Category: Opinion

Apple’s damp squib

When Apple Intelligence was announced, we had visions of an AI superhero swooping in to solve all our digital dilemmas. Apple, known for its slick launches, apparently didn’t get the memo that sometimes it’s wiser to walk before you sprint. Apple, being the overachiever it is, wanted to jump on the AI bandwagon before their …

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Your phone is not listening to you

Yes, I know, as soon as you read that title you thought, yeah right.  You’ve heard too many stories of your friends or friend’s friend who has been festooned with ads for tents just hours after talking about camping with a friend with the phone sitting on the bench between them. And anyway, didn’t Apple …

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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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