced schizophrenic mess that offers way too much functionality (none of which works well actually) than the average person needs. Then there is accessing your email via a web browser. This isn’t bad but the interface is often …

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The Dock and how to use it

If I had a dollar for every time someone confused the Dock and the menu bar on a Mac I’d be writing this article in an Aston Martin rather a VW van that smells like wet dog. Before I go on about the Dock and menubar Preferences (the subject of this rant) let me clarify …

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