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TUAW Year in Review: December 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Some new iMacs "Assembled in USA"? Lost in yesterday's iFixit writeup of the 21.5-inch iMac was this small line in the description: "Interestingly, ...

TUAW Year in Review: November 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Apple shows "father of iOS 6 Maps" the door A tweet from Bloomberg News a few minutes ago says Apple has fired its "Maps manager" in the aftermath of ...

TUAW Year in Review: October 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Apple announces the long-rumored iPad mini (updated) Just two weeks after Apple sold its 100 millionth iPad, the company has announced the iPad mini. ...

TUAW Year in Review: September 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Apple announces the iPhone 5 Apple has announced the iPhone 5. If you've been following the rumors over the past month or so, the device's appearance ...

TUAW Year in Review: August 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Jury finds Samsung guilty of infringing on Apple's patents, awards Apple $1.05 billion in damages (updated) A California jury has found Samsung guilty of ...

TUAW Year in Review: July 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. How the iPhone surprise was almost given away by Steve Jobs Apple's curtain of secrecy surrounding new products is almost legendary, but a former Apple ...

TUAW Year in Review: June 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. Apple announces next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina display Apple has just announced a brand new MacBook Pro model at the WWDC Keynote in San Francisco. The ...

TUAW Year in Review: May 2012

by Michael Rose (Jan 1st, 2013)

Welcome to TUAW's Year in Review. Month by month, we're running down the top stories of 2012, all day long on New Year's Day. "Nanny Computing" and the future of OS X Note to readers: I failed to add a "do not pub yet" note onto this post the night before last. It was ...

TUAW Best of 2012 Personal Picks: Michael Rose

by Michael Rose (Dec 30th, 2012)

At the start of 2012, Apple customers and employees were emerging from the initial mourning period for founder and chairman Steve Jobs. Twelve months later, with the first full post-Jobs year in the books, Apple is (mostly) on track with some remarkable successes and only one or two noticeable ...

Biscotti and telyHD set-top video chat both get Father's Day upgrades

by Michael Rose (Jun 15th, 2012)

Combine geek-dad gadget lust with the promise of an easier way to stay in touch with faraway family, and you can see how the latest generation of standalone video chat boxes might have a good sales story to tell for this Father's Day weekend. While Cisco's discontinued ūmi never caught on in a ...

Connect by QuickOffice and Box OneCloud attack iPad file round-trip challenge

by Michael Rose (Mar 30th, 2012)

The baseline of iOS document sync and editing rests with Apple's iCloud, which allows the company's three productivity apps (Keynote, Numbers and Pages) to automatically back up, synchronize versions across devices and accept uploaded files via the web browser -- or, if you're sneaky, you can ...

Fuze Meeting delivers multiparty video conferencing to iPad 2

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

The latest updates to Callwave's distributed conferencing platform, Fuze Meeting, have added a rather dramatic new feature that's perfect for iPad 2 owners (not to mention Android 'Honeycomb' tablets like the Motorola Xoom and older 'Froyo' devices): multi-party video conferencing. Meeting ...

QuickCal for Mac: natural language events and todos for iCal

by Brett Terpstra (Mar 25th, 2011)

QuickCal has been one of my favorite ways to add items to iCal. It started with a Dashboard widget that let me use natural language to add calendar events. I loved it (actually wrote about it back in '09). Then it became an iOS app, QuickCal Mobile, and I was able to add entries with blazing ...

Apple support profile lists purchase history, sign up for VoicePass and SMS

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 5th, 2011)

Apple quietly released My Support Profile, which offers a hardware purchase history and access to Apple's VoicePass, its trademark filed shortly before Christmas. Once I signed in, I set up my iPhone to use VoicePass and receive SMS messages (available only in the US) from Apple Support. VoicePass ...

ScreenSteps 2.8.7, documentation gets social

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 6th, 2010)

ScreenSteps, an app for creating screen-based documentation and a TUAW favorite, has just released a pretty big update and a brand-new social document service called ScreenSteps.me. The desktop update includes, among other improvements, a totally-rewritten screen capture tool that makes the ...