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Get 50% off iPhone in Action until April 30

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 24th, 2009)

Some time ago I reviewed iPhone in Action from Manning. While there are other "starter" books out there, if you know how to code and you want to get up-to-speed on everything from web apps to the SDK, this book is a great primer. Of course, the ...

Mini-review of Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition

by Lisa Hoover (Jan 2nd, 2008)

If you're trying to figure out what to buy yourself with the gift card you got this holiday season, let me recommend David Pogue's Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Leopard Edition. I was fortunate to get a copy of it for Christmas this year (thanks, ...

TUAW Buyers Guide: Christmas Reading

by Nik Fletcher (Dec 18th, 2007)

I, like Christina, am a bit of a book lover - especially over the festive season. Normally found looking through a formidable library of books, what better way to stave off the pre-Macworld hype (at least for a few hours) than a relevant book. Unlike ...

iPhone Web Development book debuts

by Erica Sadun (Nov 2nd, 2007)

August Trometer's new PDF book, Optimizing Your Website for Mobile Safari" just debuted. I am not much of a web designer myself but I may cough up the ten bucks to pick up a copy of this ebook. Topics according to the web page include Mobile Safari ...

iPhone: The Missing Manual

by Scott McNulty (Jun 29th, 2007)

David Pogue, is there anything you can't do? He has had an iPhone for a few weeks now (one of the perks of being the New York Times tech columnist, I would imagine) and now there is news of the pending release of iPhone: The Missing Manual (it'll set ...

Vista vs. OS X by the books

by Scott McNulty (May 17th, 2007)

Tim O'Reilly, he of the animal books (as I like to call them), often posts about how O'Reilly's book sales can be indicative of tech trends in general. Thanks to zealous statistic keeping Tim has a wealth of knowledge about his sales (as as good ...

iWoz on iTunes

by Laurie A. Duncan (Dec 8th, 2006)

iWoz - From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It has made its way into the audiobook section of the iTunes Music Store (iTs link). All 9 hours and 14 minutes of it. Patrick Lawlor ...

The iLounge 2007 iPod Buyers' Guide

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 1st, 2006)

Our friends over at iLounge have just released their 2007 iPod Buyers Guide and it's the biggest one yet, weighing in at 180 pages. If you're thinking of buying anything iPod related at all for the holidays, this is the guide to read before you spend ...

Reminder: TUAW may want you!

by Scott McNulty (Oct 13th, 2006)

Hey kids, don't forget that we are looking for a few good bloggers to join our happy TUAW team. Here are the directions one more time (and failure to follow them will result in us not reading your application and mocking you): A brief bio 3 ...

Jim Thompson adds second MacBook to Gruber's Wi-Fi hack challenge

by David Chartier (Sep 6th, 2006)

Maynor and Elich's rewards just doubled, though the odds remain the same: Jim Thompson, a blogger who has been doing a knock-out job of dissecting this MacBook Wi-Fi hack fiasco, has offered a second MacBook on top of John Gruber's challenge to the ...

'The Fader' magazine issue available free on iTunes

by David Chartier (Jun 8th, 2006)

Who says the iTMS is just for music and videos? The Fader is a magazine that is "the definitive voice of emerging music and the lifestyle that surrounds it," and embodying that lifestyle they are: available now, for free, from the iTMS is their ...

Guy Kawasaki gets sneak peek of iWoz

by Scott McNulty (May 30th, 2006)

Guy Kawasaki, former Apple evangelist, has read Steve Wozniak's memoirs and he liked what he read. He was posted the top ten things that he learned from iWoz to give us a taste of what is in the book. Guy learned that Woz is, and always has been, an ...

Details of upcoming Thunderbird 2.0 release

by David Chartier (May 29th, 2006)

Hawk Wings has tracked down some details on a tantalizing v2.0 update to Thunderbird, Mozilla's email client. New features at the top of my list are message tagging, a tabbed message viewer and a built-in notification system. It's great to see more ...

The Omni Group hints at new product

by David Chartier (May 28th, 2006)

The Omni Group has begun hinting at a new product on their blog by offering clues on their blog as to what it is not. In posts like A trickling of inklings, they have let us know things like the product's sub-$20 price, that it is not a replacement ...

Macworld releases iPod/iTunes "Superguide"

by Dave Caolo (May 19th, 2006)

There's no doubt that the folks at Macworld and Playlist Mag (like Chris Breen,* Dan Frakes, etc.) have written some great articles on the iPod and iTunes. Wouldn't it be nice to have them all in one convenient location? To that end, Macworld has ...

Keep it Simple with GarageBand

by Scott McNulty (May 15th, 2006)

Keep it Simple with GarageBand promises to teach you the ins and outs of Gargageband through a series of simple musical tasks. You start off my 'laying down of fresh tracks,' as people in the biz say, and you end up adding your vocals to the project. ...