Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Today’s featured iPad painting is yet another instant favorite from Deborah McMillion, aka Hotel Midnight. This one is titled ‘Voice of Night’ and is accompanied by these words: Why look to the dark as a sinister thing. Why look at sinister as anything more than just left. A day without sunshine is just the night! […]
If your iPhone 5 battery suddenly shuts itself off, experiences shorter battery life than expected, or needs to be charged seemingly constantly, it may be a result of a battery issue that impacts some iPhone 5 devices, and Apple will now fix the issue for free. Titled the “iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program“, the included … Read More
If you’ve recently made a change to your iPhone service or SIM card, you may notice a mysterious red blank dot on the “Phone” app of the iPhone home screen. Typically that little blank red dot means you have voicemail, but the iPhone can’t retrieve it, and it usually occurs in one of the following … Read More
Great apps make great platforms, and iOS and iPad are a great proof of that. One of the most captivating things about the iPad is the incredible range of great apps we are able to use and enjoy on Apple’s tablet. Each Saturday we share a favorite outstanding app as iPad App of the Week. […]
The government of Brazil isn’t amused by the Secret app, which lets you make comments you normally wouldn’t make on Facebook or Twitter under the protection of anonymity. In fact, it’s so incensed by the app that it’s ordered Apple to remove the app fr…
This is one heck of a leak week with batteries, screens, and all kinds of specs making their way into your hot little hands. By the time the iPhone 6 comes out, we’ll know every single bit and piece of the device down to the tiniest screw. And there mi…
Some owners of the iPhone 5 have been experiencing trouble with the device’s battery, and Apple today launched a replacement program to remedy the problem. Apple claims that the faulty devices were sold between September of 2012 and January of 2013 and suffer from shorter battery life and the need for frequent charges.
Only a “limited serial number range” was affected by the problems, according to the Cupertino company, and you can see if your device is listed among them by entering your serial number over at Apple’s replacement site. Should you find that your serial number qualifies, you can exchange your device’s battery at Apple Authorized Service Provider, an Apple Retail Store, or via Apple Technical support.
Source: Forbes
As a bonus, Apple will even refund you if you had to seek a third party for a replacement. According to the support page, the replacement program covers iPhone 5 batteries for two years after it was first sold at retail or until March 1, 2015—whatever date works best for the customer.
The replacement program launches today in both the United States and China, and the company will extend it to other countries beginning August 29. This marks the second time we’ve seen a battery replacement offer from Apple in recent months, the other being an understated program to replace faulty iPhone 5s batteries.
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The Twitter for Mac client has a peculiar feature (bug?) which causes the app image cache to grow endlessly and without limitation. That means the Twitter image cache folder can easily become several gigabytes in size unbeknownst to the end user, and t…
How many iPhone and iPad owners wind up having a frayed USB lightning adapter with wires visible or protruding from the cable? One of my own Lightning cables ended up a frayed disaster after less than a year of being always plugged into a MacBook, and only used on a desk – not exactly demanding … Read More
[I forgot to keep a QuickType screenshot, so I used this QuickType image from Macworld UK] I tried the iOS 8 beta earlier this summer — right around beta 3 — and loved the experience. Texting from the iPad was great, the new full-screen Safari was great, but the absolute best feature to me was […]
Another great-looking strategic war game title has hit the iPad App Store this week. It’s called Ancient Battle: Hannibal, and of course it’s centered around Hannibal’s legendary battles against Rome in the Punic Wars. The game is from Hunted Cow Studios, who have already brought a number of excellent strategic war games to the iPad, […]
Don’t you hate it when you’re skydiving and lose your iPhone during a free fall? OK so probably none of us can say that has happened to them, but this hilarious picture captures the exact moment of such an event occurring at some-odd thousand feet above Earth. In the picture, a skydiver named Patrick has … Read More
Presentation software. You either love it, or live with it. There isn’t too much in between. For years PowerPoint was the market leader, but the goliath of the PC presentation world hasn’t really kept up with presenting in the mobile world. It has left a niche in the market for other developers to leap in to […]
This week’s big iPad rumor is all about an important predicted spec upgrade for the next-gen iPad Air – a bump up to 2GB of RAM, as 9to5Mac reports: A new report from Asian site TechNews.tw claims information from the Apply supply chain points to the next generation iPad Air doubling up on RAM from […]
Parallels Desktop has been with the Mac almost as long as it has run on Intel hardware. Today, the company announced the 10th major release of its industry-leading virtualization software for Macintosh and mobile. It has more of what makes Parallels so special: Performance, integration and features. Parallels has an important place in Apple history because […]
In February of this year, an application known as Secret made headlines. The anonymous “social network” took the world by storm, as many social-inclined apps do for a short period of time, but it has recently come under fire for giving a platform to those who would abuse it for anonymous bullying.
