January 2012
TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for your favorite iPad... →
The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you — the readers — and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party…
December 2011
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me nix the window shadows in... →
Dear Aunt TUAW,
I recently added a second external monitor to my 13” MacBook Pro. My problem comes with the OS X Lion features that give windows a 3D depth-look, specifically, the…
Holiday Gift Guide: Procrastinator's Edition →
You know who you are. It’s Christmas Eve, your stockings are yet to be hung with care, and there’s a dismayingly large gap in the “gift gotten” column of your personal Nice list — or…
Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's the OnLive App? →
Dear Aunt TUAW,
More of a question rather than a tip, but with the App Store lockdown today, I presume OnLive’s Player App will not be live in time for Christmas.
I was thinking: Do…
NFL to stream the Super Bowl to iPhone, iPad apps →
I’m excited about this one, both for what it is, and for the potential of what it could be. The NFL has decided, in a (rare?) move of generosity, to stream the Super Bowl broadcast out…
Best of 2011 nominations: iPhone productivity apps →
During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We’ll start with nominations in…
Lots of free and discounted apps this pre-holiday... →
Yes, Christmas isn’t until next week, but around here, a free app is always welcome. Here’s some apps that have gone free for this holiday season.
The excellent match-3 Call of…
Mujjo Touchscreen Gloves keep your fingers warm,... →
If you are looking for a gift for an iPhone-owning friend this Christmas or just want a useful iPhone accessory for yourself, I highly recommend the Mujjo Touchscreen Gloves. There are…
Thunderbolt devices are still irritatingly thin on... →
Apple’s announcement of Thunderbolt on Feb 24th was greeted by excitement, as Mac users became aware of the tantalising possibilities of this new high-speed port. There’s lots of things…
A grand opening for the Apple Store at Grand... →
Early this morning, while thousands of NYC commuters trudged by, mostly unaware and uninterested, a modest band (about 100 at 8 am) of diehard Apple fans congregated in a long…
App updates roundup: Jetpack Joyride, Spelltower,... →
Thursday on the App Store brings another round of new app releases, as well as some big updates. We’ve got news on some of those releases elsewhere, but here are a few of the app updates…
Daily Mac App: Spotify →
Now that Spotify is available on both sides of the pond, it’s about time we took a quick look at it. Free streaming music apps don’t get much better than Spotify. Right now you can…
Remote Dictation Smackdown: Which app does the... →
Recently, TUAW posted about how Mobile Mouse could be used with Siri for iPhone-to-Mac remote dictation. While trying it out, I grew annoyed by transposition errors at the start of my…
Holiday Gift Guide: Cameras →
Welcome to TUAW’s 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We’re here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you’ve received your gifts we’ll tell you what apps and…
November 2011
Talking Points Memo sees Windows visitors decline,... →
The progressive left-leaning political news site Talking Points Memo issued an interesting set of (non-partisan) statistics that shows just how much the share of total devices running…
Microsoft Doesn't Get It, Episode 65,536: TellMe... →
As with all new technologies developed by or associated with Apple, competitors are stumbling over one another to dismiss Siri. Google has already played the “yawn” card, and now…
Thanksgiving app sales: More Gameloft titles, Dark... →
Here are even more Thanksgiving/Black Friday app sales popping up on the App Store:
Gameloft has a few more titles on sale than I mentioned yesterday — here’s the full list. Retro…
For the holidays and beyond: INRIX Traffic →
Think about the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US and you think of travel to see family and friends, and fighting congested highways and roads. It’s a holiday fact of life. Here’s a…
Holiday Gift Guide: Buying an iPod →
There’s something to be said for gifting a loved one with the stalwart iPod. Ranging from the no-frills iPod shuffle to the hardy iPod classic to the app-capable iPod touch, here’s…
Dev Juice: New localization tool simplifies... →
Does multi-language Cocoa or Cocoa Touch development drive you nuts? With so many strings files and a need for high precision, you’re not alone. A new application called Linguan may help…
Daily Mac App: Snap App →
Taking screenshots on Mac OS is easy thanks to its decent built-in capture utilities, but taking nice ones is not as simple as you might think. App Snap is a developer-orientated…
Sprint will begin locking iPhone 4S SIMs on... →
According to SprintFeed, Sprint will begin locking SIM slots on the iPhone 4S beginning November 11. Contradicting claims about the locked or unlocked status of Sprint’s iPhone 4S are…
TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET: A little bit of... →
I’m still in a tizzy running around doing sixteen things at once, so I wasn’t able to get a guest lined up for today’s TUAW TV Live. So, what’s a live streaming video host to do? Easy —…
Security researcher Charlie Miller finds serious... →
Security expert and Mac hacker Charlie Miller has uncovered an issue in iOS that would allow an app, downloaded from the App Store, to install and run malicious code on a device from a…
Deep dive: Aperture and Photo Stream, how do they... →
I’m a bit of a shutterbug, so Photo Stream is something I was really interested in when it was announced as part of iOS 5’s feature set way back in June. Frictionless, automated sending…
November’s key fixtures: The Theatre of Dreams... →
Siri tips: Don't transform your coworker into your... →
If you don’t want to accidentally marry your colleague, make sure you watch your phrasing when talking to Siri.
Following a relationship with a contact without using some kind of…
October 2011
Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me find Spotlight items in... →
Dear Aunt TUAW,
There’s plenty I like about Lion - but lots of pointless change for the worse. Top of my hate list is that Spotlight no longer gives me the location of the items I’m…
SoundCloud iPad app out now →
Music sharing site SoundCloud has had an iPhone app for a while, but the company has just released a version of the service built specifically for the iPad. SoundCloud generally…
TUAW TV Live: Reviewing the iPhone 4S →
The iPhone 4S has been out for a dozen days, and it’s already proving to be Apple’s most popular phone ever. The 8 MP camera takes spectacular photos and video, the speed of the device in…
MobilEcho 3.0 gives iPhone users access to Windows... →
Making Macs into full network citizens has been the business of GroupLogic for quite a while; the 23-year old ISV has been selling its flagship ExtremeZ-IP server extension tool since…
Great Siri search commands →
TUAW reader Harris Rydal sent in a bunch of terrific suggestions for using Siri’s built-in search features without having to do a lot of typing. These are exceptionally useful ways of taking…
Dear Aunt TUAW: What is this "Voice Control"... →
Dear Aunt TUAW,
I discovered by accident that I can hold down the home button on the iPhone 4 and it brings up Voice Control. I don’t remember this being there before. Is this some…
Android's Andy Rubin is not a fan of Siri →
Siri is the talk of the town now that the iPhone 4S is in the hands of over four million customers. There has been a deluge of articles about using Siri, funny phrases it says and even …
The Apple Store is Down (Updated) →
The store is down. It’s Tuesday night, and no one really expects anything more than, say, maintenance. Right? Think it’s something else? Let us know in the comments. Thanks, everyone…
The iPhone belt buckle holster is for the cowboy... →
What do you get for the cowboy who has everything? How about a huge brass iPhone belt buckle/holster? The $300 brass or aluminum cage sheaths an iPhone 4 or 4S and allows the wearer to…
Regent Street Apple Store sees record crowd →
Protect Your Bubble, a UK insurance firm, today conducted a survey of the line of people waiting to buy an iPhone 4S outside London’s Regent Street Apple Store. The survey, which which was…
Apple updates Remote, iMovie for iOS →
Apple has released Remote 2.2 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. This update offers a number of changes, including iOS 5 compatibility and the ever-popular “stability and performance…
iPad has 97.2 percent of US tablet Internet... →
comScore has determined that the iPad now accounts for more US internet traffic than the iPhone for the first time. 46.8 percent of iOS device traffic now comes from iPads, while 42.6…
MyTunes for iPhone gives your music an impressive... →
SRS Labs has just released MyTunes, a free iPhone app that rather dramatically enhances music playback on your iDevices. Instead of using the stock player provided by Apple, you launch…
iOS apps on sale and free this weekend →
There are a few sales going around this weekend — most of them are in tribute to the late, great Steve Jobs.
Steph Thirion’s Eliss is free in tribute to Jobs and his life. RPG…
Here's to the crazy ones: a farewell to Steve Jobs →
We knew. We may not have wished to know, and perhaps it was easier to push away that sense of impending sadness, the awareness that time was short, but we knew what was coming. After August,…
Daily Update for October 4, 2011: Special "Let's... →
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. Today, we bring you a special edition dedicated to news of the Apple “Let’s Talk iPhone” event. You’ll…
Rooney’s injury and what it bodes for ManUtd →
You're the Pundit: Last chance to predict the... →
When it comes to forecasting the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today’s topic is tomorrow’s…
September 2011
Using the iPhone and iPad cameras to capture... →
Remember the video of guitar strings oscillating, caught by an iPhone sitting inside a guitar? Turns out you can capture this outside a guitar if you just apply a ton of lights. It…
Xtrafolio is a useful, yet a bit pricey, portfolio... →
Continuing from Monday’s review of Portfolio for iPad, today we’re taking a look at Xtrafolio. Then, on Friday, we’ll do a head-to-head comparison of the apps and whether the built-in…
Skype for iPhone, iPad gets anti-shake, Bluetooth... →
Skype has updated its iPhone and iPad apps to include a couple of new, cool features. First off, both apps now offer Bluetooth support so users can use Bluetooth headsets with the Skype…
What do we do when we win? Tonight's Talkcast, 10... →
From an upstart outsider to the most profitable cellphone manufacturer. From a PC also-ran to the laptop of the future. In less than two years, revitalizing an entire device category and…
iTunes Match beta data to reset on Monday →
Late last night, Apple registered developers who are participating in the iTunes Match beta were notified that their test data will be zapped from orbit. Apple’s email to devs was brief and to…