Smartphones have caught on to such a degree in recent years, it’s unusual to come across someone who doesn’t own one, and downright odd if said person doesn’t at least have a cell phone. In many of these venues, having the device set to full ring would not only be socially inept, it would be [...]
Occasionally, when I’m out and about, I’ll try to make a phone call or send a text message, only to find that my cell phone reception is so far in the toilet that it’s probably already arrived at a nearby water treatment plant. While I’d certainly love to say my cell phone provider is one [...]
Millions of elderly Americans live independently at home, however in many cases, there is a younger family member worried about it. They don’t want to lose the independence of living at home, yet the younger generation is worried that something could go wrong and they couldn’t do anything about it. I’m somewhat familiar with this, because this [...]
Windows Explorer isn’t a terrible platform for file management, but it’s certainly not one of the best. I mean, it works well enough if you’re just trying to organize a few documents and folders on your hard drive, even if every iteration does have a few faults. Once you start getting into larger quantities of [...]
Apple haters love to point out that Macs are only used by a very small minority of personal computer users. And that it will always be that way. And you know what? They’re right. But, who cares when you’re making all the money?! At least that’s how the people inside Apple are looking at it, [...]
I’m sure many of you still remember the rather absurd lawsuit that Apple brought to bear against Samsung. Apparently, they were concerned that the consumer was having trouble discerning the difference between a drawn-out patent battle where Apple claimed that Samsung ripped off a whole host of features from its market-leading iPad, up to and [...]
Online privacy is something that some pay attention to, others are paranoid about, while the majority don’t give it much thought. Part of the reason for the latter is the sheer complexity of ensuring it (or seemingly so). That’s where Priveazy comes in. Priveazy is a Chrome Extension which is made up of three separate [...]
OK, so here’s the rub… Apple gave the Macbook Pro a single DisplayPort. That allows you to power an external monitor – obviously. And, if you want to power more than one monitor from it (which the laptop has the horsepower to do), you’ve got to pony up for two big Thunderbolt monitors from Apple. [...]
As I’ve said time and again, we’re not exactly living in an era where user privacy is particularly valued or respected – at least in the Western world. No user has as much control over their personal information (and who can access it) as they should, and in most cases, the terms of service with [...]
I recently took it upon myself to beef up my 2011 Macbook Pro. This laptop originally came with 4 GB of memory and a 500GB hard drive. And it served me perfectly fine for awhile. After awhile, however, I started to become more aware of the speed. My usual activity with the laptop was perfectly [...]
