The internet, social networking and in particular smartphones have caused many problems for regimes around the world.  Twitter and Facebook were widely used in the Egyptian uprising earlier in the year, Saudi Arabia has had many an argument with Blackberry maker Research in Motion (RIM) about being unable to access data for security reasons and [...]

Categories: Mobiles

When I was young I remember looking at the pre-Christmas toy advertisements on the TV and wanting the latest Six-Million Dollar Man action figure in the Action Man range, the latest new engineering kit from Mecanno, a Lego castle (or two) and perhaps a chemistry set so I could practice blowing things up. Over the [...]

Categories: Apple

Microsoft have now released their popular note-taking app, OneNote for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch.  The program, which is part of their Office suite is popular with people wanting to make notes in meetings of who want to jot down thoughts on the go. While built-into the company’s own Windows Phone operating system, iOS is [...]

Categories: iPhone, iPod, Microsoft

Experienced users of handheld products know that in order to protect your data and applications it is important to sync apps frequently with a primary machine. Unfortunately, this is often easier said than done for Linux users. While many devices are able to sync without much manipulation on your part, Apple products tend to cause [...]

Categories: Apple, Linux

Nope, this isn’t a fake story from the cover of the National Enquirer, it’s a real story about how Chinese teenager Xiao Zheng, has sold one of his kidneys through a broker for the Yuan 20,000 needed to buy an iPhone and an iPad 2. The report on Yahoo! News says that the teenager, who lives [...]

Categories: The Web

Have you ever seen people at concerts holding an iPhone up in the air, trying to record the live performance (and probably uploading it somewhere later on as well)? But they usually don’t know that the moment they do that, they are infringing on IP copyright law. Piracy is punishable by law, even if it [...]

Categories: Apple

It’s been the question that people have now been asking for a couple of years.  Why do Apple just have one iPhone on the market at a time?  If you look at their traditional consumer market with iPods they’re very used to having multiple devices and form factors available to buy concurrently.  Now it would [...]

Categories: Apple

I was thinking about what story I should write about today on gHacks.  There’s a lot been happening and it’s big news.  Egypt cut itself off from the Internet while its president tries to quell a revolution (people are dying here too which is something that just has to be mentioned).  The very last ever batch of [...]

Categories: Apple

How do you transfer data between your iPod, Ipad or iPhone and a PC? Most will probably answer that they are using Apple iTunes for that. The iTunes software on the other hand is rather heavy on the resource side, and some users may prefer to use a lightweight faster software instead. That’s one of [...]

Categories: Software, Windows