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The traffic lights

There is a quiet, understated brilliance to the top left-hand corner of a Mac screen. Sitting quietly in a neat little row are three glossy, brightly coloured dots: Red, Yellow, and Green. They look like tiny traffic lights, designed to give you instant, satisfying control over your digital workspace. And for the most part, they …

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The best reason to update to iOS27 and macOS27

I can predict with near-absolute certainty what is about to happen. You opened this page, your eyes drifted across the letters forming the words artificial intelligence, and every survival instinct in your body screamed at you to click away immediately. And I don’t blame you. It is relentless. You cannot open a newspaper, turn on …

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Why saving passwords on your mac can be the best thing you can do for security.

There is no easy way to put this so I’ll just come out and say it – using a password book, an Excel spreadsheet, a word document or worse still remembering the passwords inside your head, is the worst idea since the  There is a good chance you have always done it this way so …

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Humans don’t Paste

Humanity, as a collective species, has achieved some truly remarkable things. We have landed on the Moon, decoded the human genome, and invented sliced bread. Yet, if a brightly coloured box pops up on a laptop screen claiming that a browser cannot load a picture of a kitten unless we press three completely random buttons …

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Calming down your Mac

Every time a tech giant updates its operating system, it inevitably rolls out a suite of brand-new, thoroughly unnecessary features designed to make working on a desktop feel like you are poking around on a tablet while wearing boxing gloves. Suddenly, floating weather widgets are cluttering your wallpaper (something I have covered before), apps opened …

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