Category: MacOS

Catalina is dead

Sadly, it is that time again. Another MacOS has been forced to lay its head on the chopping block. This time around it is Catalina, the one they named after the island. Released in 2019 this operating system offered features such as only allowing 64 bit applications so all those old copies of Klondike no …

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Changing your Apple ID username

In recent days we have been helping grapevine and home mail customers change their email addresses to iCloud or Gmail. If we haven’t helped you yet, I hope you are on the list as time is running out and slots are filling fast. During the many users we have done, one thing has cropped up …

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Edit a photo in Photos

I have long been a critic of the editing tools found in Photos and iPhoto before it. They were limited in their scope and worked about as well as a handbrake made of pastry. So I forgot about them and, like a fool, purchased things like Photoshop Elements or suffered the excruciating interface of the …

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Duplicates fixed – finally

There has been a long history of developers inventing and delivering enhancements and services for the Mac that Apple left out. Then, not long after these developers have sunk their money into expensive houses and car loans, Apple comes along with the same feature “incorporated” into the latest OS. Affectively killing the developers golden goose. …

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iOS 16… finally

Over the last few years iOS updates have been a lot like Fast and Furious movies… more or less the same look, same plot with ever diminishing levels of interest. But iOS16 is a real update – its like the Fast and Furious writers decided to concentrate on character and study a book or five …

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