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Holiday Gift Guide: iMovie-friendly video cameras

by Michael Rose (Dec 18th, 2011)

Funny thing about video cameras: you can spend an arbitrarily large amount of money on them, if you want. The line between the kind of equipment used exclusively by professionals and the stuff you might find in the gear bag of a weekend Scorsese ...

Amazon introduces $6 million Select program for exclusive Kindle authors

by Erica Sadun (Dec 9th, 2011)

Yesterday, Amazon introduced Kindle Direct Publishing Select (KDP), featuring a multi-million dollar seed fund. KDP Select allows authors to earn royalties by lending out their books through Amazon's Prime Kindle Owners Lending Library. Authors ...

5 apps for Thanksgiving

by Steven Sande (Nov 18th, 2011)

Whether you're ready for it or not, the holiday season is upon us. One week from today, many of us in the US will be pushing ourselves away from the Thanksgiving dinner table, sated and ready to do some serious shopping on our iPads. To get you ...

Where's my Water creator goes from QA to hit game designer at Disney Mobile

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2011)

Tim FitzRandolph joined Disney Mobile's gaming team from the lowest rung possible: The Quality Assurance department. Game testers often work long hours on early versions of unfinished games, and FitzRandolph's first job was no exception. "I ...

Lion's full-screen apps: Some hits, a lot of misses

by Steven Sande (Jul 20th, 2011)

One new feature of OS X Lion that is sure to win both fans and foes is the ability for apps to go full-screen. Apple teased us with this last year when updates to several of the iLife apps -- iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand -- brought the ability ...

First-Person Final Cut Pro X, Day One: Completely at Sea

by Matthew Levie (Jul 2nd, 2011)

Professional film & video editor Matthew Levie is based in San Francisco, produced and edited the documentary Honest Man and writes Blog and Capture. First-Person Final Cut Pro X is the unvarnished story of his week-long introduction to the new ...

Customers with multiple Apple IDs frustrated by Apple's "no consolidation" policy

by TJ Luoma (Jun 17th, 2011)

Since Apple's iCloud announcement, we have received a steady stream of messages from people with the same problem: multiple Apple IDs. Some readers have been managing two Apple IDs on purpose and are now frustrated about the fact that Apple is ...

Fantastical improves the Mac desktop calendar experience

by Dave Caolo (May 17th, 2011)

Calendaring on the Mac has come a long way since I was using Palm Desktop on a 333 MHz iMac. iCal is the Mac OS default today, and it works well. There is room for improvement, however, and Fantastical takes a huge step in the right ...

Malware, Macs, and crying wolf: Doing the math

by Richard Gaywood (May 14th, 2011)

Love Apple gear? Like math? TUAW's Doing the Math series examines the numbers and the science that lie behind the hardware. The contentious subject of Mac security has been back in the news in recent weeks following the emergence of a fake ...

Publishers' choice: Will the iPad be the hero or villain of the comic book industry?

by Michael Grothaus (May 8th, 2011)

Music piracy rose to epidemic levels at the beginning of the 2000s (although, according to Wired, those days are now over). There were many causes of this growth in piracy -- high speed internet access, easy-to-use P2P software -- but perhaps ...

Docks, transformers, computing cores and taking it all with you

by Richard Gaywood (May 5th, 2011)

Back in the mists of history -- probably the late '90s or early '00s -- I remember reading a blog post. I'm afraid I have been unable to find it again, so you'll have to take my reminiscing on faith (but please leave a comment if you know what ...

iPad 2 cameras set for FaceTime

by Lauren Hirsch (Mar 2nd, 2011)

Now that the new iPad is confirmed to have both a front- and a rear-facing camera, the iPad joins the iPhone, iPod touch and Mac as a FaceTime-capable device. The new iPad front-facing camera features VGA quality video at 30 frames per second, ...

Ask TUAW: Presidents Day Edition

by Ask TUAW (Feb 21st, 2011)

Hi everyone! Welcome to the Presidents Day Edition of Ask TUAW -- everyone's favorite Mac and iOS Q&A and advice column. We got a nice group of questions from last week's post, but we always need more! Here's what we need you to do: go to ...

Eric Schmidt stepping down as Google CEO

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 20th, 2011)

Looks like Steve's (former?) BFF Eric Schmidt is stepping down as CEO of Google, leaving co-founder Larry Page in charge of the company as the new CEO. A rather astounding rearranging of the deck chairs, but also the logical progression of affairs. ...

The paperless office: How to get there (and a discount e-book offer)

by Steven Sande (Jan 15th, 2011)

Last Wednesday on TUAW TV Live, I discussed my success over the past year at moving towards the ultimate goal of a paperless office. I thought it would be a good idea for me to pass along some of the methods I've been using to accomplish this elusive ...

Ask TUAW: Outlook 2011 attachment problems, Apple TV alternatives, deleting apps and more

by Chris Ullrich (Dec 17th, 2010)

Welcome back to another edition of Ask TUAW. Each week this column will feature questions from readers and answers by the TUAW team. If you have questions for the following week's column, drop them in the comments, and I will do my best to get to ...