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iPad reportedly overheating in the sun

You know the story from Greek mythology about Icarus, and how his father Daedalus told him not to fly too close to the sun with the wings he made for him out of feathers and wax. Icarus didn't listen and fell into the sea.

Well, according to several reports, Daedalus might want to warn iPad owners not to play too close to the sun with their beloved new devices because they too may crash.

While Apple has historically had a good track record when it comes to the reliability of its high-profile products, there have been a few glitches … Read more

Apple's iPad available April 3, no apparent shipping delays

Despite various analyst reports around the Web, Apple may not be experiencing any issues with production of the iPad. Apple will make the iPad available April 3, with the ability to preorder coming March 12.… Read more

Possible resolutions for iTunes sync error 13001

Occasionally, when you update your iTunes application, your external device, such as an iPod Touch or iPhone, may stop syncing properly. If this happens and your error message is coded 13001, here are some steps to take to resolve the issue.… Read more

Wi-Fi rides to wireless networks' rescue

Good old Wi-Fi could be the fix to an impending explosion of data on wireless networks.

Nearly three years after Apple introduced the game-changing iPhone, wireless operators around the globe are feeling the effects of the wireless data tsunami that is well under way. Even networks that don't support the iPhone are feeling the pinch as a generation of new wireless devices offering bandwidth-hungry Web applications are hitting networks.

The result, as many iPhone users in New York City and San Francisco will tell you, is a network that drops calls and offers wireless Net surfing at the speed of a turtle.… Read more

Addressing problems with iTunes updates

The recent iTunes update has addressed a number of issues some people have had with iPods, playlist syncing, and the capability to remember passwords. While for most users the update should work without problems, some people have experienced issues with iTunes updates in the past and there is no guarantee that new problems will not occur.… Read more

CNET podcast feeds fixed!

Last week, I blanketed a number of our podcast blogs with a post describing the issues we've been having with our audio podcast RSS feeds. The issue involved Feedburner not picking out the MP3 links in our blog posts and adding enclosure tags to them, an essential part to podcasting a feed.

After working with the folks at Google, we realized that the exact cause of the issue wasn't absolutely certain, but the hunches all revolved around the same key issue. This involved Feedburner's inability to detect the proper file type from our MP3 links in the … Read more

Problems with CNET podcast feeds

First of all, I want to confirm that there are serious issues with most of CNET's audio podcast feeds currently. My apologies to those experiencing complications. Read on for more, and for news of fixes.

Quick Tip: Fix an Apple Software Restore font issue

This tip is courtesy of macosxhints.com user "winddog" describing a solution to a font issue when attempting to use Apple Software Restore with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. An error stating that the font, Lucida Grande, has been changed and restored is seen when booting from an imaged drive and logging into each user account on your Mac.… Read more

Twitter working on fix for 'misdirected' tweets

Twitter is working on a fix for a problem that has caused some of its users to receive tweets in their timelines that were meant for other parties, the company announced on its status page Wednesday.

The issue started earlier this week, when Twitter received some reports from users saying that tweets were cropping up in their timelines that didn't seem intended for them. Twitter asked for help from users on Tuesday on its Known Issues page. The company requested that users experiencing the tweet misdirection issue include their username, the "stranger's" username, and a link … Read more

Another iPhone worm, but this one is serious

Another iPhone worm has been spotted in the wild.

Unlike the previous exploitation, which merely changed a jailbroken iPhone's wallpaper to a picture of Rick Astley of "Rickrolling" fame, this new threat allows hackers to steal sensitive information.

According to security firm Sophos, which wrote about the exploitation after a Dutch ISP spotted it late last week, the worm attacks jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch devices only.

The worm "uses command-and-control, like a traditional PC botnet," Sophos wrote in a blog post on Saturday to warn users about the exploit. "It configures two startup … Read more