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Five Things You Need to Know About Mac’s Most Recent Update

November 19, 2018

On September 24, Apple announced the release of its newest software update for Macbooks, Mojave. As usual when it comes to transitioning to a new operating system, many users are hesitate to make the move until...

Encrypted email service ProtonMail exits beta, adds mobile support

Ivan Favelevic

March 17, 2016

Email just got a whole lot more secure with the official launch of ProtonMail this morning. The encrypted email startup was the subject of a successful crowdfunding campaign that saw it gain major support over ...

10 Things that Killed RadioShack

John M. Guilfoil

February 25, 2015

I love RadioShack. I love going into the stores. Love checking out the bins of parts and electronics so much that I bought one of the parts bins from my local shop, which is closing forever tomorrow. Radi...

Clever Smart Phones Canceling Tablets?

Patricia Marks-Martinovich

February 2, 2015

Seems as though the shipments of tablets is slowing down. UPS & FEDEX delivered 78.3 MILLION tablets (among actual retail store handoffs) during the final quarter of 2014. Guess what was on A BUNCH ...

iPhone remained dominant in Q4

John M. Guilfoil

January 25, 2015

Apple remains the top dog in the mobile phone universe, with Samsung falling behind. However, the two bitter rivals accounted for an astonishing three-quarters of all new cell phone activations in the fourth qu...

The Breakdown on Streaming Video Devices

Aneri Pattani

December 26, 2013

The era of watching live TV has long passed. Now we’ve even moving beyond DVRs and Netflix. The new age of television lies in streaming video. Devices like Roku, Apple TV and Google’s Chromecast have taken a...

2013 Holiday Gift Guides: John’s Five

John M. Guilfoil

December 16, 2013

I've really been digging the 2013 Blast Holiday Gift Guides so far, including our two insanely-long women's gift guides on Bombshell. Now it's my turn. Here are five gadgets that a guy like me -- handsome, bald...

Darklings review

honey

December 2, 2013

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.” – Brom Stoker, Dracula Darklings is an instantly beautiful, instantly challenging, and instant...

Apple iPhone is the Number One “Want” Among Teens this Holiday Season

Beth DeMilt

November 12, 2013

It is going to be a white (and green and pink and blue and yellow) Christmas as Apple gears up for a holiday season that puts a lot of their products underneath the tree. In fact, new research released today...

Apple Unveils Newer, Thinner iPads

Beth DeMilt

October 22, 2013

Apple is rolling out some big, and some not-so-big, changes to its iPad and iPad mini line. The company announced today that they will start selling an assortment of fun and colorful cases for the iPad and t...

RingMeMaybe App Prevents Spammers (or bad dates) from Finding Your Real Phone Number

Beth DeMilt

October 15, 2013

Sometimes the Internet is the only thing that can defeat the Internet. Thanks to the RingMeMaybe app, set for release on Thursday, October 17, iOS users can now circumvent the spam associated with entering you...

The Computer Is Not Dying — 10 Reasons Why

John M. Guilfoil

October 13, 2013

We're starting a little series here, in an attempt to explain why the Personal Computer is not, in fact, dying. We have some hardware to look at, some reasons to give you, and when we're done, we hope you'll...

What’s new in iOS 7, a friendly guide and review

Joe Sinicki

September 19, 2013

Your old iPhone (as long as it's not too old) is your new iPhone this morning thanks to the iOS 7 operating system that Apple released yesterday. The update is the most significant to the iPhone since it's laun...