Browsing Tag Apple
Apple Wants To Disable Your iPhone Camera At Concerts, Do You Agree With It?
By The Marksman at August 2, 2011 | 9:08 am | 0 Comment
Apple recently filed a patent application for a system that will disable the iPhone camera at live performances. Apparently there will be some sort of infra-red receiver in the venue somewhere, and when the iPhone camera is aimed at the performer it will be disabled. This is more than likely being done to protect the copyright of the content, and preventing the more...
Amazon Launches Android App Store With Free Angry Birds Rio. Ruffles Apples Feathers In The Process.
By The Marksman at March 22, 2011 | 2:49 pm | 0 Comment
A lot of companies have launched "App Stores" recently, and of course Apple made the concept popular even though there have been many ways to get digital apps on devices way back in the early days of Windows Mobile. Amazon's app store has been rumored for months, and it finally launched today after all of the speculation. This of course has upset Apple, and they more...
The Truth About Mobile Malware On Smart Phones And Other Mobile Devices
By The Marksman at March 8, 2011 | 12:27 pm | 0 Comment
Smart phones and mobile devices have become the new popular mainstream focus in recent years, and mobile applications have been the driving force behind that. Just like anything that gets popular it starts to attract people that will try to exploit and take advantage of that popularity to profit or harm people illegally. That is where Mobile Malware has started to more...
Apple Announces The Ipad 2 Ship Date As March 11th, Is It A Worthy Upgrade?
By The Marksman at March 2, 2011 | 1:53 pm | 0 Comment
Steve Jobs announced the release of the iPad 2 will be on March 11th, and the whole presentation centered around how Apple is dominating the tablet market space with the original iPad. Jobs started out by showing a video of all these different people who use the iPad for business, and touted it as a business device and not a toy. You had doctors saying the iPad more...
Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Touts Android Over IOS. Wait No He Didn’t!
By The Marksman at November 18, 2010 | 3:46 pm | 1 Comments
In an interesting article Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak stated that Android will end up being the dominant smartphone platform, and not Apple’s IOS. This probably comes as a bit of a surprise to the numerous fans of Apple who swear by the iPhone. One of the main people that started the company gave a straight forward and realistic opinion of the smart phone more...
Apple Unveils The New MacBook Air Line. Will It Finish Off The Netbook?
By The Marksman at October 22, 2010 | 6:45 am | 0 Comment
Apple has announced it’s newly redesigned MacBook Air line of laptops. If you are not familiar with the MacBook air they are laptops designed by Apple that are less than three pounds, and thin enough to fit into a brown mailing envelope. The devices were wildly popular when they first released back in 2007, and this new version has been much anticipated. The more...
Tech Range: What Can I Do When My Iphone Or Ipod Touch Freezes Or Crashes?
By The Marksman at October 15, 2010 | 2:32 pm | 0 Comment
Problem: My Iphone has been freezing and crashing fairly recently, I am not sure what to do with the recurring problems. Several friends have Ipod Touches and Iphones, and they do not have freezing issues like mine. Possible Solutions: Many electronic devices experience problems like this, and it sounds like you may be having issues with your device more...
Five Minutes With The Iphone 4, Will It Live Up To The Hype?
By The Marksman at June 30, 2010 | 6:14 am | 0 Comment
Many people do not own an iPhone, and no phone will ever reach even 50% market share penetration. There are many reasons for this, but it’s quite simple the iPhone is not the answer for everyone despite what fans of the device may tell you. In the end everyone has varying needs, and things that they like which do not match everyone else’s preferences. The more...
Five Must Have iPhone Apps
By The Marksman at June 8, 2010 | 6:15 am | 0 Comment
There are thousands of applications available for the iPhone/iPod Touch, and if you look for a few minutes you can more than likely find an App that is useful for you. Here are five iPhone apps that are worth the price, and should be easy to find a practical use for them. I have never been one to buy into the “there is an app for that” mantra, but even I was more...
Trouble in Paradise. Rampant iPad Wifi problems, did Apple stumble out of the gate?
By The Marksman at April 6, 2010 | 9:08 am | 0 Comment
I was not surprised to read that just one day after launch the iPad already had tons of complaints on the Apple Support website about Wifi (wireless) issues. The common complaint is that the device shows no wireless signal or a very week one. Now technicians will very often start out blaming it on the users, but most of the complaints point out that they put more...
