I’ve been a fan of Spacetime Studios’ MMOs on the iPhone for a while now. That’s right — while multiplayer and even massively multiplayer games are easy to find these days, Spacetime Studios was doing a full-scale World of Warcraft-style MMO back in the early days of iOS with Pocket Legends. The company recently followed [...]
Fire up your updaters, campers, because there’s a prize inside — in theory, anyway. iTunes 10.5.2 has appeared on the iTunes direct download page, but it’s not yet showing up in Software Update, and the KB article covering the update is now 404ing. Reader Chasapple also points out that the Apple security updates page is [...]
The Wall Street Journal has a short but interesting piece on the world of Apple t-shirt collecting. There are two types of Apple t-shirts. The first are those shirts that the general public have access to via giveaways at Apple retail stores, such as the t-shirts at an opening of a new Apple Store. The [...]
Twitter upgraded its suite of apps recently and gave Tweetdeck for the Mac a huge overhaul. Users loved the twitter client for its column-based interface and hated it for its reliance on Adobe Air. The latest version of Tweetdeck keeps the columns, but drops Adobe Air. It replaces it with a lighter, simplified interface; but [...]
I got to meet up with Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon on the red carpet at last weekend’s VGAs, and rather than talking about the popular console fighting series, we instead talked about an iOS title: Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, which Boon’s Netherrealm Studios developed in conjunction with Warner Brothers and the developer behind the [...]
Do rumors about Apple products affect your buying habits- Tim Cook thinks so, and so do analysts. A report from Philip Elmer DeWitt of Fortune looks closely at this issue and asks whether the recent iPad 3 rumors from Digitimes will hurt Apple’s quarterly iPad 2 sales. He points to remarks Tim Cook made during [...]
We all love Siri. Whether it’s the fascinating and sometimes unintentionally humorous comments that it makes, or the fact that it’s surprisingly useful in a variety of situations, Siri has captured the imagination of many iPhone users. In a guest post for our sister site Engadget, NPD Group executive director and principal analyst Ross Rubin [...]
Looks like iOS 5.1 beta 2 is now available for developers, a few weeks after the first beta dropped. BGR has a nice list of what’s new/fixed in this release but the big news appears to be that you can finally delete images in your iCloud Photo Stream. There’s also the hope this will clear [...]
Today we’re happy to announce the first winner in TUAW’s Best of 2011 voting. The initial category that TUAW readers voted on was the Best Mac of the Year, and the results were not unsurprising. Apple’s 13″ MacBook Air trounced the competition, garnering a whopping 32.7 percent of the votes from 1,274 readers. The closest [...]
Dear Aunt TUAW, It’s funny how we can write a book to learn to speak to Siri but there’s no vocal “quit” command LOL! Your loving nephew, Dig Dear Dig, Of course there is a verbal command. It sounds like this: “Honey, press the Home button. It’s the round one at the bottom of the [...]
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) [...]
For over two years, the free “License” app by DriversEd.com has occupied a spot in the App Store. The app, which was meant as a way to create joke IDs on an iPhone or iPad, allowed users to put a digital photo and biographic information into a driver’s license template for any of the 50 [...]
A Chicago thief and his accomplice may regret stealing an iPhone during a series of home invasions. In one robbery, the suspect took an iPhone after he pistol-whipped a woman and two men and then forced them into a bathroom. The suspect was apprehended after police used a GPS app to locate the stolen phone. [...]
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 a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each category receives the highly-coveted title of TUAW [...]
Apple recently aired a new iTunes ad called “Covers.” It’s an animated compilation of The Beatles album covers set to the song “Magical Mystery Tour.” The ad presumably is celebrating The Beatles one-year anniversary on iTunes. Last week Apple also released the free Yellow Submarine animated ebook on the iBookstore. Yellow Submarine was also released [...]
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 products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We’ll [...]
FileVault 2 is a huge improvement over the original FileVault implementation, offering whole disk encryption with no noticeable performance penalty. The only downside is that every account on the computer (even “standard,” non-administrator accounts) is given access to decrypt the drive. The good news is that you can control which accounts are allowed to decrypt [...]
Korg’s popular, slim-line NanoSERIES USB-MIDI controllers have been updated to 2.0. We were lucky enough to get our hands on the NanoKONTROL2 control surface and put it through its paces. Like the the nanoKEY2 (a 25 key, velocity-sensing MIDI keyboard) and the nanoPAD2 (with 16 responsive pads and an X-Y touchpad for drum input and [...]
The Mac App Store has reached a significant milestone. According to an Apple press release, customers have downloaded over 100 million apps in less than a year. Phil Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, said, “With more than 100 million downloads in less than a year, the Mac App Store is the largest and [...]
Total Control is for the surveillance camera owner who wants “total control” over his or her arsenal of cameras. I recently installed two surveillance cameras in my home and use this app to observe the interior and exterior my house when I’m traveling. Total Control has a comprehensive database of supported cameras and can connect [...]
It’s Sunday once again and this can mean only one thing: Talkcast Time! If the holiday crazies haven’t completely overcome you yet, join me at 5PM Hawaii/7PM Pacific/10PM Eastern for some holiday goings-on. We’ll be discussing gifts for those who haven’t finished shopping already, primarily from our own Holiday Gift Guides, but we’re also looking [...]
Spotify already has proven itself a formidable competitor for Rdio, and the all-you-can-stream music service even matches up against iTunes with a subscription model versus iTunes’ track-at-a-time sales approach. Now it’s aiming the crosshairs at suggestion engine Pandora with a revamp of its Spotify Radio feature. Spotify’s current radio activates when you select “start artist [...]
Have you ever wanted to look in your own ear- Or at the nape of your neck- Or behind furniture- If you own an iPhone 4S and an Apple TV, you can wirelessly beam the picture from your camera to your large screen TV. Just enable AirPlay. Double-click the Home button, swipe to the right [...]
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 Thunderbolt can do that were simply not possible before — driving multiple external displays from a single port, “docking” a laptop to a selection of external [...]
We had an explosion of news apps this week. Zite added an iPhone version of its app, so did Flipboard. Now Google has joined the party with Google Currents, a free app that creates a magazine for you based on sites that you like, as well as content from particular bloggers and commentators. The app [...]
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 underground corridor waiting for the opening of the Grand Central Terminal store. The grandeur and architectural majesty of the station’s main concourse and the massive [...]
Just in time for Christmas, Apple has dropped the price of its refurbished iPad 2s by , which means you can now grab a sweet returned iPad 2 for as low as 9. These are of course items that have come back to Apple retail stores or otherwise not been sold due to defects, but [...]
Apple has apparently hired an executive from HP to handle its IT channel business in the UK, and the company is still searching for a global channel director, according to Channelnomics. Apple hired one Trevor Evans to run things in the UK, who joined the company after resigning from HP while on leave. And the [...]
Skyrim is an action, role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios that’s filled with magic, potions, and dragon shouts. The game follows the main character’s quest to defeat Alduin and the other dragons that returned to Skyrim. It’s the fifth installment in the Elder Scroll series and one of the best so far. If you’re [...]
Yesterday, Amazon introduced Kindle Direct Publishing Select (KDP), featuring a multi-million dollar seed fund. KDP Select allows authors to earn royalties by lending out their books through Amazon’s Prime Kindle Owners Lending Library. Authors who choose to participate will share in a US0,000 pool per calendar month, apportioned by the number of titles lent. To [...]
You win a few, you lose a few. This week, Apple was up against the ropes in the patent infringement fights going on all over the world. In Germany, Motorola won a verdict against Apple when a court in Mannheim ruled that Apple had violated one of its 3G-related patents. This could be serious for [...]
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) [...]
It’s no secret that the iPad is a hit in the healthcare industry, but doctors love more than just the sleek tablet. A study earlier this year showed that a full 75 percent of US physicians owned some sort of Apple device. In a post Wednesday on MedPage Today, blogger Iltifat Husain tabulated the reasons [...]
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 a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each category receives the highly-coveted title of TUAW [...]
One thing that drives me mad is when applications try to phone home with information. Usually, these requests are benign; the app is either looking for the latest update or making a serial number verification request. If it’s a rogue app, though, it could be sending back information you’d rather not share. To find out [...]
It’s an app with a funny name, but a lot of power. Snapseed, from Nik Software, is a powerful photo editor for the iPad. You can enhance color and exposure of any photo with a single click, or just tweak your photo using a variety of powerful tools that can transform a mundane photo into [...]
Zite is probably the most-used app on my iPad. I love the way it crawls hundreds of thousands of news sites for the stories I am going to find interesting. It’s a bit like Pandora for news, and I can give any story a thumbs up or thumbs down while the app constantly tunes the [...]
AppleInsider, who first reported last week that the wait time for build-to-order iMacs with 2 TB hard drives had leaped to 5 to 7 weeks, came back today with another report saying those times have dropped to 2 to 4 weeks. If you’re looking to gift someone with a 2 TB iMac, you probably want [...]
It’s taken a little while, but Apple’s flagship music production software and music performance software have arrived on the Mac App Store, joining Apple’s other Mac App Store offerings like iWork, iLife and Final Cut Pro. Logic Pro 9 and MainStage are now available for download from the Mac App Store at US9.99 and .99 [...]
Last week, Erica and Victor shared a hack for transferring the URL of an open webpage from your computer to your iPhone via the intermediary of a QR code. It’s easy and quick, but as is often the case our astute commenters pointed to a slew of alternative solutions to tackle the same problem. The [...]
In the vast world of iPad accessories, there are few complete systems that provide a variety of ways to protect and mount your device. A new case system from Australia, The Wallee, comes with a set of sidekicks that make it one of the most versatile iPad accessories I’ve reviewed so far. Read on for [...]
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 products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We’ll [...]
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