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FeaturesSeptember 1st, 2013 by Leah Yamshon
Nerd, interrupted: inside a smartphone addiction treatment centre
Ashley loved her fiancé, Dave, but he was committed to another – his phone. Sharing her story with an online support group for mobile phone addicts,...
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FeaturesSeptember 1st, 2013 by Joe Kisell
Mac Emergency! Part 1: fast fixes for the most common Mac problems
Mac Won’t Turn On One of the scariest things that your Mac can do, short of emitting actual flames and smoke, is refuse to turn on at all. you...
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FeaturesAugust 31st, 2013 by Ted Landau
Mac Emergency! Part 1: fast fixes for the most common Mac problems
System Slowdowns It happens to every Mac user sooner or later. The virtual gears inside your computer begin to act as though they’re running in...
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FeaturesAugust 30th, 2013 by Joe Kisell
Mac Emergency! Part 1: fast fixes for the most common Mac problems
Crashing apps Crashes and freezes in OS X happen infrequently, and most of them are easy to resolve. Better still, even though a crash or freeze may...
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FeaturesAugust 25th, 2013 by Lex Friedman
Gold iPhone? It wouldn’t be Apple’s first brush with colour
A colourful history Rumour has it that Apple might ship a gold iPhone this spring. That wouldn’t be as big a shock as some folks seem to think....
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WorkflowAugust 8th, 2013 by Anthony Caruana
Storage breakdown
How much data are you storing? Do you really know? And how do you share that data? Is it backed up? When you start thinking about all the different...
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SecurityAugust 4th, 2013 by John Dix
Cloud computing causing rethinking of disaster recovery
Cloud computing gives organisations the opportunity to rethink many traditional IT practices, but it may be a particularly good fit for disaster recovery...
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FeaturesJuly 29th, 2013 by Anthony Caruana
Point of sale systems
As retailers have become more aware of the importance of stock management, the humble register has become a critical element of stock control. Point...
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FeaturesJuly 28th, 2013 by Steven Aquino
Pecking order: typing with cerebral palsy
The majority of my freelance writing up to this point has consisted of a slew of articles related to accessibility and vision. But, thanks to my cerebral...
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FeaturesJuly 25th, 2013 by Jackie Dove, Macworld
Hands-on: Corel Painter X3 gets new visual, brush and painting features
There’s image editing and then there’s fine art – and Corel has always positioned Painter, its flagship professional painting program, on the...
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FeaturesJuly 21st, 2013 by Howard Baldwin
Why the enterprise can’t shake its email addiction
Atos CEO Thierry Breton caught a lot of flak last year when he announced he wanted his employees to give up email, but he may have been onto something....
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FeaturesJuly 20th, 2013 by Christopher Null
Gaming Twitter: how one man turns fake followers into windfall profits
Short on friends? James Clegg can sell you a few. How about a thousand or so followers on Twitter, delivered overnight for about a penny apiece? Clegg...
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FeaturesJuly 9th, 2013 by Lex Friedman
The App Store turns five: a look back and forward
Five years ago, the App Store was born. A million apps, billions of dollars and an uncountably high number of Angry Birds later, the store is unquestionably...
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FeaturesJuly 2nd, 2013 by Lesa Snider
The art of choosing colours
Colour can evoke emotion, capture attention and send a message. Whether you’re designing business cards, setting up a photo shoot or shopping for...
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FeaturesJune 30th, 2013 by Liane Cassavoy
Creepy Facebook apps mine your profile for bikini shots, break-up status
The world has fallen for Facebook hook, line, and sinker. It puts you in touch with old friends! It lets you share photos and videos! But plenty of...
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FeaturesJune 28th, 2013 by James Galbraith
5 portable batteries for charging your iPad (and everything else)
It takes a lot of power to light up an iPad’s 9.7in screen – and even more to power the fourth-generation model’s Retina display. That’s why...
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FeaturesJune 26th, 2013 by Kyle Wiens
The best and worst Macs for upgrades and repairs
Twelve best and worst DIY Macs I’ve spent the past 10 years playing around with Macs at iFixit: tearing them down, upgrading them, repairing them...