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Conference Companion app suite poised to transform event experiences

by Michael Rose (Feb 21st, 2011)

If you're attending a professional conference or symposium, you can expect to do a lot of walking around, meeting and greeting, professional networking and intensive learning. Unfortunately, you can also expect to be saddled with a lot of paper: ...

TekTrak phone locator offers two-use free version

by Michael Terretta (Jan 5th, 2011)

Just because Apple released a Find My iPhone app and then made it free, doesn't mean there isn't room for a little friendly competition. TekTrak originally took on Apple's built-in iPhone location service by offering TekTrak Pro at a one-time ...

360 Panorama brings sharing, simplicity to iPhone pano photos

by Erica Sadun (Dec 1st, 2010)

We first looked at 360 Panorama back in July when it debuted against other panoramic photo apps, including Boinx's You Gotta See This and Debacle Software's Pano. On sale now for just US$0.99 (regular price $2.99), Occipital's panorama application ...

First Look: Boinx PhotoBox app for iPad

by Steven Sande (Oct 28th, 2010)

The guys at Boinx Software have done it again, this time with a product for the iPad. PhotoBox, a free app, is the first iPad app for the company, which is primarily known for its Boinx TV and FotoMagico applications for Mac OS X and the You Gotta ...

TUAW First Look: AUDIOPRESS for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2010)

AUDIOPRESS is a new app and free audio digest service available on iPhone that is designed to create a custom "radio stations" for you to listen to on your device. You add AudioArticles, "MyUpdates," Podcasts, and Radio Stations to a playlist, ...

First Look: Time Travel eXplorer brings old London to life

by Steven Sande (Oct 1st, 2010)

When you're visiting a city, don't you sometimes wonder what it looked like in past centuries? That's the premise behind Time Travel eXplorer - London, a new iPhone travel guide app from Visick Solutions, Ltd. currently on the What's Hot page of the ...

First Look: Ping Pong Battle adds video-out, Killerspin

by Michael Rose (Jul 28th, 2010)

A few weeks ago, when we first looked at the hybrid iPhone/iPad game Ping Pong Battle, it wasn't quite ready for prime time; one of the marquee features, video-out from the 'table' iPad, wasn't finalized. With an update to the apps due to hit the ...

Dropbox + text editing = Droptext

by Steven Sande (Jul 11th, 2010)

Most of the bloggers here at TUAW are huge fans of Dropbox, the free cloud storage service. Since you can share documents with all of your iDevices, wouldn't it be nice to be able to edit your files from any of them as well? There are actually ...

I have seen the future, and it's SSD

by David Winograd (Mar 3rd, 2010)

On the Macworld show floor, I didn't really see one specific product that blew me away. What I did see, however, is the next big concept that's going to not only blow all of us away, but it will change the way we relate to our computers. It's the ...

First Look: Snagit for Mac Public Beta

by Steven Sande (Dec 17th, 2009)

Switchers were elated earlier this year when TechSmith, developers of the fabulous Camtasia screen recorder application for Windows, finally shipped their flagship app for the Mac. Those switchers were probably also wishing that TechSmith would ...

First look and reader giveaway: Lo-Mob, for that retro photo look

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2009)

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a huge fan of iPhone photography apps. I've written about Best Camera, played with ColorSplash, and taken panoramic photos with Pano. When I noticed the $1.99US Lo-Mob [iTunes Link] while doing my weekly pass through ...