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Big time: 9 apps that take advantage of the iPhone 6 Plus screen

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:10:05 +0000

Living large Image by Apple Feel like stretching out those fingers a little? The new iPhone 6 Plus stands 6.22 inches tall and uses a 5.5-inch display that can give your digits a nice workout. Fortunately, several new apps do more than just stretch out to the new screen size—they sport refined interfaces and gestures...

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Podcast: Pondering the rumored Oct 16 iPad event

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:10:33 +0000

When a rumor swirls, what can you do but give into its pull? We do so by considering what Apple might announce at a rumored October 16 event. From there we question just how many times HP can split before it entirely disappears, ponder what a Facebook Like is worth in real currency, and pick...

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Three theories why iOS 8 adoption is slow on the uptake

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:10:46 +0000

Nearly three weeks after Apple rolled out its latest mobile operating system, the company says less than half of visits to its App Store come from devices with iOS 8 installed. Just 47 percent have upgraded, while 47 percent are still running iOS 7 (and 6 percent are clinging to even earlier versions). These figures...

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Review: Wunderlist 3 for iOS and OS X shines at delegation

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 05:10:04 +0000

To-do list apps have stiff competition, from the supremely sophisticated OmniFocus to the simple yet elegant Clear. But none seems to be as wildly popular as Wunderkinder’s Wunderlist (available for Mac and iOS), which even has Ira Glass singing its praises as his tool of choice. To read this article in full or to leave...

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1920 called: Raging against the Apple iPhone machine

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:10:53 +0000

You know that joke where you say a year called and it wants its whatever back? Yeah, it’s been overused and turned into a cliché, which is OK because the Macalope thinks this piece by the Tampa Bay Times’s Daniel Ruth was literally filed from 1920. “Consumers Picked a Sour Apple” (tip o’ the antlers...

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Apple Faces Large Penalties In EU Tax Probe

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:10:02 +0000

First time accepted submitter chasm22 writes EU Regulators are apparently set to accuse Apple and the Irish government of entering into several sweetheart deals that left Apple with lower taxes than what it legally owed. If the ruling is upheld, Apple could owe billions in back taxes. Interestingly, it seems that the Irish government would...

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Tzukuri’s smart sunglasses send alerts when you’ve left them behind

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:10:32 +0000

A new company called Tzukuri claims to have created “unloseable” sunglasses, using tracking beacons embedded in the frame. The glasses use Apple’s iBeacon technology to pair with a nearby iPhone, letting the two devices communicate over Bluetooth LE. As users move farther away from the glasses, they receive a series of three iPhone notifications in...

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Having problems connecting your Belkin router to the Internet? (They’re fixed)

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:10:02 +0000

Is your Belkin router suddenly not connecting to the Internet? If so, there may be a relatively simply fix that will solve the problem. For some unknown reason—most likely a firmware update, but this hasn’t yet been confirmed—several models of Belkin routers have simply started refusing to connect to the Internet. A Reddit thread on...

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iOS Trojan Targets Hong Kong Protestors

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:10:59 +0000

First time accepted submitter Kexel writes Security researchers have claimed to discover the first Apple iOS Trojan attack in a move to thwart the communications of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists. From the article: “The malicious software, known as Xsser, is capable of stealing text messages, photos, call logs, passwords and other data from Apple mobile...

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Apple Fixes Shellshock In OS X

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:10:04 +0000

jones_supa (887896) writes Apple has released the OS X Bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion, a patch that fixes the “Shellshock” bug in the Bash shell. Bash, which is the default shell for many Linux-based operating systems, has been updated two times to fix the bug, and many Linux distributions...

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