13/2/2024 0 Comments Beware of myGov scam emailsYet another scam email in my Inbox today.
This one caught my eye, because I know a lot of people might fall for it and give away their myGov login details. There are lots of variations on this theme, in terms of scam emails that pretend to be from the ATO or myGov - so please be on guard.
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13/2/2024 0 Comments When I send an email to multiple recipients, those sent to Google recipients are rejectedIn recent months, I have been called on to assist numerous small business clients who have suddenly found that their emails - especially bulk emails - are rejected by certain recipients.
The common theme with the rejections is that the rejecting recipients all tend to be Google email addresses, and the sender is using Microsoft Exchange. (Although I did also have a client who was also having trouble sending to iCloud email recipients.) Here's what was causing their issue, and what we did we did to fix the problem. While I was preparing a recent session about the new features iOS/iPadOS 17, I was checking out a range of new features/settings. While I was looking at one in particular, I tapped on another nearby option and was surprised by what I saw.
There was a place in Settings where I could see some real space wasters that are stored on my iPhone - and it wasn't in the usual place that I would have checked this (i.e. Settings -> General -> iPhone Storage). It showed how I could quickly clear 2GB of data - an amount that could be critical for those who have limited storage on their device. A common iTandCoffee appointment with computer users is one where I am asked ‘why is my computer so slow’.
One of the first things that I check when trying to improve the performance of any computer is the ‘startup’ list of apps and processes - and I turn off any apps and processes that don’t need to start up every time the computer starts up (or the user logs in). In a Handy Hint published a while ago, I covered how to do this on a Windows computer. Here’s how easy it is to see and manage your Apple Mac’s startup list. One of the features announced late last year for iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches is the ability for Siri to access 'on-device' Health data.
What does this mean? You can now ask Siri to record certain Health Data, or to tell you certain information from Health. Your device uses 'on-device' data, so does not access to internet to process your Siri instruction. Here are some examples of questions you can ask:
If you record certain Health data, here are some example Siri commands to do this for you:
I was really keen to use this new feature when it arrived, but couldn't get it to work at all - on either the Watch or on my iPhone or iPad. Online instructions on how to enable this feature did not seem to help. Yesterday, I finally found the solution, and got it working. But it was quite an obscure one! Last week, I had a remote appointment with a client who had very recently suffered the trauma of being scammed.
What was different about this client in comparison to many victims I see is that she was young and quite tech-savvy, and she had done lots of on-the job-training about scam detection. So she really was so shocked that she had been caught out, and wanted to discuss how she could better protect herself in future. Unfortunately, she fell for the scam because
A new feature included in iOS/iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma is really very useful.
When you create a shopping list, the list is automatically organised into categories for you. So many of us are now regular users of streaming services like Netflix, Binge, Stan, Apple TV, Prime, Paramount and others.
Something that my husband and I find on a regular basis is that we can't remember which streaming service was showing a particular program - and need to Google to work this out. I was listening to a podcast during the Christmas break, and heard about a much easier way of working this out. Have you discovered the Quick Note feature on the Mac?
It is such a handy feature that allows you to start a new Note really quickly, for jotting down something - for example, a receipt number, a link, or some other text that you just need to pop somewhere, either temporarily or permanently. I recently discovered a trick that makes initiating a Quick Note so much quicker on the Mac. 15/12/2023 0 Comments A new App for the iPad, iPhone and Mac (and much more) in iOS 17.2 & macOS 14.2Apple has released its latest major update to the operating system on the iPad, iPhone and Mac - iOS/iPadOS 17.2 and macOS 14.2.
While this release includes important security patches (and should therefore be installed ASAP), it also includes some significant new features. |
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