Category: Apple News
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How to print to Fiji Xerox Docucentre from macOS 15 Sequoia
When downloading a driver for an old Fuji Xerox printer, DO NOT click on your model of printer or you will get a message like this: “Your selected product has reached end of service, and thus will no longer be supported by FUJIFILM Business Innovation.” INSTEAD, scroll down to the newest model driver.
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How to stop the annoying passkey dialog box if you are using a 3rd party password manager in OSX to manage Google passkeys.
If you are using a third-party password manager, for example 1password, bitwarden, Macpass etc, you may get this annoying dialogue box every time you try to log into Google: This only occurs when you have a passkey already set up in the Apple keychain. I’ve written an article about passkeys here, they are great. But…
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Taking control of your Function keys
Today I stumbled upon a fantastic application called Fluor that allows you to choose which mode the function keys operate in based on which application is open!
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How to sync between Notion and Apple or Google calendar.
I’ve had syncing working now for a year between our Church database in Notion and Apple Calendar. I use 2 sync websites. One results in a read-only iCal file that we can share with anyone and they can view the Church calendar in their Calendar app. One results in an editable Calendar in Apple Calendar…
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Broken iPhone button
This post is just me being a bit sad. I have an iPhone 12 mini. It’s under 3 years old. The power button just stopped working. This means you can’t verify any Apple Pay Purchases when you are shopping and you can’t even verify any App Store downloads.
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Some reflections on Tim Cook’s comments about the Apple ecosystem.
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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!
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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…
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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… https://youtu.be/-O_MjXbX3VA
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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…
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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,…
