Megan Lavey-Heaton

Megan Lavey is a newspaper designer with the Patriot-News just outside Harrisburg, Pa. She is a bibliophile, and can't pass a bookstore without somehow making her way inside. Her journalism career has taken her from Alabama to the Tennessee/Virginia border, Maine, Arizona and finally Pennsylvania. She is also the co-creator of the webcomic Namesake. She currently resides just outside Enola, Pa. with her cats and is married lifelong to a lifelong Linux user who happens to be British, an astrophysicist and who constantly teases her about her deep love for Apple products. But, she's still madly in love with him anyhow. If you need to contact her for review purposes, please do so through this email.

Megan Lavey-Heaton's Latest Posts

Ambrosia Software employees report layoffs, but company says it's still in business (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 10th 2013 9:00PM)

Tweets posted in the past couple hours from Ambrosia Software employees reveal that a number of its developers have been laid off. "End of an era, so long and thanks for all the fish, ambrosia. On to the next adventure," Rudy Richter, a software developer for Ambrosia, tweeted. Subsequent ...

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Ulysses strives and seeks to be a better text editor for Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 8th 2013 3:00PM)

Not long after I got my first personal Mac in 2004, I began looking for a robust writing program to replace Microsoft Word. There were a few good offerings that catered to what I wanted -- a word processor and a project manager. There was Circus Ponies' NoteBook, and I also used CopyWrite for a ...

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Daily Update for April 5, 2013

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 5th 2013 9:00PM)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

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Apple Store is down (update: back up)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 5th 2013 12:13AM)

The Apple Store went down for maintenance at midnight ET. What will the refresh bring? Maybe a surprise or two this April morning. Tipster Daniel was in the middle of buying a book from iPhoto when the upload cut out about halfway through. Thanks for the tip, Daniel, and good luck getting your ...

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Apple alters Chinese warranties after several weeks of controversy

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 1st 2013 12:45PM)

Apple has taken steps to mend its image in the eyes of the Chinese public after the state-controlled media alleged that Apple was avoiding comment on a recent China Central Television documentary. A letter from Tim Cook, posted on Apple's website, apologized for any confusion caused among ...

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Find My Friends update allows fine tuning

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 28th 2013 2:30PM)

Find My Friends has received a small, but important update. Version 2.1 of Apple's friend-location software introduces a new UI to search and set location-based notifications. Paranoid that your child is skipping school? Use the UI to look for your child's school and get alerted if he leaves ...

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T-Mobile to finally start carrying the iPhone with no contract, pay $99.99 upfront, and HSPA+ support (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 26th 2013 12:00PM)

This one falls in the "it's about time" category: the last of the national US cellular carriers is finally going to offer the iPhone. T-Mobile will officially carry the iPhone starting April 12, with pre-orders beginning April 5. At the company's Uncarrier event this morning in New York City, ...

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Karaoke software kJams goes beta

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 25th 2013 3:00PM)

If you're a karaoke fan, or it's a requirement for that nightclub you've always wanted to run, Kjams for Mac has reached the beta for version 1.0. The karaoke software has everything you need to get the party going, and what few reviews are out there say it's easy to use, extremely robust, and ...

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Exploit (now offline) allowed bogus reset of Apple ID passwords (updated)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Mar 22nd 2013 5:22PM)

Apple's new two-step verification process has already been put to the test, thanks to a (now apparently offline) exploit that allows anyone with your email address and birthday to reset your Apple ID. The Verge confirmed the exploit after the site was made aware of a tutorial posted on a ...

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