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Mac going at a snail’s pace and occasionally stopping entirely? Try this out
I was having issues recently with my MacBook Pro M4 Pro (one of the most powerful laptops you can get), where it kept pausing for a few seconds. A quick look at Activity Monitor highlighted the issue – process corespotlightd was consuming 150% of the CPU. A quick check online and I found the potential…
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How to open a MacBook or plug it in without it switching on
Sometimes you just want to open up your MacBook, or plug it in, without it deciding to power itself on. Most of the time the behaviour makes sense but sometimes you don’t want it – wouldn’t it better to allow the. user to decide? Until now, changing this default wasn’t possible, but with M-powered MacBooks…
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Using Cursor to create WordPress plugins: How good are the results?
If you’ve not already come across it, Cursor is an AI powered editor that can help write code for you. Inevitably, Recently, a Reddit user used it to create a WordPress plugin…
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Locked out! Fixing my mum’s iPad
My mum exclusively uses an Apple iPad for her online life. She has a smartphone but it’s an old Android one that is useful for not much more than phone calls and texts. Her weekly shopping, Facebook and everything else is on her iPad. A few months back, it came to an end. The supermarket…
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Re-thinking my social media
For a while now I’ve not been on X/Twitter (as in, I deleted my account some years ago). Let’s face it, Musk is a nazi and X is an absolute cesspool right now. I initially moved to Mastodon but have now jumped fully onto Bluesky. I haven’t actively used Facebook for some time – it…