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Two super simple DIY hacks for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jan 14th, 2010)

I've been reading the Unplggd blog from Apartment Therapy a lot lately, because I recently moved into a new place and am trying to fill it up with cool stuff. And someone over there must be an iPhone fan, because I've seen not one but two great and ...

TUAW Tip: Veency remote controls your iPhone from your Mac

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2010)

Reader Kevin C. sent us a tip the other day -- he recently got a Bose SoundDock II, which is a nice little speaker dock, as a Christmas gift, and he wants to know: with his iPhone sitting all the way across the room, is there any way he can control ...

TUAW Tip: Get your animated slideshows to MobileMe

by Mel Martin (Jan 8th, 2010)

For all the things Apple does right, there are some strange decisions in the integration of iPhoto and MobileMe. iPhoto has a wonderful way to create animated slideshows with music and professional looking transitions and you can look at them all day ...

Burglars going after LA Apple Store customers

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2010)

I better be careful next time I walk out of my Apple Store here in Santa Monica -- apparently burglars are targeting Apple Store customers here in the Los Angeles area. Over 100 customers have apparently been targeted after leaving the store and ...

TUAW Tip: Sync your bookmarks to an iPhone or iPod touch with Xmarks

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2009)

I'm an avid user of Xmarks (formerly Foxmarks) as are probably many of you. I browse the Internet regularly on three different computers, and so it helps immensely to have all of my Firefox bookmarks and passwords synced. But the one fly in my ...

Making Microsoft Office on the Mac look more PC-like

by Sang Tang (Dec 28th, 2009)

Previously, I've mentioned that, despite their similar DNA and file interoperability, Microsoft Office for the PC and Mac are different in their own little subtle ways. This is part function: for example, Microsoft Excel on the Mac uses the 1904 ...

Five no-ship gifts for the last minute geek shopper

by Kelly Guimont (Dec 24th, 2009)

At this point, midday on Christmas Eve, basically all shipping deadlines have passed. If you're lucky you can find a store that has items for people on your gift list, but let's get real: You're choosing between gas station beer cozies, dancing ...

More than one way to stream Bluetooth

by David Winograd (Dec 20th, 2009)

Want an easy way to use the Bluetooth in your iPhone/iPod touch to stream music to your traditional stereo? The new Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver, announced this week, should do the job nicely. It's a little dongle that connects to your stereo ...

Using Snow Leopard's Image Capture app, or how to clean up a room

by Steven Sande (Dec 12th, 2009)

One of the lesser-known changes in Snow Leopard is the update to the Image Capture application. This little gem of the Mac has always been available to grab photos from devices such as digital cameras and scanners, but with Mac OS X 10.6, Image ...

Yet another use for Dropbox: USB cable

by Steven Sande (Dec 11th, 2009)

As a seasoned world traveler and Apple geek, I'm always fascinated to see how others in the Mac and iPhone community make lemonade from lemons when they encounter difficulties on the road. The Mac Observer's Jeff Gamet was recently in Italy (and may ...

DIY iSight night vision camera

by Lauren Hirsch (Dec 8th, 2009)

Now that most all Apple computers come with their own built-in iSight, the standalone iSight has taken a bit of a back seat. It always was a gorgeous piece of Apple art, though, and I really wanted to use it in a functional way. An easy way was to ...

Getting bit by the Gmail "exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits" bug

by Steven Sande (Nov 21st, 2009)

I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps, so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a few days ago where Apple Mail ...

iPhone cellular data not working? Try resetting your network settings

by Sang Tang (Nov 11th, 2009)

The "Reset Network Settings" button on the iPhone not only resets your Wi-Fi settings -- resulting in a clean slate with respect to Wi-Fi access points and their passwords -- it also resets your phone carrier settings. Several months back, I had the ...