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OS X Lion 10.7.2 seed 2 now available for developers

by Steven Sande (Aug 23rd, 2011)

Numerous tipsters have advised us that OS X Lion 10.7.2 seed 2 has been made available to developers. Notification of the update was sent to developers yesterday afternoon. According to information sent to TUAW by developers, there are no known ...

PSA: This is why non-developers shouldn't run iOS betas

by Chris Rawson (Aug 16th, 2011)

Answer these two questions really quickly: Are you a developer? Are you running the iOS 5 beta? If you answered no to the first question and yes to the second, then this post is meant for you. You are doing it wrong, and on behalf of ...

iCloud.com developer beta opens, includes full-featured web interface

by Chris Rawson (Aug 1st, 2011)

Remember when I told you there would still be iCloud web apps once the service took over MobileMe, despite what some other sites were saying at the time? Not to brag or anything, but I was right. Today, Apple launched the iCloud.com beta for ...

Camino 2.1 now in beta, features improved plug-in control

by Chris Rawson (Aug 1st, 2011)

Camino, an open source third-party web browser for Mac OS X, released a beta of version 2.1 last week. According to the release notes, new features in Camino 2.1 include: Enhanced Location Bar Autocomplete: The location bar's autocomplete ...

Avast! Free Antivirus for Mac beta now available

by Steven Sande (Jun 1st, 2011)

Apple released Security Update 2011-003 yesterday with protection from the MacDefender malware and its variants, but some of our readers might want to do more to protect their Macs from malware. Avast has been a longtime supplier of a free (for ...

Twitter partners with Firefox, adds new image sharing tools

by Michael Rose (Jun 1st, 2011)

As TechCrunch suggested earlier in the week, Twitter announced a few new features today: improved search on hashtags and usernames, and a Twitter-branded image/video sharing service that may disrupt established players like TwitPic and yFrog ...

CrowdOptic could raise the bar for augmented reality apps

by David Winograd (May 11th, 2011)

Augmented reality may be taking the next giant step forward with CrowdOptic, an app that will provide a graphic data overlay for live events. If you are at a concert (with the system in place), point the app at the stage and you'll get details ...

Google rolls out Chrome Canary to Mac

by Samuel Gibbs (May 4th, 2011)

Good news for Google Chrome enthusiasts: Chrome Canary is now available for Mac. Windows users have had the option to download the pre-developer, experimental builds of the Chrome browser, dubbed Canary, for some time now. But now Mac Chrome ...

Cultured Code releases Things Cloud Sync beta

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2011)

Of the many to-do apps available in the App Stores, one of the perennial favorites is Things from Cultured Code (US$9.99 for iPhone/iPod touch, $19.99 for iPad, $49.99 for Mac). While the cross-platform app has been lauded for its beautiful user ...

BananaTunes beta streams beautiful music from iOS to your Mac

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2011)

One of the great things about being a buddy of Erica Sadun is that sooner or later, she surprises you with an amazing app. [Ed: This is also known as "assault by beta testing" under Utah's penal code.] Her BananaTunes beta evolves iOS-to-Mac ...

Seventh Mac OS X 10.6.7 beta seeded to developers

by Steven Sande (Mar 8th, 2011)

Wow. It seems like only two weeks ago that the sixth beta of Mac OS X 10.6.7 was seeded to developers. Wait - it WAS two weeks ago. Well, today Apple has released the seventh (and hopefully final) beta of the next version of Snow Leopard to ...

iOS 4.3 rumored to have PhotoStream service, iPad FaceTime, PhotoBooth apps

by Michael Terretta (Jan 20th, 2011)

They're not just rumors any more, or Apple's setting us up for a big April Fools Day. The developer release of iOS 4.3 Beta 2 has a home page icons image that's used in the wallpaper settings, showing the standard icons on your choice of wallpaper ...

Beta Beat: Kylo Browser featuring 10-foot interface

by Aron Trimble (Dec 17th, 2010)

Kylo is a free browser you use from your couch that embraces the 10-foot UI philosophy. The idea is that buttons, menus and text are larger than when viewed at your desk. This aids in usability when sitting farther away from the display, as would be ...

Beta Beat: Sparrow Gmail client for Mac

by Aron Trimble (Oct 5th, 2010)

Sparrow is a free Gmail client for your Mac that was released yesterday and is still in beta. Unlike MailPlane, which largely simulates the Gmail experience plus some powerful additions, the Sparrow client is designed to be minimalist. As John ...

Beta Beat: Dejumble 2

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 27th, 2010)

Apps like Things and OmniFocus are (still) the big contenders for your task-management dollars, but there are plenty of fresh ideas popping up from "smaller" developers. For example, ThinkingCode just released an exciting public beta: version 2 of ...

YouTube videos now available in HTML5: Good riddance, Flash

by Chris Rawson (Jan 21st, 2010)

We haven't exactly been secretive about our distaste for Adobe's Flash Player here at TUAW. Flash on the Mac has traditionally been a terrible resource hog, and while the pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 alleviated (to an extent) Flash's inordinately ...