Over the few years, home automation has become a big deal. But, despite all the talk by Amazon, Apple, Google and others, the reality of creating a smart home is…
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How to control your Apple Watch from your iPhone
Apple has been quietly adding new accessibility features to each generation of iOS. iOS 16 now allows you to control an Apple Watch, running watchOS 9, from your iPhone. Here’s…
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Apple’s Public Beta program – what you need to know
For the last few years, Apple has made public beta versions of new software available to the general public. This typically follows the developer beta versions, which are made available…
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Apple News Roundup – 3 October 2022
It’s a new month and that means the soothsayers are making predictions for a potential Apple event. But even if there’s no event this month, we can expect lots of…
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iOS 16 will mean no mare CAPTCHA, eventually
If you visit websites and are asked to prove you’re a real person, you’ll be familiar with CAPTCHA. The new Automatic Verification feature that is part of iOS 16, and…
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Apple backtracks and adds Stage Manager to older iPads
Stage Manager is one of the centrepieces of the next version of iPadOS. Although the offical release of iPadOS hasn’t happened yet – the release version will actually be iPadOS…
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My favourite note-taking app: Notability
A huge part of my work involves talking to people and writing. Notability has completely replaced paper and pen as my preferred way to capture information. What is Notability? A…
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Apple News Round Up – 26 September 2022
Now that we’re past the flood of new devices and software updates – although we are still waiting on iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura to officially arrive – we can…
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Apple to fix annoying copy/paste “feature”
In an effort to protect users from data being copied and pasted without their consent- something ‘naughty’ applications could do to steal data – Apple added a new dialog that…
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Do you need to install endpoint protection software on a Mac?
For almost as long as the Mac has existed, there has been an ongoing debate about whether Mac owners should install ‘anti-virus’ software. I put the word in inverted commas…
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