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 …
Category: Opinion
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Feb 21 2024
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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Dec 16 2023
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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Oct 04 2023
Spotting a fake email
I sometimes fantasise about finding scammers locked in a room somewhere , maybe even catching them in the act and, as Marsellus Wallace said in Pulp Fiction, “I’ma get medieval on your ass” But alas, all I can do is try and help people avoid their scumbaggery. These examples of wasted DNA, these rat brained …
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Oct 04 2023
Tesla and Apple CarPlay
Ask me what I think of Apple Car Play and you will have signed yourself up for a good hour of enthusiastic raving and overt hand gestures. Since day one I found Apple Car Play (referred to as ACP for expedience) to be the greatest way to interact with your iPhone safely in the car. …
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