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iPad2

When Apple first announced the iPad I admit that I could not really see the use case but I quickly realised that this was the ideal device for my wife. She is not a major computer user, for example her email goes unread for ages because of the inconvenience of using a...

Internet phone

Years ago I bought a Linksys thingy to connect to a voice over internet phone (VoIP) service. For reasons I cannot now recall I never completed the project but over the last couple of weeks demand for this surfaced and so I set to …. Step 1: internet phone...

New MacBook Pro, part 2

At the end of September I returned my work laptop (an old, almost dead Dell) to the office. With a battery life well under an hour and terrible performance it was almost unusable; I thought I would not miss it but I did. Within a couple of weeks I was looking at the...

New MacBook Pro, part 1

My daughter started at university last month and so the time had come to get her her own computer. Initial discussions began last year, focussed on whether she wanted both a notebook & desktop or only a laptop. On one hand you have portabaility but the pain of...

Setting up new MacBook Pro

My daughter’s new MacBook Pro arrived yesterday so I have been setting it up for her. Compared to the first Mac that I set up, my own Mini two years’ ago, it was considerably more organised as I had made a list of things to do and software to install. The...