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App Developers' Conference dated, call for papers open now

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2013)

GDC is the Game Developers' Conference that happens every year up in San Francisco, and the company also hosts a number of other GDC events all over the world. Usually, they do GDC Online in Austin, TX every fall, but that conference has recently been changed into two different conferences, both ...

Daily iPhone App: Artkive helps you save your child's artwork for posterity

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

I first learned about Artkive last week at an event here in LA, put on by Technori and designed to show off some of the best startup ideas in the City of Angels. The company has been around for quite a while, and has picked up a whole lot of buzz from mom bloggers and the parenting industry ...

MacTech announces Walt Disney Animation Studios tour, filling up fast

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2012)

Registration is currently underway for the 2012 MacTech Conference here in Los Angeles (October 17-19), and MacTech publisher Neil Ticktin has sent along some new information about what's going on at the conference this year, and it sounds amazing. In addition to the previously announced ...

GDC Online coming to LA, rebranded as App Developers Conference

by Mike Schramm (Sep 18th, 2012)

For the past few years, the Game Developers Conference has held a satellite show in Austin, Texas called GDC Online (and I went there a few years back for TUAW to cover the mobile gaming track). But GDC has announced that this year is the last year it'll do GDC Online in Austin. Starting next ...

MacTech conference returning to LA in October

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2012)

I've been to the MacTech Mac and IT consultants conference a few years in a row now, and I have to say: If you do any Apple consulting or development, it's a great show to see. The Sheraton Universal here in Los Angeles is a great setting, and MacTech publisher Neil Ticktin always puts an ...

Spotted in Los Angeles: Thank you, Steve

by Mike Schramm (Oct 8th, 2011)

I spotted this great piece of graffiti art on the streets of Hollywood while heading home last night, and thought you TUAW readers would enjoy it. Unfortunately, I have no idea who actually put this up -- there wasn't any tag or signature on it, and it was just on a wall otherwise covered with ...

MacTech Boot Camp coming up on July 27, tickets still available

by Mike Schramm (Jul 12th, 2011)

Neil Ticktin of MacTech magazine sends word that the upcoming annual MacTech Boot Camp in Los Angeles on July 27 is coming together quickly. Both this camp (which we visited last year to meet and greet some of the biggest names in the Mac community) and the one in Chicago on August 31 have ...

Pictures from the new Apple Store, still in progress at The Americana at Brand in Glendale

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 30th, 2011)

The pictures in the gallery below from a tipster show you the location of the new Apple Store being built in the Glendale Galleria in Los Angeles. This new store isn't that far from the old one in the mall, but appears to enjoy a much better view. If you've got pictures of the store under ...

Apple II owners assemble for concert

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 22nd, 2011)

Apple II owners and enthusiasts in the greater Los Angeles area must clear their calendar this Saturday night. The folks from the Machine Project are trying to organize an evening concert featuring the iconic Apple II. Starting at 8 PM PT on June 25, a 16-step sequencer developed by Jason ...

MacTech Boot Camp revving up for Dallas, coming to Boston, LA and Chicago later this year

by Mike Schramm (Apr 12th, 2011)

Our friends at the MacTech Boot Camp series of conferences for Mac consultants and IT techs are rolling right into 2011. They've got a session planned in Dallas for April 27, and then they're headed up to Boston for another event on May 18. We're told there's still room at the Dallas ...

Los Angeles Apple stores offering exclusive headphones this NBA All-Star weekend

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2011)

If you're around Los Angeles and need some new headphones this weekend, your local Apple Store has a deal for you. To celebrate the NBA All-Star Game, Skullcandy is selling its NBA All-Star Aviator headphones in Apple Stores exclusively, this weekend only. At $180 they're not cheap, but they are ...

Fake iPhones seized from LA warehouse

by Mike Schramm (Feb 7th, 2011)

Police in the port of Los Angeles have seized what they say is over $10 million worth of counterfeit Apple devices from a warehouse. The fake iPods, iPhones and iPod touches were reportedly brought in from Asia recently, and they were supposedly going to be sold around CES this past year, duping ...

MacTech 2010: Wil Shipley on Noogle Noggles, a new Delicious Library and the Mac App Store

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2010)

Wil Shipley is probably the premiere Mac developer -- he co-founded The Omni Group, and now runs Delicious Monster, whose Delicious Library app pretty much embodies the best of this platform we love so much. Wil kindly sat down to talk with me at last week's MacTech 2010 conference here in Los ...

Register now for MacTech 2010, $50 off for TUAW readers

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2010)

Registration has begun for the inaugural MacTech conference, taking place from November 3-5 in Los Angeles, CA. The conference is a three-day series of sessions covering IT, programming and development, and it will feature presentations by lots of Mac and tech luminaries, including Wil Shipley, ...

Belkin releases FM transmitter with iPhone app for finding clear stations

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2010)

Belkin has announced the release of their latest FM transmitter for the iPhone and iPod touch, the TuneCast Auto Live. You know these things -- they plug into your iPhone or iPod touch's dock connector, and then send a local FM signal out to your car's radio, enabling wireless transmission of your ...