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Is my iPhone making me smarter?

by Erica Sadun (May 12th, 2010)

I don't know about you, and I don't know about Chris, but in real life (by which I mean the normal kind of technology non-assisted existence thing that we used to have before the iPhone made its debut), I've let so many opportunities to learn and grow go by. What kind of tree is that over there with ...

Pssst. Want to win a 1.5TB SATA drive?

by Steven Sande (Dec 9th, 2008)

Volitans Software has announced a giveaway to publicize their hard disk diagnostic utility, SMART Utility for Mac. Between now and 11:59 PM EST on December 24th, you can enter a giveaway in which the winner gets a choice of either a new Momentus 5400.6 SATA 500GB laptop hard drive or a Barracuda ...

Mac 101: Stars and Smart Playlists

by Robert Palmer (Jul 28th, 2008)

If you're anything like me -- and I sincerely hope you're not, for your sake -- you have a large iTunes music library, but the music that you like right now is only a small fraction of that total. (Yeah, that embarrassing '96 Dave Matthews Band album is getting pretty dusty.) Since my musical ...

TUAW Tip: View all items in iTunes 7

by Dan Lurie (Dec 21st, 2006)

One of the things that has been bugging me since updating to iTunes 7 is the inability to see all my content at once; podcasts, video, audio and PDFs-all of it. While I normally don't need to see all my content in a single view, certain tasks, such as when I'm trying to get a feel for how much media ...

Rumor: Apple iPhone to come in two models, one with Wi-Fi

by David Chartier (Oct 17th, 2006)

Another day, another analyst claiming to have obtained über-exclusive details on the much-rumored iPhone. This time around it's Prudential Equities, and they claim Apple has not one, but two iPhones planned for an early 2007 release (gee, when could that be). One will be a smart phone with ...

Ask TUAW: What's your favorite Smart Playlist?

by David Chartier (Aug 17th, 2006)

While browsing Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes and Smart Playlists.com last night for some ideas on how to make iTunes do my bidding, it dawned on me that these handy tools of automated music wrangling might make for a great Ask TUAW discussion. After all: who doesn't love music, and who doesn't love ...