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Quickpick and Launch Center: A first look at two similar iOS launcher apps (Updated)

by Steven Sande (Dec 19th, 2011)

Over the past few days, I've been testing a new app from App Cubby. The app, called Launch Center, uses the iOS 5 Notification Center as a launch tool for a limited number of actions. In other words, you bring up Notification Center and tap an item to go to a website, launch an app, or perform ...

Daily Update for December 14, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple to improve Notification Center with fresh talent

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 14th, 2011)

Apple is looking outside its ranks and hiring a college student to help revise its iOS notification system. This isn't any college student. The new hire is Jan-Michael Cart, the whizkid who created a clever mocked up Notification Center redesign and then posted it to YouTube. Cart will join ...

iOS 5 features: Notification Center

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 13th, 2011)

One of the most welcomed features in iOS 5 is the addition of a notification center. It's one of the things I found myself jailbreaking older iPhones in order to have. The notification center finally makes push notifications worth utilizing. There are three flavors of notifications: ...

5 iOS features that OS X needs

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 10th, 2011)

iOS 5 is set to launch this Wednesday and the beta testers I've talked to say it's a monumental leap forward. iOS 5 adds over 200 features to an already polished mobile operating system, which is arguably the best on the planet. As many Mac users know, Mac OS X Lion is no slouch either. ...

Growl 1.3 now available on the Mac App Store

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 3rd, 2011)

Growl, perhaps the most well-known and popular notification system for OS X, has just released version 1.3 as a Mac App Store exclusive. The previously free notification system has become a paid app with Growl 1.3. As Macstories points out, the reason the Growl team decided to make what was ...

iOS 5 jailbreak offers third-party Notification Center widgets

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 14th, 2011)

Jailbreakers have already cracked iOS 5's Notification Center widgets, according to 9to5Mac. Notification screen widgets are little apps -- or widgets -- that run in the new Notifications Center in iOS 5. iOS 5 will ship with two widgets, stocks and weather. However, as usual, the jailbreak ...