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How to zoom into a shared screen contents in Teams meeting

CarPlay in iOS 13 is a huge upgrade Having recently upgraded to beta 7 of iOS 13 I have to say the single biggest improvement for me is CarPlay.

Teams and Flow Regarding365.com has this very neat how to article on creating an Adaptive Card in Teams when someone sends a specific Tweet.

This Microsoft guide explains how to add attachments in a PowerApps form to a Sharepoint list.

A quick list of some of the blogs I have used recently for guides and how to’s on Microsoft products.

I have previously setup a script to push simple shortcuts to Desktop with Intune but this guide from Nicolonsky Tech is much better.

This is a Microsoft guide I need to use fairly regularly !

Louisiana declares emergency over cyberattacks targeting schools Things seem to be going pretty badly for a lot of small states in America at the moment.

PowerApps So I am making some progress with learning PowerApps and have the start of a new app for the charity to use.

##Microsoft Forms One feature that would make this process work a lot better would be to enable the initial Form to have some of the information pre-populated so when it is submitted the information can be linked to existing data in Sharepoint.

Powershell Following a recent re-brand of our charity the Marketing team distributed a number of new template documents to various teams throughout the organisation and it wasnt until after this had happened that I discovered the blank Word template they…

PowerApps *PowerApps: Submit multiple forms at the same time — SharePoint Simply ##Teams Just discovered that you can change individual folder permissions in Sharepoint Groups Document Library using the Manage Access panel.

TechCrunch — Read on techcrunch.com/2018/11/11/cloudflare-privacy-dns-service-ios-android/

Siri: How to add an item to specific Reminders list AND set a reminder time?

A long time coming but I have finally had to make the jump to the next level of iCloud storage ( 2TB ).

Show Me Yours is a wonderful tongue in cheek video featuring comedian Olivia Lee in which she is seen walking up to strangers in the street asking to see whats on their mobile phones.

Enjoy…

My normal approach when a new version of OS X is released is to backup ( create a Carbon Copy Cloner image of my main drive ) and then do a clean install ( erase the entire drive and install from scratch ).

The rise in the prevelance of Ransomware hasn’t really impacted on Mac Users as it has with the Windows community so far… Of course the Mac has benefited from a secure design and being a smaller (relatively) target over the years, but with the growth in u…

Monosnap is a free utility for OS X and Windows that can quickly and easily capture screenshots and save them for editing and annotation, ideal for grabbing images for documentation or publishing to social media streams.

This article from Mashable is a few days old so apologies if you have already seen it.

Not directly Apple related but when I saw this excellent @CassetteBoy video cut to the music of the Police and Every Breath You Take I couldn’t resist sharing !

Over the last couple of days there has been a lot written about the Smile Software decision to move to a subscription model for version 6 of TextExpander, their popular text snippet app for OS X and iOS.

Near Lock is a new pair of apps for iOS and OS X that allows you to unlock your Mac with your iPhone or Apple Watch.

The Pixo is an interesting looking Kickstarter project to create a magnetic mounting for iPads/tablets to attach to the side or top of your desktop screen/iMac.

Copied has recently become one of my favourite apps for iOS and OS X.

One of my favourite quick-fix games at the moment is 2 Cars from Ketchapp.

I recently bought the excellent Logitech K380 Multi-Device Bluetooth Keyboard to share between my iPad, Work laptop and iPhone.

Macworld writer Christopher Phin takes a fond look back at what is probably one of the most iconic Macs ever made, the iMac G4.

Markdown is the plain text markup syntax developed by John Gruber of Daring Fireball over 10 years ago to help bloggers write in a readable format that could be easily converted to HTML.

It seems the recent reported problems with iOS 9.3 and older iPads isn’t the only issue with the latest release.

Interesting rumour from MacRumors.com

Not at all surprising to hear reports coming through that there are buckets of iPhones being held by US authorities in readiness for the potential flood gates opening if Apple are forced to back down and provide the FBI with access to the contents of the…

FreshBackMac is a small utility written by Arkanath Pathak, a Computer Science student from eastern India, that refreshes your Mac desktop wallpaper at regular intervals using images from some of the best photo sites on the Internet.

A little while ago I looked at a device called the Nifty MiniDrive a neat little MicroSD card carrier that fits completely snuggly into the SD slot on MacBooks adding disk space for photos/documents and other temporary files.

Itsycal is a tiny menu bar application for OS X that gives rapid access to a pop up view of the current month of the calendar.

Ars technica has this interesting article about a planned new keyboard from Microsoft that will potentially make one handed typing on larger iPhones more practical.

One of my pet peeves is the number of plastic cards I have to carry in my wallet.

Duet Display is a slick app developed by ex-Apple employees designed to allow your iPad to function as a second monitor on your laptop or iMac using a lightning or iPad 30 pin cable ( for older iPads ).

One of the big missing features of the new Apple TV was the inability to play music from Apple Music using Siri.

The team in the marketing department at Quartsoft have produced this lovely animated video timeline of Steve Jobs life.

It seems that Amazon was serious with recent threats to pull ads for media streaming devices that don’t support their own Prime Video service from the Amazon Store as today they have removed both Apple TV and Chromecast devices.

This article (the coming podcast surplus ) by Seth Godin describes a problem (of the third world variety) that I have experienced for some time and I suspect you may have too, that is the growing number of streams of entertainment competing for my attenti…

Twelve South are a brand well known to Mac users for their laptop and iPhone/iPad stands amongst other products.

The new Apple TV announced at last months iPhone and iPad Pro event is due to start shipping next week.

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According to this article on TechCrunch Facebook have confirmed that they are aware of a problem with their iOS app causing excessive battery drain even when the app has background refresh disabled.