Category: Mac

NBN and Airport router

With NBN creeping its way into more and more homes and yet more moving to VDSL, it is inevitable that your Airport/modem setup is going to get broken along the way. While I won’t go into the specific behaviour of your average internet tech, it does seem like they are given a crash course in …

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Siri lags behind Google and that is a good thing

It has been all over the TV news, splashed across every tech website on the internet and chatted about endlessly on breakfast radio. I am, of course, talking about Google Assistant and how it is now so smart it can fool a human into thinking they are talking to a real person as opposed to …

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The contents of my Mac

The events of the last couple of months has been something of a revelation for me. First came a book called The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape who has taught me, my family and friends how to set ourselves up for retirement and manage our money better. And while I am not here to spruik …

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Some of your apps are about to die… are you ready?

It happened in the 90’s and it happened (eventually) when Apple moved to the Intel chip and support for older apps was pulled after a few years. Of course, I am referring to the every decade or so event when your applications become incompatible with your operating system and require replacement. In most cases this …

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Privacy is the new black

I am sure you have all been reading – with ever increasing waves of horror – that Facebook data (your data) was used by Cambridge Analytica to aid Donald Trump’s presidental campaign. If you haven’t read about this here is my breakdown… Facebook collects data about its users. Advertising companies use this data and Facebook …

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