Bogus Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple references bogus devices in iOS 5.1B1 config file

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 13th, 2011)

Apple is getting crafty and peppering an iOS 5.1B1 config file with references to fake devices. These bogus devices were discovered in the USBDeviceConfiguration.plist file and first reported by 9to5Mac. The file is reportedly one that many sleuths examine when they're looking for new device ...

A "plastic bag" or "an iPad case"? You be the judge.

by TJ Luoma (Mar 15th, 2010)

I was surfing on Amazon over the weekend and decided to see what would come up when I searched for "iPad". One of the first results was: TrendyDigital WaterGuard Waterproof Case/Cover for Apple iPad, Blue Border and what caught my attention was that it only had one star. That seemed pretty severe, ...

Friday fakes: The best of the bogus

by Steven Sande (Aug 21st, 2009)

TUAW presents to you the best of the obviously fake device shots we've seen in the last couple of weeks. On occasion they're beautiful renderings that are worth a second glance, other times they're out of focus shots that tipsters swear were taken quickly at a meeting on the Apple campus. In any ...

'MacGuard' double-plus ungood, avoid

by Robert Palmer (Oct 17th, 2008)

The fine folks at Intego sent out a warning this morning about MacGuard, a bogus piece of software that claims to clean up your system and remove adware, spyware, and trojans. It doesn't. According to the warning, MacGuard is simply a clone of a Windows app called WiniGuard. The company releasing ...