Is your four-digit PIN for unlocking your iPhone “1234,” or “0000”? How about “2580,” “1111,” “5555,” or “5683”? If it happens to match any of those codes—or any of the other top-10 iPhone PINs,...
The Apple rumor du jour has it that the U.S. will finally be getting an unlocked version of the iPhone 4 later this week. Before I launch into the details, though, you might be wondering: what is an “unlocked” phone, anyway? Update: Apple confirmed its...
Rita writes: I really do want to replace my cable, but it seems like such an effort and it might not even save me money. Is Apple TV worth it? The only shows my family watches are Dora the Explorer (for the kid), Daily Show (for me), MLB (for my husband). Well, Rita,...
Remember Palm? The legendary mobile company built one of the original, pre-iPhone smartphones, the Treo, and made some serious waves a couple years back with its gorgeous but slow-selling Palm Pre. Well, Palm is no more—it got gobbled up by Hewlett-Packard last...
Nancy writes: I appreciate your info on the cloud. Doesn’t storing so much of your data in the cloud mean hacking it is easier? Greetings Nancy! Yes, you’re right: theoretically, any time you put data on a Net-connected server like Apple’s upcoming...
Sorry, folks: Apple didn’t have any new iPhones to show off at its big software event Monday. That said, the software that powers the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch is due for a major overhaul, including a new feature that makes it easier to use an iPhone without...
We’ve been hearing chatter for weeks about Apple’s plans for the “cloud,” and now we finally have the official details. So, what is “iCloud,” exactly—what will it do, when will it arrive, and more importantly, how much will it cost?...
Marjorie writes: Somebody at work was going on about how information is now going to be stored in clouds. I’m not a total idiot so I realize he did not mean the fluffy white cumulus kind. But I’m enough of an idiot to not really know what this is all...
