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iOS IT

How to adjust iPhone Flashlight Brightness in iOS 10

iPhone Flashlight Brightness: I am forever using the Flashlight, (or Torch) within Control Center on my iPhone. When i say ‘Flashlight’, it’s really just the camera LED flash doubling up as a flashlight. But with a baby that keeps getting

iOS IT

iOS 10 Wi-Fi Tips: Fix Connection Problems

iOS 10 Wi-Fi Tips: Fix connection problems in your device Have you ever connected to a Wi-Fi network on your iPhone and wondered why it’s not working? Unless you’re an IT technician you may not know what you can try

Mac OS X

How to disable Gatekeeper in OSX Sierra

During the June WWDC conference during a “What’s New in Security” session it was made known that Apple were changing the default options of Gatekeeper for macOS Sierra. This can cause some troubles installing programs so I’m writing this blog

iPhone

Fix Wifi Issues: Captive Networks

Whilst travelling on a train up north to deliver another onsite training course, I decided to connect my iPhone to the train’s free Wi-Fi service. Shouldn’t be a problem should it? It’s easy to connect an iOS device to Wi-Fi

How to Force Quit a specific Application

I’m sure you must have used the Force Quit command at one time or another with an application that is not responding. The keyboard shortcut to display the Force Quit dialogue is Command + ALT + ESC which brings up

Additional features to Screen Sharing in OS X

Even though it has been a feature of OS X for several years now Screen Sharing doesn’t get the recognition I feel it deserves especially considering this is an inbuilt feature. In 10.7 Apple added some nice new features which

How to disable the notification centre, permanently!

We have covered the notification centre in a few blogs in the past, including how to temporarily disable, expand and toggle “do not disturb” on the notification centre. Recently, however, a student attending our Advanced deployment course asked me how

How to create a 'new folder with selection'

If you want to quickly organise your files, you can create a new folder that contains all the files you have selected! There are a couple of ways in which you can do this: Option 1 Select all the items

Tired of that constant clicking sound?

Picture the scene:  It is late at night, not a sound to be heard, pure silence.. Except for that highly annoying little sound your Macbook Pro’s track-pad makes each time you click it. If, like me you would like to

Tired of that constant clicking sound?

Picture the scene:  It is late at night, not a sound to be heard, pure silence.. Except for that highly annoying little sound your Macbook Pro’s track-pad makes each time you click it. If, like me you would like to