Near the top of my list entitled “if I had a dollar for everytime I…” is Spotlight – the little hourglass icon that started off as a blue dot in the top right hand screen in Tiger then was later promoted to a sleek grey icon in Lion and beyond. No one seems to know …
Category: Mac
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Oct 27 2013
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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Oct 26 2013
Mavericks- please wait
On the 23rd of October Apple stunned the world with the announcement that Mavericks (their latest OS) was to be free. This fuelled a rush to download and install and I bet you are thinking seriously about doing same but I would advise you wait and approach the upgrade with caution. So why am I …
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Oct 20 2013
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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Oct 19 2013
MacBook Air recall
Apple has just announced that they are recalling last years MacBook Air due to some faulty 64 and 128GB SSD drives. Not all models are affected so its important to visit the Apple support page to determine if in fact your model is one of those affected. If you have a Time Machine backup, make …
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