"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Technology
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It appears that Apple is moving to replace the Messages app within macOS with a Catalyst based Messages application which will mean that as the iOS/iPadOS receive improvements that the macOS version will automatically inherit those improvements as well (link). It re-enforces what I’ve said in the past that in the long term I could…
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I had my first day back at the office on Sunday and it was a bit strange getting back into the routine of getting out of bed, breakfast, put on some business casual then jumping on my scooter off to work after over a month of working from home. We’ve got a new phone system…
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It appears that after many months of Google keeping tight lipped over the future of Google Play Music they have added migration functionality to YouTube Music to allow Google Play Music customers to migrate their uploaded music collection, settings, personalisation etc. from Google Play Music over to YouTube Music. Coinciding with that announcement has been…
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Another day another pay – we’re in level 3 but hopefully level 3 doesn’t last too long and we can get back to normal soon but not too soon because one doesn’t want to see what happened in 1918 when cities relaxed their restrictions believing that the worst of it was over only to find…
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I’ve been reading up on the Samsung S20 range with the Exynos 990 SoC that was bundled with it – the pitch forks are being bought in bulk as the gap, in terms of performance, between Qualcomm 865 and Exynos 990 grows and customers (who don’t have access to the Qualcomm 865 model) voice their…
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The rumour mill has been going over drive with the recent leak of products that’ll be getting launched through out this year – I would have thought that the whole COVID-19 situation would have slowed down or postponed the launch of some products but it appears that Apple is charging forward with their plan. It…
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Well, it appears that the level 4 lock down has been extended for another week but even with the move to level 3 the amount of movement will be limited – those businesses that can be done remotely have been told that it must be done remotely. I had a chat to my team leader…
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Apple has pushed out an update for macOS in the form of a supplemental update last night and I’ve given it test on my iMac – it has addressed the USB disconnection issue that I mentioned in my last blog post. I checked it a few times, put it to sleep then woke it up,…
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Apple has pushed out an update today for iOS and iPadOS to address FaceTime compatibility issue when trying to create a FaceTime session with someone using a device running older version of iOS or iPadOS. I’ve installed it on my iPhone 11 Max Pro – no problems so far, everything very stable. There has been…
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With the release of 10.15 Apple announced the deprecation of kernel extensions in favour of user space based drivers. I remember when the announcement was made I wasn’t expecting it to kick in maybe until the following release (macOS 10.17) but it appears that support maybe completely removed in macOS 10.16. With the release of…
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