“Some manufacturers (including Apple) have claimed that jailbreaking violates a section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)” states the article at Geek.com in no uncertain terms. Of course we have long known Apple to be brutal in keeping users in line and behind the line. It seemed everything was okay about users having the choice of what they...

I read a tech opinion a few weeks ago where a real estate agent was asking how she could manage her Excel files (a Windows mark) on her iPhone and iPad. Of course my first suggestion would be to get an Android phone and tablet and do things right. However I recognized you may already have invested double in an Apple product so why invest more in tools you have to pay...

iRig for iPhone/iPad iRig – suggested retail price $59.95 or on Amazon for about $40 So you’re hanging out on a rainy weekend with nothing much to do but you have your guitar and you’d like to send someone special back home that addictive tune you’ve had in your head. Thing is all you have is your iPhone with it’s so-so audio. Then you...

The iPhone phenomenon is far from over. It may be a fact that Android user numbers are gaining on and will one day pass iPhone users but today’s numbers are quite different. The question is “how will iPhone going to Verizon affect you personally”? According to all I have seen AT&T no longer offers an unlimited data plan to new smartphone users...

Really it’s not a big surprise. Apple may have been the first to successfully push a fully functional smart phone. Treo blew it because they didn’t have open source, Blackberry was hugely successful until iPhone but iPhone still has that Jobs/Apple attitude that almost always keeps it in second place when there is a genuinely open competitor. Don’t...