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CES 2013: Kensington offers a tracking solution with the Proximo Tag Kit

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2013)

Kensington is in attendance at the International CES here in Las Vegas this week, and the company kindly sat down with TUAW this afternoon to show off some of its latest products. The most interesting of their recent offerings is something called the "Proximo Fob and Tag Kit," which is a ...

Treehouse Labs tracks objects with your iPhone via BiKN

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2012)

Treehouse Labs was one of a few companies at CES hosted inside the booth of a semiconductor company, because Treehouse is using that company's chips for its own products. Treehouse's main product on display was something called "BiKN" (pronounced "beacon"), which uses relatively tiny RFID tags ...

Drowning in information? Tags can help

by Mel Martin (Oct 8th, 2010)

If you're anything like me you have lots and lots of information. Endless folders and files are scattered about, and while Spotlight in Mac OS X is very helpful, it's not a perfect fit for every situation. One solution I've found very helpful is Tags, from Gravity Apps. Our own Brett Terpstra took a ...

Shazam updates for iOS 4.0, adds subscription model for Encore features

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2010)

The great Shazam app, which I'm still using after downloading it to my iPhone on day one, has released another update, bringing the whole suite of apps (including the paid Shazam Encore and the Shazam (RED) version) to version 3.3. This one updates the app for iOS 4.0 and includes Retina Display ...

Tags takes organization to a new level

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 19th, 2009)

The idea of tagging files as an organization and project management method has been around for some time now, and we've mentioned applications in the past (FileSpot, TagBot, Punakea ... ) which touched on some useful applications for the tagging method. A truly seamless, system-wide implementation, ...

Use 'Company' field in iPhone's Contacts app for tagging

by Dan Fellini (Dec 11th, 2008)

The social media movement has trained us well to tag just about everything we see. The presence of tags on photos, videos, blog posts and even to-do items has become ubiquitous. So this simple tip, from reader Greg F., struck me as an obvious, easy trick to help categorize contacts inside the ...

MailTags 2.1.1 available now

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2007)

Scott Morrison sends word that MailTags, the Mail plugin that lets you both tag your emails and connect them directly up to iCal, has hit 2.1.1. The 2.1 release came a few days ago, and introduced incoming reply tagging-- whenever you sent out a message with tags on it, the reply that came back ...

GTD with VoodooPad

by Mike Schramm (Aug 23rd, 2007)

Chris at Trichech.us has written up a short guide (and included a useful little AppleScript) on how to run GTD in VoodooPad, the get-it-down quick application that we love so much here at TUAW. Basically it revolves around a series of tags-- if you have a task that needs to be done in a certain ...

Keyword Manager updated for iPhoto '08

by David Chartier (Aug 19th, 2007)

While I wasn't exactly dying without Keyword Manager in iPhoto '08 just yet, thanks to its new built-in keyword abilities, I am nonetheless relieved to see that my favorite iPhoto keyword plug-in for power users has just been updated for the latest version. While the major new feature in Keyword ...

iPhoto '08 does tagging right

by David Chartier (Aug 8th, 2007)

I've been waiting (impatiently) for a tagging UI like this to come to iPhoto for some time now, and I'm generally happy to say that iPhoto '08 finally does tagging well (for the sake of this post, however, I'll be using the terms 'tags' and 'keywords' interchangeably, since iPhoto refuses to adopt ...

Journler beta gets proper tagging abilities

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

In case you missed TUAW Podcast #24, I've gone gaga for Philip Dow's Journler. It's a phenomenal donationware app that offers robust features for keeping a diary, storing files you need to keep track of, recording audio/video entries and even blogging. One of Journler's cruxes, however, is that ...

MailTags and iGTD unite features in the name of productivity and discounts

by David Chartier (Jun 8th, 2007)

A recent update to iGTD brought some significant enhancements, one of which is very, very rich integration with Scott Morrison's MailTags 2.0. With v1.4.3, iGTD can process most of the MailTags 2 information attached to an Apple Mail message. For example: keywords in MailTags prefixed with @ will ...

MailTags 2.0 leaves beta, goes official

by David Chartier (May 30th, 2007)

Scott Morrison's fantastic MailTags 2.0 is hands-down the best (and not because it is the only) plug-in that brings the wonders of tagging and iCal integration to Apple Mail. We've mentioned it plenty of times here on TUAW, and with good reason: Scott has put this new version of MailTags and its ...

iPhoto Keyword Assistant and Manager plugins updated

by David Chartier (Mar 15th, 2007)

The two major keyword plugins for iPhoto have both been updated recently. First up is everyone's favorite free alternative, Ken Ferry's Keyword Assistant which we've covered in the past. This new 1.9.4 version adds a panel with tag keyword auto-completion, and it can also alphabetize the keyword ...

TextMate AutoTag bundle for WordPress

by David Chartier (Mar 6th, 2007)

In the market of Mac users who have text to edit, TextMate has become one of the household names that we turn to the most. Likewise for the blogging world, few - if any - services come to mind before WordPress. Brett Terpstra of Circle Six Design knows this, and that is why his AutoTag Bundle for ...