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EvoCam vs SecuritySpy
The options for network camera recording software are a bit limited on Mac OS. The two most popular products in this space are Evological’s EvoCam and Bensoftware’s SecuritySpy. So which is best? On...
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Gmail window in Safari
I like to have a separate Safari browser window for Gmail sessions, without the Safari toolbar or bookmarks bar. It’s a bit of a pain to set this up each time the browser is reset, so here’s a handy...
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Cookie Monster
On visiting the web site of The Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead you are greeted with this message: To which if you respond that you don’t consent to receiving cookies you get this message:...
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Twitter journalism
I’ve ranted previously about shoddy BBC journalism, more recently I’ve seen more examples of what I term Twitter journalism. The worst protagonist for cultivating this drivel is Daily Mail Online, but...
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Mac OS X Lion and legacy SMB
mount_smbfs: server connection failed: Unknown error: -5996 For anyone else experiencing problems connecting to older Windows networking shares (using SMB/CIFS protocols) from OS X Lion hosts, here is...
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Dealing with App Store rejection
In the course of my work I’ve been submitting iOS (originally iPhone OS) apps since 2008, so I have quite some experience in this area. Although Apple have always been diligent in manually inspecting...
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Mac nap
Macs are generally good at honouring power saving controls, but occasionally your Mac will either not sleep automatically or wake for no apparent reason. If your Mac won’t sleep then open a Terminal...
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LTE, 4GEE and sleeping giants
For many years Vodafone and O2 have been regarded as the heavyweights of the UK’s mobile operators, but the status quo is changing. First to set the scene with a bit of telecomms history. In the...
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Apologies apologies
It seems the more online and cloud services I use, the more apologies I receive. Here are three from my inbox just from today!
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iPhone 5
An industry insider told me that sales of Samsung’s Galaxy S III sky-rocketed the day after Apple’s big reveal of the iPhone 5. Evidently potential customers were holding off their upgrades until they...
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Embrace the bit-pipe!
Every mobile network operator I’ve ever worked with has been preoccupied with the corporate paranoia that they might one day become “just a bit-pipe”. It’s spoken about in hushed tones like it will be...
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Dot BigBang
If you haven’t already heard about new generic Top-Level Domains (or gTLD) then you might be excused for thinking it’s of no interest to you. Current top-level domain names (TLD) are restricted to the...
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Apps Publishing Security Policy
BSkyB has become the latest high-profile victim of a security blunder which has caused them to suspend all their Sky Android applications from the Google Play app store. The hackers would appear to...
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The Mac App Store’s Dirty Little Secret
Apple’s Mac App Store is promoted as a simple solution for installing and managing third party apps on your Mac. On the face of it this would indeed appear to be true, but The Mac App Store is hiding...
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Gmail attachments not working?
I’m assuming you’ve found your way here because you too are having difficulty viewing image attachments in the Gmail app for Android? I found that thumbnail previews of images were displaying fine, but...
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Printing to a Samsung ML-1210 on Mac OS X
Although Samsung stopped providing official Mac OS drivers for the ML-1210 laser printer long ago, it is still possible to use this venerable old laser printer with the latest Mac OS X. First download...
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Corrupted SMS on Android
For a couple of weeks I have been receiving strangely composed SMS from a friend. It was as if two totally separate conversations were being mixed together into one long message. At first I thought my...
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Smart bins are watching you
It’s intriguing how news stories can bubble under the surface for a while and then explode into the public eye, with significant consequences for everyone involved. Today’s example is the case of the...
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Google Play Music: Saving to SD card
Having switched from Amazon MP3 to Google Play Music, the most annoying omission in Google’s offering is the inability to save music tracks to SD card instead of internal storage. Since version 5.1 of...
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Google Android power saving tips
It’s a common complaint (or misconception?) that Android devices are power hungry, and some people claim not to manage a full working day from their smartphone. By my reckoning default system settings...
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