How to Open and View Outlook For Mac .OLM Export File on Windows

Microsoft Outlook for Windows saves all data such as emails, contacts, calendar etc. in a .pst file and also allows you to export it in various formats. However Outlook for Mac has very limited support when it comes to exporting your data, all data exported from Outlook for Mac is saved in .OLM (aka Outlook for mac) file format and unfortunately there is no way you can view content of this file on Windows.

How To Change The Apple ID On Your iPod Touch/iPhone

An Apple ID allows you to obtain apps, iTunes downloads and more, which is required to get the full mobile experience if you own an iPhone or iPod Touch. After all, how can you not?

There are a plethora of goodies on the App Store that you shouldn’t miss out. On this page, you’ll effectively see 108 of the best (most are free!), hand-picked by our very staff, and broken down in 14 categories.

A lot of times when you’re purchasing loads of apps, you may run into issues with your Apple ID. You may discover that a cool and exciting app, for example, turns out to be offered only in another country. But worry not. Jeffry posted a detailed article on how to create a US iTunes account without a credit card to access US-only items (and judging from the comments in that post, the method seems to work for many people around the world).

How to Unlock the iPhone on AT&T

AT&T changed its policy in regards to unlocking off-contract iPhone devices. Translation, it now offers to unlock these iPhones free of charge. The process is a relatively simple one but we wanted to share just how one might go about unlocking their iPhone on AT&T.

Unlocking an iPhone will allow users to insert any microSIM into the device so long as the microSIM’s carrier frequencies are supported. This is useful when traveling abroad where a user can use a foreign SIM card to make and receive voice and data calls.

Before we get to the actual process though, there are a few caveats to the deal.

How to avoid or remove Mac Defender malware

A recent phishing scam has targeted Mac users by redirecting them from legitimate websites to fake websites which tell them that their computer is infected with a virus. The user is then offered Mac Defender "anti-virus" software to solve the issue.

This “anti-virus” software is malware (i.e. malicious software). Its ultimate goal is to get the user's credit card information which may be used for fraudulent purposes.

The most common names for this malware are MacDefender, MacProtector and MacSecurity. 

Update from WWDC: MacBook Pro Gets Incredible Retina Display

Apple’s senior vice president of marketing, Phil Schiller, announced today that the company would be releasing a new and improved version of their popular MacBook Pro computer. The new MacBook Pro will blow previous MacBook Pro versions out of the water in terms of features. Most notably, the new notebook comes with a Retina display, quad-core processors, and a 0.71-inch thick body.

If you’re familiar with the Retina display on the latest iPhone and iPad versions, you’ll probably be pleased to find a similar display on this new notebook. Additionally, the new MacBook

Samsung & Apple Continue To Lead In The Global Smartphone Market

Korean equipment manufacturer Samsung & USA based Apple Inc. have taken the lead in the global smartphone market, according to research by ABI.

Samsung & Apple collectively hold more than 50% of the market share globally. In terms of profit margins, they are the only ones making any & have over 90% share of it.

With Samsung’s latest Android phone the ‘Galaxy S III’ doing quite well, the company’s operating profits are quite high. Apple, on the other hand, never played the price game that Samsung routinely employed to destabilize Nokia’s tactics. Apple’s focus had recently enabled it to dethrone RIM as the preferred device by

Apple Gets Into Local Search With New Maps App

The rumors were true. Among a boatload of announcements today Apple is introducing its own mapping product as part of the iOS 6 update, which is available to developers today and will be available to the rest of the iOS-using public “this Fall.”

Here’s the short version of what Apple announced:

• Maps with local search
• Crowd-sourced real-time traffic
• Navigation and turn-by-turn directions
• 3D mapping with “flyover” animation
• Siri integration (both on the search front-end and as the voice for turn-by-turn)

iOS and Android tablet usage level, reveals study

The Online Publishers Association (OPA) has released a new study examining the attitudes of today’s tablet users. This latest report is the second year in which OPA has done this study and reveals a surge in tablet

Apple to Charge $199 for Battery Replacement on MacBook Pro with Retina Display

According to an article in Computerworld, Apple will charge $199 to replace the 95 watt-hour battery in the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, an increase of $70 from the traditional $129 that Apple charges for replacement batteries in the standard MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.


Before the introduction of the unibody MacBook Pro, all of Apple's notebooks had easily removable batteries. It made batteries quick to replace, but increased the complexity of the external case and the overall size of the machines. When the unibody machines were released, Apple designed a new type of battery that gave longer battery life and an increased number of charge cycles before the battery needed to be replaced:

Benchmarks for New 13-Inch MacBook Pro Beat MacBook Air, Previous MacBook Pro by 10-15%

Last week, Primate Labs summarized its Geekbench 2 database results for Apple's new MacBook Air and 15-inch MacBook Pro models, but did not address the 13-inch MacBook Pro as not enough data had been collected at that time. 

But over the past week more data has come in, and the firm now shares its results which show the new 13-inch models are yielding approximately 10-15% higher Geekbench 2 scores than both the corresponding previous-generation 13-inch MacBook Pro models as well as the current 13-inch MacBook Air models against which they are directly competing.

Daily Report: Apple Takes On Google in Maps

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Last week, Apple announced that its phones would no longer come with maps from Google built in, but instead would feature Apple’s own map service, part of its new mobile operating system. In Monday’s New York Times, Quentin Hardy looks into whether Apple can build a map service that does as good a job as Google’s — or a better one.

Making digital maps is not easy. Google has spent years working on its services, pouring all kinds of resources into the effort, including its Street View project to photograph and map the world. If Apple slips up when its new software is released this fall, consumers in the highly competitive smartphone market may have a good reason to turn to Android phones.

Apple’s Maps Don’t Look So Bad

Apple has a lot more on maps than it is showing, and that is sowing confusion in the online and mobile maps industry.

Last week, online technology publications and individual developers posted side-by-side images of Google’s mobile maps with maps Apple was sharing with developers. Apple’s maps were information wastelands in the comparison, lacking such basics as the locations of public transit stops and the names of lesser streets.

Fans of the Android operating system, which for years has had far superior navigation software than the Apple iPhones, took this as conclusive evidence that Apple’s product would be inferior to Google’s.

Apple now selling the Nest Learning Thermostat in the US for $249.95

In another of its famous Apple Store takedowns, Apple briefly pushed its online marketplace live for a moment (it’s down at the time of writing) this morning to confirm it will sell the slick Nest Learning Thermostat in the US, offering the product for a cool $249.95.

The Nest operates as a stylish and easy-to-use thermostat, utilising slick interfaces to make heating your home a simple and more enjoyable experience.

It’s also the brainchild of former Apple Senior Vice President — who is credited with the development and release of the iPod and original iPhone — so it’s no surprise that Apple has sealed a deal with Nest to stock its product in its online store.

On Microsoft Surface launch day, Apple airs new iPad commercial focusing on Retina display

On the same day that Microsoft announced its new iPad competitive Surface for Windows RT tablet, Apple began airing a new advertisement for the iPad. The ad focuses on the Retina display, displaying tasks that may be enhanced with the higher-resolution screen and is entitled ‘Do It All’.

Among the activities shown are sending an email, reading a Newsstand magazine, watching music videos, editing a slide show in Keynote, publishing an iPhoto Journal, painting digitally and reading an iBook. Apple’s iMovie and iBooks textbooks are also featured prominently.

Which Smartphone OS Is Best for Enterprise?

Which smartphone people prefer depends on many things: design, user experience, applications available, enterprise support and security, camera, cloud services, voice-activated services, and performance issues such as browser speed. Openness–the ability to customize the phone without limitation—is also important to some people. In this regard, Apple and Google sit on opposite ends of the spectrum with Microsoft somewhere in between.

Really, all of these platforms are excellent. While Apple, Google, and Microsoft compete on user experience, applications, and great features, enterprise security is more tricky.

Files in the cloud: Feature, product or company?

Box CEO Aaron Levie

A few months ago, Bill Gurley wrote apost about Benchmark’s investment inDropbox, and why Dropbox’s cloud-based file synchronization is a major disruptor. Many disagreed, quoting Steve Jobs’ assertion that file sync is a feature, not a product. As a feature, the assumption was that it would be folded into the architecture of the bigger players, once they came to market with a comparable offering.

Enter the giants.

When “Pretty Good” Is Amazing

Vizio, the company best known for building those weird glowing walls in the back of Walmart and Costco, is making PCs now. You might expect those computers to be cheap models designed to line the shelves just off to the side of the TV wall. Not machines described as a "beautiful sci-fi fleet." But people are in fact losing their shit over laptops made by Vizio.

I'll tell you why in a sentence: They're well-designed PCs that don't look and feel like ripoffs of Apple products, don't come with any bloatware and are relatively inexpensive. That's it. Really. This, though, makes them special.

It's easy to talk about the moribund state of PCs: HP, the biggest PC maker in the world, talked about selling off its PC business; number two three* Dell publicly says it's "not really a PC company anymore"; even the current flood of "ultrabooks" isn't the result of breakneck innovation at PC companies so much as it is a trough of $300 million Intel laid out to get them to make machines like the MacBook Air. It's probably more fair to talk about the commoditization of PCs and the parts that make them up, though.

Something similar happened in televisions. Just look at Sony and Sharp since HDTVs have become mere commodities, not luxury items. (Together they lost over $11 billion for the year.) Sony is, you know, Sony. It doesn't deal in commodities, or know how to deal in them, rather. It wants to "slow the race to the bottom," in the words of Phil Molyneux, its president of U.S. electronics. Vizio, though, is very good at dealing in commodities — it's the number one LCD TV maker in the U.S. Vizio founder William Wang even told Inc., "We're here to make innovative technology a commodity." You can see why Vizio can't wait to get into PCs, which are now lower and lower margin commodities, like televisions. That's where Vizio thrives.

With flat or shrinking profits from computers, PC makers now produce roughly one interesting computer a year. Dell's carbon fiber-assed XPS 13. HP's glass-topped Spectre 14. Asus's Zenbook UX31. The rest are a black ocean of awfulness. Vizio's PCs, starting at $900, are built to float just above that ocean — oddly enough keeping them from being pure commodity PCs — but sit just below Apple's computers. "We're not even trying to compete with Apple,” Vizio's CTO tells The Verge, since the "gap in the market is premium Windows consumers."

There is nothing innovative in Vizio's PCs. Nothing that's brand new or never been done before, technologically or otherwise — Intel chips, aluminum unibody, flash storage, buttonless trackpad — they're just perfectly good PCs. But nowadays, and probably for as long as laptops continue to be a thing we buy, that's enough to be special.

*Correction: Originally used U.S.-based PC shipments.

Clip-on lenses from Gizmon enhance camera on your iOS device

Enhancing your iPhone camera isn’t easy always easy, but luckily for you, today we have few handy gadgets that will somewhat enhance your iPhone’s camera.

Working Apple 1 motherboard sells for $374K in auction

Even though it would be worth next-to-nothing without its historical roots, an original Apple 1 motherboard sold for an eye-popping $374,500 today at a Sotheby’s auction.

ABI: Apple and Samsung have over 55 percent of the smartphone space, 90 percent of its money-making

Tech finance sleuth Horace Dediu was clearly astute when he determined that it's really Apple and Samsung's smartphone world, and we just live in it. ABI Research just estimated that, combined, the iPhone