Following a new trojan threat for Mac OS X that was uncovered last week, Apple has updated its anti-malware tools for the Mac that will ensure we continue to sleep soundly at night, safe in the knowledge our beloved Macs aren’t at risk.The new trojan, named “Trojan-Dropper:OSX/Revir.a,” disguises itself as an innocent PDF file, filled with nothing but “offensive political statements” written in Chinese. When you open it up, however, the file [Read More...]
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Have the salad days of Microsoft passed? Insiders say CEO Steve Ballmer was greeted with yawns at a recent annual meeting replete with reportedly “painfully flat demos and lifeless speakers.” Ballmer, who once derided the Apple iPhone market share as a ’rounding error,’ is now on the defensive, adopting the mantra “Windows Cannot Lose.” At a recent annual meeting held in Seattle, “droves” of people left while Ballmer spoke, according to [Read More...]
Los Angeles-based TRTL BOT turned to Kickstarter for the latest project: A massive, multi-use iPad 2 case/stand called The Shell, with a nod to keeping an iPad safe during brutal use. Like when it’s in the hands of kids. Yeah, it’s big and froggy green (don’t like frogs? It also comes black or white) — but it’s got a handle that turns into a stand for both landscape and [Read More...]
I like this tip since it offers you a quick and easy method for viewing the windows belonging to other apps without loosing focus on the current app you are using. The mouse pointer has special powers when you use it to hover over an apps icon in the dock, but those powers used to invoke App Exposé only come to life with a four-fingered downward swipe on your trackpad. [Read More...]
October 4 will set off no shortage of fireworks in the mobile space. If reports Tuesday prove accurate, not only will Apple’s fifth generation iPhone roll out next week, so too will a major development for Facebook users who can’t wait for the social networking platform to be optimized for their tablet. Mashable reveals that Facebook – following many, many delays – will finally launch its official iPad application, not to mention an updated iPhone app [Read More...]
A retirement center in Florida says an iPad pilot program started in July is helping keep residents young at heart. The iPad’s large touch screen and light weight are helping healthy residents socialize more — as they play with puzzles and games — and it’s been “pretty amazing,” the home director says with re-educating stroke and dementia patients. It only took three donated iPads, loaded with games,brain trainers, puzzles and [Read More...]
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Quit your worrying. That’s essentially the message coming from one Apple watcher on Wall Street following a day of hand-wringing over a report Apple had reduced by 25 percent iPad 2 orders from suppliers. Improvements in the tech giant’s supply chain and inventory still mean plenty of tablets for the anxious hordes of iPad customers. Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu grudgingly agrees there is “some merit” to [Read More...]
More than 75 percent of the handsets T-Mobile sells are smartphones, the carrier told a gathering at this week’s Mobilize 2011 forum held in San Francisco. What’s more, 90 percent of those smartphones are powered by the Android operating system. Android had 43.4 percent of the smartphone market, Gartner announced in August. Google’s mobile operating system has seen a dramatic rise in prominence from a year earlier, when Android powered just [Read More...]
Apple’s unveiling of the fifth-generation iPhone now looks certain to be held on October 4, but how long will we have to wait until we can actually get our own sweaty mitts on the device? According to once report, the much-anticipated iPhone 5 will arrive in the U.S., Japan, and some parts of Europe around the middle of next month. Japanese website Macotakara reports that the ‘iPhone 5‘ — not the ‘iPhone 4S‘ [Read More...]
OS X Lion’s Restore function is what causes app windows to re-open after you’ve relaunched an app, and people seem to either love it or hate it. Sure you can turn it off completely, but that’s a bit overkill if you only don’t want certain apps to restore their windows, and still want resume to work in others. That is [Read More...]
