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Fourteen ways to enjoy TUAW
Heeeere's TUAW, in reverse order of no particular importance:
#14 - TUAW on Facebook
We can't really ignore one of the biggest social networks in the world, can we? For weeks I teased the iPhone app on Facebook, and a few of you caught it. We've also been posting deals, newsy tidbits and videos on there. It's a good way to share items, but so far we've kept our RSS out of it. It's entirely likely that we'll put more teasers on Facebook in the future. Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more or less Facebook interaction overall.
We can't really ignore one of the biggest social networks in the world, can we? For weeks I teased the iPhone app on Facebook, and a few of you caught it. We've also been posting deals, newsy tidbits and videos on there. It's a good way to share items, but so far we've kept our RSS out of it. It's entirely likely that we'll put more teasers on Facebook in the future. Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see more or less Facebook interaction overall.
#13 - TUAW on Tumblr
This has been fun. It's so easy to share stuff on Tumblr that a few of us have simply let the bookmarklet do the talking. We see something cool or useful or worth a mention; within seconds it is on our Tumblr page. If you're looking for something a little off-the-menu at times, this is a good place to look.
This has been fun. It's so easy to share stuff on Tumblr that a few of us have simply let the bookmarklet do the talking. We see something cool or useful or worth a mention; within seconds it is on our Tumblr page. If you're looking for something a little off-the-menu at times, this is a good place to look.
#12 - TUAW on Flickr
On the right we have a little widget that shows the last three items on Flickr tagged "TUAW" -- so try it! Sometimes we run a "Flickr Find" post showing a crazy Mac setup, so don't be bashful about your workspace. We weren't. You can check out our TUAW rig Flickr pool here.
On the right we have a little widget that shows the last three items on Flickr tagged "TUAW" -- so try it! Sometimes we run a "Flickr Find" post showing a crazy Mac setup, so don't be bashful about your workspace. We weren't. You can check out our TUAW rig Flickr pool here.
#11 - TUAW on Video
There's no shortage of TUAW video to choose from. From Blip.tv to Viddler to YouTube and our aggregator VodPod, there's quite the buffet. You can also do a search on Truveo and find our videos across many video sites.
#10 - TUAW on your iPhone
Oh, you haven't heard? TUAW has an iPhone app. In fact, we broke into the top 100 free apps the weekend we launched. Thanks for that, TUAW fans!
#9 - TUAW on Twitter
Of course we're on Twitter, you silly Billy. We have our primary Twitter account, where we'll share cool posts and other fun things, and our Ask TUAW account where you get to ask us Mac, iPhone, iPod and mystery-of-life questions (and hopefully get an answer).
#7 - TUAW on Stitcher and TalkShoe
In case you've been hiding every Sunday, we do a regular live Talkcast on TalkShoe. It's a hoot, and you get to chime in via phone, live each week. Once that show is "in the can" and uploaded to iTunes, etc. we also appear on iTunes and in Stitcher. That's handy, given the awesome Stitcher app.
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#6 - TUAW on your body
Or surrounding your coffee, your head, your chef and your valuables with the mugs, shirts and other branded tchotchkes available on CafePress.
#5 - TUAW tag and category pages
At the top and bottom of each post you'll see "Filed under" and "Tags" showing you the appropriate keywords for our articles. Categories are mostly fixed in that they represent fairly discrete things: a software update, an event, Steve Jobs, and so on. We also put our semi-regular columns like Friday Favorite and Mac 101 into our categories.
Tags, on the other hand, are a folksonomy and vary from post to post. You may find some utility by looking at tags like giveaway and macworld09. We also try to make sure that individual product names and vendors are consistently tagged.
#4 - TUAW's RSS feeds
There's the main TUAW feed, of course, and feeds for each author listed by our names on each post. But did you know practically anything is a feed? Just take any of the category or tag URL's mentioned above and add "rss.xml" (without quotes) to the end. Voila! A ready-made RSS feed for your favorite tag or category.
One oft-requested feed is for our No-iPhone pages, so here's a direct link to that, ye iPhone haters.
We don't mean "Mac" mini, either. The m.tuaw site has been around for quite a while, as it was our original redirect for mobile phones. It is still kickin' for you BlackBerry, WinMo and other platform users still residing in another, simpler era.
#2 - i.tuaw.com - or "tuaw nano"
I know a lot of people loathe mobile sites, since Mobile Safari was supposed to make the "whole internet" fit in your pocket or something. But the practical reality is that our full site was causing some Safari crashes and so we made the decision to push everyone into a lighter experience. You can now get to the full site from the TUAW iPhone app, however. We are also actively working on some nice improvements to the iPhone-optimized pages, so stay tuned. (Hint: Bellowing about what you hate in the comments won't make us move any faster, sorry, but we do appreciate the feedback)
#1 - TUAW.com
Yeah, you are likely soaking in it now. However, if you haven't been to the full site in a while, you're missing out. For example, there's our handy Tip of the Day feature on the right, and just below that is a new "Deals of the Day" module powered by DealNews.
Plus, our top nav has handy shortcuts to Engadget, Joystiq, Switched, Download Squad and some key sections of TUAW, including our oft-requested No-iPhone pages and our new App Hub (beta). Our search tool works better than ever, and we've got handy links to some of the places I've mentioned right here in the magical "right rail" of the site.
Again, if there's a service or site you'd like to see us on, leave it in the comments.
Yeah, you are likely soaking in it now. However, if you haven't been to the full site in a while, you're missing out. For example, there's our handy Tip of the Day feature on the right, and just below that is a new "Deals of the Day" module powered by DealNews.
Plus, our top nav has handy shortcuts to Engadget, Joystiq, Switched, Download Squad and some key sections of TUAW, including our oft-requested No-iPhone pages and our new App Hub (beta). Our search tool works better than ever, and we've got handy links to some of the places I've mentioned right here in the magical "right rail" of the site.
Again, if there's a service or site you'd like to see us on, leave it in the comments.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
YodaMac said 8:25PM on 9-02-2009
No landscape mode on TUAW iPhone app????!!! :( Can't take up a valuable icon spot until it has that. Safari then it remains for now.
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floggy said 8:48PM on 9-02-2009
Jiminy, are plain old websites passe now?
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Tacoman said 9:00PM on 9-02-2009
A better comment system would be nice. Though I do enjoy all that you do. :)
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NightOne said 11:39PM on 9-02-2009
Yes, maybe a moderated comment section. :)
People QQ too much on the comments
antiorario said 4:28AM on 9-03-2009
Moreover, a comment system with links that take you where they say they will, and not redirect you to the home page. That would also be nice :-)
Victor Agreda, Jr. said 12:20PM on 9-03-2009
Sadly TUAW does not code nor control the comment system. It's the same system from TMZ to Engadget to Fanhouse to Gadling to Autoblog to Cinematical to TV Squad to Lemondrop to ParentDish to Green Daily to DailyFinance... and so on. Hundreds of AOL sites use the same comment system
And we hear the same comment issues everyone else does, we really do.
And yes, I would love all the wonderful things you are all suggesting. Every. Time. We. Post. Anything.
But all I can tell you is that we're working on it, and please be patient. This is not a 2-line code change.
Tacoman said 1:40PM on 9-03-2009
I understand. I use joystiq and engadget and it is all the same. It's not going to stop me from reading. It's the articles that keep me coming back. :)
ElevatorHappyFun said 9:22PM on 9-02-2009
"14 Ways to Pay TUAW"
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Michael Rose said 12:47AM on 9-03-2009
Yeah, we're making money hand-over-fist from that Twitter feed. ???
pathetik said 11:07PM on 9-02-2009
#15 TUAW on Drugs
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oh said 11:28PM on 9-02-2009
Christ.
It's ironic — Apple is all about minimalism.
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VanillaSpice said 1:51AM on 9-03-2009
One of Apple's first rules for GUIs, is that there should be multiple ways to achieve the same effect. For instance, opening a document - 1) double-click it, 2) click it and hit command-O, 3) click it and select "Open" from the file menu, 4) use the "Open..." menu command in an application, 5) drag the document onto an application, 6) (lately) use Spotlight, and so on.
Every man and his dog knows that it is essential to be able to view data in myriad ways - a spreadsheet is just a different view of a database, for example; different graphs can provide alternate views of the same set of numbers; you can view your iTunes music in list view, Coverflow view, etc.
I think you're getting confused with Apple's approach to design, which in some cases and to some degree has focussed on minimalism, although it has never been their only design criteria or focus.
But industrial design is just a small part of Apple, so I don't think it is right to say that "Apple is all about minimalism". Especially when this article is about providing different ways to view the same TUAW data.
oh said 11:36AM on 9-03-2009
This article is about more ways you can pay TUAW (if you don't have AdBlock). Look at the ridiculous clutter strewn across the page. Look at all of those lame "SHARE" popups with a hoard of links I can click to spam my friends!
The bottom line is, 14 ways is far too much. The page is cluttered to the point of unreadability. It's disgusting and distasteful.
Victor Agreda, Jr. said 12:21PM on 9-03-2009
So you'd rather TUAW look like Google.com?
The point here is that we have a number of ways for people to interact and/or view what comes out of our collective consciousness.
Feel free to use a Greasemonkey script to style the page according to your taste :)
sita said 12:09PM on 9-03-2009
Is this the place to ask you to stop this annoying "read more after the jump" thing? I read TUAW through Google Reader on my phone, and Google reader does a good job of rendering the RSS feed on the phone, but if the complete article is not in the feed, I have to follow a link and it will try to download the full version of the web page including lots of christmas tree decorations (headers, sidebars, cute icons etc).
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maclifer said 12:25PM on 9-03-2009
Please start adding more to your Facebook feed - I only recently learned of it and am happy to see it.
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