One of the great, unspoken challenges of digital photography is handling the ever-growing collection of photos piling up in your computer's hard drive. Your computer's an obvious destination for photos but it can't be their last stop. If you don't make some kind of back-up, you stand to lose your entire collection in one catastrophic swoop. Obviously, external hard drives are an excellent way to back those images up. Western Digital is out with a new line of Mac-based My Book Studio drives which can certainly do the trick. The new drives (in 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities) offer a...

In the United States, wireless carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless control which devices and what pieces of software can access their networks. It's a strange business model if you think about it - a lot like having your Internet Service Provider telling you what kind of computer or notebook you can buy and what software you can load on it. It also leads to stuff like this: The terms in AT&T’s exclusive US contract to provide connections for Apple’s iPhone give the telecommunications giant the power to veto online store applications that use AT&T to launch cheap calls through the...

In case you were wondering, yes there is an app for that:

Attention iPhone users: Andy Greenberg of Forbes is reporting that two researchers will demonstrate (and publicize) a method of wrestling control over a person's iPhone via SMS: If you receive a text message on your iPhone any time after Thursday afternoon containing only a single square character, Charlie Miller would suggest you turn the device off. Quickly. That small cipher will likely be your only warning that someone has taken advantage of a bug that Miller and his fellow cybersecurity researcher Collin Mulliner plan to publicize Thursday at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Using a flaw they've found in...

Many of us have a new computer thrust upon us: we hold out on upgrading until the old one crashes. For those fortunate enough to plan ahead and buy a new computer before the old one abruptly expires, there's still the little issue of what to do with all your data - your files, documents, photos, music, etc. And what about all those programs and games you've downloaded or purchased, but can no longer find the installer files or CDs? If it's time to upgrade the PC, you've got a few options for bringing along the digital stuff you still...

Well, it finally happened.  The Internet followed me onto an airplane. I took a flight from New York to San Francisco last week, and while sitting at the gate, I noticed a representative from a company called gogoinflight.com - offering internet service on the flight.  With some trepidation, I created a gogo account at the gate, gave them my credit card info, (only $12.95 for the entire flight) and waited to clear 10,000 feet to check it out. When I opened my laptop, it found the gogo signal, and logging on was a snap. (You don't pay unless you log on, and ...