Michael Grothaus

Staff Writer

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Michael Grothaus is an American novelist and journalist living in London. He was first introduced to Apple computers in film school and went on to use them for years to create award-winning films. However after discovering many of Hollywood’s dirty little secrets while working for 20th Century Fox, he left and spent five years with Apple as a consultant. He’s since moved to London and earned his MA in Creative Writing. His first novel, Epiphany Jones, is a story about trafficking and America's addiction to celebrity.

In addition to being a staff writer at TUAW, Michael has written multiple books covering the Mac, iPod, and iPad including Taking Your iPad to the Max, Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max, and Taking Your iPod touch to the Max, 2nd edition. Michael has also written for the online men's magazine, Asylum. When not writing, Michael spends his time traveling Europe, Northern Africa, and Asia. You can reach him at www.michaelgrothaus.com and via Twitter.

Michael Grothaus's Latest Posts

Facebook launches Instagram-like "Camera" app

by Michael Grothaus (May 24th 2012 2:15PM)

What do you do after spending a billion dollars buying a popular photography app? If you're Facebook, you then release your own branded app that does the exact same thing. Yes, Facebook has just launched the Facebook Camera app. The app allows you to take photos or select current photos from ...

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Mint adds split-transactions and budget adjustments to iOS app, 40% of users now mobile-only

by Michael Grothaus (May 23rd 2012 8:00AM)

Popular personal finance site Mint.com is launching an update to its iOS app today that adds the ability to split transactions and adjust budgets on the fly. Those two new features were the most requested from users and make an already excellent app even better. Intuit gave me a sneak peek of the ...

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Facebook Pages Manager available

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd 2012 5:30PM)

Facebook has just released their Facebook Pages Manager app for iOS. The app allows Pages admins to administer their Facebook Page account from the comfort of their iPhone. According to the app store listing, the 1.0 release allows the admin to: Post new updates and photos as your ...

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Apple releases Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.13

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd 2012 5:20PM)

Apple has released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.13, which adds RAW image compatibility support for six new cameras to iPhoto '11 and Aperture 3. The newly supported cameras are: Canon EOS-1D X Nikon D800E Nikon D3200 Olympus OM-D E-M5 Panasonic LUMIX ...

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Presidents Obama, Clinton pay tribute to Steve Jobs at Webbys

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd 2012 12:00PM)

Yesterday a host of political leaders, artists, scientists, and tech visionaries paid tribute to Steve Jobs at the annual Webby Awards in New York. The tribute started with an opening from Justin Long and John Hodgman, who played Mac and PC in Apple's long-running "I'm a Mac" ads. Richard ...

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New Paris Apple Store to open on Friday

by Michael Grothaus (May 22nd 2012 10:00AM)

Apple will open its eleventh Apple retail store in France this Friday. The store will be located in the Centre commercial Les Quatre Temps at 15 Parvis de la Défense in Paris. The Les Quatre Temps store will be the third Apple Store in the country's capital. While Apple usually chooses ...

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Mountain Lion update includes automatic Mac app downloads

by Michael Grothaus (May 21st 2012 4:30PM)

Apple is set to bring automatic app downloads to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion when it debuts later this summer. As noted by 9to5Mac, the latest build of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion only has a partially working Automatic Downloads feature, but users can expect to see a finalized working version when OS X ...

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The story of Apple's upside down logo

by Michael Grothaus (May 21st 2012 11:30AM)

It was perhaps one of the most baffling and frustrating design choices Apple ever made: the upside down Apple logo. For those of you who haven't been using Macs long enough to remember this, the "upside down Apple logo" refers to how PowerBooks and iBooks used to display the Apple logo "pointing" ...

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15 suggestions for iOS 6

by Michael Grothaus (May 5th 2012 1:00PM)

I've been writing these posts for the last couple of years, usually always before WWDC, as mini roundups of what I, my colleagues, and readers want to see in the next iOS release. However, as releases go on it gets harder and harder to put together lists of major features I'd like to see in the ...

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UK National Rail app available for iPhone

by Michael Grothaus (May 2nd 2012 11:30AM)

National Rail has finally released an official iPhone app that allows users to access real-time information for all overground trains in England, Wales, and Scotland. National Rail Enquiries is more than just a journey scheduler, according to the company. The app allows users to track trains in ...

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