Apple Updates Archive
20 Mar 2015
How to Tap Into iOS 8’s Best New Communication Features
How to Tap Into iOS 8’s Best New Communication Features A Apple’s iOS 8 is a free upgrade for iPhone owners who have an iPhone 4s up to the new behemoth iPhone 6 Plus. On the surface, iOS 8 looks a lot like iOS 7, but when you begin tapping down into it, there are
20 Mar 2015
How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience
How to Turbocharge Your iOS 8 Web-Surfing Experience Think iOS 8 is just an expanded version of iOS 7? Take a closer look, and you might think again. For owners of iPhone models from the 4s to the 6 Plus, Apple has introduced not only improvements to familiar features but some altogether new — and
20 Mar 2015
How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8’s Photography and Sharing Tricks
How to Bring Out the Best of iOS 8’s Photography and Sharing Tricks If you haven’t yet taken the iOS 8 plunge, you may not know what you’re missing. True, iOS 8 has the familiar iOS 7 look and feel, but it’s chock full of both new and improved features and functionality. And it’s free.
20 Mar 2015
Apple’s TV Plans Come Into Focus
Apple’s TV Plans Come Into Focus It looks as though Apple is solidifying its plans to deliver a streaming-TV service, which may have cable-TV providers quaking in their boots. Whether Apple has come up with the right formula to attract cord-cutters is a big unknown, however, as is the potential profitability of such a venture.
19 Mar 2015
Microsoft open-sources .Net build system
Microsoft open-sources .Net build system The MSBuild engine is now available on GitHub, and Microsoft intends to bring it to Linux and Mac OS X MSBuild, the build platform for Microsoft’s Visual Studio toolset and the .Net Platform, is now open source, marking the software giant’s latest embrace of the open source movement. Made available
18 Mar 2015
Hundreds of Android and iOS apps are still vulnerable to FREAK attacks
Hundreds of Android and iOS apps are still vulnerable to FREAK attacks Hundreds of Android and iOS apps are still vulnerable to a dangerous attack revealed two weeks ago that can compromise encrypted data, a security vendor said Tuesday. The apps have not yet been patched against the FREAK attack, short for Factoring attack on
17 Mar 2015
Why Apple will offer a stylus for the iPad Pro
Why Apple will offer a stylus for the iPad Pro There is quite a bit of hand-wringing over rumors that the likely iPad Pro will feature some type of active stylus — as if it would be a betrayal of Jobs’ “let them use fingers” legacy. The reality is that the iPad has already moved
17 Mar 2015
Samsung on defense against Apple with the Galaxy S6
Samsung on defense against Apple with the Galaxy S6 Samsung’s Galaxy S6, announced at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona yesterday, looks like a really nice upgrade from the disappointing Galaxy S5 — which apart from a screen and camera resolution bump and some software refinements, was basically a GS4, and missed sales projections by up
17 Mar 2015
Apple unveils smallest and lightest MacBook ever with 12-inch Retina Display
Apple unveils smallest and lightest MacBook ever with 12-inch Retina Display Today Apple has unveiled its reinvented MacBook, a 12-inch model that’s thinner and lighter than any machine the company has made before. The all-new unibody structure has no internal fan for the first time ever, and it contains the smallest and densest logic board the
17 Mar 2015
Apple iOS 8.2 fixes FREAK bug, but will it restore the iPhone and iPad’s stability?
Apple iOS 8.2 fixes FREAK bug, but will it restore the iPhone and iPad’s stability? Apple has released iOS 8.2, a much-needed point revision that will hopefully address some of the unusually large amount of bugs iPhone and iPad owners have experienced over the past few months. The new OS update includes support for the