Tag: apple mac

End of an Era

Well, time has finally come I think to decomission my 2007 MacPro ( of which I have flogged for years now! ). All its ‘joints’ are aching and it’s constantly making nasty loud wirring sounds when on. So let the cloning take place, and a little MacMini ( Refurbed by myself of course ) take …

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Shellshock

Ok, lets start by clearing up one mis-reporting of this, It is NOT a virus. What is Shellshock ? It is a flaw in the “BASH ( bourne again shell ) which is a command line environment. Most Mac’s I’m sure running the test positive to the flaw, type into Terminal env x='() { :;}; …

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New Apple Stuff?!

Again, 2nd time apple has given me the impression of a “mixed bag of releases” The New iPhone 5c — A plastic phone , Otherwise very similar to its predecessor, Funky colours yes, looks ok, but to be honest not up to apples normal awesome standard. The new iPhone 5s — Finally back to Apple’s …

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Samsung ATIV Smart PC / Tablet

Ok so got myself the XE700T1C running windows 8 home ( not the cut down RT version ) 4GB Ram , 64Gb SSD and an extra 64Gb on a mini SD card i5 CPU 11″ HD screen Overall first impressions are good , nice and quick, good keyboard docking ( included — at least when …

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Awesome Dymo Service!!

Ok picture this! Upgraded my Mac(s) from Lion to Mountain Lion ( LOVE IT!!! ) then a few days later went to print a label on my trusty Dymo 320 and …. it did NOT work!! 8 years of faithful service ended by an operating system upgrade! Tried looking for the newest software … Does …

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iPad killer apps!

Ok, this is purely my thoughts on this…but here goes… iPad killer apps…. Office / word processing etc .. Not free, but good Pages , it’s perfect on an iPad , needs a mac ruining on OS X.8 for full integration QuickOffice HD Pro , loaded with cloud features ( Dropbox , sugar sync etc …

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Apple does it again!

Wow! whilst there ware fears that apple “post Steve Job’s” was possibly heading for doom, After watching the June 2012 wwdc there are indeed some very cool things ahead. Even to the extent of iPads being “built” with autism in mind, using “single app” mode, where the parent can effectively lock the iPad into a …

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New Graphics Card!

Well the time has finally come, ive hammered the “smeg” out of my MacPro , so its time to treat it to a larger hard drive ( wanted solid state , but the price on those are still :/ ) And a nice 1GB graphics card update ( the old one only had 256mb ) …

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Pages + Word ( Mac + Windows! )

Ok this little post was in response to a question on a facebook group i belong too, and to give this topic some justice ( and some screenshots ) i thought it better to do it on Le-Blog. Many now have an iPad and possibly bought the pages app with the “guidance” of the apple …

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