May 02 2014
About 18 months ago I was approached by a client (as I often am I guess) and she posed a question that made me wonder if Canberra was getting the best Apple support possible. She rang me in a panic because she had 3000 photos on her iPad (and nowhere else) and she had …
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Mar 11 2014
If the Internet was reliable and some large ISPs took more responsibility for the service they provide I would be out of a job. The number one issue I deal with is email and web browsing and 90% of the time it’s the ISP that needs to fix something at their end. Unfortunately when clients …
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Dec 07 2013
It is sad to think that there would be no need for Anti Virus, Anti Spam or Anti Malware services if the world wasn’t overflowing with the kind of filth that writes malicious applications. A world free of these creeps is, I fear, a Disney fantasy. In response to this threat most of us install …
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Nov 07 2013
Near the top of my list entitled “if I had a dollar for everytime I…” is Spotlight – the little hourglass icon that started off as a blue dot in the top right hand screen in Tiger then was later promoted to a sleek grey icon in Lion and beyond. No one seems to know …
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Aug 06 2013
There is a lot of confusion out there about the difference between an Apple ID and an iCloud account. And often there is good reason for this. Your Apple ID and your iCloud account can be the same thing but they can also be sepparte. For example… I have an iCloud account and so does …
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