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Orange UK Unlimited Plan for iPhone Seems to Prohibit Almost Everything

Written on November 03, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

The BBC noticed something a little off when it investigated the new pricing structure and terms of use for the iPhone deals Orange is about to begin offering on Nov. 10. First, it turns out that far from sparking a price war, Orange has basically adopted the same deal that O2 currently offers, with some [...]

AT&T Not Ready for Tethering, May Throttle iPhone Data

Written on October 09, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 14 people have commented

We reported here on Tuesday that AT&T had announced plans to make VoIP services available on its 3G network, great news for iPhone users who previously could only use applications like Skype and Vonage via a Wi-Fi network. So, AT&T sorted out MMS and now it’s sorted out VoIP. That just leaves tethering, right? Now [...]

How-To: Remotely Control Your Mac Over the Internet

Written on June 22, 2009 by Jenny Kortina and 14 people have commented

I previously wrote an article on how to stream your data from a Time Capsule and local computer over the Internet. After figuring out the basics of networking, I moved onto wanting to control my media center computer remotely. Below I’ve outlined the steps to set up remotely controlling your home computer over the Internet.
Some [...]

Plus+ Social Gaming Service for iPhone Launches

Written on June 19, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 7 people have commented

Among console gaming fans, there is little doubt that Xbox Live is the current pinnacle of social online gaming. Sharing stats, matchmaking, ranked play, and messaging are all combined in a symphony of interactivity unmatched by the PS3, and certainly not by the Wii. Ngmoco wants to bring some of that social connectivity to iPhone [...]

Drobo: The Ultimate Network Peripheral?

Written on February 13, 2009 by Arvin Dang and 25 people have commented

I was recently introduced to the Drobo box. If you’re not familiar with it, simply put, it’s the ultimate home backup server.
For $400, you get a BeyondRAID array that can support up to 4 simultaneous drives, and caps at 16TB. Even cooler is the ability to swap out your drives with a single push of [...]

Secure iPhone Browsing

Written on November 28, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 20 people have commented

If you’re a security nut, browsing at a public hotspot can be like showering in a public bathroom. You might have no other option, depending on your circumstances, but you’re bound to feel a little creeped out and you’d probably rather have some flip flops on. Think of Hotspot Shield as flip-flops for your computer. [...]

The iPhone Gets Stickier With Glue

Written on November 18, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

I’m a social kind of guy. On the web, that means I’m a social media kind of guy. Which is why I was interested in Glue, a service from AdaptiveBlue that turns Firefox into one big trip to Indigo/DVD night/book club/music exchange. Now Glue for iPhone brings the same kind of experience to your mobile [...]

Access Bonjour Services From Anywhere With ShareTool

Written on November 11, 2008 by David Appleyard and 3 people have commented

ShareTool is a piece of software which allows you to easily access your Mac from a remote location. To quote their tagline: “ShareTool is hands down, the fastest, easiest, and most secure way to access all of your Bonjour services from anywhere in the world.” The term ‘Bonjour services’ is fairly generic, but means that [...]

Best Kept Secrets: Hardware Growler

Written on November 06, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 18 people have commented

My enthusiastic use and promotion of Growl should come as no surprise to regular readers of The Apple Blog. While some dismiss it as an annoyance reminiscent of the Windows notification popups, others — like myself – view it as a way be informed without stopping what I am currently doing (and that is definitely [...]

Airport Extreme Update Pulled, But Damage Already Done

Written on October 23, 2008 by Darrell Etherington and 21 people have commented

Updates turning out to be harmful rather than helpful are nothing new, and it’s beginning to look like you can add Apple’s latest Airport Extreme software “fix” to the list of the potentially damaging.
Complaints from commenters and bloggers around the net are beginning to pile up, yet Apple remains silent on the status of the [...]

Apple Developing Networked LCD HDTV/Apple TV Hybrid?

Written on October 13, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 6 people have commented

Perhaps tired of notebooks hogging the spotlight lately, Apple TV is the subject of new rumors that surfaced this past weekend.
Jason Calacanis is making claims that Cupertino is developing a line of network-ready HDTV’s with built-in Apple TV functionality.  The TV’s would offer the same feature-set as the current Apple TV peripheral, but would cut [...]

Tales From The Command Line: What’s Going On? (lsof)

Written on August 01, 2008 by Bob Rudis and 5 people have commented

As mentioned in the previous installment, there is a very useful command buried deep within the confines of your OS X terminal. This command – lsof (LiSt Open Files) – is like the Swiss Army knife of utilities, proving information on files, directories, volumes and even what is happening on the network. Unlike iftop, lsof [...]

Force iPhone to Find Network

Written on May 16, 2008 by Jenny Kortina and 8 people have commented

I live in New York, so I’m constantly losing my iPhone signal when I go onto the subway. Sometimes when I get off the train and I’m back in range of the phone still can’t find the network. Recently, my phone has randomly also been telling me “No Sim” even though it’s just been [...]

A chink in the AirPort armor?

Written on October 04, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 12 people have commented

Is it possible the AirPort Extreme base station isn’t catching all the malicious traffic bound for my home network? I just opened Console to check on an issue I was having with lookupd, but I was distracted when the ipfw.log firewall log file popped up with quite a lot of blocked attempts.
How many? Try 7831 [...]