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Macworld 2010: TUAW video interview with The Neat Company

by Steven Sande (Feb 11th, 2010)

Steve Sande visited with Kevin Garton of The Neat Company today to hear what the scanning superpower is up to at Macworld 2010. The company is about to go live with a beta of a new version of NeatWorks for Mac, and Garton noted that Mac users ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: Aaron Hillegass

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 7th, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. On my last day at Big Nerd Ranch, I got a chance to sit down with with the biggest nerd at the ranch, Aaron Hillegass, and talk about nerds, NextStep, ...

Count The Beats: Playing keys and synth live on a Mac (interview).

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Over the coming months, the Count The Beats series is going to be taking a closer look at how the Mac (and the accompanying software) fits in with the various components of a typical rock band (drums, bass, electric guitar etc. You get the idea). ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: meet Joe Conway

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 2nd, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. It's Tuesday at Big Nerd Ranch, and we're deep into writing simple apps for our iPhones. Once Mark Fenoglio had finished teaching us some fundamentals ...

TUAW at Big Nerd Ranch: Mark Fenoglio

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 31st, 2010)

More coverage of TUAW's inside look at developer boot camp. See below for notes & disclaimer. I'm on my second day at Big Nerd Ranch, settling in and getting some blogging done between 3-hour lectures on Objective-C fundamentals. I sat down with ...

Talking tablets with Aaron Vronko of RapidRepair

by Steven Sande (Jan 16th, 2010)

As the clock ticks slowly towards the introduction of the Apple tablet, a lot of people are speculating on what the device design will be like. TUAW recently spent some time interviewing Aaron Vronko, Service Manager for RapidRepair. RapidRepair, ...

Count The Beats: Toyo from Amidio, Touch DJ and Noise.io

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 20th, 2009)

Matt's back with another Count The Beats interview (full of insightful thought-provoking content), waiting for you to devour and digest. Happy holidays! We got together with Toyo from Amidio, the creators of the mighty Noise.io Pro [iTunes Link] ...

Count The Beats: Interview with a mixing engineer

by Matt Tinsley (Dec 6th, 2009)

In the last year I've spent a fair amount of time doing some recordings. In particular, I've been working on some of my own material. Having invested a large amount of time and money into pre production and the actual recording sessions, what started ...

Announcement: App Store Livechat, Friday @ 12PM

by Erica Sadun (Oct 8th, 2009)

Is the App Store working just right? That's what Mike Schramm wondered the other day after this Newsweek article appeared, discussing the state of publishing apps on App Store. Tomorrow, we'll be hosting a live chat with real App Store developers, ...

Exclusive from 360iDev: OpenFeint 2.1 released, over 200 games in App Store

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2009)

This afternoon I had the opportunity to talk to Jason Citron and Eros Resmini of Aurora Feint, the company behind the OpenFeint social gaming platform. At 360iDev, Aurora Feint announced the availability of OpenFeint 2.1 to the developers on hand, as ...

ACU's iPhone initiative: a year later

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 24th, 2009)

In February of last year I did a two-paragraph writeup on an interesting development in higher education, noting that Abilene Christian University was doling out iPhones and iPod touches to incoming first-year students. I didn't, at the time, have ...

WWDC Video: AOL's Christina Wick on developing for Macs, iPhones

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 23rd, 2009)

I had a moment to talk to Technical Director Christina Wick at WWDC. She told us about the Mapquest app, plus a cool lifestreaming feature coming soon to AIM. Christina was featured in a video by Apple about developing on the iPhone, and it's clear ...

TUAW bloggers join host Chuck Joiner on MacVoices podcast

by Steven Sande (Jun 19th, 2009)

Have you ever wondered what goes on "behind the curtain" at TUAW? Podcaster extraordinaire Chuck Joiner is the man behind the popular Mac-related podcasts MacVoices, MacNotables, and the MacJury. Chuck recently spent some time with Mike Rose, ...

Macworld 2009: Neat Receipts / Neat Works video interview

by Steven Sande (Jan 14th, 2009)

A long, long time ago (May of 2008), The Neat Company introduced their Neat Receipts for Mac scanner / software combo. We wrote about it here on TUAW, and even gave away a few of the scanners. Fast forward to Macworld Expo 2009, and Neat Receipts is ...

Macworld 2009: Previews of upcoming Freeverse titles

by Steven Sande (Jan 14th, 2009)

If there's one game company that I really like, it's Freeverse. These guys have come up with some great iPhone games like Flick Sports Bowling, Flick Sports Fishing, and Wingnuts Motochaser, and they have even more titles in the works. On Friday, ...

TUAW Macworld Video: Her first Expo won't be her last

by Robert Palmer (Jan 12th, 2009)

This is Julie Rodriguez's first Macworld Expo, but it won't be her last. Coming all the way from Fargo, North Dakota, she stopped and talked with us briefly at Moscone's south hall, and told us about what she saw, what she liked, and why she'll be ...