Slim, stylish case protects iPhone from water, snow, dust and drops
I love the beach, and I love my iPhone, but the sandy, windy surf and the delicate electronics in my precious handset simply don’t go together. And while there are plenty of shockproof iPhone cases on...
View ArticleHow to download—again and again—your purchased TV shows from iTunes
Videos are probably the biggest space hogs around when it comes to computer hard drives; just ask anyone who’s ever purchased and downloaded an entire TV season from iTunes. Indeed, a single HD episode...
View ArticleApple’s “iCloud”: Which features will be free, and which won’t?
Not all that long from now, Mac, iPhone, and iPad users will be able to store their contacts, calendars, photos, music, and more in the “cloud”—or rather, in Apple’s iCloud, to be precise. Slated to go...
View ArticleMac OS X Lion tip: How to lock your Mac’s hard drive with File Vault
It’s bad enough if your MacBook winds up lost or stolen. But if your precious laptop falls into the wrong hands, you could end up losing a lot more than your $1,000-plus investment. That’s because your...
View ArticleGoogle to buy Motorola: What it means to you
Apple’s biggest competitor in the smartphone market is poised to buy Motorola, the legendary handset maker behind the Motorola Droid and—once upon a time, anyway—the stylish Razr and the old-school...
View ArticleThis just in: Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
Disheartening news for Apple fans. Steve Jobs, the tech visionary and master showman who co-founded Apple and oversaw the development of such legendary products as the Apple II, the Macintosh, the...
View ArticleHow Steve Jobs changed my life, and yours too
The first time Steve Jobs amazed and delighted me was in 1979, when I was about 10 years old. My dad had just bought our very first computer—the Apple II, complete with a whopping 48 kilobytes of...
View ArticleWeek in review: End of an era at Apple, new Facebook privacy controls, HDTV...
More upheaval in the tech world this week as Steve Jobs steps down as Apple’s CEO. Also: Facebook revamps its privacy and sharing controls, rattled East Coasters turn to social media after a quake, and...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, 1955-2011
Rest in peace, Steve. Read Apple’s statement here, and my own thoughts about Steve Jobs here.
View ArticleHow to write a program in Integer BASIC on the Apple II computer (RIP, Steve...
No, there was no Launchpad for your apps on the original Apple II, the legendary home computer developed by the late, great Steve Jobs and his partner, Apple co-founder and engineering whiz Steve...
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