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Tom Hain AKA Mr Macintosh, has been supporting Apple Macintosh clients in the Byron Shire for the last 16 years.
I have built up a loyal clientele who appreciate personal service and quick solutions to the common situations that arise in the day to day life of the Mac computer, iPhone and iPad user. Catch up on my blog below, register for monthly updates and to sell your 2nd hand computers and peripherals and look in the How To pages for common assistance in setting up and using your Mac computer.
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The Whole Pantry
People keep coming up with brilliant apps, and they aren't games!
When Belle Gibson was told she only had a few months to live it spurred to set up a business to help others in a similar situation. She created The Whole Pantry which has been such a success that it has spawned many immitators and now is undergoing a rewrite.
Swift the New Programming Language
A new programming language that could be easier and more fun? Good news for programmers, or people learning to be programmers.
Although this might not affect the majority of us it is a step forward in de-geeking programming as a career path!
We need more programmers as everything moves towards integrated computing systems — with everything connected including the kitchen sink.
http://www.wired.com/2014/07/apple-swift
DropBox? No Thanks!
If you use DropBox think again. They refuse to encrypt their data and have just appointed Condoleezza Rice to the board. She was part of a US government that is extremely anti personal privacy. Well dodgy person!
The alternative seems to be SpiderOak, a similar service to DropBox but in…
Trade-in for iPhones and iPads Comes to Australia
Apple have announced they will begin offering credit on old iPhones and iPads towards the price of a new device in their stores. This has been implemented in the US and now here too.
It means you can take an older iPhone and get a trade-in on a new one.…
Read more: Trade-in for iPhones and iPads Comes to Australia
Sapphire Screen Coming to iPhone 6?
If the iPhone 6 has a sapphire screen as rumoured then this article is relevant. Watch the video in the story for a demo of an iPhone 6 screen getting slapped around, stabbed, battered and bent with no effect on the material at all!
This is good news for iPhone users…
Siri Will Improve Soon
No, Apple isn't always leading the pack. In voice recognition they have played catch-up for a long time to Google and Microsoft.
Even though Siri was a step forward in using voice recognition in a friendly way, the other companies caught on and moved ahead.
This article explains why and…
iPhone 6 Rumours
New iPhone rumours abound. It seems pretty likely that bigger screens are coming in response to customer demand.
I prefer one that fits in my pocket, but women generally carry a handbag anyway so I assume that carrying size isn't as much of a factor as screen size for the…
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