Friday, January 13th is going to be a lucky day for iPhone fans in China and 21 other countries. On that day, the iPhone 4S becomes available in those countries around the world. In a press release this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook reported that “Customer response to our products in China has been off [...]
Typing- whether it’s writing a blog post or responding to an email, almost everyone with a computer has to type. So why not make it fun- One way to liven up your typing experience is to use the small utility Typingstats. Typingstats is an OS X app that sits in your menu bar and keeps [...]
Devon Read spent five years in the Marines, serving in both Iraq and Africa. Now, the Golden, Colorado resident is a successful Apple accessory maker. He’s a self-admitted Apple fan who wanted a protective case for his Apple devices, but couldn’t find products that were fashionable, functional and affordable. Instead of waiting for that perfect [...]
It’s that time of the year again, folks. People are busy making resolutions and companies are busy preparing earnings statements. Apple updated its investor relations website and confirmed it will hold its Q1 2012 earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 2:00 pm PT. The press release with all the details will hit [...]
Beats+ is a niche app, but it’s probably very useful for the kind of person who could use it. It’s a simple but powerful drum machine app, featuring over 50 different drum loops (frequent updates keep the library fresh) to be used as accompaniment with whatever kind of music you want. In addition to playing [...]
Yesterday, TUAW reported on a rumored Apple media event to be held in New York City later this month. Shortly after that post blessed the Interwebs, TUAW followed up with further detail from sister site TechCrunch. The word from the TechCrunchers was that the January event will focus on iBooks and publishing. Now Fox & [...]
Voting has been opened up for the 2011 Best App Ever nominees. These awards have been put on every year for a few years now by our friends over at 148 Apps, and they feature many of the greatest apps you’ll find on the iOS store, chosen by users. To vote on this year’s awards, [...]
This is great — developer Wannes Vermeulen has hacked a toy remote control car with an Arduino board and hooked it up to an iPad to drive it around. You can see video of the project in action over on Vimeo right now. It’s not anything too special these days, as you can buy lots [...]
For many people, it’s kind of pointless to go searching for a Dock replacement. The Dock itself is one of the most attractive features of OS X and is actually one of the things that lured me into adopting Macs at home seven years ago. But when you have a smaller screen to work with, [...]
Apple Stores continue to be a target for theft around the United States, apparently — this time a robbery went down in Scottsdale, Arizona, where a trio of young thieves busted in the glass doors on an Apple Store, and tried to get away with ,000 worth of Apple devices. The group robbed the store [...]
Amazon has trailblazed; Apple has followed. Apple’s iBooks program currently allows authors to self-publish ebooks. Authors create their own business built around iTunes Connect, just as they do for self-published apps. So where does Apple have room to improve- What follows is the first of several posts about how iBooks can improve to better compete [...]
Readers who went to college in the pre-App Store days will likely remember what it was like to receive a college brochure when they were shopping for schools. It was so exciting to thumb through the pages of a bright and colorful brochure which was printed on thick, glossy paper. In the next several years, [...]
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 need motivation to get to the gym when you find your desire to stick to your resolutions waning, GymPact is offering a financial incentive to actually get you to go. The free app works when you commit to go to the gym and then set a monetary amount for each day. You must [...]
A few more Electronic Arts employees have jumped ship for Ngmoco’s newest studio, in Sweden. After Ben Cousins (who formerly worked at EA’s “EAsy” division) left to form Ngmoco Sweden, he’s apparently been building a wishlist of various developers, and now he’s grabbed three more, this time from EA’s DICE studio (creators of the Battlefield [...]
Sometimes a wiseacre editor (we have a few) suggests we do a Five Apps post for a particularly offbeat area of interest. And sometimes we actually start brainstorming these. Today, we’ll look at at restroom apps: after all, you can’t spell iPhone without “I P.” Here are 5 apps to help accommodate your timely needs [...]
TUAW readers in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines can look forward to a special Apple promotion this Friday. On January 6, Apple is holding a “special one-day Apple shopping event” for “amazing iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone.” As with Apple’s annual Black Friday sale, the company isn’t giving [...]
If you like word games like Scrabble or SpellTower, then you’ll want to take a look at WordsWorth. According to the developer, WordsWorth landed in the App Store in 2009 and was one of the first word games available for the iPhone. It’s very similar to PopCap’s Bookworm game, but WordsWorth has a variety of [...]
While the voting in this category of the TUAW Best of 2011 wasn’t exactly overwhelming, the readers have spoken — Skype for iPad (free) was voted the best iPad social networking app for the year. Since the introduction of the iPad 2 with its built-in cameras, Skype for iPad has made it possible to make [...]
If part of your Christmas gift stash includes a lot of cash, you might want to consider spending it on shares of Apple, Inc. Ticonderoga Securities has named the company’s stock the ‘top pick’ for investors in 2012, mirroring the recommendation made last year by the group. Of the 20 companies covered by Ticonderoga, Apple [...]
Just after the year-end retrospectives clear newsrooms, speculators begin pounding away at the forecasts for the coming year. Every year we see wide-eyed imaginings about what Apple “could” do in the coming year, and every year someone comes out with a list that sounds just as outlandish as the “too cheap to meter” claims about [...]
The Newton is almost 20 years old now and still has a developer community actively creating new resources for the personal digital assistant. It’s a labor of love that’s chronicled at the My Apple Newton blog run by Genghis7777. Just like everyone else this time of the year, Genghis7777 recently took a look back at [...]
Tiny Places is the latest title from Big Fish Games, which typically releases games on PC (mostly casual stuff like find-an-item and puzzle games), but lately has been making a big push on iOS as well. What’s interesting about Tiny Places is that it borrows from from iOS games rather than Big Fish’s PC catalog. [...]
Star Wars: The Old Republic is the new hotness in massively multiplayer games, and I’m really enjoying playing a smuggler on my PC. But unlike Blizzard, which makes World of Warcraft and has had a long policy of releasing both PC and Mac versions on the same disc, BioWare (who makes SW:TOR, as the kids [...]
2011 has only just ended, but I have a sneaking suspicion that even when we look back on it in another 12 months from now, we’ll find a pretty revolutionary year in terms of the quality and quantity of our shopping. For example, UI expert and project leader Luke Wroblewski has compiled a list of [...]
TechCrunch dug up a bit more info on the media event Apple is reportedly holding later this month. According to the site’s sources, the event will have less of a consumer focus (don’t expect any new hardware), and it will be more about unveiling improvements to the iBooks platform to the publishing industry. TechCrunch’s sources [...]
There’s a saying that “to err is human — to really screw up, you need a computer.” Well, put a human and a computer together and you’re likely to have a real problem. Sure enough, nobody caught the fact that we left the voting poll off of the post for the Best iPad productivity app [...]
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 [...]
On this slow-start Monday (the official observance of the New Year’s Day holiday in the US, in case you were wondering why everything was moving like molasses), we have AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher to thank for a neat tidbit of possible Apple news. The Dow Jones site is reporting that Apple is planning a media-related event [...]
As the TUAW Best of 2011 awards wind down here in the first week of the new year, we’re happy to announce the choice of TUAW readers for the best iPad photography app of 2011: flickr hd (US[substring:0:600] As the TUAW Best of 2011 awards wind down here in the first week of the new [...]
iOS began 2011 by grabbing more than half of the mobile browser market share and ended 2011 equally strong. According to mobile web browsing data from Net Applications, which counts unique visitors to its network of websites, iOS accounted for 54.07% of the mobile browser market in January 2011 and dropped slightly to 52.10% by [...]
Apple Stores in Japan have continued the fukubukuro or “mystery bag” tradition, where sealed bags of merchandise are offered on New Year’s Day at a hefty discount. If you’re extremely lucky, you’ll come away with a piece of coveted merchandise. Apple has been doing this in Japan since 2005. The bags this year cost 33,000 [...]
If you’re eager for the possibilities for a fully app-enabled Apple TV, the jailbreak hacker geniuses are right there with you. Last week saw some proof of concept demonstrations from Steve Troughton-Smith and @TheMudkip, featuring native applications running on the iOS-based settop device. The input mechanisms are a bit wonky at the present stage — [...]
Earlier today, Kelly posted about GameStore, a new Apple app that appeared on the App Store right before the New Year and was pulled several minutes ago. I forked over my dollar and downloaded a copy to see what the app was all about. It turns out, that there wasn’t a lot of there there, [...]
Everyone with an iPhone is familiar with Game Center, but have you ever heard of GameStore- Discovered by Florian Schimanke, it’s a new game-oriented app from Apple that went live on December 31st. Unlike other iOS apps from Apple, which are well-known and well-publicized, GameStore is a mystery. As far as we know, Apple has [...]
iRelay! (US[substring:0:600] iRelay! (US$0.99) is an interesting photo sharing app that provides some features that aren’t native to the iPhone. Using the app, pictures on your phone can be grouped by collection, activity or person. A link can be posted to the galleries, and that link can be shared over email, text messages, Facebook, Tumblr [...]
As many TUAW readers know, I have a serious love affair with my 11″ MacBook Air. If there’s one issue that I have with it, it’s that sometimes that screen seems just a little too small. Now AOC has released the e1649Fwu 16″ Portable USB Monitor (9.99) that is perfect for those situations where you [...]
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 [...]
With the first day of the new year falling on a Sunday, it’s is a great day to organize whatever resolutions you’ve made. Here are a few apps to get started with. Get more organized I’m spending my day getting my tasks lined up in 2Do (.99), which is one of the most reasonably priced [...]
There’s two possible explanations for why Engadget’s tipline was heating up this morning with emailed complaints about iPhone alarms not going off as scheduled on New Year’s Day (first reported last year and fixed in iOS 5), but we haven’t heard a peep about the problem. Explanation #1: The vast majority of TUAW readers sporting [...]
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 [...]
We’ve got another winner! TUAW readers have spoken, and Osmos for iPad (US.99) was voted the best iPad game of 2011. Pulling in 31.1 percent of the votes, Osmos for iPad edged out Words With Friends HD ([substring:0:600] We’ve got another winner! TUAW readers have spoken, and Osmos for iPad (US$4.99) was voted the best [...]
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