Giving your old iPhone a new life

When you pre - order your iPhone 4S Friday , that mean you ’ve produce a week to anticipate life with your new telephone before its October 14 release date . But if you ’re an exist iPhone drug user , it means you ’ve also got to make plan on what to do with your soon - to - be redundant smartphone . The good news : You ’ve get plenty of options , starting with the most obvious pick — turn that old iPhone into a slightly used , slightly thick iPod touch ....

October 6, 2011 · 7 min · 1294 words · Cynthia Fernandez

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies at 56

Steve Jobs , Apple ’s co - beginner and its CEO through a flow of phonograph recording emergence and initiation for the companionship , has go . He was 56 . Jobs ’s destruction was corroborate by a instruction from Apple ’s add-in of director . We are deep sadden to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today . Steve ’s splendor , Passion of Christ and energy were the source of infinite innovations that enrich and better all of our lives ....

October 5, 2011 · 4 min · 820 words · Daniel Greene

Remembering Steve Jobs, the man who saved Apple

Apple co - founder Steve Jobs died Wednesday after battling cancer and related condition for seven years . He was 56 . Jobs , who reigned as Apple CEO for 14 years , resign his post in August 2011 and was replaced by Tim Cook , who previously was the company ’s Chief Operating Officer . business , in bend , was elected as chair of Apple ’s board of manager ....

October 5, 2011 · 20 min · 4101 words · Robert Hall

Steve Jobs is gone, but his impact will live on

I never capture to get together Steve Jobs . I came close a couple time , fend within a few foot of him at printing press events like the unveiling of the iPad . The one I remember the most , though , wasat Macworld Expo 2006 . It was the first Macworld Expo I ’d attend since I ’d gone to a Boston - based one in the early ’ 90s , and I was there on my own dime , saucily unemployed and wide - eyed ....

October 5, 2011 · 6 min · 1097 words · Bethany Neal

Steve Jobs: Making a dent in the universe

I was in the third hour of a three - hr meeting on the good afternoon of October 5 , 2011 , and I was feeling a spot punchy . The twenty-four hours before was an all - out dash to cover Apple ’s press conference and its radioactive dust , along with plenty of expert snafus . So I was tired , the room was lovesome , and my judgement was rove ....

October 5, 2011 · 12 min · 2433 words · Courtney Hernandez

Remains of the Day: Die another day

Psystar is set to drag its court shell all the style to the top before failing ; the Apple television set may be about to complain off its continental tour ; and we bid a fond adieu to a bygone geological era of gambling . The remainders for Friday , September 30 , 2011 would care to ask for a instant of silence . Mac clone maker may take battle with Apple to Supreme Court(Computerworld )...

September 30, 2011 · 3 min · 519 words · William Cardenas

The new Kindles: Which to choose?

Amazon ’s Kindle intersection line , which expanded with three new models Wednesday , has come a prospicient fashion since it was first introduced in 2007 . That original $ 399 Kindle had a short design – I bribe one and repay it after a duo of week . The $ 359 Kindle 2 bring in in 2009 was good — a lot better — and I bought one and stay fresh it ....

September 28, 2011 · 10 min · 2086 words · Ethan Perry

The Week in iOS Accessories: Feeling remote

Your iPhone or iPad is surely utile to you , but get ’s face it : Apple ’s mobile products are also just unornamented playfulness . In search this week ’s roundup of accessories , we ’ve spotted tanks , wall - climbing cars , and a few Modern speaker systems tailed specifically for iOS devices . And if you ’re still appear for something useful , we ’ve receive you covered there , as well ....

September 28, 2011 · 6 min · 1150 words · Nicholas Lucas

Firefox 7 improves browsing speed, developer tools

Mozilla has release its final edition of Firefox 7 , introducingsubtle changessuch as obscure URL prefixes , bug fixes and under - the - hood advance . Rolled out six weeks after Mozilla ship Firefox 6 to fix a number of bug matter , the up-to-the-minute update is the third edition of the developer ’s rapid - ship cycle . Firefox substance abuser can now download the recent discharge primarily to piece stableness and security issues , but the update pop the question a few other small tweak aimed at advance the speed of the internet browser ....

September 27, 2011 · 2 min · 319 words · Karen Richards

Ripping foreign films with subtitles

An interested party who would prefer to remain anon. is odd about rip DVDs . The unnamed One writes : I am a college film teacher and occassionally I find it necessary to show sequence of subtitled foreign films to my class ( yes , this is legal ) . However , I can not get subtitles to come along on my iPad . I have tried select each of the different caption option including “ strained ” inHandBrakebut the titles never appear ....

September 26, 2011 · 3 min · 430 words · Amber Johnson

Apple’s new task: To fight legends

August is known as a pretty unruffled month for technology related news . Much of the western human beings is on holiday , so it ’s usually the quiet before the storm that leads into the deucedly fussy vacation fourth . This year was the exclusion . In a blank of two weeks , Google buy Motorola ’s mobility patronage , which includes set - top box and handsets . HP announced they werespinning off their PC businessand leaving the smartphone and media pad of paper business ( after shipping the TouchPad for only 47 days ) ....

September 24, 2011 · 5 min · 1034 words · Kimberly Richardson

When CEOs take the stage, they follow Jobs’s script

Thursday ’s f8 tonic began with comedian Andy Samberg doing an imitation of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg . But if you followedthe subsequent promulgation of new features to Facebook ’s social messaging site , you might have gotten the feeling that Zuckerberg was doing an impersonation of his own — his presentation seemed like an imitation of one of Steve Jobs ’s keynote . Jobs ’s presentation skills are legendary , even beyond the world of engineering , so it ’s understandable why Zuckerberg ’s f8 tonic Thursday seemed to hew very closely to the Steve Jobs School of Public Speaking ( though moreso in invention than in execution ) ....

September 23, 2011 · 6 min · 1116 words · Daniel Johnson

LaCie’s Little Big Disk with Thunderbolt now shipping

On Tuesday , LaCiefinally made theLittle Big Disk with Thunderbolthard drive available to the populace through the Apple Retail Store and theApple Online Store . The LaCie drive was originally announced in February . Ever since Thunderbolt made itsdebut in the MacBook Proseven months ago , there have been a few Thunderbolt - based peripheral machine released . Most of the machine are place at professional picture editors — video gaining control corner such as theAja Io XTor theBlackmagic Intensity Extreme , or high-pitched - end RAID array like thePromise Pegasus R4 and R6 ....

September 20, 2011 · 2 min · 360 words · Samantha Strong