DIY iPad screen replacement: It saves money, but its not for the faint of...
iPads are great for kids, but kids aren’t always that good for iPads. One stray elbow, and your pristine tablet has a spider web of cracks...

Be More Productive with LaunchBar: Snippets
In this video, our third on getting more out of Objective Development’s excellent LaunchBar utility, we show you how to take advantage of...

Automator workflow of the month: Easily encrypt folders
You can use Apple’s Disk Utility to convert a folder into an encrypted disk image—a protected archive that you unlock with a password....

iTunes workarounds
This week’s column deals with solutions to common (and some less common) problems that use little-known features of iTunes or third-party...

Enable parental restrictions on your iOS device
For parents and others handing iOS devices over to kids, it might be wisest to lock down certain features so that children don’t stumble...

Browser privacy tools still lack bite, security analysts say
Browser vendors continue to implement privacy in a halfhearted way, with Internet Explorers default use of cookie "do not track" technology...

Windows 8 adoption slows; boost sought with update
Windows 8s user share growth slowed significantly in July, hinting at further trouble for the struggling operating system, new statistics...

Attackers reported seeding cloud services with malware
LAS VEGAS -- Malware writers are ramping up their use of commercial file hosting sites and cloud services to distribute malware programs,...

Where do people get those terrible passwords?
Google surveyed 2000 web users to find the most common types of passwords they use. The results arent really shocking, but strongly suggest it...

Rapidly growing DigitalOcean opens second NYC data center
Continuing its rapid expansion, cloud service provider DigitalOcean has opened a second facility in the greater New York metropolitan area --...

Even with EFFs Congressphone, activism is a hard sell
Amid an atmosphere of increasing government mistrust, the Electronic Frontier Foundations classic phone booth to get Defcon hackers to direct dial...

Bar Facebook-shames man over unpaid $100 tab; man jailed
A Reno bar is so frustrated that a customer allegedly left an unpaid tab that it posts his picture on Facebook and shames him publicly. He is then...

Battery life and a sharp screen: A Mini opportunity for Apple
The dynamics involving display quality and battery life on Googles second-generation Nexus 7 should be a lesson for Apple. [Read more]    

Seeing red: Curiosity rovers first year on Mars
Its been almost one Earth year since NASAs Martian rover touched down on its new home. In that time, its already sent back over 70,000 images....

Obama vetoes Apple sales ban in U.S.
The Obama Administration has vetoed a decision by the U.S. International Trade Commission that would have led to a sales ban on older iPhones and...

Wheres My Phone?!? Google to Roll Out Find My Android Service
As part of a move to step up user security, Google has announced a pending rollout of a service to match Apples Find My iPhone.

People are too afraid to be weird when it comes to social media
Weirdness, creativity, snarky, witty, these are the hallmarks of social media virality.

Soylent meal replacement set to hit market; not made of Humans
A cleverly named meal replacement product is about to hit the market with $1 million in pre-orders, but does Soylent have anything going for it...

Google takes over as WiFi provider at Starbucks
AT&T is out, Google is in as the WiFi provider for the nations Starbucks coffee shops. What does this mean for you freeloaders? Faster speeds of...

Myth Busting Mommy Bursts Parenting Bubbles
Its the self-appointed job of Technorati Top 100 Family blog Myth Busting Mommy to burst as many "mommy myths" as possible.