Google to strip Chrome of SSL revocation checking
Google's Chrome browser will stop relying on a decades-old method for ensuring secure sockets layer certificates are valid after one of the company's top engineers compared it to seat belts that break when they are needed most.
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Lion’s FileVault 2 and disk restore: caveat encryptor
When Mac OS X 10.7 Lion introduced full disk encryption, called FileVault 2, it was a huge improvement over the original FileVault, which only encrypts a user's home folder. And because of the "creative" way FileVault was implem...
Get Started With Your New Mac – The Right Way [Setup Guide]
Were you very good this year? Did Santa spoil you, and did you find yourself opening up a brand new Mac under the Christmas tree this morning? Congratulations, we’re jealous… but not so jealous that we aren’t eager to teach you how to get...Get Started With Your New iPod Touch — The Right Way [Setup Guide]
We know many of you lucky so and sos will be unwrapping iPod touches this Christmas, and we want to help you get started with your new device the right way, so that you can begin enjoying it from day one. In this handy...Get Started With Your New iPhone — The Right Way [Setup Guide]
You just got your brand new iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S for Christmas. It’s shiny exterior beckons you to explore your new smartphone. We want to show you how to get started with your new device the right way, so that you can...Feature: Ars Technica’s 2011 holiday gift guide extravaganza
Every holiday session, millions of geeks suffer at the hands of poorly thought-out gifts: USB flash drives in Hello Kitty shapes. T-shirts that detect Wi-Fi signals. Your second, third, and fourth copies of Arkham City.
No......
Feature: Can the iPhone 4S replace a "real" digital camera? Ars investigates
When Apple announced the iPhone 4S, the company certainly talked up the improvements made to the smartphone's integrated camera hardware. With 8 megapixels of resolution, a redesigned lens, and enhancements to its software,...
iTunes Match: your questions answered
Apple launched iTunes Match on Monday this week, making the service available to public users five months after its introduction and a few weeks later than expected. The service, meant to sync an entire music...
Facebook friends open source hardware for data centers
The term “open source server” just
took on a whole new meaning. This morning at an event in New York,
Facebook director of hardware design and supply chain Frank
Frankovsky announced the creation of a foundatio...
Feature: Tutorial: OS X automation with MacRuby and the Scripting Bridge
Mac OS X provides rich scripting and automation tools that can simplify everyday tasks—if you know how to use them. The roster includes the venerable command line, the graphical Automator utility, and the traditional ......
The speed demon: hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S II
Our patience has finally paid off: within the next few days, the Samsung Galaxy S II will finally land in the US on AT&T and Sprint. Since the phone landed in our hands, we’ve enjoyed nearly every minute with...
Feature: How-to: run new media center software on your original Apple TV
For me, acquiring new gadgets is painfully easy; offloading old ones is more difficult. The predictable result: a closet, garage, or basement full of aging but not quite obsolete tech. As an Ars reader, you...
