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Why I love Apple
One thing I like about buying an Apple product is the “ah” moment when you open the box and get it out for the first time. That moment of admiring the design and congratulating yourself that you’ve...
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How to imod a 4th Gen iPod photo
In this post I talked about the audio quality of the various iPods, and mentioned a mod for 4th and 5th Generation iPods that gives them excellent audio quality rivalling that of a $1500 CD player....
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How to speed up your mac with a Solid State SSD Drive
I just upgraded the boot drive on my Mac Mini to an SSD drive and it’s by far the biggest speed enhancement I’ve experienced on any computer! The speed increase is incredible – almost hard to believe...
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How to match the colours on your monitor to your printer.
If you have ever designed a colour document on your computer and then printed it out on your inkjet or laser printer you may have noticed that the colours come out slightly different. This is partly...
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How to connect a Garmin forerunner to your macintosh with OSX.
Ok the instructions that come with the Garmin forerunner are completely wrong, the CD is useless (it has the manual but no software) and the Garmin support website is not much help either. There are...
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How to save toner when printing black on a colour printer.
100% Black is not the blackest black! There are different blacks. You need to understand them if you want to get the best out of your printer. Here’s how to choose which ‘black’ to use and why! In...
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How to choose which macintosh to buy.
When you are researching buying a mac there are a few things to consider, one of them is speed. There is a great site by primate labs which collates speed tests according to model and ranks them. This...
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How to improve your Logitec R400 wireless presenter
In this article I reviewed the Logitech wireless presenter. It is in my opinion the best remote control to use with Keynote. That particular Logitech remote has been replaced by the new Logitech R400...
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How to get your broken iPhone repaired in Australia
If you’ve smashed your iPhone and you need a quick reliable place to repair it, I recommend fixpod. They have the simplest system I’ve seen, you just select your phone model, click on the problem, it...
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Good wireless remote for Keynote or Powerpoint to use on your Macbook
I’ve just found a new wireless remote to use with presentations in Keynote or Powerpoint. Recently I have purchased a Kensington wireless remote and I’m very happy with it. It appeared in our local...
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Spring clean! MOTU 896 mkiii (mk3) digital mixer http://bit.ly/Z0AEPT Apple 20 inch Cinema Display Aluminium A1081 http://bit.ly/182mNix Mackie DL 1608 ipad mixer 16 channel http://bit.ly/182mUuA
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Why I love Apple
One thing I like about buying an Apple product is the “ah” moment when you open the box and get it out for the first time. That moment of admiring the design and congratulating yourself that you’ve...
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Is my mac still under warranty?
All Apple computers ship with 1 year international warranty. You can extend this to a 3 year applecare warranty anytime in the first year – before your original warranty runs out. If you are not sure...
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Apple Watch – what do you think?
After much speculation the Apple Watch was released today and… it’s a watch! In Australia not many people are wearing watches. I think this will be a game changer. I was expecting an iPhone in a...
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Connecting a Microscope to your Mac
We recently moved to a small farm and we have been looking at our soil biology under a microscope. It was hard to see clearly so we bought a ‘Celestron’ Microscope camera (model #44421) from Amazon...
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EMF levels of Apple devices
Over the past few weeks I’ve measured the EMF levels of various Apple devices using a hand-held RF field strength meter. (It measures frequencies from 50MHz to 3.5GHz). I measured EMF levels of an...
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How to format a thumb drive, hard disk or SSD drive.
You may not know that USB Thumbdrives come in different formats. This article explains why this matters and how to format a USB drive into the format that you want. Formatting a Thumb Drive or Hard...
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If your data and time REALLY matters to you…
Last week I had a hard disk crash. If you’ve had a hard disk crash you may know it can take a day or two to get things up and running again, a day or two that I didn’t have. I was flat our trying to...
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How to turn on expert mode in Display Settings in El Capitan
One of the features I use regularly in the display settings of OS X is the adjustment of the gamma setting of my monitor. This is useful because it can lighten up dark movies when you are watching...
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How to reduce flickering on an Apple LED Cinema Display
Unfortunately this post is not entitled ‘How to fix flickering on an Apple LED Cinema display’ because as far as I can see there is no way to fix this problem. There are however some ways to...
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