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News: 23 Feb 2013 – iPhone 5 leads way in Q4 2012 sales figures

Apple iPhone 5     Apple iPhone 4S     Samsung Galaxy S3

Figures out recently from Strategy Analytics show that Apple’s iPhone 5 now leads the way as the world’s best-selling smartphone. The full 1-2-3 in Q4 2012 was
1. Apple iPhone 5 27.4 million units (12.6%)
2. Apple iPhone 4S 17.4 million units (8%)
3. Samsung Galaxy S3 15.4 million units (7.1%)

Samsung’s Galaxy S3 had been leading the way up until Q4, so Samsung will now be keener than ever to release their rumoured Galaxy S4 sooner rather than later.

By |February 23rd, 2013|Featured News, News 2013|0 Comments
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News: 24 Jan 2013 – Apple results up, shares down

iPhone 5

Apple announced their Quarterly Results earlier today, with record quarterly revenue of $55bn – which resulted in a 12% drop in the share price. Strange logic, but apparently markets expected much more growth, so continued the recent sell-off, at an even faster rate.

Apple shares are currently around the $450 mark, having started the day over $500 apiece.

Today’s fall was equivalent to a drop of around $50bn off the value of Apple, which is vastly more than the value of most of their competitors.

(Part of the market’s disappointment was with iPhone 5 sales, hence the nice iPhone 5 picture above)

Read All About It:  BBC  Reuters  Bloomberg

 

 

By |January 24th, 2013|Featured News, News 2013|0 Comments
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Possible Fix to Mountain Lion wifi issue…

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 I’ll try and see if it solves the problem.

Original Post: The other day I reported that there was again a problem with wifi connections dropping after an OSX upgrade – this time to Mountain Lion.

Handily, one of the users on the Apple support forums suggested a fix for this issue.

The suggested fix is to change your wifi connection setups to use WPA2 encryption instead of WEP.

After a bit of fiddling around to get this setup, it does work for me and has worked the past hour or so.

To change the connection setups from WEP to WPA2:-

  • In Network Preferences, on Wifi, press Turn Wi-Fi Off button
  • Click Advanced button
  • Delete your existing Network with – button (if it shows WEP security, as mine did)
  • Click + button to add new Network
  • Enter the details for you wifi router/broadband setup. I found you have to enter this manually for it to allow you to select WPA2. Enter your SSIS, select WPA2 and enter your wifi password. Click OK to save settings. May need to supply Admin password.
  • I then found I had to switch wifi on and off a couple of times before I could get reliable connection.
  • Also note that there are now 2 Networks shown  under ‘Preferred Networks’ in Network Preferences/Wifi – one for WPA2 and one for WEP. It seems to work like this, so I’ve left it as is.
By |August 2nd, 2012|iMac, OSX, Upgrades|0 Comments
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Mac OSX Lion problem – wifi connection drops after sleep

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 will completely fix the issue.

Original Post: Since upgrading to Lion (via App Store) I’ve had this issue on my iMac where wifi connection is always lost when come back from Sleep and have to reconnect – which didn’t happen in previous OSX versions. Annoying but the fact the workaround was simple meant I never looked into getting a fix, until today…

My fix was pretty simple – worked for me, maybe won’t work for everyones setup/situation:-

- System Prefs / Network / then Turn WiFi off
- Press Advanced button, it will probably show your usual WiFi network in Preferred Networks list
- Delete your usual WiFi network in this list (make sure you have your connection details/password first!!!)
- Press OK and will then need your System password to ok the change

After this, it then worked fine, auto-connecting after each Sleep.

So far tested with a short Sleep (2 mins) and a longer Sleep (about 30 mins)
Haven’t yet tested with an ‘overnight’ sleep.

I’ve added this info to Apple Support forum, as there seemed to be a lot of people with the same issue (20 pages worth!)

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3193100?start=285&tstart=0

 

By |March 30th, 2012|Apple, iMac, OSX, Problems|1 Comment
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iOS5 Update

Just done the iOS5 update for my iPad2 – was fairly painless – unlike some other users apparently who had all sorts of problems. I think I’ll leave the iPhone update for a while though.

First had to update iTunes to latest version, with iCloud update also… then download hefty iOS5 update, about 750 Mb or so. Also you can setup iCloud which was fairly quick.

Then updated it and just left it to it.

Came back to it and all sorted with iOS5 so went into Settings to make sure everything ok and changed a few things – like the iCloud settings.

Can’t really see much difference straight off but it should become clear as I use more of the features. iMessage will be well handy for keeping in touch. Newsstand interesting, but can’t believe some of the prices magazines charging for an – online/paper free/printing free/distribution free item – some charging £3.99 and £4.99 for an issue. Surely they should be doing them for 99p! They’re heading down same road as the music companies – not understanding the market/format they’re getting into.

By |October 17th, 2011|Apple, iOS|0 Comments
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