AOL Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

AOL brings its On network to the iPhone and iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 4th, 2012)

AOL launched its On network earlier this year, and today, it released a universal iOS app that'll let users watch On video content using their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The AOL On app lets users browse content from AOL as well as its partners Martha Stewart Living, Omnimedia, E! and Travel ...

AOL launches Editions into the personal-newspaper iPad app fray

by Michael Rose (Aug 3rd, 2011)

Well before the iPad was even a gleam in the most ardent Apple-lover's eye, the marriage of tablet computing and a personalized newspaper was already a foregone conclusion/killer app in waiting. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick even captured the possibility of the 'Newspad' in the 1968 ...

AOL's Play app gets social with your music

by Michael Rose (Jul 12th, 2011)

Our corporate cousins at AOL have a new tool for enjoying and sharing your favorite songs: the free Play app. First introduced at SxSW as an Android-only offering, it's now available in the App Store for iPhone. Play meets the table stakes for a social music app by allowing you to play songs ...

Engadget app updated with landscape mode, save for later options

by Mike Schramm (May 14th, 2011)

Our good friends at Engadget have posted an update to their iOS app. The new version introduces a landscape viewing mode for all of the included content and new "save for later" options that will send your favorite Engadget posts off to reading services like Evernote, Instapaper, and Read It ...

AOL's Patch sites get iPhone app for hyperlocal news

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 20th, 2011)

AOL has released an iPhone app for its Patch news sites. Patch.com offers hyperlocal news for more than 800 towns across America. Each location has one editor and uses a collection of freelance writers to report the news. The idea behind Patch and other hyperlocal sites is that resident ...

Updated TUAW application now available on the App Store

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2011)

Update: We're getting feedback that the app is not working on the iPad, and we're saying the same problem here -- our development team is aware of the issue and they're working on correcting it ASAP. If you haven't emptied your Trash yet, the older version of the app (1.0.1.7) is still there -- you ...

The iPad as a new "walled garden" of content

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2010)

John Battelle's Searchblog has an interesting post up about whether or not the iPad can be categorized as a disappointment. He begins with a mea culpa; while he predicted earlier this year that the iPad would more or less fail, the sales figures from earlier this week have proven him wrong. However, ...

Aol Autos app strips down car buying data for research, daydreams

by Sebastian Blanco (Mar 17th, 2010)

Most people don't buy a car but once every few years (or more). But that doesn't mean that people don't like shopping for new cars. If you're one of those kind of people, then a new app from Aol Autos*, released today, could be your new favorite toy. Basically, the App is a stripped down version ...

Bitlbee and Rooms: Accessing AIM Chat Rooms from your iPhone

by Erica Sadun (Oct 30th, 2009)

We're a pretty AIM-based blog around these parts. The fact that Weblogs, Inc. is owned by AOL may or may not play a role in that. Regardless, we TUAWians spend a lot of time in AIM chat rooms. The App Store's lack of AOL chat room support has been a real burden when we're out on the road with ...

WWDC Video: AOL's Christina Wick on developing for Macs, iPhones

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 23rd, 2009)

I had a moment to talk to Technical Director Christina Wick at WWDC. She told us about the Mapquest app, plus a cool lifestreaming feature coming soon to AIM. Christina was featured in a video by Apple about developing on the iPhone, and it's clear AOL has embraced the platform, with several apps ...

AOL Daily Finance app raises the bar for iPhone investment tools

by Michael Rose (Apr 17th, 2009)

The Finance section of the App Store does feature some heavy-hitters (Bloomberg, ATM Hunter) and some fairly weak beer too. A lot of these apps are unitaskers, particularly when it comes to stock quotes and charting. For a full-featured and free investment information portal, and a strong competitor ...

Another way to get to the movies: Moviefone for iPhone

by Mel Martin (Mar 20th, 2009)

Hot on the heels of Fandango, AOL has released Moviefone [App Store link], a free application for the iPhone and iPod touch. Moviefone can find your nearest theaters, movie times, trailers, and in some cases you can buy tickets. The app is fast, and the trailers are nicely encoded for the iPhone. It ...

AIM for Mac releases version 1.1

by Mike Schramm (Feb 12th, 2009)

Does anyone still actually use AIM to sign in to their AIM account? I've found the AIM Express client useful occasionally when I happen to be on a strange computer (though nowadays I mostly use the AIM iPhone client when I'm AWOL), but on the desktop it's been Adium for longer than I can remember. ...

AOL Desktop 1.0 now shipping for Mac users

by Michael Rose (May 15th, 2008)

The long and sometimes rocky history of the America Online client for the Macintosh -- a saga stretching back to the original AppleLink Personal Edition service, with a detour through a place called eWorld -- has now moved on to a new generation with the 1.0 release of AOL Desktop for Mac last ...

AOL Desktop for Mac Beta 1

by Scott McNulty (Sep 28th, 2007)

AOL, the parent company of Weblogs, Inc of which TUAW is a part (translation: AOL is our loving corporate overlord), has done something it hasn't done in 5 years: release some new Mac code. AOL Desktop for Mac Beta 1 is out and about, and ready for business. What's new in this version, you ask? ...