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So I bit the bullet…..

Posted on by indiemacuser

..and ordered an iPhone 5.

I have had for several years a Blackberry Curve 9300. While it remains in my opinion a great phone for business use; it’s not great at anything else; the app selection for Blackberry is possibly the worst of all the platforms. Also, Blackberry syncing to Apple has been poor and as I use iCal and Mail regularly; in theory an iPhone should work a lot better for me.

I am expecting the biggest change will be moving to a touch phone and I may miss the keyboard on the blackberry. Also being stuck with 16GB capacity and not being able to upgrade with memory cards. Although as the trend is now towards Cloud-based services this becomes less of a problem. I will also miss the ability to edit Microsoft Office Documents.

I will write some posts on how I have found the transfer in the next few months.

Useful Mac Apps

Posted on by indiemacuser

Here are a few every-day useful apps I have picked up over the years:

Mountain Lion Cache Cleaner http://www.northernsoftworks.com/mountainlioncachecleaner.html
Carries out all the maintenance tasks you could want for your mac simply and easily; including virus scanning.

Cloudmark DesktopOne http://www.cloudmark.com/en/products/cloudmark-desktopone/index
Intelligent spam protection tool for your email that uses several techniques including blocking emails that other users of the program have blocked. Works with Mail app and

Little Snitch http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
A simple tool that lets you allow or block incoming/outgoing internet communications from your applications separately for greater security.