Category: iOS

New iWork is a joke – but there is hope.

On the 23rd of October Apple did one of the stupidest things they have ever done. They killed the iWork suite of applications just when it was starting to gain traction again the default Office suite. They upgraded them to a point that rendered the suite useless. (Actually this isn’t the first time they have …

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iPhone on top for Satisfaction

The latest mobile phone satisfaction survey was released recently and, for the 9th survey in a row Apple came out on top. And why wouldn’t they? For starters the iOS is easily the most integrated OS not just within itself but with a whole host of other services such as Airplay, Apple TV, iCloud and …

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iOS7 Help

Once upon a time it wasn’t uncommon to pick up someone’s iPhone and find they hadn’t upgraded it since its release. Now with wireless upgrades and media attention I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that almost everyone I know (teenagers and grandmothers alike) have applied the iOS7 upgrade. Indeed there is a strong possibility that …

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iWork in the cloud – at last

Up till now if you wanted to sit down and compose a Pages document (or Keynote presentation or Numbers spreadsheet for that matter) you needed to do it at your Mac.  Its true that you could do this on your iPad or iPhone but sometimes you need a bigger screen. Sometimes to need more elbow …

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Proper RDC on an iPad- at last

If you work with PCs then you’ve probably heard of Remote Desktop Connection or RDC to its techy friends. The Mac has something similar called Screen Sharing but its not nearly as popular or as in demand as RDC. The mechanics of this desktop sharing is built into every PC and essentially it allows a …

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