Christopher Lee

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Have I Been Pwned? Check whether your password has been stolen

Have I Been Pwned? Check whether your password has been stolen

Christopher Lee · May 11, 2018

Someone logging into your account without your permission can be a frightening experience! If it’s ever happened to you, then hopefully it was just a friend who wanted to post something embarrassing to your Facebook page, but often people hack into accounts with much more than practical jokes in mind. If a hacker ever gains […]

Apple applies to partake in official drone programme

Apple applies to partake in official drone programme

Christopher Lee · May 10, 2018

Apple is the latest among a number of major firms seeking permission to partake in a drone testing programme that was announced by the US government in 2017. With the government now accepting applications for this programme, Apple and a handful of other technology giants, including Intel, Amazon and Qualcomm are applying. It is unclear […]

Apple finally axes apps that send data to outsiders

Apple finally axes apps that send data to outsiders

Christopher Lee · May 9, 2018

Today we bring you both good and bad Apple news. Let’s get the bad news out of the way: there are apps in Apple’s App Store that share your location data with third parties. The good news is that Apple has now apparently started to crack down on these apps. The company is busy removing […]

How to install Windows 10 on your Mac using Boot Camp

How to install Windows 10 on your Mac using Boot Camp

Christopher Lee · May 8, 2018

Want to install Windows 10 on your Mac? The Boot Camp utility and Mac’s support for dual booting makes running Windows alongside macOS fairly straightforward. In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Boot Camp to install all the drivers and operating system software required to run Windows 10, so you can […]

Apple nearly became the world’s first $1tn company yesterday

Apple nearly became the world’s first $1tn company yesterday

Christopher Lee · May 8, 2018

The contest to become the globe’s first $1tn business is as good as won after Apple shares surged on stock markets on Monday. During the first few hours of trading yesterday AAPL shares reached $187.60 per share, placing the Cupertino-based firm ‘only’ $55bn below the sought-after $1tn market cap level. What served as a major […]

How to change the name of any Mac account

How to change the name of any Mac account

Christopher Lee · May 4, 2018

Your user account and home folder are created when you first setup your Mac, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rename them! Maybe you purchased a second-hand Mac and the previous owner didn’t do a particularly good job of wiping their personal data; maybe you made a typo in your username and it’s been bugging […]

No more autocorrect slip-ups! Customising Apple’s text correction service

No more autocorrect slip-ups! Customising Apple’s text correction service

Christopher Lee · May 3, 2018

Autocorrect can save you the embarrassment of sending a typo to your boss, by detecting every time you make a spelling mistake, and correcting it for you automatically. This sounds great, but autocorrect doesn’t always get it right. Sometimes it may change your typo to completely the wrong word, and occasionally it may even misidentify […]

Contradicting reports over merging of iOS and Mac apps

Contradicting reports over merging of iOS and Mac apps

Christopher Lee · May 3, 2018

A few months ago, in December 2017, Mark Gurman reported about a project called ‘Marzipan’, which seemed to be about Apple’s attempts to merge the development of apps for iOS and Mac. A month later Gurman said in a follow-up report that the project would be included in 2018’s iOS 12 and MacOS 10.14. However, […]

Is Apple overlooking the Mac?

Is Apple overlooking the Mac?

Christopher Lee · May 2, 2018

Apple had its Q2, 2018 earnings call on Tuesday. While for shareholders it brought mainly good news, it had little to offer Mac customers. In fact, the whole Mac line-up was once again basically ignored by Tim Cook and his colleagues when they discussed future revenue plans. It has to be said that these earnings […]

How to create an APFS Snapshot on High Sierra

How to create an APFS Snapshot on High Sierra

Christopher Lee · May 1, 2018

Did you now that you can take a snapshot of your Mac at any point in time, using a single Terminal command? As soon as you upgrade to macOS High Sierra, your Mac will switch from HFS Plus to a new file system, known as APFS (Apple File System). One of the more notable features […]

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