CBS New York interviewed me on May 28th for a story on the latest iPhone scam: Hackers are logging in to people's iCloud accounts (usually because those passwords aren't very strong), and are then using the Find My iPhone feature to lock their iPhones and demanding ransom payments to unlock ...
Heartbleed Guide for Apple Users
If you use a Mac, iPhone, or iPad, do you need to do anything special to protect yourself from the Heartbleed security flaw? Good news: The OSX operating system on the Mac, and the iOS operating system on the iPad and iPhone, are not specifically vulnerable to Heartbleed. If you’re running a Mac ...
Top 5 Cool Hardware Finds from Macworld
We just came back from the Macworld conference in San Francisco, and roamed the show floor looking for cool hardware and gadgets. Here are the top 5 Apple-related items we found. Double Last year at MacWorld we saw the prototype of this machine. Now it’s actually for sale. For $2500 you can buy a ...
Lots of iPads at Delta’s LGA Terminal in NYC
I recently flew Delta out of La Guardia airport in New York. It may be true what Joe Biden says, about La Guardia being like a third-world country, but Delta is looking to improve the gate-waiting experience by having an iPad at every single seat, whether at the food and drink bar or at one of the ...
Lotta Drama on iPhone/iPad Jailbreak Sunday for iOS 7
Hoo boy. First off, H/T to iClarified, from whom I learned of all this news. Go there for the latest updates. Earlier today, a jailbreak team called "Evad3rs" released a much-anticipated jailbreak for iOS 7. Stay away from it. Jailbreaking, if you're unfamiliar with it, means using special ...
iPad Air Review Roundup
The iPad Air came out today from Apple, and is available in their stores and on the website (if it hasn’t sold out already). Here are the most influential and interesting reviews of the iPad Air from around the internet. New York Times: “Lighter and Faster, It’s iPad Air” by Damon Darlin “Do you ...