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Now that I’m officially signed up it’s obvious what I thought was so good is nothing to what is coming, as well with Google. John https://www.bing.com/new?form=MD1A0E&OCID=MD1A0E

I read a fantastic article on the AI search engine of Bing, so I downloaded the App and gave it a try. Only a few test, but oh my gosh, it seems to be fantastic! So much faster than Google and volumes of info. Have any of you tried or switched? John

I Tried Microsoft’s New AI-Powered Bing. Search Will Never Be the Same. Our columnist got an early look at the software’s new ChatGPT-like powers Read in The Wall Street Journal: https://apple.news/Aa2jw2FzeRqym4fkXILx4sg Shared from Apple News

I am trying to stream from my iPad to my TV. There is a show on Peacock I want to see.I have connected and HDMI cable to my TV and I have the dongle that plugs into my iPad and the HDMI cable and a power cord plug into the dongle. However when I start the show on the iPad the sound goes to the TV but the picture does not.On the iPad it indicates I am connected by AirPlay but I am not sure what that means. I am not a premium subscriber to Peacock - would that make a difference? Is the show not showing up on the TV a feature of Peacock or is there some setting in the iPad that is not turned on (or is turned off) that is preventing the show from peacock showing up on the TV? TIA Harry

Good afternoon! Has anyone had an experience with having a MacBook Pro screen repaired? If so, where did you take it and how was their work and pricing? We do not have AppleCare and I don't think it would be covered anyway. I have a 2019 MacBook Pro that developed a few small cracks under the camera and the display is no longer working. (Computer is fine, works with an external display.) Word to the wise, don't use the stick on camera covers and Apple also doesn't recommend using keyboard covers or overlays that cover the keys because these have the potential to damage displays since there isn't enough space between the keyboard and display. There's talk of a class action on the M1s because of this. Apparently it may be an issue with older laptops as well. I can't say for sure that's what happened in my case as I haven't had the lid open in quite some time since it usually operates in clamshell mode on my desk at work, but I did have one of the little stick-on sliding camera covers and the cracks are right below that. Thanks!

Hi all, There was lately effusive praise of T-Mobile as a provider on this list. I would like to offer another opinion. My wife and I switched to T-Mobile on Black Friday, because we had had enough of AT&T and it expensive craptastic service. In Louisville, T-Mobile works fine. Still have plenty of dropped calls at home, but that happened with AT&T even more often. In rural New Hampshire, it is even worse than AT&T, which is truly hard to believe. Most of the time I have no service. When I have service, it is usually USCellular, but the service is flaky and often disconnects and drops calls. This happens even if I have three bars. If I am lucky enough to get a call through and I walk one step or maybe two, I will be disconnected. I can only rarely send regular text messages to non-Apple phone users, as most texts fail to send most of the time. When I have weak or no service, my phone somehow doesn't make use of wifi calling (the one thing that worked on AT&T). I have set up e911. I do have wifi calling turned on on my phone. Wifi works well for other things on my phone and on my computer. When I looked on T-Mobile's site, they advise 'restarting my device' and even have a link as to why it is important to restart devices often. Note: restarting does nothing. The odd thing is that USCellular runs over AT&T's towers, so my switch to T-Mobile may have saved some money, but, at least in northern NH, it hasn't made my service one iota better. It's made it worse. Anyways, this'll end my rant. I am just amazed at what crap can pass for 'service' as long as the stockholders are well-serviced. Bill

I thought you might find this interesting, not what I expected. John Which US carrier has the fastest data speeds? Here’s what the newest tests show - 9to5Mac https://apple.news/Av01WjuO5TY2PQOKwVJTgkg

I want to say out the outset I AM AN IDIOT!!!! No two ways about it. I know better and I should have known better. I received the following emails purportedly from a good friend: The subject of the email was “a Favor”. (a red flag but alas I ignored it.) "I need to get an Amazon Gift Card for my Friend. It’s her birthday today. I tried purchasing them myself, but my card declined. Could you get them on Amazon and have them sent to her email address? Let me know so I can provide you with her email address. Thank you” (also a red flag I ignored - My friend has impeccable credit - Shame on me) I responded with: “How can I help?" My friend purportedly responded: "Thank you, the total amount needed is $200 here is her email address { ashleeweisal@... } Lastly make sure the delivery date is Now and I want you to write ‘Happy Birthday With Love' in the message space. Let me know once you have made the order.” (Another red flag - the amount of $200 - for a friend’s birthday - I don’t have friends like that that I would give $200 for a birthday gift!) I was preparing for an online meeting and replied I would do so after the meeting. It goes on like that. AND unfortunately, after my meeting, I did as requested. Then I began to have doubts. I texted my friend that I purchased the card and they replied “I have been hacked, don’t do it!” Too late. I called my credit card company and they could do nothing but the representative gave me a secure number for Amazon. I reached out to Amazon and they cancelled the order and credited my card. Now there were several times I could have checked the validity of the request: 1. I should have checked my friends email as listed in my contacts against the address on the email - they were different but I failed to check until after I purchased the card. 2. The amount requested ($200.00) was a lot for “a birthday present for a friend” and I should have checked with her via text (I knew my friend was working and wouldn’t be able to answer her phone) 3. There were red flags all around and I just ignored them. Shame on me! Now Kudos to Amazon - they cancelled the order. Here is the phone # for Amazon given to me by AMEX -?(888) 280-4331? I was lucky. I know better but I am an idiot! Please, Please learn from my cautionary tale. Red flags abounded and I am red with embarrassment. Harry

Has anybody upgraded OS 13 on a Mac? If so, were there any issues? Thanks.

I gave my 21.5 inch, late 2012 iMac (OS 10.13.6, High Sierra) to a friend. He needs a word processing application and I was thinking Pages would be installed with the OS. I was wrong, and it seems there’s not a way to download a version of Pages that’s compatible with this OS. Ideas for free alternatives appreciated. (Should I suggest Google docs or is there something better?) Much appreciated, Milt

Christmas is over, bah humbug, back to work as usual. I send these not to be pestering you, it’s just the Dragnet mantra by Detective Joe Friday: “Just The Facts Ma’am, Just The Facts”. Some of you have never watched Dragnet, but this is the way they started each episode. Here is a study, I’ll send a teaser to emphasize the security of the two Operating Systems, if you would like to know the App that causes Mac’s the most trouble, click on the link, , but just think, 54% of Windows boxes are infected….not cool. https://apple.news/AcL9D4uPtTKWNGfgcKqAWFQ Studies performed by the team at Elastic Security Labs have shown that only 6.2% of malware apps find their way onto Apple macOS devices. A PC is still more easily targeted with successful malware attacks, with 54% finding their way into Windows devices. However, Macs are still vulnerable to malware. It turns out, in this case, that nearly 50% of all Mac computers get infected by the same app.

Hi all, My mom has a MBP 13" 2020 M1 laptop, on which she must've spilled something with sugar in it. The keyboard is now a crunchy sticky mess, and nearly impossible to type on. (Typing makes loud crunching sounds, and both shift keys get stuck down and have to be pried back up much of the time.) [1] When I searched around for how to clean up such a mess, all I could find was Apple's advice to blow air along the edges of the keys while holding the keyboard at a 70? angle. I did this once, and it seemed to have helped a little. Now things are awful, again, so I tried blasting air, again, to no avail. I could take the computer to an Apple store/Apple authorized dealer, but my mom lives in East Nowhere, New Hampshire, and the nearest authorized Apple repair place is 1 1/2 hours away (seriously, I just looked it up ... the second-closest is 2 hours away). Does anyone have experience removing the keys on a 'Magic Keyboard' [2]? Videos linked from iFixit make the keys look like rather delicate things to work on. If they are delicate, I'll puzzle out how to get the computer fixed without a zillion hours driving and waiting. Otherwise I feel like I should start popping the keycaps off and cleaning them. Thanks for any advice, Bill [1] Worst of all is typing passwords, because the Gods of the Computer World usually won't let you see what is being typed. My mom obviously gets frustrated, and sometimes gets locked out of accounts. [2] Magic as in 'possessed'

Well it’s happened, TikTok’s spam bot finally got a legitmate working email for me - harryjb@... (one I never use) and enrolled me. I am not responding to the email just sending it to spam. Here is the opening line of the email: Hi user9454107675859 Beware - China wants you!!!!! ?

Greetings everyone. Hope you are enjoying the final month of 2022 and looking forward to the new year. When I am away from home I use the TiVo app on my iPad to watch shows I have recorded on my TiVo at home. With the app I can download the shows to my iPad and then watch them at my leisure. Recently iOS 16 showed up on my iOS devices (phone and iPad), so, unthinkingly, I installed it. Well, much to my chagrin, when I download programs from my TiVo to my iPad they will not play. I get an error message. I can still stream them, although when I connect my iPad to the TV the streaming is erratic and often just stops. Under iOS 15 I didn’t have these problems. I contacted Apple and was told there was no way to reinstall iOS 15. I asked what if I wipe the iPad and start over and the advisor said that wouldn’t work. We started to have a discussion about the TiVo app when the call was disconnected AND the advisor failed to call me back.. My iPad is two or three years old. Have any of you tried to reinstall an older iOS on your iPad or iPhone? If so how did you do it? I haven’t yet had an opportunity to contact TiVo to see if they plan to update the app for iOS 16 compatibility but will do so soon. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Harry