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Daily iPad app: OneNote for the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 26th, 2011)

After years of developing mobile tools for its own platform, Microsoft has finally released a series of apps for the iPad including Lync, OneNote and Kinectimals. Hands down, the most anticipated of the bunch is OneNote, Microsoft's popular desktop app for taking and organizing notes. It's the ...

Mac 101: Getting iWork files on your Mac onto iCloud

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 18th, 2011)

Here's another Mac 101 tip for novice Mac users. When I first heard about iCloud syncing iWork documents between Apple devices I became quite excited. Like many, I create iWork documents on my Mac and then access them on my iPad or iPhone on the move. Up until now, I've been using Dropbox to ...

Add tasks to productivity apps using Siri and CalDAV

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 9th, 2011)

Last month, Remember the Milk published a quick tutorial showing their customers how to use Siri's voice control with the Reminders app and CalDAV to send tasks to RTM. A slightly different Siri workaround can be used by iOS owners to send their tasks to other third-party to-do apps. All you need ...

OS X Lion has a hidden 'drop box' for easy file syncing between Macs

by Chris Rawson (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Mac OS X Hints has discovered that Macs running OS X Lion and registered with iCloud have a hidden "drop box" in the user's Library folder that allows for easy document and file syncing between Macs. A folder within ~/Library (which Lion hides by default) called "Mobile Documents" contains iWork ...

How to use PhoneView to fix your iPhoto camera roll woes

by TJ Luoma (Oct 29th, 2011)

If the Camera app and Photos app on your iPhone disagree about the contents of your camera roll, you may find yourself needing to get "under the hood" of your iPhone to fix the issue. Fortunately, you can do this without having to jailbreak and hopefully without losing any pictures. You may know ...

Apple allegedly 'open' to restoring discontinued MobileMe features

by Chris Rawson (Sep 13th, 2011)

As part of the MobileMe transition to iCloud, several of MobileMe's features are being discontinued, including iWeb hosting, Gallery, iDisk, and a handful of syncing services. An AppleInsider reader emailed Apple CEO Tim Cook to complain about the deprecation of iDisk and syncing services for ...

Contact sync between Google Apps, Gmail, and Mac

by TJ Luoma (Aug 30th, 2011)

I am trying to find a way to keep my address book in sync across my: iPad MacBook Air MacBook Pro iMac Google Apps account Gmail account as well as my wife's iPhone MacBook Google Apps account Gmail account (Aside: by "Gmail account" I mean a ...

Papers 2 and Papers for the iPad: the ultimate journal reading combination

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 28th, 2011)

It's that time of year again: time to head back to college, grab those books and kickstart the academic term. This year, why not cut out paper from your scientific journal research workflow with the ultimate in journal management and reading for the Mac and iPad? Management Papers 2 takes ...

Daily Mac App: Xmarks

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 8th, 2011)

Need to sync bookmarks across multiple platforms and/or different browsers? You need Xmarks. The service that was on its way out, then bought by LastPass, allows you to sync bookmarks to the cloud, between machines and between different browsers. Xmarks has extensions or plugins for Safari ...

New iCloud FAQ: Yes, there will be webmail

by Steven Sande (Jun 24th, 2011)

Since iCloud was announced by Apple on June 6, the TUAW inbox has been filled to capacity with questions about the many features of Apple's cloud computing platform of the future. Unfortunately, we have been just as much in the fog as you have about what features are moving from MobileMe to ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Wunderlist

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 20th, 2011)

Have you ever found managing and syncing your task list more difficult than it really needs to be? Wunderlist is the answer. An incredibly simple, intuitive and good looking program, Wunderlist makes creating, syncing and clearing a list of tasks quick and easy. Either use the "Add your task ...

iTunes 10.3.1 fixes sync issue

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 9th, 2011)

iTunes 10.3.1 addresses the error some users are experiencing after enabling automatic downloads in iTunes 10.3. Those encountering a "-50" error when syncing an iOS device after the automatic downloads will need to upgrade to iTunes 10.3.1 to take care of it. iTunes 10.3.1 is a 74.02 MB ...

Appigo just beat Things to cloud sync with latest Todo for Mac

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2011)

I've been a Todo user since the iPhone app, then bought the iPad version, but I never tried the online service since Todo ties in nicely with my cloud todo service of choice, Toodledo. That may change now that Todo for Mac has been announced for the Mac App Store and features cloud sync with ...

Microsoft releases Office 2011 Service Pack 1

by Dana Franklin (Apr 12th, 2011)

Office 2011 version 14.1 (Service Pack 1) is now available from Microsoft's website. As announced on April 6, the update includes a variety of improvements to the new Outlook for Mac, including built-in support for Apple's Sync Services which allows users to more easily synchronize Outlook data ...

Office 2011 Service Pack 1 due next week, improves Outlook compatibility

by Michael Rose (Apr 6th, 2011)

The upgrade from Microsoft Office 2008 to 2011 has not been without its drawbacks; for users of Entourage who moved to the all-new Outlook for Mac, in particular, there have been a few holes in the feature lineup. None of them are necessarily showstoppers, but the collection of odd omissions has ...