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How to install Lion from an SD card

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 8th, 2011)

After we linked to instructions for how to burn a Lion boot disc earlier this week, Nature's Eye Studios contacted MacStories to let them know they figured out how to get the new OS to boot off a SD card. After downloading Lion from the developer site, the video maker proceeds to wipe a SD card ...

More iPad 2 cases show slots for SD card, video out?

by Steven Sande (Jan 18th, 2011)

The iPad 2 rumor-fest continues unabated by the news of Steve Jobs' health-related leave of absence. Today's iPad 2 rumors are based on some alleged cases for the device, which show new and mysterious ports that aren't on the existing iPad. As displayed on MIC Gadget, the cases appear to have two ...

Iomega SuperHero iPhone dock backs up photos to SD memory card

by Michael Terretta (Jan 4th, 2011)

We forget how important our photos are until we lose them. The 5 megapixel camera in the iPhone 4 encourages a lot of picture taking, but most of us put our phones on a charger over night instead of docking with our computers, so our photos aren't getting backed up. The Iomega® ...

Rage for iOS supports video out, available now in SD and HD

by Mike Schramm (Nov 18th, 2010)

id games has released the iPhone version of Rage in two different versions, both SD and HD, available right now universally for the iPhone and the iPad. TUAW spoke with John Carmack this afternoon, and he said that the HD version is about twice as nice as the SD version: "All of the user interface ...

Eye-Fi Pro X2 cards have arrived, and you probably want one

by TJ Luoma (Mar 23rd, 2010)

I pre-ordered an Eye-Fi Pro X2 from Amazon a few weeks ago. (Don't be too jealous, I did it when I decided that I was going to have to wait for an iPad for financial reasons.) This is not my first Eye-Fi card, as I bought a 2GB version a few years ago -- and quite frankly, I hated it and thought it ...

Apple rolling out $1 TV shows for iPad launch?

by Kent Pribbernow (Feb 11th, 2010)

According to a story posted by the Financial Times on Wednesday, Apple may be in talks with studios to bring $1 TV shows to iTunes, as part of the official iPad launch. Apparently this will be a test to model for the company to see whether cheaply-priced content will spur sales. Given yesterday's ...

iPad hands-on: Not a full desktop replacement, but the keyboard works

by Mike Schramm (Feb 5th, 2010)

For all of the back and forth about the iPad over the last week, only a handful of people (including Stephen Colbert) have gotten to actually touch one. Fox News, of all the outlets out there, posted a pretty clean and objective hands-on with the iPad earlier this week, and you can get a pretty good ...

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check

by Chris Rawson (Feb 4th, 2010)

Over at TechRepublic's 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has posted an article called "10 reasons why I'll be passing on the iPad." Some of her reasoning is sound, but quite a few of her points are easy to refute. It's worth looking at her post and the points it tries to make, because it's ...

HD television shows coming to the iTunes store

by Mike Schramm (Sep 9th, 2008)

Steve Jobs just announced at the "Let's Rock" event in San Francisco that not only was NBC content returning to the iTunes store, but that Apple would start selling HD content on the store, playable both through the new iTunes 8, as well as AppleTV. Shows like Battlestar Galactica and The Office ...

FCS2 page hints at pending QuickTime 7.1.6 update

by David Chartier (Apr 16th, 2007)

Many of Apple's media apps rely on QuickTime in one way or another, so it probably comes as no surprise that a Final Cut Studio 2 announcement means we'll see at least a slight QT update to bring everything up to speed. Sure enough, eagle-eyed TUAW readers have caught QuickTime 7.1.6 listed on the ...