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Tag: iPad

Turning a website into an App – quickly

On your iPhone or iPad, is there a website you are always going to? Whether it be checking the BOM because the website is better than the sanitised app or maybe info you rely on daily is only available via a website, you may find you are in Safari a lot.  Always going to the …

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Scanner alternatives at home

When you worked in an office (remember that) I bet you often nipped off to the utility room to use the scanner. That large, multi thousand dollar printer/scanner that allowed you to copy a document or convert a paper document into something that could be emailed.  But now that you are working from your kitchen …

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Protecting your kids from Porn – the free way

Most kids are sneaky. Everyone knows this.  Apple and others spends millions of dollars and thousands of hours developing systems that limit screen time, block applications and hide rude words from the online dictionary. But the kids get around these things with what seems like ease.  But some kids fall upon bad web sites by …

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Simple Siri tasks

Siri (and other voice assistants) have been around for a long time. So long in fact that most people have forgotten a time when a smartphone didn’t have a digital assistant. And this is ironic because most people don’t use Siri and this is a shame. It is a bit like having a car with …

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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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