0 Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

WSJ: Apple seeks injunction to block sales of Samsung's Galaxy Nexus

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2012)

Apple is asking for a preliminary injunction to block US sales of the Galaxy Nexus, according to the Wall Street Journal. The current suit, filed in San Jose's federal district court on Wednesday of this past week, accuses Samsung's phone of infringing on four Apple patents. The patents in question ...

Five apps to keep your young children entertained and educated

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 11th, 2012)

Earlier this week, I wrote a post about letting your children use an iPad. I mentioned locking it down, filling it with apps and letting them use the tablet in small increments. In a minor oversight, I didn't mention any of the apps that I put on my iPad. To make up for that mistake, I've decided ...

Some iTunes customers still struggle with account hacking

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 11th, 2012)

Late last year, reports of hacked iTunes accounts and unauthorized purchases surfaced on Apple support forums. People complained their accounts were compromised and their gift card balances drained by in-app purchases. Most cannot remember falling for a phishing scam and had no idea why or how the ...

Bookle: Hands-on with the new Mac EPUB reader app

by Steven Sande (Feb 11th, 2012)

During Apple's January education event, one thing that many Apple bloggers were waiting for never appeared -- a version of iBooks for Mac. While that was a surprising omission, at least there's a new and well-implemented Mac book reader app that handles the EPUB format of most iBooks with ease and ...

How to avoid sounding dumb when you write about Apple

by Chris Rawson (Feb 11th, 2012)

So, you want to write about Apple? Lots of people do these days. The company is a household name, its financial performance is virtually unparalleled, and it makes products that millions upon millions of users enjoy every single day. I can tell you from personal experience that getting paid to ...

Valentine's Day app sales underway: Treasures of Montezuma, Hanging with Friends, Order and Chaos Online

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Romance is almost in the air (even, if you're as single as I am, though you might not care), and that means what every holiday seems to mean around the App Store: More sales! With all these great deals on apps, you can either enjoy one with your sweetie, or use them to distract you from your ...

Snapstream industrial-strength DVR gets Mac browser client

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Snapstream is an enterprise-level TV monitoring service. It's used mostly by news organizations and companies to keep an eye on what's happening on television every night, looking for a certain piece of video or bit of text or speech (the Daily Show famously uses it to keep track of all of that ...

Diesel Sweeties turns iBooks Author experiment into successful Kickstarter

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 10th, 2012)

A couple weeks ago, Richard Stevens decided to create a free ebook of with a month's worth of his webcomic series, Diesel Sweeties, using iBooks Author. We reported on the experiment then, but Stevens recently disclosed just how big of a success it was: More than 10,000 downloads in three days of ...

Apple now offering education model 13-inch MacBook Air for $999

by Chris Rawson (Feb 10th, 2012)

Almost immediately after discontinuing the white plastic MacBook once and for all, Apple has replaced it with a MacBook Air designed for educational sales. The 13-inch model costs the same US$999 as the MacBook it replaces. This 13-inch MacBook Air, which will only be sold to educational ...

Daily Update for February 10, 2012

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2012)

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 (requires ...

WeatherBug for iPhone gets new GUI and adds features

by Mel Martin (Feb 10th, 2012)

There are many weather apps for the iPhone, but I'm a frequent user of the free WeatherBug app. The free version was recently updated to version 2.0 with a completely new GUI and added features such as automatic updating of weather data at your current location, along with pollen and UV data for ...

Rumor: MacBook Pro line getting revamped with MacBook Air style designs

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

There's rumors of a shakeup going around in Apple's laptop lines. AppleInsider claims, according to "people familiar with Apple's roadmap" (cute -- it's Friday, so we'll let that through), that Apple is aiming to completely revamp its notebook lines sometime this year, basically making the MacBook ...

The Puzzlejuice emails document the nitty gritty of iOS development

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Puzzlejuice is a really great puzzle game (really, a big mishmash of different puzzle games) that's available on the App Store right now. It was put together by developers Greg Wohlwend and Asher Vollmer, and Wohlwend has just published a post on his personal blog that's pretty spectacular: He ...

Daily iPad App: Reckless Racing 2

by Mike Schramm (Feb 10th, 2012)

Gaming company Polarbit is the grandfather of iPhone racers. Raging Thunder was among the first racers to hit the iPhone. Reckless Racing was released soon after and now it's back as Reckless Racing 2. This is a full update to the isometric driving title. The gameplay is similar to other top-down ...

Facebook nabs former Apple exec Rebecca Van Dyck as head of global marketing

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2012)

Facebook's Initial Public Offering (IPO) filing brought surprising information: the company has hired former Apple marketing executive Rebecca Van Dyck. Van Dyck served in a similar role at Levi's after leaving Apple. She started working at Apple in January of 2007, and was involved in the ...