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Google brings Instant Previews to iOS 4.0+

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 9th, 2011)

Google announced on Tuesday that it added Instant Previews to its mobile search results. Originally a desktop feature, Instant Previews provides users with a glimpse of a website within the search results. It is extremely useful as it lets you see a page from a website without navigating to the ...

Twitter website adds inline App Store previews

by Richard Gaywood (Feb 16th, 2011)

Macgasm brings us word that Twitter has expanded the in-page previews on its website to include iOS App Store app details. Although originally designed to do inline previews of made-for-Twitter image services like yfrog and TwitPic, Twitter has been expanding the concept in recent months; it now ...

Instapaper launches API with innovative business model

by Richard Gaywood (Feb 10th, 2011)

Popular iOS app and webservice Instapaper by formerly-of-tumblr Marco Arment today announced a new API offering access to content users have added to their Instapaper account. Instapaper (previous TUAW coverage) is a read-it-later type service born, as so many great apps are, of personal need. ...

Genieo now available for Mac, recognizes your favorite web content

by Dave Caolo (Jan 27th, 2011)

Genieo is now available for the Mac with a unique approach to managing information overload. The developers are interested in a service that learns your preferred topics, your trusted sources and how you find and read information on the web. Genieo then presents you with content you're certain to ...

Opera 11 for Mac debuts with tab stacking, gestures, extensions and more

by Dave Caolo (Dec 16th, 2010)

Opera 11 for Mac is finally available with all sorts of cool features for you to play with, like "tab stacking," mouse gesture support and extensions. Here's an initial run-down of the major features available in Opera 11 for Mac. Tab stacking is pretty cool. I'm "one of those" people who ...

Mac 101: Changing the default web browser in OS X

by Dave Caolo (Dec 10th, 2010)

Apple introduced the Safari browser in January of 2003. Since then, it's matured to include extensions, an RSS reader and even a Windows counterpart. Still, many users prefer another browser. Since Safari is set as the default on every new Mac, you'll have to make the switch manually. Otherwise, ...

TiVo announces iPad app to control TiVo box

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

If you're like most iPad users, then you probably surf the web and check out IMDB with your iPad while watching anything that might be showing on the television. TiVo knows this, embraces this, and wishes to support this. They want to make the experience between your television and your iPad even ...

Use Dropbox to backup a few folders every day

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 23rd, 2010)

There's a nice little tutorial on Justin Schwalbe's blog for using a simple script to backup a few folders to a Dropbox backup folder every day. Why would you do this? Well, let's say you aren't always able to connect to a hard drive for Time Machine, but you have a couple of document folders you ...

Tether your iPhone with the Nexaria BC2 router

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 23rd, 2010)

The Nexaria BC2 router is a rather ugly 802.11b/g/n router that will allow tethering on the iPhone 3, 3GS and 4. Unfortunately, you must plug the thing into an outlet to power it up, providing somewhat limited use. Typical use case for tethering is using your phone as a modem and connecting to ...

Twitter adds Ping functionality to user pages

by Dave Caolo (Nov 11th, 2010)

Earlier today, Twitter announced that it has integrated Apple's Ping into users' home pages. Now, Twitter users can view each others' Ping activity, listen to song previews and link to/purchase music from iTunes directly from tweets posted to Twitter.com. Here's how it works: First, log into your ...

Sprint to launch Peel case for iPod touch on Sunday

by Dave Caolo (Nov 9th, 2010)

The rumors have come to fruition: Sprint will launch the ZTE Peel case for the iPod touch on November 14th. According to documents acquired by the Boy Genius Report, the device will cost US$79.99 and require a $30 month-to-month plan. Customers will get a 1GB data allowance per month, with ...

.Mac Homepage shutting down today

by Dave Caolo (Nov 8th, 2010)

In April of 2009, Apple announced the pending discontinuation of its .Mac Homepage service. A formal date was set in October, and that date is today. Your sites won't be gone for good, however. To find them, open your iDisk and navigate to the Sites folder. There you'll find all of the HTML pages ...

Apple collecting Safari extensions for gallery

by Dave Caolo (Jul 14th, 2010)

A marquee feature of Safari 5 is its ability to use 3rd-party extensions. Apple is collecting examples of great ones from registered developers to be featured in a gallery. There's no word on Apple's judging criteria or when the gallery will be launched, but Apple is really pushing this technology ...

Apple updates MobileMe

by Dave Caolo (Jun 18th, 2010)

MobileMe emerged from its downtime this morning with a new app, improved navigation and significant changes to Mail. The app is MobileMe for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Now customers can locate, lock or even wipe their lost device from another iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Of course, that means ...

Adobe posts Flash Player 10.1 for Mac

by Dave Caolo (Jun 11th, 2010)

At long last, Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X. There's a huge list of changes with this update; hopefully one will address "...the number one reason Macs crash." The major changes are aimed at developers, and include GPU hardware acceleration, support for dynamic quality during ...