Although Apple has gotten grief for being slow to issue patches for security vulnerabilities, the biggest problem facing users is their near steadfast refusal to install the available updates. With Safari 5.1.7, Apple’s taking a proactive approach by disabling old …
The FileVault password vulnerability that recently attracted headlines? Yeah, that and a few other security issues have been fixed, as well as a number of bugs in this latest Mac operating system update. There is a fresh version of Safari …
The hottest show on television these days is Game of Thrones, all the kids are talking about the HBO adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s books of the same name. Another thing people are talking about is how absurdly expensive …
For Mac gamers, Marathon and its two sequels were the gateway drugs. However, the PC/DOS crowd generally looks back to Wolfenstein 3D as the original first person shooter and this year marks that title’s 20th anniversary. In celebration thereof, iD …
Somewhere around 9 o’clock most evenings you will find me in my La-Z-Boy — a re-apolstered ’50s original that weighs about a quarter ton — kicked back and tasting news on my iPad. My go to apps are Zite, Pulse …
Our friends in Redmond have been scrambling to patch a series of security and bug issues. This time around Microsoft is hoping to wrangle a memory issue that can result in malicious code running on your Mac, which most definitely …
Some times the old adage, “good things come to those who wait,” does indeed come true. For example, if you’ve been holding out for Apple to reduce Certified Factory Refurbished iPad prices, the wait just paid off with original iPads …
Sweating the small stuff is what this Apple mobile operating system update is all about or, “ah-boot,” as my hoser friends say. Actually, I don’t have any friends on the more polite and culturally adept side of Lake Erie.
However, if …
You just boarded the train, it’s left the station and you see the conductor coming down the aisle saying, “Tickets please.” For more than 150 years, that was the passenger’s cue to take out a printed paper ticket and for …
