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Category: Mac

Considering your security

It seems like everyday we get notified about another data breach. First it was Optus, then ahm, then Medibank and the latest I heard was Microsoft data had been leaked. Obviously the first question is “how much of my info was exposed?” and then next would be “what do I need to do?” The answer …

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Mojave is dead

It is that time again. Another MacOS has been forced to lay its head on the chopping block. This time around it is Mojave (mo-HAH-vee) or 10.14 to its friends. For those that never met this OS, it is often (and curiously) referred to as Mo-Jave Released in 2018 this operating system offered features such …

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AirDrop

MacOS Lion was introduced mere months following Steve Jobs’ death in 2011. While it was the first OS that came without this world famous keynote address the development of it most assuredly had this fingerprints all over it.  One of the main features introduced that day was AirDrop. A great concept indeed, even if it …

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Pages is better than you think

It is no secret that I have been a fan of Pages and I am always trying to convince people that Microsoft Word (in most cases) is something you just don’t need. Despite my efforts there are still those that think that Word is the only processor out there, that it is needed to communicate …

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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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