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No Comment: Friskies makes iPad web games for cats

by Mike Schramm (May 24th, 2011)

So it's come to this. Originally, discovering that cats liked to play with the iPad was just a matter of coincidence -- Felix just liked to bat around the Magic Piano, and that was fine. But pet food maker Friskies has blown that idea right out, releasing a line of three full web-based games ...

Ask TUAW: Apple pricing, which cat is which, and laptop batteries you can't replace

by Ask TUAW (Apr 4th, 2011)

Welcome to Ask TUAW, your favorite weekly question-and-answer column. Now, we can never have too many questions, so please, go to the comments of this post and ask away. To get fabulous answers, we need your fabulous questions. You can also email your questions directly to ask [at] tuaw.com, or ...

Game for Cats does what it says, but it isn't truly free

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 20th, 2010)

I spend a lot of time trying to keep my cats off my iPad, but thanks to the The Daily What, we got wind of a game specifically designed to have your frisky felines play with your iPad. iPad Game for Cats is a free download through the App Store, but the "free" part is very misleading. Even though ...

Delving into the iPhone's DCIM folder

by Erica Sadun (Aug 26th, 2009)

Today, Dave Caolo discovered what happens when your iPhone camera rolls past picture number 99999 (or so). As he and other Apple users have found, a picture count that goes too high can lead to unforseen errors. Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria. Or a camera roll that ...

Snow Leopard might not be the best code name

by Mike Schramm (Jun 11th, 2008)

The great Mental Floss blog actually did the research on something that occurred to me as soon as Steve said "Snow Leopard" during the keynote -- naming an OS after a cat "sometimes known as the ounce" might not be the best idea. File this stuff in the "didja know" column: snow leopards aren't ...

Cats and dogs totally dig Macs

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (May 28th, 2006)

Christopher Phin over at his wildly optimistically named blog, Receding Hairline, has brought my attention to a brilliant Flickr group called "Cats love Macs." As the name implies, the photos all feature two elements: a cat and a Mac. With over 230 members, it's pretty clear that cats really do ...