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Category: Mac

Burning a CD

CDs. Remember those things? Exploding onto the scene in the 80’s they quickly became the replacement for our vinyl collections and garage sales everywhere were flogging off original 1970’s records for $2 a pop. I mean, who’d ever want records in the face of CDs ever again. History has a cruel sense of irony. Anyway, …

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Don’t suffer gmail in a browser

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the differences between Apple mail, googles own mail application and the gmail service and sadly this moves people to use applications they don’t need making it a jarring experience to say the very least. Essentially google and iCloud are the same service except one takes your privacy very …

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Don’t fiddle with your MacOS

There’s a lot of talk these days online about installing the latest MacOSes on older Macs.  I bet you’d even had the odd ‘techie’ friend at the pub or dinner party that reckons they did it and it works a treat.  It sounds great, making your old 2012 iMac run the latest OS thus saving …

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Seldom used features

There is nothing more satisfying, but at the same time galling, to find out that something you have been using for years has an awesome feature that you never knew about. Like a hotplate that has a warming function…right there in front of you. If only you’d pressed that little PAUSE button five years earlier. …

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Email bouncing?

No. You are not going mad. Yes. Your emails are getting more bounce backs, ending up on blacklists and your friends haven’t received an email from you in weeks. This is happening to all of us in different ways and in different degrees and it is due to the fight against everyones favourite band of …

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