Mashable’s Lance Ulanoff raises the question of whether Apple should have advertised during Super Bowl XLVI. He points out that 28 years after the debut of the “1984″ commercial that Apple sat on the sidelines and allowed its rivals to mock it during the most-watched show in U.S. television history. “By not appearing at the [...]
That didn’t take long. Only a few weeks after Apple’s iBooks Author app debuted, template publisher Jumsoft began shipping Book Palette (US That didn’t take long. Only a few weeks after Apple’s iBooks Author app debuted, template publisher Jumsoft began shipping Book Palette (US$2.99), a collection of ten professionally designed templates for iBooks Author. I [...]
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) [...]
The design wizards at Twelve South have come up with another unique and useful accessory for Apple gear. This time, they’re introducing the HoverBar (US.99), a mounting clamp and flexible bar that floats an iPad 2 (or several) next to your iMac or Apple monitor. The HoverBar can be clamped onto the upright of an [...]
Two years ago, Tristan Schaap joined Apple’s Platform Technologies Group as an intern. During his 12-week stint with the Core OS division, he worked on a project to get a piece of Mac OS X running on an ARM processor, says a report by iMore. Most people were not aware of this project until recently, [...]
Apple and the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) both received criticism last year for a sweetheart deal in which Apple paid less rent per square foot for the Grand Central Terminal retail store space than other tenants in the facility. Well, the deal is starting to pay off for the MTA as expected, [...]
Enyo is an application development platform created by HP for webOS. It’s open source and based on web standards like JavaScript. Best of all, it can be used to create apps for other platforms like Android and iOS. The first Enyo-based app for iOS, FlashCards To Go, was unveiled last month when HP announced its [...]
One of my favorite navigation apps for the iPhone, Where To-, has been updated to include more pictures, more reviews, and some videos of selected destinations. Reviews and media are sourced from users and Google. The app features 700 categories of destinations, and more than 2,400 brands (e.g. In-N-Out Burger or Trader Joe’s). The app [...]
Puzzlejuice adds all kinds of bells, whistles and fun to the “word game” genre. The equally excellent 7 Little Words goes in the opposite direction, boiling wordplay down to its core. It offers just seven words and a series of letters (in groups of two or three at a time) to spell them with. 7 [...]
In a Monday afternoon briefing, Stephen Wolfram spoke about the direction of Siri and Wolfram Alpha integration. He explained that over time, the range of queries that users can ask Siri that are served by Wolfram Alpha continues to get broader. This is apparently a natural byproduct of using a cloud-based system with the Siri [...]
Soon after the 10.7.3 update to OS X Lion, people started finding subtle differences in the pointer icons for OS X (hat tip to Daring Fireball). Specifically, the link, grab, copy, and screenshot pointers have all been updated with slightly new iterations for the first time since OS X 10.2, released in 2002. The link [...]
Apple has issued a reminder to developers that it will not tolerate use of third party services to manipulate app rankings in the App Store. “When you promote your app, you should avoid using services that advertise or guarantee top placement in App Store charts,” the reminder states. “Even if you are not personally engaged [...]
If you’re looking for coverage of working conditions at Foxconn and other Apple manufacturing partners, there’s plenty to go around. The drumbeat of sharply critical stories continued today with CNN’s interview of a Foxconn worker; this follows a scathing New York Times story from late January that explores the gulf between electronics companies’ best intentions [...]
I first saw Monster Wars a little while ago at Macworld as Liv Games was just publishing it, but the title has been out for a little while now and I’ve had a little longer to play with it. Monster Wars is not only another huge content pack for Legendary Wars, with tons of new [...]
Anime News Network did an in-depth comparison of reading manga on an iPad vs. a Nook Color today, after Viz Media sent them both devices so they could do a hands-on look at making the digital jump. After taking a hit from the closing of Borders, Viz decided to turn its popular Shonen Jump publication [...]
Stick with us on this one — it seems unlikely, but this case could have some wider consequences. Last year, Apple filed a lawsuit against a company named Proview Technology Shenzen in China. It was pretty common by Apple’s standards: The company was using the name iPad, and Apple was trying to keep them from [...]
I’ve talked quite a bit before about the growing “second screen” phenomenon, where iPads and other mobile devices are used as a second screen while either working on another computer or watching television. And with the biggest event on television yesterday, there was likely a lot of “second screen” viewing going around. ZDNet’s James Kendrick [...]
RIM’s star just sank a bit closer to the horizon. Halliburton, a household name in the energy industry and once a BlackBerry bastion, is dumping RIM’s platform and switching to iOS. The company once relied heavily on RIM’s platform, but after evaluating RIM, Windows Phone, Android, and iOS, Halliburton has settled on switching to Apple’s [...]
Siri has been in widespread use for four months, but so far Apple’s “personal assistant” is still only available on one device, the iPhone 4S. We speculated that there weren’t any technical reasons Siri couldn’t work on some of Apple’s other devices, and the jailbreak community later proved us right by porting Siri to 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 the iPad 3. It’s been a long, cold winter for TUAW. As days lengthen and Spring becomes less of a [...]
Dear Aunt TUAW, I love Siri. I’m surprised at how much I actually use it beyond the gimmicky stuff. Texting while driving (through my car’s Uconnect system) is so handy. One thing I’ve noticed is that when I dictate a message, add a smiley face and have her read it back to me, she says, [...]
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) [...]
When you think Microsoft, you think “big.” Especially from the perspective of Apple’s long-time customers and loyalists — those who remember the rough times in the 1990s, when Microsoft’s US0 million investment helped keep the company from fiscal ruin — the idea of corporate behemoth-ness is paired irrevocably with Redmond’s mastery of the Windows ecosystem. [...]
Samsung USA has been on the warpath against Apple fans lately with a series of ads that show bored, desperate people standing in line for Apple’s next product while happy hipsters show off their Android-powered Sammy devices. During yesterday’s Super Bowl, the company took the gloves off with a regionally-focused ad touting the new Samsung [...]
There’s a lot of speculation going around about an Apple HDTV of some sort. The Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs started a lot of the rumors when he quoted Jobs as saying that Apple had “finally cracked” the method of interacting with a television. Now the speculation is bordering on the ridiculous, with screen [...]
Simon Prakash, an Apple veteran with eight years of service, has left the Cupertino company to join its rival Google. Prakash most recently served as the senior director of product integrity and was responsible for product quality across all Apple product lines. According to his LinkedIn profile, Prakash was the director of engineering design validation [...]
Image: Shutterstock A few days ago, I caught a tweet from Paul Haddad (of Tapbots), showing a screen full of obvious copycat apps from one developer. Of course, anyone who has spent appreciable time on the App Store knows there are plenty of copycats out there. Not all of them are small shops, either. But [...]
We’ve seen lots of photo accessories that let you add filters and lenses to your iPhone, but SkyLight is the first to let you add a full-fledged microscope. It’s a platform that attaches to a microscope and aligns the phone’s camera with the eyepiece. You can view the microscope image on your phone and take [...]
Do you want to share files easily and quickly- Then take a look at Droplr, which has been around for some time and recently hit the Mac App Store in an improved version 2. Droplr is free and easy way to share images, documents and other files. You can run it from a web browser [...]
Glitchsoft’s oddly-titled Star Marine: Infinite Ammo (more on why that’s weird in a moment) is both good at bad. First, it’s good at heart. Star Marine: Infinite Ammo is a Contra-style run-and-gun title that has you controlling a soldier on a spaceship among other environments. Your job is to fight through hordes of aliens and [...]
It’s not just any Sunday, this one happens to be Super! If you’re over the game, or don’t know what game I’m referring to, then join me at 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern for a look at the week’s news and events. We’ll cover the latest Lion update, warts and all, as well as Siri’s sitcom [...]
Mobile OS crash analysis firm Crittercism (Really- Who’s naming this stuff-) has posted the chart above, which shows that as a percentage of crashes overall, the latest version of iOS claims the highest total. In fact, many versions of iOS show a large percentage of crashes, and clearly iOS overall seems more prone to have [...]
The ongoing patent spat between Motorola and Apple has reached an interesting crossroads. Just recently a German court granted an injunction against sales of many of Apple’s 3G-bearing products, including older model iPhones and the iPad. That injunction held for less than a day, however, pending further review of Motorola’s claims against Apple. Florian Mueller [...]
Bob Borchers used to be an iPhone product marketing engineer for Apple. Part of the team that brought the first iPhone to market in 2007, he’s now a venture capitalist with Opus Capital. Borchers recently gave a talk to students at a California school talking about the thought processes that were involved in the iPhone’s [...]
Haven’t heard of AnyPlay- That’s not surprising. It’s a small initiative slowly being introduced by Comcast into select cable markets. With it, you can watch live television over your home network on your iPad. So if your spouse is hogging the HDTV during your CW night, you can watch Supernatural using your local Wi-Fi. (Cablevision [...]
As noted yesterday, many of the users who updated their OS X 10.6 systems with Apple’s most recent security patches found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, and it should resolve the issues. The latest [...]
I met up with the guys behind iBackflip while at Macworld, and was impressed with their passion for design. Their first iBackflip was a pretty straightforward flip-down arm sling for the iPad. Using Velcro, it offered a basic black design and minimal extras. The new iBackflip Somersault, now available for pre-order, is a thoroughly updated [...]
A silent update to the backend has introduced Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows to the Apple TV. No user action is required to access the new feature, as it’s not part of a device firmware update. Instead, Apple has updated its own servers to send this information to the Apple TV from its [...]
If you want to pass like Tom Brady from the comfort of your living room chair, then you should grab a copy of NFL Flick Quarterback for the iPhone. The app is a flick-style passing game that lets you take on the role of an NFL quarterback. The game isn’t a full-fledged football simulation like [...]
Seamus Blackley is one of the co-creators of Microsoft’s original Xbox console, and he put together a really interesting team of old-school Atari game developers recently to (take a guess!) make mobile games. Blackley’s new company is called Innovative Leisure, and while the website isn’t anything more than a groovy logo, the devs he’s got [...]
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) [...]
If you’ve ever corresponded with Apple Support (or any major customer support outlet, really), you might have seen that little notice at the bottom of the email that says any conversation included “may be privileged and may contain confidential information.” Most of the time, that’s just a weak move to try and cover up any [...]
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