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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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iWatch Coming in October?
Looks like the iWatch is coming in October. I don't see a place for it in my lexicon of Apple products, but many joggers and sports people think otherwise.
With a company as big as Apple it needs to be a big enough product to make it worth them…
Jonny Ive: Design at Apple. NYT Article
As a follow up to the Tim Cook article in the New York Times, here is their one with Jonny Ive, Apple's primary designer, published around the same time.
Apple has always been a company that is about design as much as anything else. This is part of what…
Tim Cook: Making Apple His Own. NYT Article
Tim Cook on 'his' Apple. A rare interview with the New York Times.
Although he has been criticised since succeeding Steve Jobs as the head of Apple, it was always going to be a hard act to follow: Steve Jobs, Genius! How do you please everyone after the…
Satellite App Takes Us Into the Spy Age
Crikey, now you can buy your own high res images of anywhere on earth from an app! It also notifies you if a satellite is taking a pic of you.... This seems to be a little bit of the spy vs spy world in our pockets.
If we can easily…
Tips for Wooing Siri
Here's a few tips to get Siri going. I've not had much luck with the lady myself so far, but maybe need to spend some time wooing her.
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/siri-tips-and-tricks-that-dont-require-ios-8/
More iOS8 Features
Yay! Back to full-screen photos when calls are coming in with people in your Contacts who have a pic added.
Why did they change it anyway? And why are these geeks who program our stuff always changing things for the sake of it anyway...
http://www.tuaw.com/2014/06/06/ios-8-returns-a-wonderful-feature-to-the-iphone/
Privacy concerns…
iOS 8 and Yosemite OSX 10.10
Apple has previewed iOS8 and OSX 10.10 - called Yosemite - at the World Wide Developer Conference. They will be released in a few months, for free of course.
Among the many new features - always new features! - are some extremely useful ways to make our computing life…
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