It’s an exciting time to be an Apple fan as their Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off next Tuesday in San Francisco. Last year, just some of the announcements included OS X and iOS upgrades, 10.9 Mavericks and iOS 7, respectively, fantastic battery life and flash storage improvements to the MacBook Air, and new online features such as iTunes Radio and iWork for iCloud. But what will we be hearing about this year? A bigger and better iPhone 6? How about an upgraded Mac mini? And where the heck is my iWatch?

No matter what you think they’re going to announce and despite all those blurry pictures of a 12-inch iPad that you saw on some Chinese website, we really never know what they’re going to announce at these things, and that’s part of the fun. So place your bets with your friends and tune into the keynote speech starting at 10am Pacific Time on Apple’s website.

Moving on to our writers, our first contributor is surely hoping for more user control in iOS 8 as his article touches on the data settings for your iPhone. We’ll also go over security tips to keep your Mac safe and how to avoid a costly display replacement.

– Mike
miked@smalldog.com