Moshi Zefýr 2 Cooler Moshi’s Zefýr 2 Cooler for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air is a high-efficiency cooler that dissipates heat and prevents overheating. It works amazing well and can help extend the life of a Mac simply by preventing overheating. It’s priced at $80, and TMO has already reviewed it. Energizer Dual Universal…
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iNet for OS X & iOS Reveals Devices on Your Network
With Christmas just around the corner, you may be adding some new Ethernet devices to your home network. These days, keeping track of them, their IP addresses, their services, and even how close you may be to exceeding the DHCP license limit on your router is essential. iNet from BananaGlue will help you do that…
3 Free iOS Arcade Quarter-Wasters
Old School games, on the other hand, tend to rely less on graphics and more on puzzle solving and quick reflexes. Here we might include Dig-Dug, Burger Time, Space Ace and a gazillion others. You get the idea. There are those who have an affinity for Old School games that’s not fueled by nostalgia. Great…
Apple Clarifies CarrierIQ in iOS, Promises Removal
CarrierIQ became a hot button issue this week as a demonstration of what the software was logging on HTC Android devices was published to YouTube. That demonstration found that CarrierIQ hid itself from the list of running apps, logged every keystroke (including text messages) and button push the user made, logged phone numbers dialed, and…
Carrier IQ Collects Everything on Android Phones [Update]
A piece of software called Carrier IQ has apparently been installed on more than 141 million phones from Samsung, HTC. While the same is true of a lot of software, CarrierIQ is loaded without the permission of users, always runs, doesn’t show up in the list of running apps on those devices, and—this is the…
Apple Adjusts Aussie Attorneys for April Adjudication
In the back and forth patent infringement battle between Apple and Samsung, both companies have sought injunctions against the other’s products. Apple successfully won a temporary injunction against Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet in Australia in October (retailers have found ways to get around the ban), and in a counter claim, Samsung is seeking…
Pile it On: Apple, Samsung, Cash & Babies
Apple’s Big Ol’ Money Pile Many times when Apple adds to its billions-high cash pile Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi says Apple should give some back to shareholders, either in the form of dividends or stock buybacks. And yet, with Apple sitting on an astronomical US$81.6 billion, Toni, Tony, Tonee’s not singing the usual song.…
3 Free Apps For Wine, Food, and Song
You don’t have to be into Greek religions to know a little some-some about partying. Just go to any frat house or popular drinking joint on a Friday night to see what I mean. Having a wild blowout just takes a bit of determination. Of course, fall is the time when lots of bashes are…
Apple Combo Power Adapter Could Charge Mac, iPad Simultaneously
The power adapter could adjust its voltage to properly charge a single or multiple devices, and would let users carry a single charger instead of individual ones for each Apple product they need to power up.One possible configuration for Apple’s multi-device charger conceptLike Apple’s current power adapters, the patent shows a MagSafe connector for Mac…
Hands-On with the Kindle Family
While most of the attention this week may be paid to the Kindle Fire, Amazon also did something for book lovers out there by rounding out its Kindle family with the release of the Kindle Touch. For those consumers who primarily use their digital device to read and find LCD displays hard on the eyes…
iCloud Forgets to Keep it Simple
After working with iCloud features for the past several weeks, including the just released iTunes Match, I find myself shaking my head. If iCloud was intended to live up to Apple’s “design mantra,” someone forgot to send the memo. iCloud is far from a shining example of “intuitively obvious.” Some features are mutually exclusive with non-cloud…
iOS Security Exploit Gives Apps Hidden Access to User Data
Charlie Miller’s iOS Exploit Makes Every App a Potential Threat. Although he plans to further discuss this vulnerability in Apple’s platform at the SysCan conference in Taiwan next week, Mr. Miller has already exploited the flaw by planting an app that takes advantage of the vulnerability in Apple’s App Store. The App, now removed, was…
Coming Soon to a Theater: The Lost Steve Jobs Interview
Steve Jobs, a frame from The Lost InterviewIn 1995, Steve Jobs had already founded Apple Computers and been pushed out of it. He had not yet returned to the company he founded, not yet brought to market the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone, or the iPad. But it was at that pivotal time that Mr.…
Amazon Intros Kindle Lending Library
The Amazon website stated, “Kindle owners can now choose from thousands of books to borrow for free, including over 100 current and former New York Times Bestsellers — as frequently as a book a month, with no due dates.”Along with the one book a month limitation, Amazon is also limiting its library service to actual…
iTunes Wi-Fi Sync & Back Up: Fail (& Workaround)
Perhaps the most impressive example of this shift is iTunes Wi-Fi Sync. Once set up, you can sync any of your iOS devices to iTunes without a Dock Connector. Just click the device’s Sync button in iTunes and off it goes, even if the iOS device is asleep. You can similarly wirelessly modify settings in the device’s…
Nokia Unveils First Two Windows Smartphones - Lumia 710/800
“Eight months ago, we shared our new strategy and today we are demonstrating clear progress of this strategy in action. We’re driving innovation throughout our entire portfolio, from new smartphone experiences to ever smarter mobile phones,” Stephen Elop, Nokia President and CEO, said in a statement. Lumia 800 The Nokia Lumia 800 is the more…
What Time is it? Your iPad & iOS 5 Finally Knows
Back in February 2011, I noticed that the internal clock in my iPad 1 with iOS 4.2.1 was drifting quite a bit, off by many minutes from when I bought it, and I reported on the problem . It appeared that, to save battery power, iOS was not firing up a radio subsystem and periodically…
Audioengine N22 Amp Offers Desktop Musicians Powerful, Clean Sound
Audioengine’s N22 desktop amplifier was introduced as a partner to the company’s P4 passive speakers, and while I am going to talk about the P4s in another review, in this review I wanted to look at the N22 by itself, especially from the standpoint of the desktop musician. A Desktop Amplifier? Let’s start with what…
Apple Claims 180 Million iBooks Downloads
Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer told analysts that Apple customers have downloaded more than 16 billion songs and 650 million TV show. He added, “We’ve also been very pleased with the growing popularity of the I bookstore with over 180 million downloads of I books to date.” iBooks was launched in April of 2010, just ahead…
Siri: Please Dispose of my Mouse and Keyboard
I think it was 2004 when I was on the Apple campus for a meeting. Dr. Kim Silverman and I had bumped into each other in the lobby of 1 Infinite Loop, and he wanted to show me the latest in voice recognition technology at Apple. I had some time, so I accompanied him to…
Dr. Seuss Continues to Delight Kids on iOS
Your collection of Dr. Seuss is no longer complete thanks to Charles D. Cohen, a dentist and probably the biggest Seuss fan on the planet. He uncovered seven early Seuss stories published in magazines between 1950 and 1951 and they found their way to Random House. The stories have now been published as both a…
How-To Use Siri (or Dictation) to Speak Your Tweets
First, let’s look at how you can set Siri up to handle your tweets, because, really, Siri should handle everything in your digital life, right? The secret to making this possible is to configure your Twitter account to allow you to tweet via SMS text message. To do so, go to Twitter.com, log in to…
iOS 5: Removing the Stock Widget from Notification Center
Notification Center with the Stocks widget (left) and without (right) The Stock widget takes up screen space that some people just don’t want to part with in Notification Center. If that’s you, here’s how to remove it:You can remove Stocks from Notification Center from the Notifications Setting On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5,…
Verizon Makes Mobile Privacy an Option
In a notice available on the Verizon website, the company outlined two new uses of customers’ information. The first use will be in marketing and other business reports. The second use will be to provide information that is more relevant to individual customers. Verizon stated that these new uses “will not share any information that…