Category Archives: Hardware

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Email Photos on iPad as Attachments Primer Tutorial

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It’s easy on tablets to email photos to people. Tablets can usually be the camera and the photo gallery mechanism and the means to construct and send the email. Today, ready at hand is an iPad to show you the … Continue reading →

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Facebook Webcam Video Failure Primer Tutorial

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Today we discuss a problem, with Windows 10, and Internet Explorer, one of my students was having using Facebook with a Live Chat, and having the video not work at her end, but was working at the other end, and … Continue reading →

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Solid State Drive Primer Tutorial

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The MacBook Pro (this blog is largely written on) had a bit of a timeout recently … thanks Safemode … and we now have a new file storage system, as the old Hard Disk Drive had many errors on it … Continue reading →

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Kinesthetic iPod Learning Primer Tutorial

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Was listening to the radio the other day, to a “technical gadgetry” program and they were predicting the imminent demise of a couple of technologies … voicemail iPod The first one is sad, but not of huge impact to me, … Continue reading →

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Windows Wireless Printing Primer Tutorial

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Some printers are capable of supporting wireless printing on a Windows network. Wireless printing is a pretty powerful tool to have, doing away with that “office” or “home” network “ethernet” wiring or printing cabling of older configurations. So supposing you … Continue reading →

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Yosemite MAMP Issue Primer Tutorial

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A few days ago we installed Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 on our Macbook Pro laptop here and showed you the install with Mac OS X Yosemite and iOS 8.1.3 Install Tutorial. Most operating system installs will impact on the … Continue reading →

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Photo Album Email with Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial

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Were you surprised with our tutorial Image Fits in Gimp and Paintbrush Primer Tutorial as shown below, where Paintbrush ended up being a better option for an image editing job than Gimp, which we also use a lot here at … Continue reading →

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Windows File Server and File Sharing Primer Tutorial

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Was discussing Windows and File Servers the other day with a student and realized it is a subject often taken for granted now in workplaces, and perhaps in home networks. The way you can share files between networked computers has … Continue reading →

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