Posted on June 10th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
AT&T and Apple have suffered a major privacy breach, exposing the contact information email addresses and ICC-IDs of over 114,000 iPad 3G customers — possibly many more.
According to Gawker the data includes:
a collection of early-adopter iPad 3G subscribers that includes thousands of A-listers in finance, politics and media, from New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Although it looks identical to its predecessor, Apple has made quite a few subtle tweaks to its latest professional notebook, the MacBook Pro Core i5. The crew at iFixIt tore it down to find out what Apple changed under the hood. I had suspected that Apple had increase the battery capacity, and sure [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Apple’s got no love for Flash, that’s for sure. But what once was a only skirmish has been upgraded to a full-on assault.
In February Steve Jobs took a position that Flash is buggy on Macs and that it would cut the iPad’s battery life to 1.5 hours. Then Jobs took his anti-Flash message on the road as part [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by ElectroGeek
A man caught in the rubble in the Haiti earthquake for 65 hours claimed that his iPhone saved his life.
39-year-old Dan Woolley of Colorado Springs, CO owes his iPhone a huge debt of gratitude because it saved his life.
Woolley, a film producer who was in Haiti filming a documentary on the nation’s poverty-stricken children, became [...]
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Posted on December 16th, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Ever wanted to be a scratch DJ? Now you can with the best scratch app to hit the App Store – Flare Scratch.
mobile technology I love DJing. Playing music combines two of my carnal needs (thumping bass lines and electronic gadgets) into one tidy hobby.
That being said, I usually spin a few parties around the holidays [...]
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by ElectroGeek
UPS late last week released UPS Mobile, a free iPhone app that lets users manage shipments.
The app offers capabilities whether of not a user has a ups.com account. In addition, it uses the iPhone 3G series GPS to help users find a nearby service point.
Mobile is specially designed with features that let you easily manage [...]
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Posted on October 8th, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Apple today released iPhone OS 3.1.2 to all iPhone users. according to Apple’s release notes, the update includes the following bug fixes and improvements:
Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone to not wake from sleep
Resolves intermittent issue that may interrupt cellular network services until restart
Fixes bug that could cause occasional crash during video streaming
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Posted on July 13th, 2009 by ElectroGeek
A new post at OS X reality demonstrates that the “S” in iPhone 3GS truly does stand for speed.
Although Apple touts the iPhone 3GS as “up to 2x faster” than the previous model, OS X reality notes that in gaming performance - specifically launch times - the 3GS is up to 3x faster than the [...]
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Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Recently a battery completely failed in a two-year old black 2.16GHz MacBook that was covered under AppleCare. It worked fine one day, went completely dead the next. It wouldn’t charge and no LEDs would light up. When I brought it into the genius bar at my local Apple Store I learned something interesting about the [...]
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