Apple Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/apple/ Tales from a down-shifted family - Making the most of modest means in West Wales Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:17:09 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-favicon-160x160.jpg Apple Archives - A Simple Life of Luxury https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/tag/apple/ 32 32 2696646 My Apple Macintosh Timeline https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/my-apple-macintosh-timeline/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/my-apple-macintosh-timeline/#respond Mon, 10 May 2021 10:16:26 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=36190 UPDATE: 2025 – I’m now more up to date with a latest generation Apple Silicon Mac using an M4 processor and all of the modern architecture! Check the end of the post for the latest addition to my line up. I seem to be a little out of sync in the Apple Macintosh timeline at...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2021/05/my-apple-macintosh-timeline/feed/ 0 36190 A New 2020 iMac https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/08/a-new-2020-imac/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/08/a-new-2020-imac/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:28:08 +0000 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=34178 My current computer is a late 2013 iMac. At 7 years old it is almost ancient in technology terms! That said, I tend to buy fairly high-specced computers so that they have a long lifespan. Although it’s 7 years old, it still runs well and is pretty quick. There are times when I’ve got a...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2020/08/a-new-2020-imac/feed/ 4 34178 Broken iPhone 5s https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/broken-iphone-5s/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/broken-iphone-5s/#respond Sun, 05 Apr 2015 18:20:06 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18490 It was time to move up in the world and upgrade my iPhone 4 to a nice new (2nd hand) iPhone 5s. I didn't used to be one for mobile phones but now that my iPad was getting a bit long in the tooth I was tending to use my phone more and more for keeping up to date whilst sat at home. What with that, the fact that Morgan was about to buy an iPad mini 2 and Anna has a works iPad Air, I was going to

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/broken-iphone-5s/feed/ 0 18490 More Bargains with Quidco https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/more-bargains-with-quidco/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/more-bargains-with-quidco/#comments Sat, 04 Apr 2015 02:18:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18493 I took the plunge the other day and ordered the Garmin Fenix 3 watch that I've been wanting for a while to replace my Forerunner 910XT. It's a ridiculous amount of money for a watch, especially as I wanted the Sapphire Glass version with the new 'Run' Heart Rate Monitor Strap, but it's nice to treat...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/04/more-bargains-with-quidco/feed/ 3 18493 The Apple Watch – Not For Me – I want a Fenix 3 https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/03/the-apple-watch-not-for-me-i-want-a-fenix-3/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/03/the-apple-watch-not-for-me-i-want-a-fenix-3/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2015 08:01:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=18428 As an Apple Fan-boy, you’d expect me to be excited about the new Apple Watch, but for me it just doesn’t seem to do enough. Now I know that it’s a first generation product and will therefore improve in future iterations. I also know that often Apple products do less than their competitors, or have...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2015/03/the-apple-watch-not-for-me-i-want-a-fenix-3/feed/ 8 18428 Apple Updates https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/#comments Sat, 08 Nov 2014 07:18:23 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=17984 Only a few weeks after the lunch of OSX Yosemite I decided to take the plunge and upgrade my iMac the other day. I usually leave it until at least the next incremental update just so that any major issues are ironed out, but reports seemed mainly good and I had the time to do...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/11/apple-updates/feed/ 1 17984 Home Automation https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/home-automation/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/home-automation/#comments Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:21:45 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=16911 I know it sounds silly, but now that I have a car with remote locking from the keyfob, when I get home and go to open the front door I keep looking for a button to press on my keyring! I’d never missed remote locking on my car until I had it and now I...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2014/06/home-automation/feed/ 1 16911 Carbonite Problems and Backup Woes https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/carbonite-problems-backup-woes/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/carbonite-problems-backup-woes/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 04:59:18 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15142 Well, I have my new iMac all set up and running. Data Migration The migration procedure was fairly straight forward thanks to the fact that I have plenty of cloned backups courtesy of SuperDuper!. I simply started up the new iMac and used Apple’s built in set-up assistant to transfer my data from a cloned...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/12/carbonite-problems-backup-woes/feed/ 2 15142 Apple Education Store https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/apple-education-store/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/apple-education-store/#comments Tue, 26 Nov 2013 13:53:26 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15052 As employees of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Anna and I are entitled to buy products through the Apple Education Store and thereby receive discounts. The Apple Education Store states “If you are a student, teacher, lecturer, administrator or other staff member in education you qualify for special discounted pricing on Apple computers, software and...

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]]> https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/apple-education-store/feed/ 3 15052 Time for a new iMac https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/time-new-imac/ https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2013/11/time-new-imac/#comments Tue, 19 Nov 2013 12:01:15 +0000 http://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/?p=15035 If you can’t decide which new iMac to get, then the decision process I went through whilst deciding which iMac to buy may just hep you. That’s why I’m sharing it here. Mac vs PC Before you Windows guys tell me to ‘get a PC’, it won’t work. I’ve used Apple Macintosh computers ever since my...

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