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  • Apple TV 4K? Make these 2 changes to improve your display output

    Apple TV 4K? Make these 2 changes to improve your display output

    If you’re rocking a 4K Apple TV then there are a couple of settings changes that you can make that could help improve the display quality.

    Head into Settings -> Video and Audio, and change the following…

    1. Change Format to 4K SDR

    If you have an HDR TV, then switch this to SDR. Also, head into Match Content and make sure that “Range” is “On”, which will mean that it will fall back to SDR when necessary and only switch to HDR when the format is such. This should prevent the black-screen flickering that you’ll see in YouTube.

    However, some say menus and screensavers look worse as a result.

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    1. Change HDMI output to RGB High

    It’s more accurate for SDR on the Apple TV 4K box due to a bug in the way it processes YCbCr signals. For HDR10 & Dolby Vision content, the setting makes no difference.

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  • Mac going at a snail’s pace and occasionally stopping entirely? Try this out

    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 cause, and it’s one that appears to be quite recent, so possibly a recent bug in the OS (or a specific app).

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  • How to open a MacBook or plug it in without it switching on

    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 and MacOS Sequoia onwards, you can now do this.

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  • Using Cursor to create WordPress plugins: How good are the results?

    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…

    Created a WebP conversion plugin for WordPress in Cursor and it works brilliantly. If you need a WordPress plugin, just ask Cursor to build it for you!
    byu/Thaetos inWordPress
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  • Locked out! Fixing my mum’s iPad

    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 app no longer worked on her iPad Air due to its age and she was in a constant battle with the – wait for it – 16GB of storage. It was time to upgrade, which she did. She didn’t get the latest all-singing model, but found a new but previous generation iPad instead. When she got it, it guided her through copying over from her old device. She put her old iPad away and continued, happily, with the new one.

    But, as much as we think about security these days, it’s not always the best thing for someone elderly. She didn’t have a passcode on it and, when searching for “Password” (for the passwords app) one day it came up with the passcode screen instead. She got confused and supplied one. She didn’t write it down (she does for her important passwords for everything else) and, after a couple of days, forgot it.

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