Mea Culpatino as Apple brings back the ports on the new MacBook Pros

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Mea Culpatino: Who would have thought it? First to delete superfluous ports from its products, Apple has now eaten humble pie and brought back a trio of dodos from MagSafe to the SD card slot and the humble headphone jack.

Tekkiepix connects 100 years of technology industry photography

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A new web site conceived by journalist and broadcaster Barry Fox has been launched to bring together more than 100 years of technology industry...

Light: What I learned to help take better photos

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Erwin explores the photography principle that dwarfs everything else, the fact that light matters.

Working with invisible light: Infrared photography with the M10 Monochrom

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How the Leica M10 Monochrom opens up exciting possibilities in the field of infrared photography. Claus takes us on to a new spectrum in the cities, forests and mountains of Germany

Apple’s Mac mini with M1 processor surpasses expectations

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The M1 Mac mini arrives and it supasses expectations on speed, despite being an entry model. It's neat and easily stowed out of sight, but not out of mind.

Apple’s M1 chips and all that: This MacBook Pro simply rocks

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This Apple MacBook Pro rocks. Unfortunately, it rocks on its bulging battery. Time for a change to the remarkable new M1 processor...

USB-C Port Woes: Wobbling all the way to the Genius Bar

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Does your cable wobble? All four USB-C ports on Mike's 2018 MacBook Pro wobble and lead to unstable data connections. Apple don't want to know, but a simple fix seems to be working.

Camara Attacks: My pictures aren’t worth a ransom, so there

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Pay up or you'll lose your pictures: Hacking and ransomware comes to a camera near you....

Jony Ive leaves Apple. What comes next?

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Eight years after the death of Steve Jobs, Jony Ive has decided to leave Apple. Between them, they were instrumental in turning Apple into a trillion-dollar company. So what does this departure mean for the future of Apple?

95% of humans over 15 own a cellphone. True or false?

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Can you believe that 5 billion out of 5.3 bill over-15s on this planet own a phone? I didn't but let's give it a whirl...

Signal to Noise: An often misunderstood relationship

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Wayne wonders whether a bit of grain or noise isn’t a good thing after all…..

Instapaper flickers back to life in Europe

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GDPR legislation in Europe put an immediate stop to Instapaper, the useful read-later service we have been using for many years. Why this happened isn’t very clear. But it is significant the development team has bought out of Pinterest and has now reinstated service in Europe. What should you do?

Instapaper: New ownership but still no service in Europe

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The Instapaper saga gets more mysterious. This read-later service, on which I have relied for several years, went offline on May 25  implementation day of the new GDPR regulations, and is still down two months later.

Internet: Just how much do we all rely on our broadband

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It’s a complete broadband blackout at Macfilos and work has been suspended. We managed to get a last post out over the cellular network.....

1Password: Use a different password every time; don’t remember them

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Keeping track of a multitude of passwords is an impossible task. That’s why many people choose a few easily remembered words or phrases and use them over and over again. But what if you could have a different, very secure password for every site you visit without the need ever to remember them?