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Making a Digital Info Sign

**This post is now out of date- if you want to see how to do it with the new version of Raspian Buster, or with a Raspberry Pi 4, go to this link  My son has a habit of asking what’s on about 15 times day, and if that weren’t bad enough, he often comes into my office and uses

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Credit Card Payment Providers

I’ve just spent some time comparing payment providers in an attempt to Get a better deal than I currently get from the bank reduce the ongoing costs from the bank Just to be clear, I’ve been using Xero for some time to do all of my invoicing (I moved over from Lightspeed because they started removing features from the software

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How to Free up Space on Your Mac- 2022

This article came about because of a client who is overseas. He wrote me an email saying that he couldn’t figure out where all of the space on his MacBook Air SSD had gone. This question doesn’t have a simple answer, so I’m writing this to help him, and everyone else out. Here’s the problem- There are lots of similar

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Cisco Meraki- How to Lose Friends and De-Influence People

Let me start by saying that I think Cisco are a great company and I have huge respect for them. They have some amazing products and services particularly if you can stand some of the eye watering prices. But they make some delicious gear! But this tale doesn’t start with them, it starts at MIT, where a couple of students

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State of The Mac 2017- Updated August 2017

We like Macs, but there are some er, less desirable models in the line up- so If you’re buying a new Mac this year, what specs to recommend? This post was originally written in March 2017, and since then Apple has updated many of the models- I have updated each of the categories with new recommendations as needed. All prices lifted

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More Storage for Tiny Disks

Let’s face it, Apple has been pretty stingy with the size of the SSD drives that they put in their machines. Although that is changing now, a lot of people are quite happy with their MacBook Air or MacBook Pro- apart from the fact that the drive is always full. This is particularly painful if you’ve bought an 11″ machine

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My Email is Down!

This is one of the most common support issues we face, so it’s worthwhile exploring a few solutions. Usually, the server is working fine and the issue can be traced to one of a number of other gremlins. So, how do we figure out exactly what has gone wrong? Warning- if you use the wrong username and password combo too

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Phishing Grows Up?

This morning I got an email ostensibly from American Express, asking me to set up a ‘SafeKey’ to add an extra level of protection to my online purchases.   It looks legit. One of the first things I do is hover my mouse pointer over the supplied link- often the link will say it goes to Amex but the tooltip

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DeployStudio Cram Notes

I’ve been toying with DeployStudio for a little while now and am growing to love it. However I find myself referring back to this video a lot because it has a lot of detail without a lot of fluff.   In order to improve the signal to noise ratio even further, here are my shorthand notes on how to set

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Stalking With iPhones

  Last week I was asked to go onsite and help a lady do some general maintenance on her laptop, and of course a bit of help with iCloud- because for some reason the way iCloud works isn’t well understood by the general public. I’m not immune to this either- they asked some questions I couldn’t answer without more research!

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