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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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Sharing your Photo Library

This is a long article, but trust me, if you have more than one photo library between your family Macs and you are constantly trying to keep them current, this is the article for you. If you think this might be the answer you’ve been looking for, it would be best to do the steps …

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Do you still need Zoom?

We’ve already established that Zoom was a digital waiting room for the damned. It was a piece of software that turned our homes into open-plan offices and our personal lives into a series of “connection unstable” warnings. But even though the world has reopened and we are once again allowed to look at other humans …

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Hiding the subscription buttons from Pages and Numbers

For years, Apple Pages was a rare oasis of sanity. You opened it, you saw a beautifully blank, white sheet of paper, and you wrote. It didn’t judge you. It didn’t bother you. It just sat there, quietly doing exactly what it was told. But now, some bright spark at Apple has looked at this …

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