YouTube + Google+ = Trouble for Google In an exceedingly unpopular move, Google is requiring YouTube commenters to sign in with their Google+ account in order to comment on a video. Officially, this is Google’s attempt to try to control the oftentimes ‘not nice’ or […]
The BlackBerry Saga Continues Last week, I reported that former Apple CEO John Sculley was considering purchasing BlackBerry. At this point, forget John Sculley or anybody else, for that matter. BlackBerry announced on November 4th that it was abandoning the idea of selling the company and fired its
Astronomers Discover Most Distant Galaxy The galaxy is the most distant galaxy that has been discovered and has been designated at z8_GND_5296. It took light from the galaxy about 13 billion years to reach the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Hubble Space Telescope. Both
Apple released their latest Mac operating system, OS X Mavericks, on October 22nd. The upgrade is free and touts over 200 new features. Some of the new features are definitely the result of the ‘iOSification’ of the Mac operating system. In the latest few
Apple released the latest version of their Mac operating system on October 22nd, OS X Mavericks, available for free. System requirements for the upgrade include: OS X version 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) or later 2GB of memory 8GB of available space As always, updating your Mac operating
Microsoft Tablet – RT No More Microsoft has dropped the RT designation from its 1st-generation RT-equipped tablet, referring to it as the Surface. Last year’s tablet was originally called the Surface RT and even, for awhile, Surface with Windows RT. In addition, the default desktop
Windows 8.1 is Here Microsoft has rolled out Windows 8.1, an incremental update to its Windows operating system. Two key features that were missing from Windows 8 have been added. A new, modified Start button has been added. There was much complaining regarding the missing
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday was October 8th. Microsoft released a total of eight bulletins, four of which were deemed ‘Critical.’ One of the critical patches was to patch a security exploit that was present in all versions of Internet Explorer. In addition
In iOS 7, how to close your apps has changed. Prior to iOS 7, you tapped the Home button twice to display a row of icons at the bottom of your screen for all of the apps that were running in the background. Then you would
Siri is the intelligent personal assistant that allows some Apple iPad and iPhone users to speak natural language voice commands in order to operate their device and its apps. It was originally introduced in 2011 as part of the iOS 5 and iPhone 4s launches.
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Amazon Unveils the Kindle Fire HDX Amazon unveiled the newest version of the Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HDX. It sports a 7″ HDX display (1920×1200) with high pixel density (323 PPI), a 2.2GHz quad-core processor and 2GB of RAM. Perhaps its most unusual feature is the
For the last few versions of iOS, searching for something on your device was very easy — go the Home Screen and swipe left to right. If you try that in iOS 7, you will find that nothing happens. While I get the whole
Some iOS 7 users are having problems sending text messages. Apple is working on a fix but until it is available, you may want to try this: Step 1: Turn off iMessage (Settings > Messages). Step 2: Reset networking settings (Settings > General > Reset).
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Shortly after updated my iPhone 5 to iOS 7, I noticed bars at the top and bottom of my screen when it was locked. I was wondering what they were for. It turns out that they are there if you have enabled Notification
