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What’s in that phishing email?

When you need to check what’s in a potential phishing email, run a locked-down virtual machine for safety, as explained here.

May 26, 2026 Macs, Technology

News for those who follow this blog by email

At the end of October, some of you who follow this blog by email started reporting to me […]

November 6, 2020 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Follower email from this site may have problems with images

Mainly a test of image alignment and scaling to work around a problem appearing in follower email versions of this blog.

November 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

New, updated and useful links to Apple support articles

A compilation of links to important and useful articles posted by Apple, featuring reference info, details of iCloud.com features, and more.

May 7, 2018 Macs, Technology

Has someone been reading your emails?

Seven years ago, I compared rising surveillance to the vile practices of the Stasi. Now it is happening: email, webcam, and more private communications are being scanned in bulk.

October 6, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Hot link to wrong mail client

Whenever I click on a hot link for email, Entourage starts up although I now use Gmail. How can I fix that?

November 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Human aspects of security: what the software vendors don’t always tell you

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Your behaviour is more important a protection against threats than simply installing protective software.

November 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

How to unscramble a downloaded file

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This is how to deal with an email attachment or web download which is not correctly recognised, to make it accessible.

September 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Check the messages you send

To err is human, but to really screw up get a human to send a message by email.

August 26, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

Q&A: Should I trust this email?

Is this email purporting to be from my ISP a scam or not?

August 8, 2015 Macs, Technology

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