This all makes it rather odd that I’ve never been that excited about having a phone from Apple. iPhones are clearly great devices, but they just never really grabbed me like all the other Apple products have. There's beens issues with dropping calls, and problems with maps too – not quite the perfection I'm used to with…
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Digital Content: How to Avoid Paying for Everything
___________________________ The idea must be that if enough content is thrown out there, things like Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, and a couple of million iOS and Android apps, people will just keep buying stuff and corresponding revenues will rise. The guiding principle I've always used to fight this assault is Sturgeon's Law. That is,…
U.S. Powers Acknowledge Benefits of Bitcoin, Price Soars and Corrects
The possibility of U.S. intervention to crush Bitcoin has been an overhang on the currency from the get-go, and Monday's comments indicate that overhang could disappear. Bitstamp Exchange 24-hour Chart (Note the correction at the end of the chart) Source: Blockchain.info As noted above, Bitcoin is a virtual currency, one with no assets backing it,…
Booq's iPhone 5/5s Case Includes Tempered Glass Screen Protector
The Complete Protection Kit for iPhone 5/5s from Booq, includes an ultra thin snap-on case and a tempered glass screen protector. The Complete Protection Kit includes a case and a tempered glass screen cover The kit comes with a polycarbonate scratch resistant black or clear case. It also includes a tempered glass screen protector, a microfiber…
2 Spookily Free Apps for iOS
This being the Halloween time of year it's only fitting that I talk about spooky stuff. I was sitting in a local coffee shop earlier this week and jumped in a conversation with the bartender (Stardust Coffee also serves beer and wine) and a fellow patron. The subject du jour, spooky houses. The guy next…
Steve Jobs's Childhood Home Named 'Historic Resource'
The Los Altos Historical Commission voted unanimously on Monday to designate the childhood home of Steve Jobs an “historic resource.” The house, whose garage famously saw the birth of Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple, Inc.), will now be preserved. According to The San Jose Mercury News, the designation means that the house will be subject…
iPhoto 9.5 for OS X Shows Little Change but Still Shines
iPhoto is Apple's easy-to-use but essential and free photo browser, manager and editor. iPhoto helps you easily manage and edit your digital photos in exciting ways. You can easily share your favorite memories with family and friends. iPhoto has been with us a long time – since 2002, in fact. As part of the iLife…
OS X Mavericks Review: More Secure, More Fun and More Usable
When a major new release of an operating system is emerging, the developer can take two approaches. First, be heady with agenda and greatly annoy the users with abrupt, dramatic change. Alternatively, the developer can focus on all the areas that make the OS more secure, more fun and more usable. Apple has chosen to…
Surfing OS X Mavericks: What You Need to Know Right Now
When a major new release of an operating system is emerging, the developer can take two approaches. First, be heady with agenda and greatly annoy the users with abrupt, dramatic change. Alternatively, the developer can focus on all the areas that makes the OS more secure, more fun and more usable. Apple has chosen to…
Judge Cote Assigns DOJ Monitor in Apple Ebook Price Fixing Case
Judge Denise Cote has assigned former Assistant US Attorney and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Bromwich with the task of monitoring Apple as part of the five-year injunction she hit the Mac, iPhone, and iPad maker with in an ebook price fixing case. Mr. Bromwich will watch over Apple's business practices for two years, but…
Samsung Smackdown: Judge calls Apple Info Leak Inexcusable
Judge Lucy Koh had harsh words for Samsung and its involvement in sharing confidential information about Apple's contracts with Nokia and very likely could impose sanctions on the company and its legal firm for their actions. Judge Koh called the leaking of the documents improper and Samsung's attempts to coverup what happened inexcusable. Samsung's courtroom…
iPhone 5s: Pick the Duration of Slo-Mo
Hey, the iPhone 5s has the ability to capture slo-mo video! Have you lucky new owners played around with it yet? If not, then let me tell you that people eating in slow motion is really funny. Just me? I'm the only immature person here? Whatever, you guys. Anyway, to access it when you're in…
Samsung Hangs Hopes of White House Import Ban Veto on False Equivalence
Samsung seems intent on proving the company is incapable of learning lessons from…well, anything. Bloomberg reported that Samsung wants the White House to veto an import ban on some older Samsung devices the same way an import ban on a couple of Apple devices was recently vetoed, but Samsung is relying on a false equivalence…
Griffin's CinemaSeat2 Provides Car Backseat Viewing For iPads
The Griffin CinemaSeat attaches to your car seat's headrest to perfectly position an iPad for backseat riders. This new version, called the CinemaSeat 2, is compatible with iPad 2, 3, or 4. It has a hole for the front-facing camera, access to all ports including the headphone jack, and accommodates both the 30-pin and lightning…
Why Apple's Move to a 64-bit iPhone 5s is So Darn Clever
Some observers underestimate what's to be gained by Apple's 64-bit A7 in the iPhone 5s. Is it really just a marketing stunt? Or an inadvisable plan to put 64-bit ARM CPUs into MacBooks? I want to look at why the move to marry iOS with 64-bits is so darn clever, now and for the long…
Which Media Event is More Important to Apple: USA or China?
Apple's dual media events—one in Cupertino and one in China—start on Tuesday. Most speculation has focused on what Apple will announce. The iPhone 5S and 5C? Yes. New Apple TV features? Likely. iTunes Radio? Duh. iOS 7? Double duh. A distribution deal with China Mobile and Japan's DoCoMo? Hopefully and maybe, in that order. Forget…
Samsung's Galaxy Gear: Doomed to Fail
Samsung's new Galaxy Gear smartwatch may have had a longer life as a rumor than it will as a shipping product. Samsung jumped the gun to beat Apple to market with a serious contender in the smartwatch game, and the company made several compromised and a fatal flaw: the Galaxy Gear is a US$300 accessory.…
Samsung Should Call It the Galaxy Fear
Samsung's Galaxy Gear, the smartwatch that has been rumored for about half as long as Apple's iWatch. The company announced it today, and the biggest thing I get from it is that it should have been called the Galaxy Fear. Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Specs and Features First, the low-down. It's a smartwatch. A ginormous…
How to Set Your iOS Device Data to Auto-Destruct
Security measures are evolving in an effort to both protect your data, and dissuade the thieves from absconding with your iDevice in the first place. Apple has announced new security enhancements starting with iOS 7. Additionally, it's rumored that iOS 7 will support hardware-based biometric analysis – specifically, fingerprint scanning via some sort of on-board…
Gold: Apple Really is Making Smaug's iPhone
I haven't been too keen on the idea of Apple making a gold version of the iPhone and instead have been thinking that's a better option for the rumored iPhone 5C. Based on the word on the street, I'm flat-out wrong, and that instead of being garish, it'll be a product that Smaug would be…
RBC Raises AAPL Target to $525 on Prospect of New iPhones
RBC Capital analyst Amit Daryanani raised his target price for Apple's stock on Thursday from US$475 to $525 based on the likelihood that new iPhone models will ship in September and that the company may expand its stock buyback program, too. Apple hasn't officially confirmed new iPhones are coming next month, but reliable sources have…
It's the Tablet's World Now and Microsoft Wasn't Invited
Apple is the single largest PC maker, according to data from Canalys, topping companies such as Lenovo, HP, and Samsung. To find the single largest PC maker, Canalys combined desktop and laptop figures with tablets and those tablets are about to start outselling other computers, and that's a big problem for Microsoft. Tablets are taking…
3 Free iOS Interactive References
A good friend of mine is downsizing, cleaning house, and tossing stuff she hasn't touched or even seen in years. One item destined for the recycle bin is a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica reference encyclopedias. When I was a kid I actually wanted a set because I believed that the summation of human knowledge,…
You Will Want a New Mac Pro, but Here's Why You'll NEED it
When Apple announced its new Mac Pro at WWDC, the first thought of many customers was that they wanted it. Badly. Then reality sunk in; this is a Mac Pro for professionals. It'll be too expensive for the Rest of Us. However, here's why you'll need it anyway. And will love doing it. __________________ Whenever…