Dave Caolo

Managing Editor

blog http://52tiger.net
twitter @panache

For six years, Dave worked as the IT Director of a Mac-friendly, residential school in rural Massachusetts and has been writing for the Web professionally since 2001. Today, Dave is an editor at TUAW where he's blogged since 2004. He's also the author of two books from FT Press: Using Your iPad as a Business Productivity Tool and Using Your iPhone as a Business Productivity Tool.

Dave believes that technology has the power to improve our life at its most important moments, and explores that conviction every day.

A native of Scranton, Pa (Yes, just like on The Office), Dave moved to Cape Cod, Ma in 1994. When he's not writing, Dave can be found kayaking, rooting for the Boston Red Sox and spending time with his wife, two kids and Boston Terrier, Batgirl.

Dave Caolo's Latest Posts

Amsterdam Apple Store to open March 3

by Dave Caolo (Feb 22nd 2012 12:00PM)

Apple will open an Apple Store in Amsterdam on March 3, bringing the number of countries with an Apple Store up to 12. It will occupy two levels of the historic and beautiful Hirsch Building in Amsterdam city center. Rumors of the store's construction started in November of 2010. The store's ...

Apple encourages MobileMe customers to transition to iCloud

by Dave Caolo (Feb 22nd 2012 9:30AM)

MobileMe is scheduled to be shut down in June 2012, and Apple has begun encouraging users to transition to iCloud. Email messages are going out this week that promote iCloud's services and provide a big 'ol blue button for customers to click and begin the migration process. iCloud offers most of ...

Video from ABC's Nightline report inside Foxconn

by Dave Caolo (Feb 20th 2012 10:30AM)

ABC New's Nightline will air what they're calling an "unprecedented" look inside Foxconn's Chinese factories that manufacture several Apple products. The report will air next Next Tuesday, February 21, but a brief glimpse is available now. A promotional piece shows ABC reporter Bill Weir entering ...

Daily iPhone App: Dine-O-Matic chooses a restaurant for you

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th 2012 2:00PM)

Eating at a restaurant is fun but getting a consensus from a group of diners can be a hassle. Offload the responsibly to your iPhone with Dine-O-Matic from the Iconfactory (currently on sale for US$0.99), which is more than happy to choose a restaurant for the whole gang. The app combines retro ...

Messages to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion, public beta available today (Updated)

by Dave Caolo (Feb 16th 2012 9:05AM)

Apple on Thursday released a public beta of Messages, its next-generation messaging app for the Mac that will be a part of Mac OS X Mountain Lion. It lets you send and receive iMessages, just like iOS devices running iOS 5. Now you can "text" chat via iMessage with the iPhones, iPads and iPod ...

Fair Labor Association begins Foxconn inspections at Apple's request

by Dave Caolo (Feb 13th 2012 10:00AM)

Apple has announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct voluntary audits of Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple's request. Inspections began Monday in Shenzhen. In a press release issued this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "The inspections now underway are ...

Britain's ITV warns Apple again not to use "iTV" (Updated)

by Dave Caolo (Feb 13th 2012 9:00AM)

Back in August of 2010, UK commercial television network ITV balked at rumors that Apple would rebrand the Apple TV as iTV, threatening legal action. Years later, the network is at it again, this time addressing rumors that Apple's "hobby" is due for a refresh and potential re-branding. Apple has ...

Bill Gates's original PC game now on iPhone

by Dave Caolo (Feb 10th 2012 12:00PM)

Donkey, or more properly DONKEY.BAS, was computer game co-written by Bill Gates in 1981. It was included in early versions of the PC-DOS operating system and had players drive a car down a street while avoiding donkeys. Why there were so many donkeys on the road is a mystery. Today, Donkey is ...

AllThingsD: Apple to announce iPad 3 in March

by Dave Caolo (Feb 9th 2012 8:54AM)

John Paczkowski of AllThingsD is claiming that Apple will hold a press event in the beginning of March to announce the new iPad, which he calls "iPad 3" (noting that might not be its official name). Paczkowski expects the announcement to take place in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the ...

Glooko raises $3.5M for glucose meter iPhone app project

by Dave Caolo (Jan 30th 2012 1:00PM)

Glooko makes it easy for customers with diabetes to monitor their blood sugar on the go. The company's MeterSync Cable lets users share data between self-monitoring blood glucose meters and an iOS app, Glooko Logbook (free). Glooko recently raised US$3.5 million in funding, ensuring that ...