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Monday, 22 September 2025
New Apple Stuff, and possible Even More Photography Stuff
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Once again, we’ll be hanging around on Zoom after the general meeting, and the usual chatting will commence.
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iTunes and iCloud Security
#AB00394 / gettyimages.com Especially in this day and age, you can’t be too careful when it comes to Internet security. Perhaps inspired by the recent celebrity photo debacle, AppleInsider posted a how-to on adding another level of security to iTunes … Continue reading
Seriously???
Eliene Augenbraun reported on CBS News this afternoon: Some fans just can’t wait to be the first to bite into a new Apple product. Twitter user Dan Benton snapped a picture of the line already starting to form outside Apple’s … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Industry News
Tagged CBS News, Eliene Augenbraun, iPhone 6
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Early iPhone 5 Battery Issues
Does your iPhone 5 hark back to between September 2012 and January 2013? Is the battery life not what it should be? Andrew Cunningham has a rather helpful article on Ars Technica, Apple announces battery replacement program for the iPhone … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Industry News
Tagged Andrew Cunningham, Apple, Ars Technica, battery, Infinite Loop, iPhone 5
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Are You Sleeping? Are You Sleeping? Network Down…
#159626676 / gettyimages.com If you’re on Mavericks (OS X 10.9.x) and having an unhappy time staying connected to your WiFi connection when the Mac wakes up, Alex Heath, at Cult of Mac, feels your pain, and and has discovered the … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Tips
Tagged Alex Heath, Apple, Cult of Mac, Mavericks, Safari, troubleshooting
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You *Need* This on Your iDevice
Andrew Cunningham reports on Ars Technica this morning: One of the new features iOS 7 introduced was an upgrade to the Find My iPhone service called Activation Lock–in addition to tracking your phone, sending it messages, and wiping your data, … Continue reading
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Tagged Activation Lock, Andrew Cunningham, Apple, Ars Technica, Find My iPhone, Infinite Loop, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, security
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What Did the Little Birdie Say…
…when his cage fell apart? Well, Andrew Cunningham said it, too, in Apple’s new $1,099 iMac is a MacBook Air in a desktop’s body, on Ars Technica: “The 2013 iMac isn’t getting an upgrade – there’s just a new cheaper, slower model … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Cunningham, Apple, Ars Technica, iMac, Infinite Loop
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Not Having Fun with Software Update This Weekend?
Welcome to the club… As Nick Mediati noted on Macworld this morning: If you were tried to install OS X software updates this weekend, you might have noticed that you…can’t. As MacRumors points out, OS X users who attempt to … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Macworld, NIck Mediati, Software Update
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An iTunes Update Broke What?!!??
Did you upgrade Mavericks to 10.9.3 the other day? You may or may not have noticed a “little” bug, introduced by iTunes 11.2: Thursday’s iTunes 11.2 release contained a bug that was both inconvenient and risky: If you have Find … Continue reading
Bigger iPhones on the Horizon!!
Or so the rumor mill would have us believe. From Brooke Crothers’ report on CBS News: …The next-generation iPhone 6 “will likely be offered in 4.7- and 5.5-inch versions”, Nikkei reported in its Friday edition. The current iPhone 5s has … Continue reading
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Tagged CBS News, iPhone 6
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Have a Hotmail Account?
You might want to reconsider… From an article on Opposing Views: …“Microsoft clearly believes that the users’ personal data belongs to Microsoft, not the users themselves,” said Ginger McCall of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.… Sounds like Google, no? The … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, e-mail, Google, Microsoft, OpposingViews, privacy, The Guardian, Yahoo
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