Today Bloomberg reported that Apple and Amazon were (are?) using servers with an extra chip that hacks their data at the hardware level making it virtually impossible to detect. From a technical perspective we wanted to know how this could happen, and so here is the explanation. A secretive part Read more
If you have a Apple Mac and it is running slowly there are many things you can do, but you will find few things that improve performance like replacing the spinning disk with a solid state disk. There are ways to clone the existing disk but in this video I Read more
In 1602 the Dutch East India Company made history as the first entity to trade stock. While they did not appreciate it at the time, this bringing together of wealthy people in a single financial interest also brought power: financial power, political power and social power. In the past there have Read more
In a word, everywhere. Android sells 6 times as many devices as Apple’s iOS globally and 1.75 times as many in the US. Below are some fantastic 2017 data from two very reliable sources. Get the whole report on 2017 Internet Trends directly from Kleiner Perkins Check out this amazing Read more
This page details the keys needed to boot a PC into various modes (like the BIOS and PXE Network) from various manufacturers. If you are stuck and you can try the common keystrokes during a POST and before the Operating System loads: ESC, F1, F2, F8, F9, F10, F12 and Delete key. Read more
All I seem to hear about Apple these days are problems with the iPhone 6 and how the company has lost it’s mojo in general. Tonight a friend of mine was saying how unhappy he is that his iPhone 6 plus camera is not flush to the housing. This causes is to catch on Read more
Today Apple released the iPhone 6 to the drooling masses. It turns out the masses should be drooling… from the sleep that is. Below are the major features and specifications of the iPhone 6 HD display! (Competitors already have quad HD) Super sensitive camera! (HTC and Nokia are both laughing) Read more
Is Apple’s CarPlay, its system for iOS for in-car, any good? Not right now it isn’t, says Michelle Fitzsimmons. While the interface is nice enough Siri is largely useless, there aren’t enough apps and the functionality is extremely basic
Just how bad is Apple security? MacBook Webcams can spy on their users without warning. Both teenage boys and the US federal government can remotely turn turn on your macbook camera without turning on the ‘in use’ light. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/12/18/research-shows-how-macbook-webcams-can-spy-on-their-users-without-warning/
…The case dates back to April 2012, when the DOJ sued Apple and five publishers – Macmillan, Penguin, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster – over an alleged “illegal conspiracy” involving e-book price fixing. The publishers settled with the government, but Apple fought back and the case went to court Read more
Does anyone really like to be bullied? Is arrogance something most people aspire to achieve, or behavior socially embraced? You know the answers. But these qualities too much describe Apple since its sudden success starting in 2010. The company continually sticks a middle finger in the face of competitors, judges, Read more
Apple’s Secret Chip In Official Lightning Cable & Adapters Revealed, Knock-offs Probably Won’t Work Apple has placed a chip between the cord’s USB contact and the power pin on the Lightning plug, which seems to be the key to keeping Lighting cables and adapters proprietary and its the first time that Read more
It sounds like yet another important legal body is rejecting Apples (often viscous) claims and ordering Apple to undo the damage with prolonged advertising favouring Samsung! Note that Apple actually manufactures very little (if anything) and that Samsung is a very very important OEM which engineers and manufactures such things Read more
Apple has not only stopped submitting hardware to Green Electronics Council’s EPEAT certification program but they are taking the EPEAT certification off but may be removing the EPEAT branding from its existing products. Ordinarilly, joining or leaving certification program would not be large news item, but this one is because the Read more
Since December 1998, when on impulse I bought the original iMac from CompUSA, I’ve used Apple gear. No longer. Late yesterday, I replaced the last fruit-logo with another, fulfilling my pledge nearly a month ago to boycott Apple… … Rotten to the Core Sadly, in 2012, Apple is the company Read more
We see benchmarks and anecdotal evidence of so called “browser speed” all the time, but what really counts is real live production data. How fast does each browser take to load real web pages? Tonight I was playing around with my GoogleAnalytics and checking a dozen or so sites I Read more