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Chrome for Mac out of beta

by Mike Schramm (May 25th, 2010)

Google has taken the "beta" adjective off of the Chrome for Mac browser, signifying that it's ready for primetime. The beta was originally released last December. Google Mac says it's ready for a stable release, and that the browser "provides not ...

Sync Wars: Address Book vs. Google Contacts

by TJ Luoma (May 22nd, 2010)

Steven Frank from Panic has outlined several important differences between the way that Address Book (on Snow Leopard) and Google Contacts manage data. This is on his personal website. He's quick to point out that it is not meant to be a ...

Fluid lets you embed webpages as your desktop or in menu bar

by TJ Luoma (May 10th, 2010)

I refer to my calendar a lot during the day, but I don't always have my calendar program running. Most of the time I just want to glance at something to confirm the time/date of an upcoming event, or just double check a date: "What is the last Sunday ...

3G technology: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow

by Charles Figueroa, Jr. (Apr 30th, 2010)

Cellular technology has been evolving since its invention. With the first cellular telephone networks, developed by Bell Labs and AT&T, cellular technology began to make leaps forward in ease of use, voice quality, and data communication. The ...

GDC 2010: Interview with Keith Lee of Booyah

by Mike Schramm (Mar 15th, 2010)

Booyah is an App Store company with quite a few lessons in its past already. The founders are former developers at Blizzard (they worked on both Diablo and World of Warcraft before setting off on their own), and after their first app, Booyah ...

Automatically open Bittorrent files using Dropbox and Hazel

by TJ Luoma (Mar 9th, 2010)

Every year there is a torrent made to let listeners download most of the music for SXSW. This year's torrent has recently been posted (previous years' are also available at the same site). I don't usually use Bittorent, so I asked around for client ...

AT&T: iPad will be a "Wi-Fi driven product," 3G won't be an issue

by Mike Schramm (Mar 3rd, 2010)

If I ran AT&T, I would leave the subject of whether or not the network could handle the iPad's extra 3G traffic demands completely out of the picture, saying something like "we hope so," or "we'll wait and see on how popular it is." But Randall ...

Virgin America dumps Flash over lack of iPhone support

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 3rd, 2010)

As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin's new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to give users the ability to check ...

Macmillan trying to sell readers 'hardcover' ebooks

by TJ Luoma (Mar 2nd, 2010)

John Siracusa drew my attention to an article by Macmillan CEO John Sargent on the agency model, availability and price, in which he says that the company actually plans to keep their hardcover/paperback separation even while selling ebooks. While ...

Browser security: "The main thing is not to install Flash!"

by TJ Luoma (Mar 2nd, 2010)

You may have noticed that I'm not a huge fan of Flash. My feelings pre-date the iPhone/iPad debate about whether or not Flash should be included on those devices. Even back when I was using Windows and Opera, one of the features I used most often ...

AT&T plans for SXSW 2010

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

Happy March! The super hip and trendy South-by-Southwest music and tech festival is coming up this month, and like many tech conventions these days, AT&T is working on a plan to keep their network up and running as thousands of iPhones descend on ...

Quantcast: Apple share of OS growing while Microsoft shrinks slightly

by Mel Martin (Feb 27th, 2010)

Research released today indicates that in North America, Apple's Mac OS X is gaining traction, while the Windows share of the OS market is shrinking ever so slightly. That's the report from Quantcast, a company that measures and analyzes web ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW talks to OpenFeint

by Mike Schramm (Feb 17th, 2010)

On the day before Macworld last week, I got a chance to sit down with Eros Remini, VP of Marketing for OpenFeint, to talk about his social gaming network for iPhone apps. He shared with me that the network has claimed a gigantic 12 million users ...

Macworld 2010: TUAW livestream from the show floor

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2010)

TUAW is broadcasting live from the show floor of Macworld 2010. Stay tuned all day long for live video from the show floor, including interviews, demos, and hands-on with vendors, friends, and luminaries. On the schedule today: Blue ...

Macworld 2010: Frog Design shows off their iPhone apps

by Mike Schramm (Feb 13th, 2010)

Frog Design is here on the show floor at Macworld 2010, and we stopped by their booth earlier in the week to check out what they've been up to on the iPhone. They're a storied design firm (they worked on the Apple II series back in the day) that is ...

Macworld 2010: First look at the show floor

by Mike Schramm (Feb 11th, 2010)

The show floor doesn't actually open for about 40 more minutes (as of this writing), but here you go -- we'll get you in, let you look around, and see what Macworld has to offer this year. From the indie dev booths to the towering Dr. Bott and IBM ...