Dave Caolo

Managing Editor

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

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 ...

NYPD meets FMI: Cop nabs iPhone thief in NYC

by Dave Caolo (Jan 27th 2012 3:00PM)

Don't walk past police with a stolen iPhone in your boot. According to the New York Times, a quick-thinking police officer and Apple's Find My iPhone managed to retrieve a woman's stolen iPhone. The woman was in a handbag store in Manhattan when a thief allegedly held her up at gunpoint and took ...

Apparent announces WiFi-powered Doxie Go scanner

by Dave Caolo (Jan 26th 2012 5:45PM)

Apparent has announced a new model of its popular Doxie Go scanner with Wi-Fi support. The tiny appliance can be charged up, slipped into a bag and carried around for on-the-go scanning of documents, receipts or other slip of paper you want to digitize and save. When we reviewed the Doxie Go in ...

Apple increasing operations in Israel with Anobit, new research center

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th 2012 2:30PM)

Apple recently confirmed its purchase of Israeli-based flash memory firm Anobit, and today Israeli business newspaper Calcalist reports [Google translation, subscription required] Apple will open a research center in Haifa this February. Calcalist notes that the research center is not related to ...

Apple seeds seventh 10.7.3 beta to developers

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th 2012 9:30AM)

Apple released the seventh beta of Mac OS 10.7.3 (build 11D50) to developers yesterday amid the hubbub of the financial conference call. The update lists no known issues and asks developers to focus on iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The delta update is a ...

Apple denied new appeal for Galaxy Tab 10.1 ban by Dutch court

by Dave Caolo (Jan 24th 2012 9:00AM)

A Dutch appeals court has dismissed Apple's appeal to have the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in the Netherlands on Tuesday. The move confirmed the Dutch lower court's ruling from last year which stated that the Galaxy Tab 10.1 were not a copy of Apple's popular iPad. This legal back-and-forth ...

iTunes 10.5.3 now available, adds iBooks 2 textbook sync

by Dave Caolo (Jan 19th 2012 11:32AM)

Apple has released iTunes 10.5.3 for Mac and Windows. As of this writing, it's available from Apple's site, but not Software Update. As noted by MacStories, the new version adds support for synchronizing the iBooks 2-savvy textbook format announced during today's education event. It's been an ...

Apple's press event is getting "overhyped"

by Dave Caolo (Jan 17th 2012 12:00PM)

As anticipation builds for Apple's January 19 press event, the tech web has latched onto the notion of "GarageBand for iBooks," suggesting that Apple will release iBook creation tools to the public. Ars Technica believes it's true, while Philip Elmer-Dewitt does not. Interestingly, both opinions ...