Re: Suspicious Emails
I¡¯m sure it does get worse as you age and, somehow, memories become sharper too. I am wondering if writing a blog, just for myself to see, might help. I haven¡¯t yet decided how to shape this, to
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Re: Suspicious Emails
I agree with your feelings about getting a reliable techie to do the work; luckily we can afford to do that. When we arrived at Titan Computers, there was a row of maybe 8 or 10 27in iMacs on the
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Purler
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Re: Suspicious Emails
Thank you, Chris, that looks both fascinating and terrifying! I gather that iFixit also has a demonstration page for the operation. We picked up my iMac from Titan Computers this morning and, sadly,
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Purler
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Sometimes I think it gets worse as you get older. Something triggers an I find myself tearful. Nothing wrong with my memory either thank goodness otherwise how would my husband find anything or get me
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Judith Hall
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I wouldn¡¯t dare. Rather leave to my fav tech who has excellent dust proof area etc. He¡¯s not in Apple shops - independent business but fully qualified Apple Tech so machines under warranty are
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Judith Hall
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You do need a sucker, Susan, but it¡¯s all explained on this site, together with tools for sale. iMac Intel 27" EMC 2309 and 2374 Hard Drive Replacement ifixit.com This is just an example, of course;
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Re: Suspicious Emails
My goodness, Jude, you had some pain there. These things all leave their mark, don¡¯t they? Then, you are just left to live with them as best you can. I sometimes wish I were not so good at
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Purler
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Re: Suspicious Emails
I suppose, if I¡¯d thought of it, I could have asked Titan Computers to put in an SSD while they had it in their workshop but that iMac is a ten-year-old model so perhaps it¡¯s best just to keep it
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I was dragged to Australia on forged papers. My own father refused to sign documents for me to leave the country. My late stepfather who had been POW of Germans 4 years in Thorn Poland Stalag XXA -
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Judith Hall
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No, I got a chap in Bournemouth to swap it for me ¨C a very good job. I have swapped a HD, but it was on an iMac with magnetic closures, not glue. That picture business is a bit annoying. Have you
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zuiko
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Wow, Chris - you swapped your iMac¡¯s HD? Did you do that yourself? We¡¯ve heard that my 27in iMac is repairable after all, so we¡¯re getting it done; you can¡¯t have too many Macs, I feel! :D I
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Yes, I¡¯ve heard about the children sent to Australia and told their parents were dead when they weren¡¯t. We are all just little people to those in power; it makes me sick. Lovely when they get
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Sorry I¡¯m late to this thread, Susan and Jude It was the Governments who took the forced emigration measures and adoptions, but there must have been an element of the culture then for it to happen
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There is a similar movie about children sent to Australia who were told their parents were dead etc - think its on you tube - disgrace to both British and Australian govts. DNA is making things very
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Judith Hall
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I was lucky to get adopted quite quickly, by a middle class couple in their early 40s. I never did any research until my adoptive mother had died, in 1988, too late to meet my birth mother who,
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Purler
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If you read about Steve he didn¡¯t have it jammy in life - his real rather refused to acknowledge paternity. From what I read about he headset it ill be around the $5000 Aus when it gets here and
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Judith Hall
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I know very little about Tim Cook but I do get the impression that he is a money man, not inspirational. Of course, Steve Jobs was not Mister Empathy, from all reports and from the biography by Walter
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Purler
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#2803
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That phishing address is for any suspicious emails at all; they go to an organisation called Action Fraud. You quickly get an acknowledgement email which includes the number of such emails they have
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I have avoided Ventura up to now ¡ª quit a few of local club members feel the same as me - don¡¯t really want to go to something that behaves more like the iPad. But I may have to contemplate sooner
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Judith Hall
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Hello Jude! I note your technique of going to your webmail; I only tried that once and the font was so tiny I never did it again. I may have another look, though. The junk that I got was not just the
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Purler
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