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Latest scam is just that

Over the last few weeks there has been a surge in scam activity. One in particular that is worrying everyone goes something like this: “I know, password, is your password, you may not me…” What makes this email (scam) all the more worrying is that often they include one of your actual passwords. They do …

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Parental Controls

If you have kids chances are they have an iPad. Or an iPhone. Or both. And if that is true, then chances are you sick to death of hearing yourself saying “turn that off”, “put that down and play outside” or “enough Pokemon Go, do your homework!” I bet you have also sat in the …

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Pages in more detail

So since I am currently banging on about Pages and why it is the only word processor you need, I thought maybe I should address some of the top reasons people don’t. Other people (Word users) cannot read my documents. This is true, but very easy to get around. On my own Mac and for …

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Replacing Excel

I have been blabbing on about Pages over Word but we all know there is more to Office than just Word. What about, I hear you yell, Excel and PowerPoint? Very few people, outside of business, use Excel with anything like the same frequency of  Word. There are a lot more notes to the kids …

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Consider moving to Pages

A few months back I took on the role as the Profit of Doom. Raining down on the parade of all those who had enjoyed the same Mac applications since 2008. I condemned all those screen recording apps, all the utilities that changed the default Mac icons to those of Disney characters and all the …

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