Monthly Archives: February 2013 »
Conan Knows What You’re Really Using That iPad For
Apple's new iPad commercial that aired during the Oscars would have you believe that there's a lot of film-making going on with that device, and maybe there is. But there's a lot more
Read More »iCloud Had a Real Bed-Shitting This Morning
Apple's iCloud portfolio of various streaming and syncing services has existed for two years. And in those two years, Apple still hasn't been able to keep it from regularly fucking up. It happened again
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The Judge Who Forced Apple to Publicly Apologise to Samsung Now Works for …
The judge who came up with the bizarre idea of forcing Apple to apologise on the front page of its web site after a court battle with Samsung went wrong has a new
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Samsung Wallet is Apple’s Passbook, on Android
Samsung has just announced its new Wallet mobile payment app at the Mobile World Congress and...
Read More »Google Chromebook Pixel Review: Awesome, Just Not $1300 Worth of Awesome
Google set out to build " the best laptop possible ." The result: the Chromebook Pixel . A sleek and powerful device designed specifically for life in the cloud
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Apple to Settle In-App Purchase Lawsuit With Free iTunes Credit
Apple has announced that it's to settle a class action lawsuit about in-app purchases—that could have involved more than 23 million App Store users!—by bunging the affected parties free iTune credit. The case first
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iOS 6.1.3 Is Coming To Kill Your Jailbreak
Have one of those 7 million jailbroken iDevices? Like it that way? Then wait, stop, don't touch anything
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Microsoft Says It Got Hacked Like Apple and Facebook
Microsoft just revealed that "a small number" of its computers, which includes its Mac business unit, have been hacked in a similar attack to what happened with Apple and Facebook earlier this week
Read More »The Best Alternatives for Every Pre-Loaded iPhone App
The iPhone comes with a bunch of apps you never use. Some of them are poorly implemented
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Apple Theft Is So Bad That the NYPD Has a Dedicated iTheft Division
It should come as no surprise that iPhones and iPads are prime targets for theft, but it's gotten really bad in New York City. It's so bad that, according to the New York Post
Read More »Chromebook Pixel: Google’s Retina, Touchscreen, MacBook Pro Counterpunch
Until now, Chromebooks hadn't been much more than glorified netbooks; underpowered curios best suited for technological novices. The 13-inch, touchscreen, retina-displayed, full-powered Chromebook Pixel, though, appears to be anything but. And it should
Read More »iOS 6.1.3 Beta Fixes iPhone Lock Screen Security Hole
Apple's been keeping busy rolling out small patches of iOS 6. The latest, iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 just hit developers. Importantly, 9To5Mac reports that the update fixes the gaping lock screen bug that
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Nvidia’s New Headquarters Is Going to Look More Alien Than Apple’s Spaceship
If Apple's upcoming campus is a spaceship , then NVIDIA's planned headquarters must be the alien planet that it lands on. Celebrating its 20th year birthday, NVIDIA has announced plans to build a
Read More »Apple’s Upgrade Dilemma
Apple has been taking a beating on Wall Street, in part due to skepticism over future growth of iPhone and iPad sales. With the market becoming saturated with iPhone and, to some extent,
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Apple Hacked
Reuters says Apple was targeted by the same crew that recently hit Facebook , and managed to infect a "small number" of the company's computers. Curiously (and a little unsettlingly), Apple says it'll
Read More »This Is Where Apple Sources All Its Components (Spoiler: It Ain’t Just China!)
This map, put together by China File, plots all of the publicly available suppliers who fuel Apple's production lines. While the majority are found in Asia, it's interesting to see that the rest
Read More »10 Tricks to Make Yourself a Dropbox Master
Dropbox is a robust independent file syncing tool (which Apple once tried to buy ) that recently hit the 100m user milestone . It's arguably the most popular cloud service around, and for
Read More »The Burden of Apple iOS
When Apple released the iPhone in 2007 , they released iPhone OS (later known as iOS) with it.
Read More »There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Apple Product
By now, the year-old claim that Apple makes people work on fake products is well-known. How scandalous
Read More »How Stupid Are You Willing to Look for Apple’s Amazing Magical iWatch?
There's no such thing as the Apple iWatch, and maybe there never will be. But if Cupertino does start selling futurustic Jetsons wrist wear, you need to prepare for one thing: looking like
Read More »The 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro Just Got $200 Cheaper
Apple just cut the price of the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display. You can now pick one up for $1,500—$200 less than the original starting price of $1,700.
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Bloomberg: Apple Has 100 Product Designers Working on the Apple Watch
As silly as it may sound, more and more people are reporting about an Apple watch that maybe its time to put away those Dick Tracy jokes (never!). This time, Bloomberg throws its
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Intel’s Streaming TV Ambitions Are Real, And Huge
Intel has just confirmed what was previously only a rumor ; it's entering the set-top box business in a major way. As the Verge reports , we're talking "live television, catch-up television, on-demand,
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NYT: Apple Is Messing Around with a Curved Display iOS Watch
The tablet revolution has arrived and stabilized and now everybody's scrambling for the next big thing. Google's quite publicly doing its whole glasses thing, but Apple's been characteristically quiet about any fancy new
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Tim Cook Was Never Keen on Suing Samsung in the First Place
Everybody knows about Steve Job's famous intentions to go thermonuclear on Android if necessary, but it seems that current CEO Tim Cook wasn't necessarily on the same tactical page.
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Visit Apple’s iBookstore for a Curated Selection of Self-Published Soft Porn
Apple has added a new section of the iBookstore called Breakout Books that highlights up and coming self-published books from "emerging talents." Titles are grouped into genres, like sci-fi, mysteries & thrillers, and
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