Over the weekend, Apple began offering the Fusion Drive as an option on the entry-level 21.5-inch iMac. The Fusion Drive is a hybrid traditional HHD/SSD combo, which beings the faster write speeds of SSDs while offering the larger storage capacity of HHDs. Previously the Fusion Drive was only available as a BTO (built to order) [...]
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Last year we ran into Seth Green at CES and asked him his favorite 3 apps. As we reported later, Shodogg (an app Green has invested in) is an app for easily sharing videos across devices wirelessly. We’re at CES this year and will keep you posted on any cool products we find. CES 2012 [...]
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The nominations have been collected and analyzed. Now it’s time for readers to vote for what they consider the TUAW Best of 2012. If you nominated an app or accessory and it doesn’t appear on the ballot, it’s probably because it didn’t receive a lot of support from other readers. Please enter your name and [...]
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It’s time for the TUAW Best of 2012 awards, and we need your nominations for the best Mac products of the year. The nominations will be open for one week, after which time we’ll compile the results and have readers vote for the winners. To make your nomination, please use the following form. Only one [...]
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AppShopper’s iOS app — a popular app-finding tool and pint-sized version of the full AppShopper website — has been pulled from the App Store today after Apple ruled that it doesn’t comply with a new guideline put forth by the company. TNW reports that the rule in question states “Apps that display Apps other than [...]
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In the latest update to the company’s Supplier Responsibility page, Apple has changed the estimated number of workers in its supply chain from 900,000 to 1 million, MacRumors reports. Along with the new, higher figure, the monthly-tracked Work-Hour Compliance chart has also been updated, showing a bit of a dip from the previous month from [...]
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Engadget reports that Apple has released iOS 6.0.2, which promises an unspecified fix to Wi-Fi usage. If you’ve been having issues with Wi-Fi, you’ll want to see about updating right away. Most of us on the TUAW staff have been getting error messages when checking for the update using over-the-air updates. If you run into [...]
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Goodbye to The Daily, the ill-fated iPad news magazine that was launched with great fanfare in 2011 and will shut down tomorrow. Some of The Daily’s staff will migrate to The New York Post. Most will be let go. The Daily staff produced a farewell video to say goodbye to their readers (featuring plenty of [...]
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The magic of the holiday season is clearly not lost on Apple, as the company has brought back app gifting just in time to stuff some virtual stockings, 9to5Mac reports. The feature was strangely removed with the launch of iOS 6, but it’s been added once again and should be live in the App Store [...]
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A minor update for the newly released iTunes 11 has just dropped, and — along with providing a couple of important fixes — it brings back a familiar feature that had been curiously missing from the initial release: duplication detection. The update reads as follows: “This update to the new iTunes addresses an issue where [...]
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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) [...]
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It’s time for the TUAW Best of 2012 awards, and we need your nominations for the best iPad products of the year. The nominations will be open for one week, after which time we’ll compile the results and have readers vote for the winners. To make your nomination, please use the following form. Only one [...]
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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) [...]
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AllThingsD’s Walt Mossberg says Apple will restore iTunes duplicate detection in a “minor update.” The pre-iTunes 11 duplicate detection feature let users easily identify items that occurred in an iTunes library more than once. Having done that, deciding which ones to keep and which to ditch was easy enough. We’ve speculated that duplicate detection was [...]
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I’m a big fan of the join.me screen sharing and presentation service but honestly, it never occurred to me that anyone might want to give a presentation from their iPad. Apparently, there is such a demand out there because today, LogMeIn introduced a feature bump for its iPad client that lets you do just that. [...]
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If you’re encountering problems — namely an incomplete download or an inability to boot — when trying to update your Apply TV to version 5.1.1, there’s a solution in sight. It turns out that there’s a bug with updating the device over ethernet, so if you’ve been unable to get 5.1.1 downloaded on a wired [...]
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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) [...]
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This cat is fond of the iPad and himself! Of course, this isn’t the Snuggler as played by Zach Galifianakis, but cute nonetheless. Thanks to Justin for the pic! Caturday: The Snuggler originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of [...]
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In fact, this is build 5443 of the Apple TV’s iOS flavor, which is still showing 5.1.1 for me. Nevertheless, there’s an update waiting which no doubt will improve stability and quash other bugs, plus make it play nice with today’s Remote and iTunes updates. Just go to Settings > General > About on your [...]
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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) [...]
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If for some reason you were holding off on downloading Fish Labs’ Galaxy on Fire 2 [Free], you officially just ran out of excuses. For the first time ever, this space shooter is totally free. If you need that extra push over the edge, you could check out our review, but really, you should just [...]
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Everybody’s favorite cat, OS X Mountain Lion, has a new update this morning. But don’t be surprised if you don’t see it under the Updates tab in the Mac App Store — OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Supplemental Update 2.0 is “recommended for all Mac systems introduced in 2012.” According to the update notes, the [...]
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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) [...]
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The latest update to Plex Media Server allows access to the new Web client, which is pretty sweet. It lets you access your content from anywhere in the world using a fairly recent browser and it works great on Chrome and Safari. Navigation is smooth and quick, and the in-browser media player works well. It’s [...]
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Black Friday is right around the corner and Apple is starting to promote its Black Friday shopping event. The company’s online promotional pricing starts November 23, 2012 at 12:01 am and extends to 11:59 pm PST. Similar pricing will be available in retail stores during extended holiday shopping hours. The ad doesn’t give any hints [...]
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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) [...]
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If you’ve been waiting on the delivery of a shiny new iPad mini with LTE capability, you should probably get ready to sign for it. That’s because, as MacRumors and some of our readers report, pre-ordered LTE iPad mini units are starting to arrive at the homes and businesses of Apple aficionados. Unless, that is, [...]
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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) [...]
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An AppleInsider reader reached out to British Airways to ask about Passbook support and a helpful representative said they’re already looking into it. In particular: “Please be assured that we will get our Passbook-compatible functionality live on ba.com as soon as we can.” Another airline hopping on board the Passbook wagon is music to my [...]
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How much is your freedom worth- AT&T’s hoping at least $100. That’s the discount it’s willing to give you off a new iPad if you’re prepared to commit to a two-year data contract. That’s enough to get you a Smart Cover and $60 in iTunes credit. The discount is available for tablets added to an [...]
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Agile Tortoise, the developer of the excellent Drafts app, has released Tally for iPhone. Tally is useful, simple, and awesome, I decided to make a video for it: Share this: … Continue Reading Here Tally for iPhone thomas – isource.com
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Two Dollar Tuesday’s Mac app promotions have been so popular that the company has launched a new iOS daily deal section called One Dollar Wednesday. Borrowing from the Two Dollar Tuesday model, One Dollar Wednesday offers three different iPad apps for one dollar every Wednesday. The deals last one day and offer up to an [...]
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TweetBot for Mac has been updated with just a .01 version, but the update still adds in some pretty powerful functionality. First of all, the update makes TweetBot compatible with Apple’s Reading List service, so you can now add content to your Safari Reading List directly from the Twitter client. There are a number of [...]
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AT&T’s apparently jumping into the cloud storage fray with a new program called AT&T Locker. The service will provide up to 5 GB of free storage via an app to iOS users, with extra charges for any storage above that. To get started, AT&T users can grab the app right now, and then upload and [...]
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About the only time you’ll see Neil Ticktin sitting down during the MacTech Conference is to eat, very briefly. I managed to get him to sit down long enough to do a quick interview about how the conference began for this week’s Origin Stories. Origin Stories: MacTech Conference originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial [...]
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Apple started accepting pre-orders for its iPad mini today and demand for the white model quickly outstripped Apple’s supply, noted Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Apple 2.0. Pre-orders began at 12:01 PT and within 20 minutes, the ship date for all versions of the white iPad mini slipped from “Delivers 11/2″ to “Available to ship in 2-weeks.” [...]
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With today being the day to pre-order the iPad mini, it’s no surprise that the Apple Store has gone down for maintenance. Let’s await the pre-order screens with baited breath! Orders for the Wi-Fi-only model are expected to be in hand on November 2. The cellular-capable ones will reach customers on November 9. Apple Store [...]
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Conan O’Brien’s team seems to know just why you’ll buy an iPad mini in this short, cynical, but still pretty funny play on Apple’s iPad mini ad. Conan O’Brien knows why you want an iPad mini originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:30:00 EST. Please see our [...]
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Join us on October 23rd at 10:00 AM Pacific (1:00 PM Eastern). TUAW will be metaliveblogging Apple’s Media Event. We’re looking forward to seeing you then! Got some predictions- Drop them in the comments! Apple October 2012 Event Metaliveblog originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:45:00 EST. [...]
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Apple has just quietly added an ‘Apple Events’ channel to the Apple TV. The channel will allow everyone with an Apple TV to live stream today’s iPad mini event. Selecting the channel shows a message telling viewers to tune in at 10AM PT to view the event live. The channel also allows viewers to stream [...]
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