Author: J.R. Bookwalter

With so many iOS apps going into the App Store each and every day, it’s easy to miss cool titles you might otherwise enjoy. So let’s single out a couple selections, with a new Feedly for iOS landing today while MotoHeroz is Appoday’s freebie for Tuesda…

Unless you’ve been living in a cave somewhere, you’re probably aware that Apple is holding a media event on Wednesday, presumably to announce the next iPhone — and that means now is the time to cash in on your old model.Last week, we profiled three of…

The once-awesome built-in YouTube app is waving goodbye with the arrival of iOS 6 this month, but that isn’t stopping Google from trying to build a better machine on its own — complete with advertising.The Official YouTube Blog has announced the avail…

There’s always plenty of news we miss throughout the work day, which is where our overnight recap comes in, mopping up the smaller stories and tidbits and putting them on display for all to enjoy. On this fine Tuesday morning, let’s kick back and enjoy…

Since the introduction of the 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display back in June, speculation has turned to when that gorgeous display would finally be heading to other members of the Mac family — and the answer now appears to be “soon.”DigiTimes is…

A new report examines how Google was able to ape the iPhone so quickly, but why its Android tablet efforts have lagged so far behind the iPad — and like many stories out of Cupertino, it all goes back to Steve Jobs.Gizmodo has published a fascinating …

If you’re finding it hard to stay focused while waiting for a swanky new Kindle to arrive in the next month or so, why not fire up the Mac App Store and check out Amazon’s latest update to the desktop version?Amazon has released Kindle for Mac 1.10.3, …

It’s Monday morning, and who’s excited about a new iPhone this week? Judging from the volley of related news over the weekend, the tech press sure is — so we’ve assembled a handful of stories you might have missed since leaving work on Friday to kick …

The weekend is here, and with comes the final installment of our daily recap for the month of March. But hey, don’t be sad or blue — there will be plenty more tech news coming on Monday, when we jump head first into the month of April and see what n…

You’ve got to hand it to criminals — sometimes, the tricks they come up with to dupe folks out of money is just amazingly clever. For example, the case of a gang of 11 in England who used stolen credit cards to buy their own unknown music from iTune…

As we reported Thursday evening, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) has released the findings of their Foxconn audit, resulting in a reduction of working hours at the Apple supplier and cutbacks in overtime. While the news has advocates for workers’ ri…

We love us some Plex here at MacLife.com, where we’ve converted an aging Mac mini into a fine home theatre server with a minimum of effort. Now that recent versions of the Plex application have separated the server software from the client software, …

March is rapidly winding to a close, but it continues to be an eventful month full of software updates (Retina Display and otherwise) and Apple-centric news galore, which today includes the release of audit results from Apple’s controversial manufact…