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Pocket Informant planning public beta for cloud service

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2012)

The team from Pocket Informant is at Macworld|iWorld this week to show off the app and announce a new cloud-based service that will share information across all of the company's mobile apps and new web interface. Pocket Informant is a GTD/calendar/tasks app that combines all sorts of functionality ...

OnLive iPad app delivers console-quality gaming, custom touch controls

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

OnLive is one of the most impressive gaming options out there -- it's a cloud gaming service with the games actually 'playing' on remote hardware. That may sound clunky, but it works like a charm. Instead of running the games from a local executable on your PC, Mac or console system (as you ...

Adobe releases Carousel app for Mac, iOS

by Steven Sande (Oct 27th, 2011)

Apple's recently released Photo Stream feature for Mac OS X and iOS already has some competition. Adobe has released its Carousel app and service for Mac and iOS, and from the initial buzz about Carousel, it might be a formidable competitor to Photo Stream and iPhoto. The Mac and iOS apps are ...

iCloud prompts a look back at "cloud" icons

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 17th, 2011)

Apple introduced iCloud earlier this year, and its announcement kicked off a renewed interest in the iconic cloud logo. Articles espousing the icon's Golden Ratio-based design and Apple's attention to detail followed shortly. Though Apple undoubtedly chose this icon for its precision design, ...

iCloud going live on October 12

by Mike Schramm (Oct 4th, 2011)

Apple has announced that the long-awaited iCloud service will finally go live on October 12. The service will be free for Lion and iOS 5 users (the new mobile OS releases on the same day), and will enable cloud sharing of user contacts, pictures, and other pertinent user data across all of your ...

Run Photoshop on an iPad with VMWare's AppBlast

by Mike Schramm (Oct 3rd, 2011)

VMWare is hosting its VMWorld 2011 event in Copenhagen later on this month, but the company's blog has posted a preview of what it'll be revealing. And one of the projects in particular is quite interesting: Project AppBlast purports to turn non-HTML based applications (like those currently ...

Google Music beta ready for iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 9th, 2011)

Google Music beta lets you upload your music library to Google's servers and stream the content to web-connected devices like your computer or Android handset, but not iOS. Several months after launch, the service now supports iOS via a web app optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch and the ...

Pogoplug Mobile shares media with iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 2nd, 2011)

Pogoplug, maker of a popular line of remote storage solutions, has introduced Pogoplug Mobile, a remote storage device that lets you access your media using your iOS and Android device. The device connects to a USB hard drive or an SD card and uses your home network to serve up the content of ...

Dolly Drive brings the Time Machine cloud closer to European customers

by Steven Sande (Aug 16th, 2011)

Everyone's favorite sheep-shaped online backup point, Dolly Drive, has opened a data center in Rome, Italy to give European Mac users faster Time Machine backups to the cloud. The new facility is part of a planned grid of data centers for the relatively new (less than a year old) and ...

Printer patents portend driver-free future

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 15th, 2011)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two patents in the past week that suggest Apple is trying to eliminate the much-loathed printer driver. As first noted by ConceivablyTech, the two patents each describe a way for your Mac to get the necessary driver information from the printer ...

Daily Mac App: Xmarks

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 8th, 2011)

Need to sync bookmarks across multiple platforms and/or different browsers? You need Xmarks. The service that was on its way out, then bought by LastPass, allows you to sync bookmarks to the cloud, between machines and between different browsers. Xmarks has extensions or plugins for Safari ...

Video App Demo: GENWI

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 4th, 2011)

We've covered GENWI before, but to recap: GENWI is a cloud-based (read: Web) app creation and management system for businesses. While there are numerous platforms and 3rd party services which will "wrap up" your content into a native app, GENWI does all of this on the web, and it's a pretty ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Producteev

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 29th, 2011)

Task management is something most loathe but have to do to keep productive. Producteev, a previously web and iPhone app focused task management service has just launched a Mac app. Producteev focuses on creating and managing tasks with the ability to connect those tasks with other people, ...

Scientific study shows internet use changes human memory

by Chris Rawson (Jul 18th, 2011)

The internet has fundamentally affected the way people access and store information, and many people (myself included) have wondered if it's also changing the way our minds work. According to the New York Times, a recently published scientific paper shows that we are indeed changing the way we ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Wunderlist

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 20th, 2011)

Have you ever found managing and syncing your task list more difficult than it really needs to be? Wunderlist is the answer. An incredibly simple, intuitive and good looking program, Wunderlist makes creating, syncing and clearing a list of tasks quick and easy. Either use the "Add your task ...