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Apple News: How to Understand & Work with Your iCloud Photo Stream iPhoneography – capturing unique moments of time every day and every place with an iPhone. It goes without saying that your photos are important to you. Many are irreplaceable. Let’s say you are visiting family while vacationing in Italy. You’re using your iPhone to record the memorable family events that are bound to ensue. The photos you take…

Apple News: Apple and other tech companies deny PRISM surveillance claims, NSA says claims ‘inaccurate’ and not used domestically Claims made by The Washington Post that the National Security Agency was tapping into the servers of nine tech companies for details of user activity have been denied by Apple and most of the other companies alleged to be involved. “We have never heard of PRISM,” said Steve Dowling, a spokesman…

Apple News: How Apple can stop Google from taking over the iPhone. Again. Earlier today Google posted some iOS code aimed at helping developers use a combination of URL schemes and x-callback to basically set Chrome as the default browser from within their own apps, if it detects the user has Chrome installed. Call it a hijack, call it a take over, call it a 5th column, call it whatever…

Apple News: Apple invention creates a secure device-to-device network with just a picture Apple on Tuesday was granted patent rights to a novel data transfer invention that allows one device to use its built-in camera to take a picture of a second device, and extract a digital handshake key from the image to setup a secure connection. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,429,407 for…

Apple News: Which Apple devices to pack for your trip I don’t know what to pack. I’m about to take a trip to Dublin, Ireland, and I have no idea whether to pack my MacBook Pro, my less-powerful-but-more-portable MacBook Air, or just an iPad. And if I opt for only an iPad, do I take my favorite one—the iPad mini—or do I choose the full-size model to take advantage the…