Australian laws vary when it comes to using your iPhone or Apple Watch while driving.
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A week of using Apple Watch’s Low Power Mode
I’m just back from a week of holidays, camping in a temperate rainforest a few hours away from home. With no cellular coverage and limited access to power, I had…
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How to remove email filters from iOS iOS 18.2 Mail
Apple’s quest to infuse apps with machine learning and Apple Intelligence has made its way to Apple Mail in iOS. Apple Mail in iOS 18.2 gets a set of smart…
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How to create a Web App in macOS Sonoma
If you’re anything like me, there are a handful of websites you go to each day. For me, that’s largely focussed on various bits of the Microsoft 365 service with…
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Private Relay, VPNs, ending protection and securing your Apple experience
We live in a world where criminals no longer need to rob banks or mug people. They can make far more money with far less risk by stealing information and…
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Four reasons you should enable automatic software updates
For better or worse, we need to keep our software regularly updated. Here’s why you should enable automatic software updates. 1. Software is made by humans Software is created by…
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How to create a shortcut to shut down your iPhone
Shortcuts are an incredibly useful, yet I think underused, feature in iOS. Shortcuts enables you to automate all sorts of different tasks. For example, I have shortcuts on my home…
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How to restart a ‘dead’ iPhone
There’s a sinking feeling deep in the put of your gut when you go to turn your iPhone on and nothing happens. The screen is black and pressing the power…
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What is Apple’s Lockdown Mode
Lockdown Mode is a heightened level of security that adds several extra layers of protection in case you’re worried about being attacked. Who is Lockdown Mode for? Lockdown Mode is…
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How to change the number of days in Apple Calendar week view
I’ve tried a few different calendar programs in the past but always end up back at Apple Calendar (the same goes for Reminders as well). But one of my pet…
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