“When asked for the IMAP server enter imap.mail.me.com.Your username is the name part of your @icloud.com address.Your password should be the same as your Apple ID password.Certificates should be set to SSL, or SSL (accept all certificates) if you’re having issues connecting.”
Exclusive: LG G3 (D851) being tested on T-Mobile, release in June [Pics]
“Next Tuesday, May 27, LG will be unveiling its next flagship device: The LG G3. Many of its features have been rumored for a while now, and we’ve seen a ton of leaked press images, feature lists and online placeholders.”
Windows XP registry hack provides extended support
With just a few key presses and a couple seconds of your time, you can turn your Windows XP system into one that Microsoft will actually support for the next five years. While this is not recommended, it turns out that a simple registry hack can make it so that Windows Update does not notice that your system is running XP, allowing you to receive support for a longer period of time.
Support officially ended for XP earlier this year which has a resulted in large corporations and governments scrambling to either pay Microsoft for extended support or upgrade all of their computers. Instead of doing any of that, it turns out that playing around with the registry is all that is required.
The “hack” involves opening regedit, navigating to HKLM\Sytem\WPA and creating a key called PosReady. Once you have created the key, add a DWORD value to it and set that value to 1. Once all of those things are done, Windows Update will view your XP system as though it is a POSReady device and since those devices are slated to receive support until 2019, you will receive software updates if and when they are needed.
A more detailed set of instructions will be necessary for people running a 64-bit system, but 32-bit XP users should have no problem getting past Microsoft’s XP support restriction.
Google is building a hardware empire, and this is what it looks like
Google began the 21st century as a small but growing search engine. 14 years later, the California-based company has built smartphones, mapped the globe, purchased a firm that makes advanced smoke detectors, and obtained a veritable army of robots. It’s sometimes tempting to still think of Google as a search engine, but the strides the company has made into a huge range of hardware markets show that Google’s search history won’t define its future.
At yesterday’s Code Conference, co-founder Sergey Brin showed off Google’s prototype self-driving car. The vehicle has no steering wheel and no pedals, but perhaps the strangest thing about the announcement was that it was no surprise. Google is one of most influential companies in the world, and one of the few things you can predict about its future is that its projects will only get wilder. At the moment, we know those projects include a contact lens that can help with your diabetes, a wind turbine that flies like a propeller plane and transfers power back to Earth, and — perhaps most ambitious of all — a secretive campaign costing hundreds of millions of dollars to halt the ravages of human aging.
Not all of Google’s hardware creations have been successful. Devices such as the Nexus Q that surely have seemed like good ideas on paper folded under consumer interest. Google’s labs, too, must be filled with discarded and half-finished projects and prototypes that the public will never see. But thanks to its prodigious rate of research, development, and acquisition, the company behind the world’s most popular search engine has long produced things more tangible than responses to your idle internet queries.
Verizon Claims Public Utility Status on Broadband For Government Perks
“The biggest Internet service providers in the U.S. hate the idea of being treated like utilities companies—but a new report reveals that Verizon’s FiOS service uses public utility rules to get a raft of government perks.”
Third-Party Apps That Are Better Than the Official Counterparts
“Services like Twitter, Dropbox, YouTube, or Wikipedia love to release official apps for their services. More often than not, third-party developers swoop in to make better apps to access those services than the official ones. We want to collect together the best of those apps.”
Facebook Just Made A Big Change To Privacy Settings
“Facebook is making its infamously confusing privacy settings a little more clear. Until now, when someone joined Facebook, his or her posts were automatically set to “Public.” That meant all photos, status updates, everything you put on the social network could be seen by anyone on the Internet.”
Google’s new self-driving car is a tiny two-seater with no manual controls
“Google has taken its self-driving car concept a step further by integrating the technology onto its own prototype vehicle powered by electricity. The tiny two-seater is made using off-the-shelf car parts, and it does not require a steering wheel or pedals.”
First Cox cable customers to get gigabit internet later this year
“Cox is planning to become the first major residential cable operator to offer gigabit internet service.”
Apple confirms iCloud breach not the reason behind Apple ID hijack
“Yesterday, we reported that several iPhone and iPad users in Australia were locked out of their devices.”
