It seems Apple’s supply of the iPhone 5 is finally keeping up with the demand — or demand is lower due to the Android competition. And now you can get the phone without the hassles of a carrier contract. To get one, go to iPhone’s 5’s page on the Apple Store and choose a color — black or white. Then scroll past the prices for the smartphone with a wireless service plan and click “Or get iPhone unlocked and contract-free”....

But wait, it gets funnier! The way Apple has to admit that Samsung’s Galaxy tablets are not in infringement of Apple’s copyright is just incredible. Apple will have to mea culpa itself via its website, as well as newspapers and magazines. According to this Bloomberg report, Judge Colin Birss ordered that Apple post a notice on its UK home page, as well as to buy space in magazines and newspapers — the Financial Times, Daily Mail, Guardian Mobile magazine and T3....

The stock headphones are the first thing I throw into my junk drawer when any new mobile gadget arrives. They’re always cheap quality and sound like crap. When I first got the original iPod, I used the headphones that came with it. I tricked myself into thinking that because the device is so amazing, the headphones are too. After a week, I quickly switched to a more comfortable pair that sounded remarkably better....

ASUS unveiled its Padfone 2 in Milan, Italy. The concept is the same — an Android smartphone with a dockable tablet, but the specs are much better. The screen of the smartphone is 720p IPS at 720 x 1280 pixels, which is a higher resolution display than the first Padfone which was 540 x 960. The screen of the tablet station is still 10.1 inches with 1280 x 800 resolution....

With the AWS Free Usage Tier, you get all of the features listed below for a full year. Thereafter, or if you exceed the usage allotments in the free usage tier, you’ll be charged the normal pay-as-you-go rate. That’s more than enough time to see if your new web service or app is a keeper. Here’s what you get per month with the AWS Free Usage Tier: As for the usage allotments, these do not rollover month-to-month—so, if you only use 15 GB of data transfer in February, you don’t get 45 GB in March....

The photos on Vietnamese site Tinh Te show the BlackBerry L, a device that’s been leaked on the web a few times before, and that RIM is expected to show in a press event on January 30, 2013. This time the photos show quite a few details of the new smartphone, which seems to look and run very well in the hands-on video that comes in the same article. The smartphone looks slick and the front side reminds me a little of Microsoft’s discontinued Zune HD line of media players....

By default, it’s set to Shut Down. To restart, log off, switch user, sleep or hibernate your system, you need to hover the mouse over the arrow icon and select the option you want. To change the default behavior, right click the Start orb and select Properties. Select the Start Menu tab. Then change the Power Button Action dropdown menu to Restart or the action you want it to do by default....

Find the Apps When you can, go with simple. Some of the most popular titles in the App Store already allow you to change the icon design. Among these are Instagram, MLB, CARROT Weather, Tinder, and more. Sometimes, unfortunately, free apps (I’m looking at you, Overcast and Bear) require a membership to unlock the option. In the following two examples, you can see icon changes for CARROT Weather and MLB, respectively:...

To be a newcomer in a photo sharing world already dominated by the likes of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram is no meager task. There’s even a Microsoft selfie app. But it appears that Artisto has carved a niche for itself in this space, as evidenced by 10,000+ reviews and 4+ star rating in iTunes. So, what’s the big deal? Let’s check it out and see what it’s all about....

No matter your business size, building and managing your social media presence is critical for reaching your customers. With over 1 billion active users, Instagram has become a serious player in the world of social media platforms. Getting exposure on Instagram means finding followers and getting them engaged in your brand through likes, comments and hopefully, follows. So how do you safely find influencers and get genuine users engaged? Combin is a tool for building and managing your Instagram presence....

Say Hello to watchOS 7 As Apple Watch matures, there seem to be fewer new features arriving year over year. The recently announced watchOS 7 feels even less extraordinary than previous watchOS updates. Perhaps, this means the upcoming “Apple Watch Series 6” will have more built-in features than usual. More likely, Apple developers have simply concentrated even more than usual on this year’s iOS and macOS updates, which both offer a pantry full of new features....

Getting Started with CrashPlan First, visit the CrashPlan site and download the CrashPlan free trial for your OS. CrashPlan is cross-platform. It works with Windows 32 and 64-bit versions, Linux, OS X and even Solaris. CrashPlan offers a variety of services at different prices. To find out more, check out its comparison chart. For this review, I am using the CrashPlan+ Unlimited service and provides the following features. The initial backup of your computer is quite a time consuming over the web – this is true with any online backup service....

RIM CEO Mike Lazaridis: “Since launching Blackberry in 1999, it’s been my goal to provide a reliable, real-time communications around the world. We did not deliver on that goal this week. Not even close. I apologize for the service outages this week. We’ve let many of you down. But let me assure you that we’re working round the clock to fix this. You expect better from us. And I expect better from us....

Chip ‘N’ Dale: Park Life Opening Title Sequence The company dropped the opening title sequence today online. It looks like it’ll be a fun show for the whole family. You can check out the video below. Here is what Disney Plus is describing the new animated series: Subscribe to Disney Plus Filled with laugh-out-loud cartoon comedy, wacky adventures and heartfelt storytelling, the 12-episode series will debut new episodes weekly on Disney+....

This utility is great for monitoring your Downloads folder and automatically moving files into the places you need them to be. Simple, compact and available in a no-install portable version, DropIt runs on any version of Microsoft Windows. Just download DropIt from its sourceforge development page. Comment Name * Email * Δ Save my name and email and send me emails as new comments are made to this post.

I think the real Facebook clutter comes from all the pages you like. If you’re like me, you have tons of artists and brand pages you like, so you get tons of news from them, and then, when you don’t visit Facebook for a few hours, you could miss an important announcement. Well, this new feature will definitely help you in this area. To start, go to a page you want to add to your first list....

One of the things I like about Google’s new social platform Google+ is the ease of locking down the profile information. The controls are simple to use and allow you to keep things as locked down or open as you want by specifying who (including circles) can see what field. Full the full write-up, see my How-To on BYTE.com. How-To Make your Google+ Profile More Private via BYTE.com Comment Name * Email *...

Today we watched as Firefox 9.0 was made available on different download sites around the web. And is now available now for download on the official Mozilla website. Mozilla is officially announcing and pushing the update tomorrow. There isn’t anything different graphically in the user interface in this release. Mozilla touts this version of Firefox will improve JavaScript performance by 20 –30 percent. I downloaded it on my Windows 7 system and it seems to have more zip than previous versions....

The Android version of this news reader’s news reader is supposed to be exclusive to the new Samsung Galaxy S III for a while, but the APK file has popped up on the XDA Developers forum and can be downloaded right now. If you’ve got the gift of pinpoint precision on touchscreens with your fingertips, you might be able to download it directly to your Android device from the website....

Old Original Article… Need a quick way to translate your Office documents into another language? DocTranslator not only works with most file types but also works without destroying the layout. DocTranslator is a web app that directly uses the Google Translate API to translate Microsoft Office documents and other files. See the official compatibility chart to be sure, but here’s a quick summary of what works with it. File Types Supported: Using DocTranslator To Translate Documents The front page of the DocTranslator site might not look like much but hey, it’s free, and it works....