First Look Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

First Look: JotNot Scanner for iPhone updated to version 2.0

by Steven Sande (Nov 30th, 2009)

There's certainly no shortage when it comes to iPhone apps that turn your device into a pocket-sized scanner. At various times, TUAW bloggers have reviewed or discussed Readdle ScannerPro [US$6.99 (currently on sale for US$4.99), iTunes Link], ...

Socialite (formerly Eventbox) out of beta, into your Mac

by TJ Luoma (Nov 30th, 2009)

Socialite, the Mac social networking application formerly known as "Eventbox," has been released out of beta. The application is intended as a "one stop" for Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Flickr, Digg, and any site that supports RSS. I've ...

Dare to be Creative announces Parachute backup utility for Mac OS X

by Steven Sande (Nov 25th, 2009)

If there's one thing you've probably learned over the years from reading TUAW, it's that backups are important. Many of the bloggers here are obsessive about backups, doing Time Machine backups, SuperDuper! bootable backups, and using services like ...

Sneak Peek: Stair Dismount offers... broken bones, mostly

by Erica Sadun (Nov 23rd, 2009)

Remember Zen Bound? It's a gorgeous and fun-to-play little puzzle game. So when I heard that SecretExit, the makers of Zen Bound, were about to release a new app, I was excited to get a sneak preview. Stair Dismount is a very different game ...

Original Monopoly now available from EA for the iPhone / iPod touch

by Steven Sande (Nov 22nd, 2009)

If an angry, perspiring Steve Ballmer took over control of my iPhone and said I could only have one third-party app on it, I know which app I'd keep. EA's Monopoly Here and Now: The World Edition [US$4.99, iTunes Link] has been my favorite game on ...

First Look: Voices for iPhone

by John Burke (Nov 19th, 2009)

Novelty and social applications are a big hit on the iPhone. A new one from the folks of Taptivate is sure to be a big hit when it is released in the near future. Voices for iPhone is touted as an "audio recorder with a twist" and even a "social ...

First Look: WhatsApp

by John Burke (Nov 16th, 2009)

There's a lot of buzz about iPhone IM clients.Other applications have gotten a lot of coverage for allowing iPhones to chat from their AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber or a host of other screen names. WhatsApp [iTunes Link] is different, calling itself an ...

First look: Viewfinder supercharges Flickr search

by Joachim Bean (Nov 8th, 2009)

The new Mac app Viewfinder by Connected Flow (developer Fraser Speirs is the man behind the FlickrExport plugins for Aperture and iPhoto) is designed for browsing/searching images on Flickr. This application provides many ways to work with the ...

First Look: video editing on your iPhone with Nexvio ReelDirector

by Steven Sande (Oct 30th, 2009)

With the introduction of the iPhone 3GS back in June of this year, iPhone lovers finally got what a lot of other smartphones already had -- video recording capabilities. A little over a week later, I wrote a post titled "How to make iPhone videos ...

Count The Beats: Hey DJ, play us a song...

by Matt Tinsley (Oct 29th, 2009)

Here in the UK, it's getting pretty chilly on the willy compared to a month ago, or so. The warm memories of the summer are slowly dwindling to the reality of earlier, darker evenings (the clocks have just gone forward) as well as tentative first ...

First Look: New iMacs announced, and they're incredible!

by Steven Sande (Oct 20th, 2009)

TUAW may have had the date wrong (we guessed October 9, 2009), but the new iMacs we were looking for finally showed up today. The 20" and 24" models are gone, replaced by 21.5" and 27" iMacs with a true 16 x 9 HD aspect ratio. It's also obvious that ...

First Look: ZenNews brings the news cloud to your iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 15th, 2009)

Zensify announced its latest app, ZenNews [iTunes link], this morning. It's basically an intelligent news aggregator, using algorithms to find "what's hot" from a variety of sources including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Al Jazeera, the ...

Count the beats: Tuning and more with Guitar Toolkit for iPhone / iPod touch

by Matt Tinsley (Sep 28th, 2009)

Any musician worth his/her credit knows that accurate tuning is a given. It's a crucial starting point to playing any instrument at home, on the job, in the studio, or on the road, and an embarrassment when it isn't. Some time ago I was doing an ...

First Look: Zipcar app for iPhone hits the road

by Michael Rose (Sep 28th, 2009)

The company's teaser page still says "coming soon," but eagle-eyed reader Jason spotted the free Zipcar app [iTunes link] in the store today. We've been waiting for this app for quite a while, and it's exciting to see it in action. The app provides ...

Caffeinated apps: Starbucks intros myStarbucks, Starbucks Card Mobile App

by Steven Sande (Sep 23rd, 2009)

The Microsoft of the coffee biz, Starbucks, announced this morning that they've introduced two new iPhone / iPod touch apps to help customers make the most of their coffee addiction. myStarbucks and the Starbucks Card Mobile App [iTunes links] are ...

First Look: Get airborne with Aera for iPhone

by Mel Martin (Sep 22nd, 2009)

Aera is a new flight game [iTunes store] from iChromo with beautifully rendered graphics and some challenging game-play. I wouldn't exactly call it a flight simulator, as your control of the aircraft is limited. You can't bank left or right, but you ...