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New Kevo lock uses your iPhone for keyless entry

by Mike Schramm (May 8th, 2013)

Kwikset has made a new lock it's calling Kevo that makes use of your iPhone to lose your keys for good. The idea on this one seems great, and apparently the company picked up some money from a pitch on the Shark Tank TV show. The lock has both standard key-based and wireless mechanisms, so ...

Phone Halo shows off the Cobra Tag and more at WWDC 2012

by Mike Schramm (Jun 15th, 2012)

We talked about Phone Halo a couple of years ago, when the accessory company was making its own product: A little tracking tag that connected up to your keys or anything else you wanted to hang on to and used a free iPhone app to alert you whenever you needed to find them or whenever they ...

Apple patent: use your iPhone as an electronic "iKey"

by Chris Rawson (Mar 8th, 2010)

The Daily Telegraph reports that a new Apple patent has surfaced which could potentially allow the iPhone, or another Apple portable, to act as a sort of electronic key. The potential applications are as limitless as the number of things locked by old-school metal keys. It could be used for cars, ...

KeyRemap4MacBook: the utility keyboard lovers have dreamed of

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 5th, 2010)

I'm not a keyboard-only guy; I know when a mouse makes more sense. That being said, if I can do it from my keyboard, I do. So, as a followup to my post on the handy BetterTouchTool, I'd like to point out another free utility, KeyRemap4MacBook. It's an awkward moniker, and it's not pretty, either, ...

Adventure released for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 19th, 2008)

Part of me just wants to post this screenshot, link this app, and say "go get it," but I have a feeling that my blogging overlords here would think I was just being lazy -- they might not understand that this is a screenshot from Adventure, which is available for free on the iPhone. Anyone who ...

Rumors: iPhone Application Key reportedly leaked

by Erica Sadun (Jan 28th, 2008)

Last night, an anonymous tipster pointed us to this Austin Heap webpage that purportedly reveals the iPhone's secret Application SDK key. Another tipster, also anonymous, then tipped me to iPhone "Elite" developer Zibri's blog, that shows the same key. So what does this mean? Since all iPhone ...

TUAW Tip: Hit esc for some word suggestions

by David Chartier (Mar 25th, 2006)

It appears that while typing a word in many OS X apps, such as iChat and Yojimbo, hitting the Esc key will present a drop-down list of word completion options. I *think* this might be a Cocoa-related service of Mac OS X (sorry, Firefox users), but I'm always hesitant to toss out a guess like that ...

TUAW Tip: keep a Mail.app message open when replying

by David Chartier (Feb 2nd, 2006)

Today's tip involves a Mail.app hint I found that I thought was just too handy not to mention. If you use Mail.app and you open some messages in their own window, you might have noticed that if you hit reply, the original message disappears in favor of your new message composition window. ...