Category: MacOS

Change your Apple ID password today

Your Apple ID is your link to Apple and is plugged into every service from iTunes to the Appstore. Recently reports are coming in of Apple ID accounts being hacked. Details are sketchy because this is very new, but it seems that those affective have been reporting odd messages appearing in their phone (all written …

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MacOS Sierra

For the first time ever, Apple are automatically downloading Sierra to your Mac ready for install. Of course this can be ignored and your mac left untouched. However a lot of people are installing the OS update thinking it is just one of those regular updates that pop up from time to time without realising …

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Google Earth Updater

  It’s very likely that in the last few days you have seen the above dialog appear on your screen. You didn’t ask for this update and all of a sudden you are being asked to enter your password! You have every right to be suspicious but rest assured all the chatter on the net …

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How and why to avoid Clickbait

Click here to win a million dollars Hollywood legend dies suddenly Click here to claim your free iPhone Loose 10KG by following this simple trick These are crude examples of Clickbait and, as the name suggests, they are designed to make you click on them and what happens after that is anyones guess. Some are …

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Sign forms without printing them first

  In days of yore your bank – or some such institution – would mail forms for you to sign and have you mail them back. These days they email the forms that they expect you to print out, fill in by hand, sign, scan back into your computer and then email back to them. …

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