Most people, if not everyone, knew Steve Jobs as the charismatic face of Apple. The man had an “it” factor when presenting at those seasonal Apple keynotes, showing off the company’s latest product releases. After his death, bold tales of his deeds in the planning room have been making their way on to the web [...]
Category Archives: Geek
California law foiled Steve Jobs’ Willy Wonka iMac golden ticket promotion
Posted by Gary on April 30, 2012
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Geek 101: How to format a Mac hard drive
Posted by Gary on April 29, 2012
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How you format a Mac hard drive is entirely dependent on what kind of drive you plan on formatting. For instance, is the hard drive internal or external? And if internal, has it been partitioned or are you looking to reformat the entire system to factory state? Whatever your formatting situation, this how-to guide will [...]
For better or worse: Brydge case transforms your iPad into a laptop
Posted by Gary on April 29, 2012
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I think a lot of people would agree with me when I say that, for some users, a tablet serves as a completely reasonable laptop alternative. But for others, even the best tablet still won’t do the job — they need a physical keyboard, louder speakers, and a display angle that [...]
Geek 101: How to take a screenshot on a Mac
Posted by Gary on April 26, 2012
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One of the nicest features about OS X is how simple the operating system makes it to take a screenshot. And not only is easy to take a screenshot, it’s easy to take the screenshot that you want. For example, using Windows, you have to jab the Print Screen button (if you can find it), [...]
20 percent of Macs harbor Windows malware
Posted by Gary on April 26, 2012
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Here’s some shocking information for you: nearly 20% of Macs have malware hiding out somewhere in the deep, dark recesses of their filesystems. The twist: it’s actually Windows malware. While that means it’s probably never going to do any harm to the Macs in question, it’s still pretty amazing to think that Sophos Labs found [...]
Smartwatch shootout: Pebble E-Paper watch vs. the competition
Posted by Gary on April 25, 2012
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There’s been plenty of Kickstarter projects in our browser tabs lately, but one of the more interesting is the Pebble E-Paper smartwatch. Its developers only needed $100K to bring the product to completion, instead they’re at over $6 million with 24 days remaining. If you haven’t read up on it yet, the Pebble is a [...]
Read It Later is now free for all and called Pocket
Posted by Gary on April 20, 2012
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There are a number of services out there that let you save articles to read later, but Read It Later has a plurality of the market, in addition to the most obvious name. That’s why the sudden announcement of a new product to replace Read It later came as such a shock. On Wednesday the [...]
Apple approves app to toggle Bluetooth from the home screen
Posted by Gary on April 20, 2012
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Apple is famously strict with the apps it approves for use on the iDevices, but it has just approved one uncharacteristically useful utility called Bluetooth OnOff. This app adds a simple Bluetooth toggle to the home screen of an iOS device, thus saving numerous taps to get at the settings. The app is launched like [...]