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Dead Time Capsules can hang out together

by Josh Carr (Oct 11th, 2009)

We reported on the abundance of Time Capsule failure-to-boot after 18 months in September. A new site has emerged from the mist to help Time Capsule owners who are struggling to get Apple to acknowledge the issue. TimeCapsuleDead.org exists as a ...

Apple versus Woolworths: logo smackdown

by Chris Rawson (Oct 5th, 2009)

UPDATE 2: Be sure to read Engadget's analysis of what appears to be a non-event here. Apple is apparently getting hot and bothered over Australian/New Zealand supermarket chain Woolworths' new logo. Woolworths insists the logo is merely a stylized ...

Saurik live chat: Learn about Apple's new signature server

by Erica Sadun (Sep 24th, 2009)

Something new, unexpected, and possibly worrying has popped up in iTunes. iTunes now "calls home" to the Apple mothership whenever you restore an iPhone or iPod touch. It tells you that it's "Verifying restore with Apple...", checking your device ...

Announcement: Saurik live chat at 4:15 (ET) today

by Erica Sadun (Sep 24th, 2009)

Please join us this afternoon at 4:15 Eastern for a live chat with Jay "Saurik" Freeman. Jay is going to talk to us about Apple's new signature server and what that means to you as an iPod or iPhone owner. Have you noticed a new message in iTunes ...

Read that email again. And again.

by Mel Martin (Sep 24th, 2009)

Something seems rotten, at least for some Mac users, with the Apple Mail program. Apple support boards are lighting up with reports of email messages being downloaded multiple times. This problem seems to be mostly with POP mail accounts, but even ...

It just works. Usually.

by Mel Martin (Sep 16th, 2009)

The latest festival of issues with Snow Leopard alongside a round of people unhappy with the latest iPhone update both suggest that Apple might need to work a little harder on pre-release testing. One thing Microsoft does rather well is gets a lot ...

iPhone 3.1 problems flood our tip box

by Josh Carr (Sep 15th, 2009)

In the last week, we have had a constant barrage of iPhone issues break through the lines... so much so that we feel it is our duty to inform the two of you who haven't updated what you could experience by updating to version 3.1 of the iPhone OS. ...

Are Apple Time Capsules out of time after a year and a half?

by Mel Martin (Sep 11th, 2009)

There are quite a few unhappy Time Capsule owners over at the Apple support boards. It appears that some Time Capsules are going belly-up at roughly the 18 month mark, simply refusing to power on. As Brian from Texas wrote: "My TC did the exact ...

Shopping cart gone in iTunes 9

by Chris Rawson (Sep 9th, 2009)

Buyer beware: one of the features that has silently disappeared from iTunes 9 is the Shopping Cart, where you used to be able to place songs, albums, videos, and apps for future purchase. It has been replaced with a new feature called "Wish List" ...

Snow Leopard: Apple ships old, security-compromised Flash plugin with new OS

by Michael Rose (Sep 3rd, 2009)

It's not that we have anything against the Flash plugin for Mac browsers. Well, other than the fact that it's crashy, and slow, and makes our laptop fans spin up like we're doing wind tunnel testing for the Air Force. But other than that, we have ...

All is right with the world; iStat Menus 2.0 is here

by Steven Sande (Sep 3rd, 2009)

The world was looking bleak and dreary after Snow Leopard arrived last week, for my little menu bar friend, iStat Menus for Mac, was incompatible with the new version of Mac OS X. This morning, however, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, ...

Failure to launch: Apple bungles Snow Leopard distribution in New Zealand

by Chris Rawson (Aug 29th, 2009)

So, how's everybody enjoying Snow Leopard? Good stuff, isn't it? Gotta love those new Exposé options in the Dock, and all that saved hard drive space, and the faster if slightly quirkier performance... isn't it, um... great? Argh. I can't keep ...

Stupid and unjustified App Store rejection letter of the day

by Steven Sande (Aug 28th, 2009)

TUAW has covered the fine iPhone apps from Tapbots more than once. ConvertBot is a beautifully-designed and functional app to do a myriad of unit conversion calculations, while WeightBot is my personal favorite app for keeping track of my ...

Found Footage: iPhone Consumer Revolt (NSFW)

by Erica Sadun (Aug 17th, 2009)

Forget about everything else. The cool consumer rage is currently directed at AT&T. Pat Lee, a Chicago iPhone user, is asking the iPhone community to petition Apple to drop AT&T exclusivity. In this biting 30-second video, Lee suggests that ...

Streaming video from your iPhone? They crippled the app for that.

by Mel Martin (Aug 15th, 2009)

Qik [iTunes link] is an eagerly awaited free app for the iPhone. Most other video capable phones have a version of it. Qik allows, among other things, live streaming from your phone to the web. How could someone not want that capability? Early on, ...

Magic trick developers find the trick is on them

by Mel Martin (Aug 11th, 2009)

Update: The CEO of Theory11 wrote TechCrunch to say that, after Phil Schiller got involved, the Rising Card app was approved and is now on the store. Here's the iTunes link, and it's $2.99. Just when you thought the App Store approval process could ...