Macbook Air users typically fall into the most mobile of categories, and ultimately favor portability and mobility over creature comforts. Realizing that, Apple designed the Macbook Air without an Ethernet port, because in reality, the Air is a secondary machine. However, in instances when you do need to hook up to a landline, a simple USB-to-Ethernet adapter can be used. But according to a growing number of reports, said solution isn’t working. A growing thread in...
Bad news bears for iOS 4.2 hopefuls who were planning on staying home from work tomorrow to update their iOS devices to version 4.2 — An apparent WiFi bug affecting the iPad has caused the update to be put on hold. Specifically, the iPad running the latest GM build of iOS 4.2 had a problem in which it would drop any WiFi connection after a few minutes. Supposedly Apple is already on top of it and has a second GM build ready to go for tomorrow. However, it will take...
The Dell Venue Pro is in my book, the best looking Windows Phone 7 device currently on the market. It’s sleek, stylish, and highly functional with it’s classic design and sliding portrait keyboard. But early adopters of the Venue Pro experienced first hand some of the early adopter blues — a nasty WiFi bug that prevented the device from connecting to protected networks. But all is well, Dell is fessing up. In their blog, Dell acknowledges the WiFi issue...
Of all the instances of things slipping through the cracks or someone “going out with a bang”, Facebook’s July 29th 2010 snafu will forever stay in my memory. The snafu, discovered by a TechCrunch reader, apparently involved (note the past tense — Facebook has already fixed the glitch) a small issue when changing your Facebook profile’s main language to Spanish. Up in the top right where birthdays are announced, the words “Fuck you...
Nothing is ever “perfect”, especially in the software world. There’s always a bug, a glitch, a security hole or some other failure in the code that lets bad things happen. Apple however, generally has a pretty good grip on such things on the iPhone platform. The iPhone 3.1.3 update on the other hand, isn’t one of their better moments. iPhone support forums across the web are voicing problems with battery life and how it’s displayed as well...
