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Rupert Murdoch confirms WSJ for iPad

by Dave Caolo (Mar 3rd, 2010)

Rupert Murdoch has confirmed, in a Q & A following his announcement of a New York 'metro' section for the Wall Street Journal, that an app for the iPad is under development (WSJ story here, behind the paywall). There's an iPhone app available ...

MLB.com At Bat 2010 out now

by Mike Schramm (Mar 2nd, 2010)

Baseball season is almost here (Spring training starts this week), and with it comes a brand new version of Major League Baseball's great iPhone app. MLB.com At Bat 2010 is out now on the App Store, and for $14.99, you get the same great app you ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I use my Apple TV in the car?

by Erica Sadun (Mar 2nd, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I'm planning a road trip for the summer. We'll be driving for 3-4 days, then spending a couple of months in a rental house before heading back. Thinking about keeping the family sane, especially during the drive, I thought, "Why ...

Rumor: Apple prepping HDMI Macs

by Mike Schramm (Mar 1st, 2010)

The picture above comes from AppleInsider, who are claiming that Apple is about to release a Mac mini with an HDMI port in place of the current DVI connector. And that sound you just heard was hundreds of thousands of mini-based entertainment center ...

Interview with the creator of the Apple startup sound

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2010)

We met them while they were shooting on the Apple Campus, and now the creators of the Dutch site onemorething.nl have posted their interview with Apple sound designer Jim Reekes (who also appears in Welcome To Macintosh). They met up with Reekes ...

Boxee back on Apple TV

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2010)

Boxee recently released a brand new version of their beta software, but unfortunately, that build didn't happen to work on the Apple TV. That's now been fixed, however, and you can now get the USB flash drive creator app that will give you a ...

Aperture 3.0.1 available now in Software Update

by Chris Rawson (Feb 24th, 2010)

Although Aperture 3 introduced a lot of new features, it also introduced a lot of bugs. Apple's support forums have been abuzz with reports of memory leaks and issues with the new Faces functionality. Aperture 3.0.1 has arrived in Software Update, ...

Found Footage: Photoshop v1.0 recreated on iPhone

by Chris Rawson (Feb 23rd, 2010)

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe recently recreated Photoshop 1.0 -- on the iPhone. Porting the venerable application over to the iPhone reportedly took Adobe a mere two weeks of development. The application is not available ...

TV networks continue to resist iTunes price cuts

by Chris Rawson (Feb 22nd, 2010)

Apple has been courting US TV networks recently in a bid to get them to drop episode pricing from its current level of $1.99 down to $0.99. The New York Times reports that, predictably, many TV networks are resisting Apple's push for lower episode ...

Danish newspaper fakes iPad on front page

by Dave Caolo (Feb 22nd, 2010)

As the newspaper industry struggles to find its way in an increasingly digital world, publishers, writers, and so on are reconsidering their business models. Danish newspaper Information makes the case for going digital crystal clear by filling its ...

Australian Broadcasting Corporation wants to be on the iPad

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2010)

ABC is making moves to bring their content to the iPad, but before you get all excited about seeing the Lost conclusion on Apple's tablet, let us point out that we're talking about the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, not the guys who write Jimmy ...

$1000 iPhone law exam review app sends traditional publisher running for cover

by Mike Schramm (Feb 16th, 2010)

You readers were skeptical that BarMax, the iPhone app that offered up a full law prep system for $1000, would make too big a splash in the law prep community. But apparently that's exactly what happened -- three weeks later, BarBri, one of the more ...

Mac 101: Adding new microphones to your Mac

by Erica Sadun (Feb 16th, 2010)

There are, roughly, several billion kinds of microphones and headsets, all of which can theoretically be used on your Macintosh to let you voice chat over iChat or Skype. The problem is that a fair percentage of them fail to work exactly right, just ...

Nuance acquires MacSpeech

by Mel Martin (Feb 16th, 2010)

Nuance Communications, the company behind Dragon Dictate and Dragon Search for the iPhone, has acquired MacSpeech, the company that makes MacSpeech Dictate and other voice recognition apps for the Mac platform. The first product from MacSpeech was ...

Aperture 3 already updated

by Mel Martin (Feb 15th, 2010)

I didn't even have dust on the box yet, but Aperture 3 has scored an update within a few days of its release. The update, according to Apple, "...addresses an issue affecting the playback of video clips used in Aperture 3 slideshows on Snow Leopard." ...

Toy Story 3 and the Mac

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2010)

One of the things I missed in the news last week due to being so busy at Macworld (along with most of the Olympics, though we did get to watch the opening ceremony at a post-show dinner) was the brand new Toy Story 3 trailer -- Pixar's latest movie ...