It's now been five months since I installed OS X 10.11 El Capitan on my iMac. Initially, after the upgrade, there were lots of issues including performance, Mail app issues, constant spinning circle/wait cursor, wifi issues, Finder/tab issues and also delays when starting up some apps. [...]
I installed OS X 10.11 El Capitan on my iMac last week, so here's my update after one week's use. My initial thoughts - oh dear, this is a turkey! - have subsided as all the original issues I was experiencing have now gone. Here's a [...]
iOS 8.4 was made available at the end of June 2015 and brought several new changes to iOS - with the main one being Apple Music, plus some changes for iBooks and some bug fixes. iOS 8.4 info http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/07/02/ios-8-4-for-iphone-ipad-10-things-to-expect-now/ http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/ios-8-4-beta-features Some users have complained of all [...]
#OSX 10.10.4 Update Available, Bug Fixes for Wi-Fi & Networking, Photos, Mail - My Macs def booting faster in 10.10.4 osxdaily.com/2015/06/30/os-…
As I've recently added blog posts on Mobile Payments, Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay - all which use NFC - I thought I'd add a post for NFC itself. What is NFC? Firstly, NFC is Near Field Communication - a technology more catchily known as [...]
I originally used Synergy back in the day when I was working from home and using a works Windows PC and wanted to use my iMac at the same time. After much searching on the net I found Synergy and - after some complicated setups - [...]
Here's the full bug details as I raised on Apple's Bug Reporter (it's nr 19094247) Summary: On iPhone 6, I need to enter a Manual Http Proxy setting via Settings/Wifi I choose the Manual tab, then enter Server nr and Port nr - but this setting [...]
OS X Yosemite v10.10.1 Update available - fixes some wifi and other issues support.apple.com/en-us/HT204017
69p on WiFi Explorer Mac App is well worth it - instantly shows you full info on your wifi networks & any clashes adriangranados.com
iOS 8.1 Release on Monday 20 October 2014, iOS 8.1 is set to fix many of the issues which were found in iOS 8.0.1 and the pulled iOS 8.0.2 Plus iOS 8.1 will also finally introduce Apple Pay to iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users, [...]
iOS 8 and OSX 10.10 Yosemite were announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference (WWDC) 2014 in San Francisco. Also another big announcement - at least to developers - was that Swift will be the new language replacing Objective-C. iOS 8 and OSX 10.10 Yosemite are due [...]
Recently, my broadband has been performing really badly, with slow download speeds and browsing taking ages, even on simple pages. I decided to have a go at fixing this myself, before contacting my supplier's support. I know from previous experience that the channel your router is [...]
iOS 7.1.1 update over the air/via wifi causing some iPhones to 'brick' dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…
Thanks to this article in TNW, I've found a couple of useful Wifi tools in Mac OSX - at least in my version, which is 10.9.2 To access the Wifi tools, press Alt key and then click on the Wifi icon in the menu. Extra information [...]
Home wifi - Change your Administrator password asap by sounds of this article from BBC News m.bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
One of the Apple Support Communities pages I am subscribed to is all about the 'wifi dropping' issue people have had when updating to Mountain Lion. This has now reached its 14th page and new issues are added almost daily. I found that the wifi dropping/connection [...]
The Apple eco-system - iOS devices and OSX systems - seems to have a few problems with wi-fi connections, especially in the time just after upgrades. I have experienced this myself a couple of times, as I documented here on my blog. Recently, I found [...]
I've now upgraded my iPhone3GS from iOS 5.1.1 to iOS 6. I put this upgrade on hold, mainly due to a freelance iOS App Testing project I was working on requiring me to keep iOS 5.1.1 but also partly due to waiting for some fix version [...]
Update - 4 October 2012 - Solution finally found... Wifi has been working for over a week now - without a drop out - so I can say the wifi issue has been fixed - at least for my situation. Read below for full details, but [...]
This issue is still occurring even after having reported it to Apple support and being in contact with someone from Apple support. (I provided them a Wifi Diagnostics report after issue occurred and with wifi debug/diagnostics setup) The problem is strangely sporadic - some days it [...]
As Apple haven't yet supplied a fix for this wifi issue in OSX Mountain Lion, I tried another suggestion from a user on Apple Support Forums. The main gist of this is to clear out all the networking plists from your /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/ directory. Then restart Mac and [...]
Apple has released the OSX 10.8.1 update to Mountain Lion. It was hoped this would feature a fix to the wifi issue being suffered by lots of Mountain Lion users. However, a check through the issues list and there was no mention of a wifi fix. [...]
Update 14 August 2012: The wifi problem is still ongoing, with the wifi connection being lost erratically - sometimes when haven't used browser/net for a while and sometimes when still using it (which is even more annoying!) I've tried all the different suggestions so far, so [...]
Update: Friday 3rd August - wifi still dropping out, even after WPA2 move. Next thing to try, deleting the WEP Network setting and seeing what happens. Also found this page on osxdaily.com site, which reports the wifi problem and some solutions, including renewing DHCP - which [...]
Updated my iMac to Mountain Lion on Sunday and this old wifi issue seems to have come back - but even worse! This time, my wifi connection was dropping every time I finished a browser 'session' and then moved onto do something else - in another application. [...]
Updated - 18 April 2012 - Problem seems to have gone now, between my fix and the Apple update on 5 April. Updated - 5 April 2012 - Apple released an update for iMac titled 'iMac Wifi Update' today, which I've now updated my system with. Hopefully this [...]
Continuing learning Android Development using the book 'Beginning Android Application Development' from Wrox. Just completed Chapter 9 - Location-Based Services - This featured: - displaying Google Maps in your Android application - obtaining a Google Maps API key - using MapView in your app - from [...]
