Category: Opinion

New operating system coming in Spring – Yosemite.

Come Spring Apple will be unleashing their latest operating system, Yosemite–and with it will come the usual questions and hand wringing. What’s going change? How will it affect my Mac and will I have to learn how to use it all over again? Is my Mac ready? The good news is, at least at this stage, there is very little …

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A RAM upgrade is the best thing you can do

Overtime a computer seems to slow down, and sometimes this can happen not because it has a fault of any kind, but rather because your demands on the Mac have increased. An upgrade of the OS, a new application or a new hobby that sees you using iPhoto more and more will all slow the Mac down. So …

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Apple stores – posed the same question.

  About 18 months ago I was approached by a client (as I often am I guess) and she posed a question that made me wonder if Canberra was getting the best Apple support possible. She rang me in a panic because she had 3000 photos on her iPad (and nowhere else) and she had …

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Don’t reset your modem

If the Internet was reliable and some large ISPs took more responsibility for the service they provide I would be out of a job. The number one issue I deal with is email and web browsing and 90% of the time it’s the ISP that needs to fix something at their end. Unfortunately when clients …

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SSL Bug – more whooo than haaaah

All over the press there are stories about serious bug in the MacOSX and in iOS that threatens to leak all your private web traffic all over the Internet. Listening to them you’d be forgiven for thinking that your bank account details are going to posted on Facebook sites all over the world. Truth is…. …

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