Via Mashable: Security Exploit Can Give Hackers Control of Your iPhone or iPad [WARNING] By just loading a PDF file on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you could be handing over complete access to your device in what could quickly become a major security breach. As a recent Apple convert, I’m as guilty as […]

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We were joined on the air by Leo Laporte of This Week In Tech. Leo appears right after the Infoshot segment about 30 minutes into the show. After we interviewed him for 30 minutes we asked if he would like to hang on for the second half of the program and help us answer listener […]

The original Newton commercial circa 1993 The iPad commercial

The Alley Theater has been kind enough to offer all geeks a discount on tickets to their production of Intelligence-Slave, a new play by Kenneth Lin. Here’s a PDF with all the necessary info.

Allright. I’m sticking with the TV theme of the night. I don’t know how many of you are familiar with the skit from Sesame Street with Lefty the Salesman trying to sell the Golden AN. The plan went something like, “Take the Golden AN, put it in the tan van. Give it to Dan, who […]

One of the recurring stories we heard after Hurricane Ike involved loss of data. Computers and external storage devices that were destroyed as a result of flooding. In an ideal world we’d all back up our data twice and keep a copy with us and store another copy off-site for insurance. But even that doesn’t […]

BarretTime, Earth Day 2010, Earth Day 40th Anniversary, Cyberdine, Terminator, National Robotics Week

On last night’s show we had a number of people calling in about jailbreaking the iPhone. From About.com In essence, jailbreaking your iPhone means freeing it from the limitations imposed on it by AT&T and Apple. You install a software application on your computer, and then transfer it to your iPhone, where it “breaks open” […]