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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 ...

TUAW's Best of 2012 Personal Picks: Michael Grothaus, and the year that wasn't

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 27th, 2012)

In my opinion, 2012 was a lackluster year for the Apple ecosystem and the tech sector as a whole. Smartphones are now ubiquitous and this is the year the tablet hit mainstream adoption. While those are both good things, the whole touch computing world is now five years old and innovation and ...

TUAW's Best of 2012 Personal Picks: Mike Schramm

by Mike Schramm (Dec 26th, 2012)

2012 was one heck of a year for me -- I released my first iPhone app, went to Europe for the first time, spoke at the 360iDev convention in Denver, and spent most of the latter half of the year traveling around the country talking to iOS developers about the App Store, the company that runs ...

Apple announces the Mac App Store's Best of 2012

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 14th, 2012)

Just as they did for the iOS App Store, Apple has announced the best Mac apps of 2012 in the Mac App Store. The App of the Year award went to Day One (US$9.99), the popular simplified journaling app. The first-person role playing game, Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Ultimate Edition ($39.99) took ...

Macworld 2011 Best of Show winners announced

by Dave Caolo (Feb 1st, 2011)

Now that Macworld Expo 2011 is complete, the official Best of Show winners have been selected and announced by the Macworld editors. We got to look at some of the choices. Here are a few highlights. BusyToDo is the latest solution from BusyMac, the folks behind BusyCal and BusySync. BusyToDo ...

TUAW readers: Pick the best of 2010's apps and hardware

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 17th, 2011)

TUAW readers, last year was a huge one for Apple, application developers and anyone making peripherals for iOS devices or Mac computers. The days of "this doesn't work on a Mac" appear to be all but gone, the iPad was introduced and the number of apps in the store and downloaded to devices ...

Year-end reflections and predictions roundup

by Michael Rose (Jan 2nd, 2010)

All our prognostications, anticipations, best-of lists and year-end reflections -- in one handy place. Our favorite iPhone games of 2009 The first full year of the App Store is coming to a close, and so let's take a look back at our favorite games of 2009. Note that these aren't ...

Most popular free Mac apps of 2009

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 16th, 2009)

Lifehacker has put together their list of the 15 Most Popular Free Mac Apps of 2009. Keep in mind, these are Mac OS X apps, not iPhone apps. The list is based on the popularity of apps they've covered in 2009 and don't represent total download numbers. Here are some of their choices (in no ...

Best iPhone games of the year picks start to roll in

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2009)

Gamasutra wins the award for being the first (that I've seen) to pick awards for their best five iPhone games of the year, and the list is respectable, if a little short for such a huge set of possibility. Unfortunately, they don't win any TUAW points for going with Skee-Ball over our preferred ...

Macworld Magazine reveals "Best of Show" list

by Dave Caolo (Jan 13th, 2006)

iLounge was first, and now Macworld Magazine has released their "Best of Show" list from the MWSF expo floor. Their list of show highlights include: Adobe Lightroom The Macbook Pro (didn't see that one coming) iLife '06 Browseback (We took a look at Browseback when it was in beta. ...