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A love affair with Apple...?


WOW is all I can say. What’s a week it’s been for Cybergirl. Yes – she started referring to herself in the third person, that’s where it got to. For starters she decided it would be a really great idea to sort out all her apps. This is an obsession much akin to tidying one’s desk before one can sit down to work. Where did the thought come from? From that little dark OCD cave where procrastination sits like a beady-eyed saboteur, just waiting to halt all productive action.

In the process of deleting said apps, Cybergirl forgot all about the highly delicate recordings contained within those natty little nuggets of software. Yes IRecorder, check, yes Office Pro – check, all these programs save the data within the apps.

Let the following interchange serve as a warning ladies and gentlemen...

APPLE (in a high squeaky voice): Are you sure you would like to delete 72 applications; these will be permanently removed from your device.

CYBERGIRL (not paying attention): Yes.

THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS: Noooooooooo!

But (praise the Lord) there is a caveat. Yes, THANK GOD for The Cloud.

That never-ending manna of backup heaven in the sky….

Ahhhhh – weep tears of joy yes, there it was – all the data backed up, not once, not twice, but four times, deep in slumber, waiting to be revived, reawakened, just pumped right back into her softly sleeping IPad. Every single app, every single file, restored – within three to four minutes. 

If you’ve lost all your data on an IPad, just follow these steps:
  • ·      Hit: Settings – General – Reset
  • ·      Erase all content and settings
  • ·      Go through the process of set up and “Restore from ICloud backup”
  • ·      Enter Apple ID
  • ·      Follow the instructions to restore from your latest backup
If you’re a PC devotee, Cybergirl really can’t help you I’m afraid.
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On another note (reverting to the first person) I was deeply saddened to read about the death of French model Isabelle Caro last week at the tender age of 28. The self proclaimed ‘face of anorexia’ caused more than a stir in the fashion world when she allowed her image to be projected around Milan at the start of fashion week. The images were banned – no huge surprise there. So why is this of interest to Cybergirl? 

Because Caro was a well documented user of thinspiration boards on sites such as Pinterest. Hmmm – the dark side of the web? Or evidence of an industry  so sick that not one of Caro’s modelling agencies ever commented on her emaciated frame. Pinterest has now banned these boards, but of course they pop up on other sites with alarming ease. 

Just as the web empowers so can it destroy; use it with care ladies and gentlemen.

This is Cybergirl; your intrepid web explorer signing off...

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