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- Venerable sound capture app Audio Hijack reimagined for v3 | TUAW: Apple news, reviews and how-tos since 2004
- How to uninstall Uber
- Apple Pay has accounted for 0.91% of all Whole Foods transactions since launch
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- Man runs Telnet BBS on an Apple IIe using Raspberry Pi because he can | Apple news, reviews and how-tos since 2004
- Whistle: the Internet of everything goes to the dogs
OMG. Seriously? One key part of our "Internet of things" that seems to be capturing the imagination of a lot of people is the ability to track our activity and other health…
- Coffee with Tim Cook auction closes at $610,000
Crazy. Between $10,166 and $20,333 dollars per minute. Maybe Cook will bonus the winner an iPad Mini or something. The CharityBuzz auction for coffee with Tim Cook closed at…
- Python 3.2 lets you write Python on the iPhone
- Fox 5 New York gets suckered by iPhone 5 concept video
Laser keyboard? duh! Unfortunately, that video clip is the work of Aatma Studio; it's a year-old concept video, showing an obviously misshapen iPhone 5 and several hypothetical…
- Sparrow acquired by Google, team to work on "new projects"
This makes me wonder if the entire reason behind Sparrow was for the team to get jobs at Google. And if your confused, "new projects" means "not Sparrow". One of the nicest mail…
- A very handy 1Password tip
So, what's this handy tip? Well, it's a way of creating a browser bookmark that will not only open a commonly used website, but also "automatically fire up 1Password and fill in…
- Apple TV updates to 4.4.2
Have to reset settings to upgrade? WTF.
- Apple shows off iPhone 4S camera with new gallery
The 8 MP camera is one of several new hardware features present in the iPhone 4S. It's a significant upgrade that'll entice many shutterbugs to drop their current phone and switch…
- Grad student translates iTunes Terms of Service into something more readable
- Papers 2 and Papers for the iPad: the ultimate journal reading combination
I know at least a couple people that would probably like this app a lot (Riedl? Tom?), but I don't think any have iPads.
- Mac 101: Capture your signature using OS X Lion's Preview app
- First-Person Final Cut Pro X, Day Three: Media Management
- Senator Al Franken asks iOS developers to provide clear and understandable privacy policies
Following up on requests he made to Apple and Google in his hearing on mobile privacy earlier this month, US Senator Al Franken wrote a letter to the companies' respective CEOs…
- Run your own Software Update Server with Reposado
- Declaring love with the Mac OS X Finder
- Boxcar Beta for Mac available, brings notifications to Mac
For Boxcar users this is really cool.
- Apple files patent for graphics-based contact management
A patent for a grid of photos. Good product idea. Terrible patent.
- Sparrow chirps out feature list for version 1.1
Excited to give this a try now that it supports generic IMAP accounts.
- Got time to spare? Read the iTunes store agreement
- HandBrake 0.9.5 released, adds presets and more for easier DVD ripping
- Dropbox 1.0 available with performance enhancements, Selective Sync
- SimCity Deluxe for iPad, Risk for iPad out today from EA
SimCity! yeah!
- NetflixABCDisney streaming deal will bring TV all-you-can-eat to Apple TV
Netflix is rocking it!
- Swarm Light is an $180k LED chandelier controlled by an iPhone
Cool display. Would be fun to see a game created using something like that.
- Apple releases AirPlay video for 4.2 iPad feature
- Net neutrality expert calls Apple the number one threat to Internet freedom
- 3G now available on Mount Everest
Happen to be climbing Mount Everest in the near future? Take heart -- you can probably use your iPhone there now. Provider Teliasonera has reportedly installed a 3G antenna at the…
- New Kindle app for Macs adds many desired features
I do most of my reading of books purchased from Amazon on my iPad, but there are times where my laptop and desktop Mac would be just dandy for catching up on my non dead-tree…
- TUAW Review: Tagalicious for iTunes metadata, artwork, and lyrics
Tagalicious is a $20 Mac application from the The Little App Factory (best known for their excellent DVD ripper RipIt), which will clean up your iTunes library metadata, fetch…
- Twitterrific 3 for the iPad: change, tough love, and better
Here's a good sign that you've made some pretty significant changes to your application: three different people from the company write three different posts about the new design.…
- Set up your own Priority Inbox with Apple's Mail
- A Delta Airlines app is on the way
Just the other day, a Delta executive mentioned in a short interview that a Delta iPhone app is on the horizon. It's not clear yet what kinds of services and features the app will…
- Apple bike computer patent surfaces
Patently Apple has just discovered a 2009 Apple patent which would turn an iPhone or iPod into the bike computer of my dreams. The patent shows an iPod (amusingly, the third-gen…
- Send tweets automatically during a Keynote presentation with Keynote Tweet
- Rumor: Intel's Core i5 to show up in MacBook Pros this month
- AppZapper: a great big upgrade for a small utility
Filed under: Software, Cool tools I discovered AppZapper years ago. It was a huge boon for me, helping me keep my support folders a little cleaner as I began the early stages of…
- The Font Game for iPhone is fontastic fun
- Homebrew, the perfect gift for command line lovers
Filed under: Cool tools, Odds and ends, Freeware, Terminal Tips If you're an OS X user who spends as much time on the command line as you do in the GUI, you're probably familiar…
- Apple documents iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for developers
Filed under: iTS, iTunes, Developer After seeing the intent by developers and artists to create iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for their music, Apple has opened up the availability…
- Lose It app for iPhone updated to 2.0, introduces online sync service
The one thing I always thought was missing from Lose It! was the ability to sync information back to the Mac. The app itself had limited ability to track trends over time, so I…
- Magic Mouse lands at many local Apple stores
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, Peripherals, Bluetooth I stopped by my local Apple Store (Tucson) today for a quick look around and saw many people playing with the new Magic…
- Apple seeds new Snow Leopard 10.6.2 beta to developers
- Dropbox the iPhone app has dropped
- MINI Roadside Assistance can get you and your MINI out of trouble spots
- Choosy helps those with Browser Commitment Phobia
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools Are you the type of person who just can't settle down? Do you find your needs just can't be met by any one of the multiple options available…
- Two song Digital 45s now available in iTunes
Apple today added new "D45s" to the Music section in the iTunes Store. This package includes two songs, just like many of the old 45 RPM records back in the day.
- Delicious Library for iPhone runs afoul of Amazon's API terms, pulled from App Store
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, App Store Sudden removal of an item from the App Store isn't unheard of; sometimes an app has a hidden bug or a content problem, and if Apple…
- TweetDeck for iPhone go for launch tonight
Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet Tools, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch Kevin Rose is reporting that the iPhone version of the popular Twitter client TweetDeck is set to be…
- Think you're good at Flight Control?
Filed under: Gaming, Odds and ends, App Store Here I was, thinking our fine TUAW readership was pretty great at playing Flight Control. Yesterday, as part of a post about the new…
- Prices so low, they're practically insane: Panic 3-day sale is on
Filed under: Internet Tools, Deals It's been hinted at for a few days, but Cabel Sasser and the rest of the crew at Panic Software may have accidentally slipped some mind-altering…
- Can you believe it? New Yorker cover done on iPhone app.
- First Look: Twin 1.0 for Mac OS X
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, First Look Time Machine made it easy for Leopard owners to back up their Macs on local external hard drives, and lately we've seen a number…
- Things 1.1Things Touch 1.3.5: Area Sync
Filed under: Software, Productivity, iPhone Things Touch 1.3.5 has been released along with Things 1.1 and, among a heap of bug fixes and UI improvements, you'll find a new…
- Beta 5 of iPhone OS 3 downloadable
Filed under: Beta Beat, iPhone, SDK Version version, who's got the new version? iPhone OS 3.0 beta 5 is now downloadable, along with a new build of iTunes 8.2 -- log into…
- FirstLook: WeatherCal 1.0
Filed under: Software, First Look Wouldn't it be nice to get a weather forecast whenever you look at iCal? That's the premise behind WeatherCal 1.0, a new Mac application from…
- Apple's Bluetooth headset gets the axe
Filed under: Accessories, Hardware, iPhone, Apple History I'll admit it: I loathe Bluetooth headsets. It's impossible to walk around with one of those things protruding from your…
- TUAW @SXSW: The comics on handhelds panel
Filed under: Multimedia, iPhone, iPod touch, SXSW Chances are, if you're reading TUAW, you most likely love all things Apple and Mac. You may also be an iPhone or iPod touch user.…
- Pandora 2.0 for iPhone
Pandora's app was one of the iPhone's best of 2008 on iTunes, and while I've only recently started using it, I have to agree: even over EDGE, it's a great way to get some music…
- Terminal Tip: Enable half-star ratings in iTunes
Filed under: Terminal Tips Do you like giving ratings to songs in iTunes? If so, then you've probably noticed that you are only able to rate songs on a full-star basis, not enough…
- Perian 1.1.3 now available, provides lots of fixes
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Freeware On Monday, Perian 1.1.3 was released. Perian is a Preference Pane that provides QuickTime with a ton of extra codec support, including:…
- Record a multi-participant podcast with GarageBand
Filed under: Multimedia, Podcasting A few months ago, I started recording a podcast with some friends. At that time, our process was to gather everyone into one Skype call and…
- MacBook Pro tip: resetting SMC saved my day
Filed under: Hardware, Troubleshooting, Macbook Pro, MacBook, MacBook Air Here's a timely tip if the battery on your Intel based Mac laptop seems to be operating at less than…
- Apple: Over 300 million iPhone apps downloaded
Apple confirmed yesterday that over 300 million iPhone apps have been downloaded from the App Store, and also that the total number of available apps now tops 10,000. Rather than…
- Transmit 3.6.7 is available
Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools Earlier this week, one of the applications that I use every day, Panic's Transmit, was updated to version 3.6.7. Since the previous…
- HandBrake 0.9.3 adds Universal Input
Filed under: Video, Open Source The well known, open-source DVD ripping and video transcoding application HandBrake has been updated to version 0.9.3. Among the changes, perhaps…
- MacNN: Snow Leopard could ship 1Q 2009
Filed under: Macworld, Rumors, Snow Leopard Snow Leopard could ship as early as January, according to comments made by the director of Apple's Unix Technology Group. Jordan…
- Optoma's palm-sized video projector looks great
Filed under: Multimedia, Video, iPod classic Optoma's tiny Pico projector has caught our attention. This small device (50mm x 103mm x 15mm) weighs four ounces and features up to 2…
- Coda 1.6 released, offers plug-in support
Filed under: Internet Tools, Developer A cheery little dialog box informed me just a few minutes ago that Coda 1.6 is available from the fine folks at Panic. Coda is a one-window…
- Apple's System Preference icon goes Green
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Odds and ends, Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook With the introduction of EPEAT Gold rated MacBooks and MacBook Pros last week, Apple has definitely been…
- IYo Yo-Yo almost certainly doesn't work
Seriously? I have to say: I don't buy it. I really don't believe that you could pull enough power to charge an iPhone out of an inducting yo-yo, but that is apparently exactly…
- ITunes to gain 6,000 unsigned artists
- Coda updated to 1.5.1
Filed under: Software, Internet Tools Lost in the din of yesterday's Apple announcements, Panic has updated Coda, its all-in-one website editing tool, to 1.5.1. The update largely…
- ITunes Speechification
Filed under: iTS, iTunes Doesn't matter whether you're a Republicrat or a Demublican, or if you're blue, red, or purple. If you've got an interest in World Events, the US iTunes…
- Leicester (UK) Apple Store to open Thursday
Filed under: Retail, Apple After several years of planning and waiting, the Highcross shopping center in Leicester (UK) is finally ready to go and with it the Highcross Apple…
- Terminal Tips: Make your Screensaver a desktop background
Filed under: Terminal Tips Have you ever wanted your screen saver to appear as a background image? Probably not. But if you like to show off to your Windows-using friends, then…
- Cyan porting Myst to iPhone
- More App Store sales figures
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone, App Store Last week, iPhone app shop tap tap tap released preliminary sales data for its iPhone applications. The figures were interesting…
- Tom's Hardware says Apple and PC prices are equivalent
To the average user, that seems true -- if you go to, say, a Best Buy or a Circuit City, and look at the Macs they're selling versus the seemingly equivalent PCs they're selling,…
- CalDAV support comes to Google Calendar
Well, fortunately, Google has just quietly introduced CalDAV support to Google Calendar. CalDAV is the protocol that iCal uses to transmit data over the web. Although some other…
- IPhone 2.1 SDK Disappointments
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple Corporate, iPod Family, iPhone, App Store, SDK Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino. Mr. Jobs, TEAR DOWN THIS NDA. If the new…
- Turn your iPhone into a wireless drive with DataCase
Filed under: Software, Wireless, iPhone, App Store One feature of many other handheld devices is the ability to use the device as a portable flash drive to move data between a…
- Apple TV 2.1 update goes live, adds MobileMe support
To commemorate the launch of MobileMe, Apple has updated the Apple TV to work with the new service. The new update includes a new MobileMe sub-menu in the Photos menu.
- 5th Avenue Apple Store starts iPhone 3G line
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 now available
Filed under: Software This is news that is certain to make Mac based Windows Admins (of which I am one) very happy: Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection 2 is finally out of beta.…
- WALLE - Robot with the heart of a Mac
The object of WALLE's desire, EVE, was actually designed with the assistance of Apple Senior VP of Industrial Design Jonathan Ive, who apparently spent a day with the Pixar team…
- Woz: How it all began
Filed under: The Woz Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple and inventor of the Apple I and II, talks with the BBC about starting Apple in 1976. "Everything was ... thinking about the…
- MarsEdit 2.1.4 available
Daniel Jalkut of Red Sweater Software has posted MarsEdit 2.1.4. The version includes a new dock menu item for easily starting a new post, adds better Picasa support for Blogger…
- Apple Juicz solar charger for MacBook Air
- Parallels adds tools for Linux, 3D for Windows
- AirPort Utility 5.3.2 available for Leopard
Apple has released AirPort Utility 5.3.2 for Leopard. According to the release notes, the package includes AirPort Base Station Update 2008-002, and applies general fixes and…
- TomTom: Nav system runs on the iPhone already
- Iconfactory prepares Twitterrific for the App Store
Our favorite little blue bird has been getting a lot of attention on the Apple site, thanks to its upcoming appearance in the new iPhone/iPod App Store. In their blog, Gedeon…
- OmniFocus for iPhone will be location-aware
Filed under: Software, WWDC, iPhone Guy-I-wish-was-my-friend Merlin Mann writes at 43 Folders about OmniFocus for iPhone, a project he's involved with. Perhaps the most exciting…
- Adium releases new beta version, now even more psychic
Adium has a sweet new beta version available this morning. If you don't automatically see 1.3b2 when you check for updates, then make sure you've enabled "Update to beta versions…
- MacHeist bundle extended with VectorDesigner, more
Filed under: Software In a co-promote with MacRumors Live's coverage of today's little event out San Francisco way, the MacHeist team has spiced up its 12-application retail…
- Join TUAW on IRC
Filed under: WWDC There is nothing better than sharing the joy of a Steve Jobs Keynote with fellow Apple fans. That's why several of TUAW's bloggers (myself included) are hanging…
- Rumor: Mac Fusion - a new developer Mac
Filed under: Rumors, Apple Gallery: Mac Fusion On WWDC Eve, we at TUAW are hard at work keeping an eye out for the unknown and unexpected. We just received a tip showing what…
- Apple releases official Keynotes podcast
- Freeware Find: IceClean 3.0b
A lot of Mac users don't want to pull up Terminal and type arcane text into the command line, so MacDentro has a GUI front end that you can use to run those commands and keep your…
- Rumor: Mac OS X 10.5.4 to be released 2nd week in June?
Filed under: OS, Rumors There's action on the Leopard update front. We've been told by reliable sources that the next point release of Mac OS X Leopard (version 10.5.4) will be…
- Delicious Library 2.0 is now shipping
The beta period is over and Delicious Library 2.0 is officially ready to go (we took an early look at version 2 back in March). If you're unfamiliar, Delicious Library is the…
- Delicious Library 2 beta on the streets
In a Memorial Day treat for users, Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster announced via a tweet earlier this evening that a beta of Delicious Library 2 is now available for download and…
- ATV: plug and play Apple TV hacking
- 10.5.2 causing mega-problems for musicians?
Peter Kirn over at Create Digital Music (one of my favorite music-making blogs, by the by) has a post rounding up a lot of the issues OS 10.5.2 seems to be having with various…
- New iTunes ad featuring Coldplay
Filed under: iTS, iTunes, Apple Last night, Apple released a new ad for iTunes featuring Coldplay. This ad takes the silhouette ads to the max with a beautiful Leopard/space-esqe…
- GhostReader 1.5: text to audiobook
Filed under: Software GhostReader is a text to speech application that allows you to have your computer read aloud PDF, Word, and text files and save the output in a variety of…
- Hahlo 3: now out of beta
Filed under: iPod Family, Internet, Internet Tools, iPhone We at TUAW HQ definitely have an obsession with Twitter. We use Twitterrific for the Mac, and Hahlo for iPhone. Hahlo…
- AT&T offers free WiFi for iPhone users
Filed under: Deals, iPhone A MacRumors tipster has discovered a treat for iPhone users from AT&T. It would seem that AT&T is offering free wireless internet access via an iPhone…
- Mac 101: fine tune your Mac's volume
- Caffeine control
Filed under: Freeware We're once again talking about Caffeine from lighthead Software (makers of Papaya), the freeware menubar app that keeps your screen awake. It's now at…
- Abandon your Sunday plans: Return to Dark Castle ships
As Brett noted in February, the long-in-development next installment of the classic Mac game Dark Castle has been expected "any day now" for years. Rent fans sing along with me:…
- Video of Apple iPhone Roadmap event is up
Filed under: Apple, iPhone Couldn't stop refreshing the various liveblogs covering the Apple SDK event? Neither could we. Fortunately, in case you missed any key details, Apple…
- IPhone SDK - What you need to know
Filed under: Other Events, Developer, iPhone For those expecting a low-level bit-by-byte account of what the SDK means, Erica will return momentarily after a break from her (epic)…
- OmniGraffle 5 shipping now
Filed under: Software, Graphic Design The Omni Group has announced that OmniGraffle 5 is final and available for download and purchase. OmniGraffle is a brilliant template-based…
- Win a Mac mini, hosting and a MacBook Air
Filed under: Hardware, Mac mini Aside from being a company with a name that's dangerously close to copyright infringement, Macminicolo has long been dedicated to creating hosting…
- INeedFlix
Filed under: Freeware, Internet Tools If you are looking for an application that allows you to manage your Netflix queue with Mac style, then iNeedFlix might be for you. iNeedFlix…
- Macheist bundle completely unlocked
We've covered this year's Macheist a couple of times already, but they hit a milestone today and all the software, including heavy hitters CSSedit, Snapz Pro, and Pixelmator, is…
- Newsgator turns NetNewsWire free for everyone
Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Freeware Wow. I don't know who hadn't bought NetNewsWire yet, but if you haven't, consider your wait vindicated: most of Newsgator's products,…
- IPhone firmware 1.1.3 breaks unlocks
- Parallels vs. VMWare: Benchmark results
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS, Switchers Like it or not, lots of us who own Intel-based Macs have to run Windows from time to time. Although Boot Camp is pretty fantastic if…
- GPS dongle coming for iPhone
We've posted a couple of times about "virtual" GPS solutions for the iPhone that depend on cell tower identification, but now The partfoundry has announced the real deal. They…
- Leopard Love: Apple boosts Calculator
Filed under: Leopard OS X's Calculator application is something I basically ignore. Between Spotlight and Terminal's bc, I rarely if ever use it. So it was a pleasant and welcome…
- John Welch's guide to SNMP on Leopard
- Cha-ching hits 1.2.1
Filed under: Software, Software Update In the Leopard onslaught, Cha-Ching 1.2 slipped under our radar - however today sees the release of yet another (minor) update: version…
- Sneak-a-peek inside Final Cut Express 4
Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Video A lot has changed in the video production realm over the past year, and thankfully, Apple's recent Final Cut Express 4 addresses these new…
- HOWTO: Rotate your video in QuickTime Pro - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
Today with so many of us using our digital cameras to shoot short video segments, it's especially easy to forget that we're dealing with videos and turn the camera on its side for…