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    T-Mobile users / Instagram SLOWWW

    Not sure where else to post this, but i figured it get responses here. Last month i switched to TMobile and notice that Instagram is runs very slow, even when I have great LTE signals. Videos won't load all the way without stopping to buffer. Picture load decently, but take about 2 seconds...
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    Nifty Mini Drive and Shocking Speed Issues

    Hello Everyone, I have installed a Nifty Mini Drive on my MacBook Pro (2015 15") and my MB Air (2014 i7). Both are generally very good spec'd laptops and both are fast. I have purchased and installed a Nifty on both machines for additional storage. For those that don't know the Nifty product...
  3. phillydev716

    Universal Introducing Speedify!

    Hey Everyone! My name is Mike and I'm a engineer at Speedify! I know we're all playing with our new iPhone 7 and 7+'s (even though I am still waiting for mine) but I would love to share our new release of Speedify with you today. I am just so proud of this app and the amount of effort that went...
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    Slow iCloud Drive upload speed - web/pc-app

    I'm experiencing some issues with the iCloud Drive upload speeds when uploading from iCloud.com or using the iCloud Drive program on Windows. I only get good speeds when uploading from my MacBook using the build-in iCloud folder in OSX. This is a screen capture from uploading a file using...
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    iPhone 5 with iOS 9 any faster than iPhone 4 with iOS 7?

    Right now, I have an iPhone 4 running iOS 7. It's pretty dang slow. There are some apps that I technically can download and use, but in practice are so slow as to be unusable (Snapchat, for instance). I'd like to upgrade to a 5, but I've read that on iOS 9 they can be slow, too. But would it at...
  6. praneeth03

    DiskMark - speed test for HDD, SSD, usb/flash/external hard disk drives

    Test the performance of your flash (pen/usb), solid state, hard disk drives in just 60 seconds. DiskMark performs real world speed tests and shows: + Sequential read/write speeds which is the performance you see when copying large files. + Random read/write speeds which is the performance you...
  7. Cergman

    Experiment - Fastest way to charge iPhone 6s+

    Pretty much everyone knows an iPad charger will charge an iPhone faster than the standard 5W one that comes with iPhones, but I haven't seen any quantifiable evidence that shows how much faster it charges. So, I decided to test the standard 5W charger, a 10W charger from an iPad Air 2, and a 12W...
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    Question: 2016 Macbook (12inch) vs. Late 2008 MBP 2,66 (15 inch)

    Hi everyone, I currently have a Late 2008 15 inch MBP 2,66. However due to my work I often have to carry my MBP with me these days. It's really heavy and the machine is also getting slow. I actually want to wait for the new MBP but I don't know if I can... I really like the design of the...
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    New late 2015 iMac 5k owner questions

    Finally after 3 weeks of waiting I got this beauty of a machine! I've been browsing these forums for the past few months to acquaint my self with some of it's features. However, I do have a few questions regarding general advice & certain gaming aspects. I know that it would be my best bet to...
  10. SurFaceMac

    iPad Pro Post your Speed Test results 9.7 & 12.9

    9.7 iPad Pro 128g wi-fi only Cox Cable Internet for wi-fi ATT Wireless LTE for hotspot First is Hotspot: Then using Cox and Cisco wi-fi AP 2.4 Surprised at the speed of Hotspot. Would be interesting to see the speeds others are getting through internal cell data connections.
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    Mac Pro Cursor Motion Speed is Very Slow

    When I use the cursor keys or backspace/delete key to move the cursor in a text type field it takes for ever to move left or right and is jerky. This happens when I have the cursor in a Word doc, Excel cell, Safari and Chrome browser text boxes, Finder when editing a file name etc. It is really...
  12. BeshevGames

    iPhone [GAME] [FREE] Off-Road 4x4 Racer 3D game

    Off-Road 4x4 Racer 3D game Off-Road Racer 3D is a free classic racing style physics based game where the player goes head to head with other rival AI racers in their cars and trucks, that both kids and adults will enjoy. Get behind the wheel of your 4x4 truck and race as fast as you can to...
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    iMac 1TB Fusion & iMac 2TB Fusion Compared

    About a week ago I purchased a Late 2015 iMac with the following specs... 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB DDR3 Ram AMD R9 M390 2048MB 1 TB Fusion Drive I loved the screen, but was honestly a little underwhelmed with the speed. I was not surprised at all when I read that Apple had switched the SSD...
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    Fix/lean up my MacBook pro

    I have MacBook Pro 13-inch, Early 2011, Processor 2.3 GHz Intel, 4 GB Memory. Running OS X 10.9.5. I would like to ask how to fix/lean up my macbook pro. I am extremely disappointed in recent year or two. I am Mac user since the old days of white plastic MacBooks with PPC processors and...