Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
When you hit the road, it’s easy to get paranoid—especially if you’re carrying thousands of dollars’ worth of technology with you. You can alleviate some of your worries by taking security measures to protect yourself against someone runni…
A visit to your local Apple Store during the holiday season can be maddening. The stores are overrun with other shoppers, there’s a mob around each gadget table, and waiting for your turn to be helped by an Apple Store employee takes eons. The…
Apple on Tuesday teased a “one-day Apple shopping event” for Black Friday, November 23.
Black Friday, of course, is a day when retailers typically offer price-conscious consumers some sharp, post-Thanksgiving discounts. Apple says its day of…
Nokia’s new Here Maps for iPhone and iPad launched in the App Store Monday, the latest offering in the flood of navigation apps trying to take advantage of widespread dissatisfaction with Apple’s new native Maps app that, in iOS 6, replaced Go…
The Mac App Store is great for the majority of simple applications you might want to purchase. But there are plenty of other apps—ones from registered Apple developers but not in the Store—for you to explore and try. Here are some of the ways t…
Whether your users work from iPhones and iPads, Android devices, or some other mobile platform, it is your job as an IT administrator to manage access to network resources and protect company data stored on mobile devices. Managing mobile devices
As a longtime AT&T cellular customer, I was intrigued when the company announced its Mobile Share shared data plans this year. With two iPhones and a 4G iPad in our house, having access to a pool of data and unlimited texting (especially with …
The name Peter Molyneux may not ring a bell, but gamers have likely encountered his creations before. Those include hits like the Fable franchise, Black & White, and Dungeon Keeper. You may say that he knows a thing or two about designing ente…
Apple and Columbia Records on Monday announced that AC/DC’s complete catalog is available digitally for the first time—exclusively at the iTunes Store. The rock band had long been missing in action from online music stores, but now the entiret…
Reader Dwayne Ahern has a question about the strength of his Wi-Fi network. He writes:
I have an AirPort Extreme Base Station in my home office, and I’m not sure I’ve positioned it in the best place for good reception around the house. As I…
Apple has told Mac owners running OS X Lion that the beta of Messages, its replacement for both the older iChat instant messaging service and SMS (short message service) texting, will expire Dec. 14.
To keep using the service, customers must upg…
Your Twitter timeline wasn’t pulling your leg on Sunday: iMessage didn’t work for an unknown number of iOS and Mac users for several hours that day. And FaceTime joined iMessage on Apple’s MIA list.
For much of Sunday afternoon, Apple’s …
A flurry of Lightning connector accessories for the iPhone 5, iPad mini and iPad are hitting the market from JBL, Belkin, Scosche and iLuv, among others, giving users more choices beyond what Apple offers.
Lightning is an 8-pin connector, which …
The iPad mini is front and center in this week’s roundup of protective accessories for Apple’s tablets. And why not? The new form factor gives manufacturers something different to sink their teeth into, and they’ve come up with exciting new des…
Pity the poor menu bar. It seems like just about every app you install these days wants to put a little icon up there, often to little real advantage. It’s not uncommon for that ever-expanding line of icons on the right to extend under the reach …
Pioneer’s $399 A3 XW-SMA3-K, known to its friends—OK, referred to by me—as simply the A3, is an impressive AirPlay speaker system. The all-black, rounded-rectangular prism is 12.6 inches wide, 7.1 inches tall, and 5.8 inches deep, and it wei…