Tag: Computing

  • Enable iCloud for old Unsupported Apple ID

    Enable iCloud for old Unsupported Apple ID

    Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 02:42 pm I have had an Apple ID that predated iTunes. It wasn?t in the form of an email address, it was just ?funpaul?. Now that I have an iPhone 4S and am developing apps for ?iOS I thought I should start using iCloud. But I was getting…

  • How to Avoid Twitter phishing scams

    Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 02:36 am If you receive a DM on twitter “This made me laugh so hard when i saw this about you lol” it?s a phishing scam to get your twitter login details. Your account will then send that or similar DM?s on to your friends. Don?t fall for…

  • My netbook has crashed

    My netbook has crashed

    Last updated on July 5th, 2015 at 05:14 pm My main workhorse is a eMachines m250 netbook. Last night it decided to crash. Now it only boots under XP safe mode or Linux from a USB. Most of my apps are on the cloud in some way or other, so I am not actually missing…

  • Why are you still using an email client?

    Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 02:51 pm Years ago I moved to an email server accessible from my iPhone, laptop, netbook, notepad or desktop computer. Initially this was achieved by using the IMAP protocol which was supported by MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Mail.app and many other email clients on my various machines. I had…

  • iPad for me

    Last updated on July 6th, 2015 at 03:01 pm I’ll probably be getting a iPad when it’s released in Australia. I replaced my blackberry with my first generation iPhone, plus my 15″ laptop stays home too. I can email and web-surf directly from the iPhone. I take the laptop if I want to update a…