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 ...
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 ...
Scan from Your iPhone or iPad
My home printer isn't a multifunction, so I can't do scanning on it. So I'm using my iPhone and iPad to do my scanning, and my scans look great. I use it for receipts, notes in my notebook, handouts from meetings... My favorite app is JotNot Scanner. The app is free but you need to do an in-app ...
iPhone Apps for NYC Winter
The weather in New York has been so snowy and cold this winter, and I'm miserable in the cold weather. Here's how I am using my iPhone to make it through a rough winter. Yahoo Weather Yes, it gives you hour-by-hour forecasting, maps, precipitation. But it's the gorgeous photos on this app that ...
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 ...