On May 16th , Apple announced that its 50 billionth app had been downloaded from the App Store. The 50 billionth app was a free app, Say the Same Thing, by Space Inch, LLC. Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio received a Read more
Sometimes, my friends will lament to me the fact that they wanted to watch something in Flash on their iPad or iPhone but couldn’t since Apple devices do not support Flash. This tends to be a common misconception. While Read more
There are some things that I do quite often in Safari on my MacBook Pro and other things that really don’t interest me. Customizing your toolbar to simplify doing some things in Safari is quite easy. To customize your toolbar, Read more
Today, I received the following email: While my first instinct was to click on ‘Unlock it now’ out of fear that something has gone very wrong, I’ve seen and heard enough about phishing to take another look. Sure enough, the email Read more
The iPad turned three years old on April 3rd. More than 300,000 Wi-Fi only iPads sold on its first day. On the same day that the 3G-enabled iPad went on sale (April 30th), Apple sold its millionth iPad after only 28 Read more
It seems that hardly a day, or certainly a week, goes by without some website being hacked and member information being stolen. Some companies (Facebook, Twitter and Dropbox to name a few) offer two-step verification to make it more difficult Read more
Recently, I’ve had my name, email address and password ‘comprised’ (or, I would say, stolen) from at least three different websites, Evernote, LinkedIn and Jawbone. Technically, LinkedIn didn’t tell me that my information was comprised. I’m just guessing that it Read more
A little over a month after releasing iOS 6.1, Apple released its third iteration, iOS 6.1.3, yesterday (March 19th). Most notably, it finally resolves the lock screen bypass issue. Prior to this release, it was possible to bypass the four-digit Read more
This is the ninth, and last, in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is ‘Geek Firsts’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that Read more
I am not a heavy user of social networking by any means. I would check Facebook and Twitter a few times a day, LinkedIn not even weekly and use FourSquare rarely. It was just too much of a pain to Read more
The phone scam, where someone who professes to be from a major tech company calls and tells you that you have a virus on your computer, is apparently making the rounds again (or still). There are two flavors to this Read more
This is the eighth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the ‘Geekiest Person’. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened Read more