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Jack Lumber now available on Steam

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2013)

Jack Lumber is an excellent game that arrived on iOS last year. It's reminiscient of Fruit Ninja, in that you drag your finger around the screen to chop through wood, though I think it's an improvement on Halfbrick's formula -- it's got a more complex meta game, and the mechanic is a little ...

Little Inferno out on Mac

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

Little Inferno arrived on iOS in January. It's a wicked, little satirical adventure about burning toys that's gotten a lot of critical acclaim. Now, the game is available on the Mac. You can pick it up directly from the developer Tomorrow Corporation, or grab it on Steam or ...

GIMP now (finally) available as a native Mac app

by Mike Schramm (Aug 29th, 2012)

This is something that's been a long time coming, and it's finally here. GIMP is an excellent Photoshop-esque open source photo editor. While it's been available on Mac for a long time, it has required the X11 Window environment, which itself needs a separate (and somewhat messy) installation. ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: I made the switch. What do I do with my old system?

by Erica Sadun (Aug 27th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I did it. I made the switch. Mountain Lion and those hot Retina display MacBook Pros finally brought me to the Mac Side. So, what do I do with my old Windows system? It runs Win 7, is reasonably functional, and in need of a task. What do you suggest? Your loving (new) ...

Humble Music Bundle shows charity disparity among Mac, Linux and Windows users

by Michael Rose (Aug 6th, 2012)

I bet that behavioral economists get rather excited when they see pay-what-you-want offers going viral. Assuming the seller is collecting some basic demographic detail, the resulting statistics might deliver some interesting insights into the relative altruism (or discretionary cash reserves) ...

WWDC 2011 videos reportedly not working in some browsers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 1st, 2011)

Apple released its session videos from WWDC and many people are having problems watching them. Apparently, Apple is limiting playback to Safari on the Mac. If you try to watch the videos on an alternative browser, even on a Mac machine, you receive the stern warning that "You need to use Safari ...

iPads surfing the Web outnumber Linux machines

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 21st, 2011)

Pingdom has pointed out some interesting stats culled from browser data. It appears that there are now more iPads surfing the Web than Linux-based machines. The chart above features stats from Statcounter that are based on visitor statistics averaged from over 3 million websites. As you can ...

Mozilla publishes Firefox 4 Release Candidate

by Dana Franklin (Mar 10th, 2011)

Mozilla unwrapped the release candidate of Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac, and Linux on Wednesday. Firefox 4's newly announced release candidate status indicates its features are finalized and, unless its developers uncover bugs of mass destruction, this version will likely become the official ...

Apple's mobile partner in China announces its own iPhone rival

by Dana Franklin (Mar 1st, 2011)

The parent company of China Unicom, Apple's sole partner for carrying the iPhone in China, revealed plans on Monday to release its own mobile computing platform. Dubbed "Wophone," the platform will compete directly with Apple's iOS and Google's Android. Last year, Apple partnered with China ...

iPad already matches Linux in web market share; will represent 2.3% of total net traffic in 2011

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 9th, 2010)

In an interesting Chitika research note, the internet advertising firm says the iPad is currently making up 0.83% of all internet traffic. When Chitika says "all internet traffic" they mean the 100,000+ sites they serve ads to. Still, if we can extrapoloate those numbers to the entire Internet, a ...

iPad may soon run Android via OpeniBoot

by David Quilty (Nov 12th, 2010)

Not entirely psyched about your iPad because of its lack of Adobe Flash support, or unhappy with the iOS operating system itself? How about installing Android on it instead? OpeniBoot, an open source implementation of iBoot for Apple iOS devices, is on a mission to bring the Android OS to the iPad ...

iOS surpasses Linux as browsing platform

by Keith M (Sep 3rd, 2010)

Seems like only yesterday that Linux was vastly outpacing iOS in terms of how many were using it as a browsing platform. Actually, make that last November; at that time, Linux's presence more than doubled the total iOS stake. Now, iOS-based browsers claim 1.13 percent of all browsing platforms, ...

Humble Indie Bundle offers five great Mac games for pay-what-you-will

by Mike Schramm (May 4th, 2010)

A group of independent game developers have released a "Humble Indie Bundle," and if you're a Mac gamer, it's a treasure trove. For a donation of your choice (the retail value is set at $80, but you can pay what you want, and you can even specify whether your money goes to the game developers or ...

Found Footage: Android running on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Hacker David "Planetbeing" Wong has posted a video of Google's Linux-based Android OS running via OpeniBoot on the iPhone. Obviously, it's way off of Apple's reservation, but as you can see in the video above, it works very well -- you can browse the web, play media, and even send and receive ...

Report: iPhone is number three smartphone platform worldwide

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2010)

(Chart by Apple Insider) A new Gartner report puts the iPhone at number three on the list of smartphone platforms in use worldwide, right behind Nokia's Symbian OS and the RIM software used in Blackberry devices. More importantly, the report has Apple's device gaining market share -- its unit share ...