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iPad iPhone iPod security

Swedish security firm’s video demonstrates simplicity of bypassing iOS, Android passcodes, reaping data from stolen devices

The goal isn’t to make you paranoid (which, according to the movie “End of Days”, is just reality on a finer scale), but to help show you what’s out there. Per Forbes, Swedish security firm Micro Systemation has posted the following video as to how quickly both iOS and Android-based devices can be cracked, the […]

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News Software

Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, developers granted access to preview

Remember how you sort-of-recently upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)? You’re about to upgrade again this summer. Per AppleInsider, Apple on Thursday announced Mac OS X 10.8, dubbed “Mountain Lion,” the next major release of its Mac operating system, set to launch on the Mac App Store this summer, with a preview now available […]

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News Software

Mac OS X 10.7.3 bugs being tracked, workarounds/fixes discovered

Mac OS X 10.7.3 is here. Now it’s time to sort out the bugs. Per 9to5Mac, a number of users are reportedly suffering from an odd application crash bug. Affected people will see apps crash often, with the unusual twist of error messages that feature the word “CUI” stamped over them. A source claims that […]

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How-To

How-To: Get Around Conflicts Between Back to My Mac and Time Machine

As nifty as Time Machine is, a number of users seem to be running into problems where the “Change Disk…” option for Time Machine is nonfunctional. Over on the Apple Discussion Board, user Joel_H offered the following description of the issue: “(After switching TM disks) I realized there were still things on my time capsule […]