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iPhone 5

I get it. I didn’t at first but now I do. I already knew what the iPhone 5 was going to look like. I mean the leaks were so bad I wondered why they even bothered to run a press conference in the first place. A further disappointment was we were treated to the same …

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Here is why Telstra is really the only choice

I have long maintained- if you own a smartphone- that Telstra really is the only choice of carrier. This recommendation doesn’t come without a great deal of handwringing as I know they come with a whole host of issues- but signal speed and strength isn’t one of them. Their customer service for a example is …

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Where has my google search gone?

When Mountain Lion pounced earlier this year few released, until it was too late, that their Google search box had disappeared from Safari. Not long after that Apple released an update to Safari for 10.7.4 and suddenly it disappeared for Lion users as well. Well the good news is this is not an error but …

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Urgent Java Update

Its OK, you don’t really need to know what Java is but its probably running on your Mac and it has a dangerous hole in it. Once upon a time Apple released their own Java updates but they were slow to react to exploits and this lead to  600,000 Macs being infected with the FlashBack …

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Removing Specific items from your Time Machine Backup

Time Machine backs up everything and as your disks starts to fill up it dutifully goes back to the beginning of time and starts deleting older files and backups to make more room. But imagine something like this and maybe it will relate to you…. Lets say you have a folder on your desktop that …

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