Category: Opinion

Making Safari better

More and more people are buying laptops these days and they have small screens – as well as other deficiencies that don’t make for ideal desktop computers. In addition to this, Apple have, seemingly, abandoned the 27 inch iMac so the biggest screen you can look forward to on a desktop is 24 inches. This …

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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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Use a chat session instead

Over the last decade or so help desks have been sent overseas. This often means bad and echoey lines of communications and strong accents that are very hard to understand. This is especially true if you are already stressed about your account being hacked, email offline or your bank account frozen. So, just like my …

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Inbox Empty and Folders missing?

I have long moaned about Microsofts email application and have long held the view that chiselling your messages on a slate tablet and physically carrying them to their  intended recipient  would be preferable to using Outlook. (the application not the email address) Apple mail is much better, but it is not without its quirks and …

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Tesla is one step closer to CarPlay

A little while back I wrote about the challenges of trying to emulate Apple Carplay in a Tesla. If you missed it, basically I went through each of the features of CarPlay (something Tesla doesn’t support) and what Tesla functions and available apps you could use instead. It is mostly doable but one frustrating element …

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