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Friday, November 30, 2018
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Free VPNs by Chris Hoffman
While using a VPN, you’re placing an immense amount of trust in the
VPN operator. Sure, a VPN prevents your Internet service provider or
Wi-Fi hotspot operator from snooping on your browsing. But it doesn’t
stop the operator of the VPN server from snooping.
When your traffic leaves the VPN, the operator of the VPN server can see the websites you’re accessing. If you’re accessing unencrypted HTTP websites,
the VPN operator can see the full content of the pages. The operator
could keep logs on this data, or sell it for advertising purposes.
Let’s put it this way: When you use a VPN, you’re preventing the
hotspot at the hotel or airport and your Internet service provider from
spying...
Monday, November 26, 2018
MacBook Air vs MacBook vs 13-inch MacBook Pro: Which of Apple’s small laptops is right for you? by Michael Simon
If you’re in the market for a Mac notebook, there are basically two
options: the 15-inch MacBook Pro, which offers a range of options to
satisfy the most demanding of users, and everything else. Apple offers
no less than four MacBooks with 12- or 13.3-inch screens, and deciding
between them can be enough to give up and buy a Dell XPS 13.
We’re
here to help. Whether you’re shopping for yourself or someone else,
we’ve considered every angle, color, spec, and port to help you cut
through the confusion and make sure you make the right choice.
MacBook Air vs MacBook vs 13-inch MacBook Pro: Price
Apple’s
pricing matrix for its smallest MacBooks isn’t much of a help when
choosing which...
What method should you use to make sure your iOS photos are backed up? by Glenn Fleishman
With iOS backups, it’s still a little confusing about what happens to photos taken on an iOS device. When you perform a backup (automatic or otherwise), do your photos and videos get copied too? It varies!
Do you have iCloud Photos enabled?
Do you back up via iCloud or via iTunes to a computer?
From answers to those questions, you can figure out whether your
backup contains your images and movies, and if not, how to make
settings changes to fix that.
iCloud Photos enabled:
If your iOS device has this turned on, then neither iTunes nor iCloud
makes backups of images or video. The photo/video backup is instead
entirely handled as part of the iCloud sync. (Also note that Apple
recently...
Apple iPad Pro review: Excessive in the best way by Daniel Howley
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Apple’s (AAPL)
iPad is the most popular tablet in the world. As of Q3 2018, the iPhone
maker’s line of slates captured 27% of worldwide tablet sales, making
it the market...
Monday, November 12, 2018
Apple announces iPhone X Display Module Replacement Program for phones with touch problems By Roman Loyola
Apple on Friday announced a new repair program for owners of the iPhone X. The iPhone X Display Module Replacement Program provides a fix for those having problems with the touchscreen.
According
to Apple’s support document, the issue at hand is whether the iPhone X
does not respond to touch, intermittently stops responding to touch, or
the screen reacts without being touched. If your iPhone X is
experiencing these issues, you may be able to have it fixed for free.
The
fix involves replacing the display module and the service must be done
by an Apple authorized service provider or at the Apple store.
If you paid for a prior fix for this problem, Apple says you may be eligible for...
Monday, October 22, 2018
Bait and fix: Apple is basically forcing you to get AppleCare for your new MacBook Pro By Michael Simon
The new MacBook Pros
aren’t cheap. The least expensive 13-inch model costs $1,800 and goes
all the way up to $6,700 for the maxed-out 15-inch model with a 2.9GHz
Intel Core i9 processor. And now there’s a hidden catch that might make them way more expensive.
Along with the high price tag and any dongles you may need to purchase to get your old USB-A devices up and running, you might be in for a rude awakening if you try to fix your new MacBook Pro.
As reported by Motherboard,
Apple has introduced new software locks with its new laptops that “will
render the computer ‘inoperative’ unless a proprietary Apple ‘system
configuration’ software is run after parts of the system...
What's the difference between your modem and router? By Shannon Drake
Whether you're calling your internet provider for help or talking to
your kid, getting technical support can be frustrating. Between all the
abbreviations (LTE! Mbps!) and the secret code language for all the
computer stuff, you just want a translator to explain why the Wi-Fi is
down. Sometimes even two little grey boxes that look the same do
completely different things.
What's a modem? What's a router? Why does it matter when the Wi-Fi keeps going down?
Don't
get your Ethernet cables in a tangle! America's digital goddess is here
to help with some simple explanations for all that frustrating
language.
Your home network
Before we talk about modems,
we need to talk about networks....
