If you missed the launch day pre-orders and want to get an iPad on Friday, you should start planning your strategy now. Like any good consumer, you’ll need to decide which store will have the most iPads and the smallest line so you can maximize your chances of getting the model that you want. In [...]
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
Ars Technica did an extreme close-up analysis of video quality from iTunes 1080p downloads versus the same title on a Blu-ray. The verdict- Blu-ray still takes the title of best-looking HD format, but the iTunes version is very close to Blu-ray quality. It’s a dramatic improvement from the old 720p downloads the iTunes Store used [...]
Welcome back to another thrilling episode of TUAW TV Live! On today’s show, I’ll be doing the regular round of demos along with discussion with the chat room about the new iPad, and ending the show with another fun round of Apple trivia. As usual, the show will get underway at exactly 5 PM EDT [...]
Back in January, IK Multimedia announced the iRig Mix and accompanying app, DJ Rig. We’re still waiting to get our hands on the mixer (due at some point later this month), but the DJ Rig app has arrived on the App Store. And you don’t need the iRig Mix to take advantage of it. DJ [...]
It’s Wednesday already, which means it’s time for another episode of TUAW TV Live. It’s too early to do an iPad unboxing or post-mortem, but I’m sure we’ll have an opportunity to discuss all the things about the new iPad that we didn’t get around to last week. I’ll also be demonstrating some fun accessories [...]
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission subpoenaed Apple as part of a Google antitrust inquiry says Bloomberg. The FTC asked Apple to hand over documents that detail its search agreement with Google. Google has been the default search engine for iOS since the iPhone launched in 2007. Rumors suggest Microsoft, in 2010, tried unsuccessfully to unseat [...]
In my second celebrity-oriented post of the day, we’ll explore how Apple treats stars like … well, like regular people. According to a post on Fast Company, Apple is horrible to celebrities. You see, if you’re a major sports figure or a top actress like Snooki, you don’t really have to buy a lot of [...]
As if we don’t get inundated with enough entreaties to spend while watching the boob tube, now eBay has joined the fray with a new iPad app. Watch with eBay (free) is designed to let fans find items that are for sale on eBay that are related to your favorite shows. For example, let’s say [...]
Life appears to be getting better for the thousands of workers who build our favorite Apple devices in China. Foxconn, the company that builds iPhones and iPads for Apple, is now hiring for several positions that are related to oversight of safety and lifestyle issues at its facilities. According to a Bloomberg article posted a [...]
Dear Aunt TUAW, The latest update for Quickpick has removed a bunch of features — particularly that “Actions cannot be launched directly from the Notification Center any more.” Well, crap. Do I update and lose features I want, or never use “update all” again- *sigh* Your loving nephew, Tim Dear Tim, There are ways around [...]
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 data buckets. Data buckets refer to the bandwidth allocation you can purchase monthly on the iPad. For example, AT&T’s smallest [...]
Vietnamese website Tinhte.vn allegedly has a new iPad and has been posting images and benchmarks from the device. A third posting from the group now showcases the photo-taking ability of the tablet device. The images suggest the camera on the new iPad is a huge improvement over the iPad 2, but not as crisp and [...]
The tablet market heated up in the last quarter of 2011 when Amazon went head-to-head against Apple with its Kindle Fire. Many expected the Fire to make a dent in the sales of the Apple iPad and the latest IDC numbers suggest their expectations were correct. Though overall iPad shipments increased, the iPad’s market share [...]
Those who know me know that Byword has become my favorite writing tool. I’ve been keeping my mouth shut about this release during the beta testing period, but I’m really excited to announce it’s arrival: Byword for iOS. The iOS version includes the Markdown-editing features that I love on the Mac, and has full iCloud [...]
Apple announced today that the new iPad will go sale this Friday starting at 8:00 am local time. It will debut in the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Switzerland and the UK; along with Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. With a long pre-order and several retailers offering the iPad [...]
Shadow Government was probably the most fascinating game I saw at GDC. I should probably clarify that: I didn’t see much of the game in action, but what I did see showed off an excellently designed UI and some good looking (if a little complicated) Farmville-style game mechanics. The most fascinating thing about Shadow Government [...]
In a rare move of capitulation to a carrier, Apple caved to pressure from AT&T and made a controversial change in iOS 5.1 last week: an iPhone 4S on AT&T now reports a “4G” network rather than the old 3G signal. This change has been expected since October of 2011, but that doesn’t mean it [...]
Ayopa Games is a mobile games publisher that actually has its roots in Chillingo. Founder Johnny Coghlan was a former head of publishing there until Chillingo was acquired by EA. Coghlan has brought his mobile game-finding expertise to Ayopa, and this company’s slate is almost as enticing as Chillingo’s usual offerings. First up was an [...]
My meeting with Big Fish Games’ Patrick Wylie was one of my last meetings at GDC, but it was also one of my most satisfying. It turns out I’m not alone in my esteem for the great Fairway Solitaire app this company has put together; “This game is growing our audience,” Wylie told me. That’s [...]
Apple’s pro-level photo editing application for the Mac, Aperture, has been updated to version 3.2.3. Aside from the usual fixes addressing “performance and stability,” this update brings Aperture up to parity with iPhoto in allowing users to delete photos from Photo Stream, the iCloud service that allows wireless syncing of photos across all enabled devices. [...]
It’s hard to do something truly new or unique when it comes to GPS software. You’ve got maps, a destination database, throw in some traffic and weather. I’ve spent a couple of days with an app called GPS everyWhere + HUD Mode. That’s a mouthful, but there a quite a lot of features to talk [...]
Woodcraft is for the carpenter or woodworker with an eye for 3D. The app is a visualization tool that lets you design your next building project using the basic principles of CAD. It lets you drag out lumber that you need and assemble it into a finished product using only your iPad and your imagination. [...]
PayPal is planning to take on Square with a new payment processing dongle, says a report from GigaOM. The dongle will supposedly tie into PayPal’s already robust payment processing system and will be targeted towards small businesses. Smaller companies would be able to use this system to process credit card transaction at the office or [...]
Sega was in attendance at GDC 2012 last week, showing off its latest and greatest mobile offerings for iOS. There were only three apps that really stuck out to me from the event itself, and you can read all about them right here below. First up, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episode 2 is going to [...]
iPhone 4S owners already know that they have a pretty decent digital camera in their hands. However, if you long for the days of knurled metal knobs, optical viewfinders, and hand-focused lenses, you were pretty much out of luck — until now. Four Corner Store has developed the Gizmon iCA Military Edition Case for the [...]
The popular Camera+ app (US[substring:0:600] The popular Camera+ app (US$0.99) has just received an update to version 3.0 that adds new functionality as well as an API that has already been used by a number of top name developers to add the Camera+ functionality to a variety of apps. When I say that Camera+ is [...]
When the predictions were running wild about the new iPad’s features, most pundits believed that the new device would come with Siri. After all, the intelligent assistant has been on the iPhone 4S since October 2011, providing both useful information and help as well as hours of entertainment. Time Magazine’s Matt Peckham believes that Apple [...]
Being a blogger in the Apple ecosystem, I’m used to seeing numbers that are completely staggering — the number of iPads sold during an introductory weekend, for example. But when an iPhone app is able to pull in a huge number of downloads in a very short timeframe, I really pay attention. That’s the case [...]
At Apple’s education keynote in January, McGraw Hill Education was announced as one of the partners in the initiative to move textbooks to a digital format. The company’s vice president of new ventures, Vineet Madan, is impressed with the power and display of the new iPad, but says he thinks that the newly discounted iPad [...]
The Google+ mobile website is easier on the eyes thanks to a redesign Google rolled out on Monday. The new UI is available on any mobile device, including the iPad which still does not have a native client. Comments on the redesign suggest the web UI improves performance on the tablet device, but it still [...]
Are you getting an earful from parents or grandparents about which iPad they should buy- Read on for our guide to buying the right iPad for Mom, Dad, Grandma or Grandpa. Two bits of anecdotal evidence that there’s a digital revolution in progress: In the past year, both my mother and my mother-in-law have purchased [...]
It’s the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You’ll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what’s happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today’s Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires Flash) [...]
Earlier today, Vietnamese blog Tinhte.vn released unboxing pictures and a video that supposedly showcases the new iPad. They also did some benchmark tests that suggest the iPad will ship with 1 GB of RAM. Recent reports from The Verge and iOS hacker Chronic claim the iPad had 1 GB of RAM, but those reports were [...]
Dear Aunt TUAW, While it is possible to track down Apple user manual .pdf files on their support site and then import them to iBooks, why doesn’t Apple simply make them available for free in a special section of the iBooks app- Your loving nephew, Jeremy Dear Jeremy, They do. Just search for Apple in [...]
The UAE Cabinet is now using iPads to “achieve speed and flexibility in decision making” says HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is the Ruler of Dubai and UAE Prime Minister and Vice President. The above picture, tweeted by Sheikh Mohammed, shows cabinet members already putting their iPads to good use. These tablets [...]
As fans of the TV hospital drama House can tell you, many hospital patients aren’t exactly fond of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. They’re loud, confining, and generally quite uncomfortable. Now PDC Facilities, a company specializing in products for the medical diagnostics imaging market, has come up with a new product that uses an iPad [...]
Apple’s going to need to keep those supplier factories in China running 24/7 just to meet the demand from corporate buyers. A new ChangeWave Research survey of 1,604 corporate buyers shows that not only are about one in five companies planning on purchasing tablets for employees, but of those companies a whopping 84 percent say [...]
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 the new iPad — specifically, its name. Macs and iPods have traditionally gone nameless. There’s no Mac mini 3 or [...]
As expected, AT&T and Verizon both announced today that they will sell the new WiFi+4G iPad starting Friday, March 16. AT&T will sell the iPad through all AT&T sales channels, while Verizon will offer the new iPad at all Verizon Wireless Communications Stores and online. The iPad WiFi+4G will cost US9 for the 16 GB [...]
AppleInsider is reporting that portions of Apple.com have been upgraded to take advantage of the new iPad’s Retina display and HiDPI screens. So far, the changes have been made to the home page and iPad portions of the site. AppleInsider has several comparison shots made in normal version, the bottom screenshot above, and with HiDPI, [...]
Apple added support for Japanese in iOS 5.1, but the roll out isn’t going as smoothly as expected. According to a Kotaku report, Apple’s voice assistant can apparently only handle simple and universal Japanese phrases. When it comes to complex phrases, Siri stumbles while its competitor Shabette Concier performs flawlessly. Shabette, a recently-launched voice service [...]
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