Confused in California writes: So, I have an iPhone…maybe 3G? It’s white, I can tell you that much. It also doesn’t do that two-way picture thing, if that is helpful. Certain people (who shall remain nameless) badger me incessantly to get a new...
You just finished scrolling down a lengthy New York Times story on the iPhone, and you want to go back to the beginning to see the photo again—but you’re dreading the prospect of having to flick, flick, and flick all the way back to the top of the page. Well,...
Do you really need 3D on your very first HDTV? What about those new-fangled Internet widgets? And is 240Hz better than 120Hz—whatever that means? Get anwers to those questions and more in the second part of my HDTV buyer’s cheat sheet. (And don’t forget...
Alex writes: One of the things I’m expecting to need to decide soon is what kind of flat-screen TV to get—we’re still watching things on a ‘fishbowl’ CRT from the Dark Ages. What’s the trends if we want something basic? What’s the...
Oh, great. It’s your day off, and your boss is calling your iPhone. You don’t really want to talk to him (hey, it’s the weekend!), but you don’t want to abruptly send him to voice mail, either. After all, you don’t want him to think...
Lion Recovery is a clever new tool in Mac OS X “Lion” that sits on your Mac’s hard drive and stands ready to boot your machine, take its pulse, and even reinstall the entire operating system in case anything goes wrong with your system. All well and...
Ever innocently comment on, say, the latest baby picture from one of your Facebook pals, only to be hit with one email after another—all of them notifying you of everyone else who’s ooohing and ahhing? Yep, it gets a little nuts after awhile. Well,...
Use Microsoft Outlook or Apple’s Mail application to check your email? If so, you’re probably familiar with the preview pane, which lets you peek at the body of an email without having to switch back and forth between your inbox and an individual message....
It’s bad enough if your MacBook winds up lost or stolen. But if your precious laptop falls into the wrong hands, you could end up losing a lot more than your $1,000-plus investment. That’s because your MacBook’s hard drive is probably packed with...
Announcing hookups, breakups, and even engagements on Facebook seems to be perfectly kosher nowadays, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the social network now lets you add an “expected” little one (as The Daily Mail reports) to your family...
