Category: IT Support
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from POP to IMAP in 5 Easy Steps
Things you will need to know before you move from POP to IMAP; Your email username and password, you can check if you know them by logging on to webmail for your email address using a web browser. Your IMAP server settings, these include the server address and port number and can usually be found…
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MobileMe and Snow Leopard, iCloud and Lion
There is a deadline looming that MobileMe users cannot escape. On the 30th June 2012 Apple will switch off the servers that run MobileMe and if you haven’t upgraded to iCloud your MobileMe email will no longer work. If you are running MacOSX 10.7.3 (Lion) then you can move to iCloud by going to http://me.com/move…
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Backup Your Computer
We all know we should backup our data but we don’t always do it correctly, read this to make sure you have got it right Reasons to Backup you will accidentally delete something the hard drive or computer will suffer a mechanical breakdown the computer may be stolen or lost you are already infected with…
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What’s My Password?
It is probably between 6 and 8 characters with a mixture of upper and lowercase and with at least one number. You are likely to use the same or similar passwords for Facebook, Gmail, YouTube, Twitter and even online banking. Or you might have discovered the new way to work with passwords. If not, you…
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The End of iWeb
iWeb was a great way to make your own web site and suited many people who wanted their own home-made yet fairly sophisticated looking site without having to learn HTML or do any programming. It was very easy to use but started to lack some of the social networking elements that appeared during iWeb’s lifetime.…
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IMAP or POP, which is best?
There’s only one way to find out … fight! eMail has been buzzing around our offices and homes for 40 years, well the idea has at least, and in the last 10 years eMail has been an essential part of owning and using a computer. So how does it work? SMTP is the method or…
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Should I upgrade to Lion?
You have very little choice, is the short answer. If you are a MobileMe user you have until June 2012, just before the GB Olympics, to upgrade your computer to MacOS X Lion and make use of all the features of the new free iCloud service. MobileMe users that don’t upgrade will lose out. If…
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Hacking the cloud
Dropbox is a widely used file and folder synchronisation tool which can also be used to share files with others. I’ve never been a fan of Dropbox and my advice has always been not use this software. Issues with who owns the data and who can access it have always made me very reluctant to…
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