Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
The iPhone 5 is great in pretty much every aspect, but battery life continues to be an issue for some despite it’s slightly larger battery than the iPhone 4S. While you can’t swap out the battery for a larger one, there are 5 simple usage tips that can…
I have an older G5 Mac with the dual PowerPC CPUs. Because it is not an Intel based Mac, I have finally hit the software “wall” and cannot upgrade any further. I am looking for advice about web browsers, because I cannot install Chrome, Opera keeps…
We’ve gotten a ton of requests for an iPad Retina wallpaper version of the October 28 iPad mini event invitation, so I whipped this one together quickly. It’s not great, more Photoshop trickery, less painstaking re-building of the original like I did …
According to Stevie Bathich, Microsoft’s applied sciences department manager, the lower resolution display on the Surface Windows RT tablet is better to read on than the iPads Retina display. Bathich claims that a statistic known as “modulation transfe…
Curious George’s Dictionary is an educational iPad app for kids that teaches the meanings of nearly 600 words through illustrations, sentences, stories, and more. It features charming illustrations for each word as well as an example of a sentence tha…
There are some goodies in Software Update/the Mac App Store tonight: Apple has released the HP Printer Software Update 2.12, adding support for additional HP printers, and the Java for OS X 2012-006 1.0 update.
The Java update implements a fairl…
The move to a Retina display in the latest iPad as well as the iPhone and now iPod Touch models has resulted in a noticeable jump in the average size of iOS apps in the last six months, reports ABI Research. Apps have seen an average 16 percent jump in…
Apple calls the iPod nano 7 “renanoed”, and if you look at the longer, thinner shape, and the wider screen, it’s harder to argue the logic than it is the ad copy. It still isn’t running iOS, and Apple has rounded the icons to better visually different…
Technology do-it-yourself repair part suppliers iFixit have completely disassembled the new seventh-generation iPod Nano. During the teardown, iFixit found components from Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Toshiba, and NXP Semiconductors. The company has gi…
I don’t know if I’m 100 percent behind this trend in social/meta news reporting lately — I tend to get most of my most insightful reading done from very long, well-researched stories, and so I still think there’s a big call for worthwhile reporte…
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 Ap…
Game developer Terry Cavanagh has released a few really great games over the years — in addition to the popular PC title VVVVVV, he’s also the man behind iOS’ recent (and terribly difficult) hit Super Hexagon. Right now, he’s in the process of tr…
Romo is a little iPhone-powered robot that showed up on Kickstarter around this time last year. It was successfully funded and distributed out into the world, making everyone happy by cycling itself around with the buzz and whirr of tiny mechanics…
Rumors abound of Apple updating every single product line at next week’s media event, even as the company apparently winds down its relationship with Samsung. Elsewhere, the iPod nano is dissected … for science! The remainders for Tuesday, Octo…
Though recent versions of OS X no longer ship with a Java plug-in — and Apple has ceased developing its own versions and left compatibility to Java owner Oracle — the company is pushing an updated version of Oracle’s latest release of Java SE 6 (vers…
According to court filings made public today, International Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge Thomas B. Pender has moved the investigation of Apple’s complaint against Samsung. October 25 is the new date of the investigation, with a final rulin…