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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Your old software will soon retire for good

I know, it sounds terrible but it is true. In a few months time Apple will release 10.15 and with it full 64bit computing and that means 32bit apps will no longer function. Now I don’t want to get you bogged down in what 32bit and 64bit mean… (essentially it is how the application addresses …

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Mojave anyone?

It has been a long time since I was both this excited, and scared of an update in equal measure. For starters, Mojave promises some very cool – and useful – features but it also heralds the age of 64bit MacOS and this means only one thing… a lot of older software is now history. …

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