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Tag: updates

Don’t fiddle with your MacOS

There’s a lot of talk these days online about installing the latest MacOSes on older Macs.  I bet you’d even had the odd ‘techie’ friend at the pub or dinner party that reckons they did it and it works a treat.  It sounds great, making your old 2012 iMac run the latest OS thus saving …

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Mojave is dead

It is that time again. Another MacOS has been forced to lay its head on the chopping block. This time around it is Mojave (mo-HAH-vee) or 10.14 to its friends. For those that never met this OS, it is often (and curiously) referred to as Mo-Jave Released in 2018 this operating system offered features such …

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High Sierra is getting the chop

It wasn’t that long ago that a computer was considered ‘past it’ by its 5th birthday. I myself often used to say that computers age like dogs but in light of recent trends I think perhaps I ought to amend this to computers age like small dogs. It’s not uncommon for us to upgrade a …

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RansomWare attacks remind us to keep our macs up-to-date

The recent Ransomware attack on May, 2017 was big news. Really big. This was mainly because the Wannacry virus hit Government servers and shut down hospitals and other services all around the world, thus threatening global finance and lives. It was, in fact, the largest Ransomware attack in history. As this was a Windows only attack I …

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