Nov 07 2013
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 …
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Oct 26 2013
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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Aug 06 2013
There is a lot of confusion out there about the difference between an Apple ID and an iCloud account. And often there is good reason for this. Your Apple ID and your iCloud account can be the same thing but they can also be sepparte. For example… I have an iCloud account and so does …
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Jun 03 2013
There is a very good chance that history will judge my last article as somewhat wayward. And I would be forced to agree because it started out as a guide to cloud based services and ended as something of a rant against Microsoft and Office 365. This article, I hope, will go a long way …
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Jun 02 2013
Editors Note: Originally this post was going to be a study of cloud services and how they work with the various desktop and iOS applications. However, as it is too often the case, I got side tracked into the new costs facing Microsoft Office users. This issue is a little more serious, and as it …
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