Do you own a MacBook Pro? A lot of people do – in recent years while many manufacturers have struggled to expand their market share, Apple’s ridden a wave of iPhone popularity to sell folks on its MacBook line of laptop computers. They’re sold on the basis of Apple’s premium brand, and its general reputation… More
The next generation of mobile connectivity has launched in Australia. 5G brings with it the promise of faster connection speeds, lower latency and all-new use cases for mobile data. Well… sort of. At a technical level, the 5G networks of Telstra and Optus have customers accessing data on them. However this is only under very… More
At its WorldWide Developer Conference recently, Apple laid out its software vision for the next version of macOS. That’s the software that runs its Mac line of computers. If you’ve got an iMac, MacBook or a Mac Pro, the next version of macOS will functionally be macOS 10.15. You won’t see that version number too… More
At the heart of every computer lies a processor of some kind, whether you’re talking the cheapest student laptop or the highest-end video rendering desktop. In the computing market there are two primary competing companies with serious investments in providing the processor that will run your next computer: Intel and AMD. Of the two, Intel… More
The US government recently listed Huawei as a company that posed a national security risk. As a result, barred US companies from dealing with the Chinese telecommunications giant. There’s considerable argument on both sides as to whether Huawei does present a risk. That’s a matter of security, international geopolitics and trade negotiations between China and… More
These days we’re expected to have passwords for just about everything. Our social media accounts need a password. So do our email accounts, our online banking and much more. I’ve written in the past how it’s a very bad idea to use the same password for multiple services. The easy solution there is to use… More
Google has just held its annual I/O developer’s conference, where it lets the folks who do the hard programming work into making apps and services built on Google frameworks get together to learn what’s new. At IO 2019, Google released new hardware such as the much more affordable Google Pixel 3a, which is available in… More
Hey, have you heard the one about the Nigerian Prince who wants to give you millions of dollars? How about the supermarket reward voucher you can get for liking a Facebook post? What about that can’t-miss investment opportunity that the banks don’t want you to know about? If that sounds like a lot of overblown… More
I’ve written before about how one of the big trends in the technology world this year is going to be foldable phones. Now, you might not care that much about a foldable phone, but the reality here is that today’s smartphones are just computers, albeit ones that can also make phone calls. For many folks,… More
In the productivity applications space, there are a few standards that have emerged over decades, largely focused around the most popular applications within a given field. While you can use many image editing apps, Adobe’s Photoshop is so much the standard that it’s effectively a verb in its own right. You don’t just adjust an… More
