Hardware

Build and battle deadly machines in C.A.T.S.: Crash Arena Test Stars

Free-to-play games often look appealing, but it’s difficult to know at a glance whether the business model is insidious and fun ruining, or reasonable and worth pumping a few bucks into. With Freemium Field Test, we’ll take a recent free-to-play … Continue reading

Echo Discounted 17% With This Rare Deal From Amazon – Deal Alert

You can pick up Amazon Echo for $30 below list price right now with this rare deal from Amazon. Amazon Echo is a hands-free speaker you control with your voice. Echo connects to the Alexa Voice Service to play music, provide … Continue reading

Get more out of alarms in the iOS Clock app

If you’re anything like me, you probably already use your iPhone as your alarm clock (and egg timer…and stopwatch). But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find that the Clock app’s alarm feature gives you a fair amount of flexibility … Continue reading

Odds aren’t: Apple doesn’t need a monster acquisition

You’ve got to spend money to make money the old adage says and if that’s the case then it might as well be someone else’s money you spend, right? That at least seems to be the philosophy of Wall Street … Continue reading

Apple headlines for the week ending May 5, 2017

The Week in Apple News and Rumors: Apple Q2 2017 earnings, iPhone 8 rumors, Apple Park drone videos, and more

Apple headlines for the week ending May 5, 2017 Image by Apple Plenty of important news and juicy rumors from the past week. Check out the Apple-related headlines in this week’s slideshow. Just click on the link to get more … Continue reading

week in ios apps

The Week in iOS Apps: Rovio’s Battle Bay features a new set of angry critters

The bird is no longer the word Image by Rob Schultz/Macworld This week’s roundup includes a new game from the makers of Angry Birds—with nary a pig or bird in sight. Plus, we have apps for budgeting, making cool photos, … Continue reading

Why Apple’s laptops could use a little less innovation at the moment

As a company, Apple’s philosophy is often about pushing the envelope. And that’s great. It’s how we got the original Mac’s GUI, the iPhone, and other products and features too numerous to name. Apple likes to play up this revolutionary … Continue reading

Google Docs phishing attack underscores OAuth security risks

Google has stopped Wednesday’s clever email phishing scheme, but the attack may very well make a comeback. One security researcher has already managed to replicate it, even as Google is trying to protect users from such attacks. “It looks exactly … Continue reading

Ask the iTunes Guy: iPhone auto-plays music in cars, varying volume levels, and audiobook sorting

Do you find it annoying that when you get in your car, start it up, and music starts playing from your iPhone? It’s not the iPhone’s fault. Some songs in your iTunes library are louder than others. It’s not iTunes’ … Continue reading

We’ve gotten our first look at an Echo with a built-in screen, and it’s straight out of 2005

Alexa is poised for a major breakout. Over the past few months, Amazon’s AI assistant has expanded to the iPhone in the Amazon app, Android with the Huawei Mate 9, and gotten a camera upgrade with the fashion-minded Echo Look. … Continue reading