Beware of adware and malware on the Mac. It can’t do much damage on OS X (macOS), but it’s incredibly annoyingly and trivial to remove.
I first came across the Mac app TuneUp a few years ago. It was essentially an iTunes extension that helps you clean up your library by identifying unnamed songs and adding track names and cover art.
Like many others, my iTunes music collection largely halted a few years ago with the advent of Spotify.
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In the last few years, certainly spanning iOS 8 and iOS 9, you may have experienced a bug with the Mail app on iPhone not updating in the background. Here’s one solution that may fix it.
The way Apple Mail on iOS should work is simple – unlike other iPhone apps there is no ‘background app refresh’ option, you choose between ‘Push’, ‘Fetch’ and ‘Manual’. ‘Push’ is the most common with email accounts these days, forming a constant connection with your email provider to allow it to send emails straight to your phone.
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If you are still hanging on to 2011’s iPhone 4S, you will probably have come to the realisation that it might be finally time to upgrade now that it doesn’t support iOS 10. But if you don’t want to spend big on the newly-released iPhone 7, maybe the cheaper iPhone 6S is for you.
There’s no doubt the first thing you’ll notice when holding an iPhone 6S for the first time is that it feels huge compared to the iPhone 4S.
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Since Google’s acquisition of Nest, the home technology company has somewhat stalled, both in terms of releasing new products and developing existing ones. Now, despite a joint venture with home security experts Yale being announced nearly 12 months ago, their first product together, the Linus Lock, has been postponed until 2017.
While this certainly isn’t the first tech product to experience a delay, given the current situation at Nest it is slightly worrying. And despite Nest’s initial fanfare about the partnership, only a solitary Facebook post from Yale’s Real Living page, and a graphic update on the official Linus Lock minisite have acknowledged the change.
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We relocated a few months ago and amongst the huge list of services and contracts to transfer to a new address is, of course, your TV, Phone and Internet provider. Unfortunately transferring to a new address with Virgin Media wasn’t all they promised.
UPDATE 15/09/2016
Having spoken to several people about this issue, it seems that IS POSSIBLE to take a TiVo to a new area, but with a heavy disclaimer.
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