Category: Apple News
Broken iPhone button
Do you have an iPhone with a faulty button? I’d like to hear from you in the poll below:
CIST therapy with an iPhone
CIST is a therapy for SSHL – sudden senero-neural hearing loss. I have been using this therapy for my own hearing loss. I created a separate website explaining how to do it on an iPhone using spotify here.
The Apple Airtag security hole – why you need to be cautious if you find a lost Airtag.
I’m always getting clickbait about a security vulnerability with Apple, or a new virus or something. Pretty much all of them are irrelevant to the average user. But this one is something to be aware of, not because it’s particularly nasty, but becuase it’s so simple to do. This is the kind of hack your…
How to get an extra 500MB in dropbox
The free dropbox plan comes with 2GB of data. If you invite someone new to dropbox, both they and you get an extra 500MB, up to 16GB for free. If you’re a first time dropbox user… Use this link to get an extra 500MB. (I get an extra 500MB too!) https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/AAA3n8zVBn-K5wTvyPpkd3lSmcuDaUNWgS8?src=global9 If you are an…
How to make a very high resolution file from a pdf.
I wanted to print a large Christmas banner and the printer wanted an image file (png or jpg). Our file was in a pdf format. I needed to convert the pdf file to a very high resolution png file so that it would look good on a large banner. Here’s how to do it using…
How to set up remote login to a VPN using OS X Server
This article is a bit technical. I have an office at home but I wanted to be able to log into the church computer to control it remotely, upload files, and also print to the printer there. Here’s how to do that.
Tweaking your 4G internet speeds when your NBN is bad.
An apology to international readers – some of the details in this post apply specifically to Australia, although there will be principles here that you can apply. I live just 5 km line of sight from a regional Australian city and our internet comes by ‘fixed wireless.’ Fixed wireless is essentially a dedicated 4G connection…
Mac Mini 2018 Ram installation attempt- very hard!
I have been upgrading RAM in Apple computers since my first Mam, an LCIII, back in the 1990’s. I’ve pulled apart iPods to replace the battery, I’ve pulled apart iMacs with their glass screen and I’ve changed the hard drive and screens in macbook pro’s. But the hardest gig yet was changing the memory in…
Apple admits that Pages cannot print in greyscale.
Last month I described a bug in Apple Pages which caused Pages to place hidden color information in greyscale documents. This is fine if you are printing at home but if you take those documents to a commercial printer you will be charged at color copy rates instead of black and white. At our local…
General Magic
I’ve never done a movie review before, but this looks great. It’s the story of some people who left Apple and tried to invent a smartphone… and failed… but paved the way for lots of other technology. Looks very interesting.
How to put a YouTube video into an Apple Keynote presentation
It is against the YouTube terms and conditions to download a video from YouTube and put it into your Keynote presentation. But if you have the author’s permission you are allowed to stream a video from Youtube. The only way I know to do this is using a free application called ‘LiveSlides’ You can download…
Some reflections on Tim Cook’s comments about the Apple ecosystem.
iPhone vs Google Pixel phone – My first impressions of the pixel phone.
He is an article that I wrote two years ago when I first compared the Google pixel phone with my iPhone. For some reason it wasn’t published! It makes the observation that in 2011 Steve Jobs prophesied Google would be the main opposition to Apple and it seems this is now true. “I think that…
iOS gives Queenslanders the wrong time!
For all you Queenslanders (a state in Australia) who got woken up 1 hour early by your iPhones this morning. Here’s the fix: Go to General Settings: Date and Time Then de-select ‘automatically set time’. iOS is setting Brisbane iPhones to Sydney time (with daylight saving). That must be annoying!
What is Apple iPhone XS Beauty Mode?
There have been reports that the new iPhone XS has an automatic ‘Beauty Mode’ that smooths people’s skin. It is true that the new iPhone XS selfies do look a lot smoother than the previous iPhone X. This could be a ‘beauty mode’ but I doubt it. If Apple did have a deliberate beauty mode…
Funny iPhone ads by Samsung
We all loved the Mac vs PC ads, when Apple were taking the mickey out of PCs. Well the tables have turned with a clever set of ads from Samsung. You can see them all on Samsung’s Youtube channel here, but my favourite is this one…
Dragon 6.0.7 Review – almost time to buy but not yet…
Dragon 6.0.7 was the most usable and bug free update of version 6 yet, but with the release of High Sierra, some issues have arisen. It’s been a little over 12 months since version 6 was released and if Nuance’s previous release schedule is anything to go by we should be due for Dragon version…
How to watch a Google Play movie on Apple TV using the YouTube Apple TV App.
There is no Google Play App for the original Apple TV, but you can still watch Google Play movies using Youtube. When you do a search in Youtube, any movies that you have purchased in Google Play appear in the Youtube search results. So even though Apple TV does not have a Google Play App,…
Apple getting ahead of itself
Apple launched a new iPhone, new iPad and new Apple TV today, but none of them are actually available yet, so don’t get too excited! http://www.apple.com/tv/
iPhone 6s | 9to5Mac
Source: iPhone 6s to have ‘3D Touch’ three-level, next-gen Force Touch interface | 9to5Mac
New Apple TV coming soon| TechCrunch
A new Apple TV is on the way, though, and it could move the needle in more than one industry. According to information I’ve been able to compile from multiple sources, Apple is about to lay… Source: Apple Is About To Lay Down Its TV Cards | TechCrunch