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Dear Uncle TUAW: What's the best way to blog while backpacking?

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2013)

Dear Uncle TUAW: Over the next two years my husband and I plan to hike El Camino de Santiago in Spain. I'd love to keep family and friends up to date on our trek by blogging on the trip, but since we want to keep our backpacks at less than 14 lbs. total weight, I'm not sure I want to carry an ...

Tumblr for iOS improves sharing, supports Instapaper, Pocket

by Steven Sande (Apr 24th, 2013)

Everybody's favorite "blogging lite" tool, Tumblr, has a new version out today. Tumblr 3.3.1 has added a selection of sharing tools as well as some changes to make using the mobile app easier and more fun. Posts can now be shared a variety of ways -- the share button on my iPhone 5, for ...

Daily Update for April 22, 2013

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2013)

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 ...

Tumblr launches mobile ads for iOS, Android

by Steven Sande (Apr 22nd, 2013)

Love Tumblr? Well, reality just hit the service, which is under pressure to generate revenues. As a result, you'll start seeing ads (aka "sponsored posts") in your Tumblr stream in the iOS and Android apps starting today. The company started the sponsored posts about a year ago on the ...

Tumblr adds native iPad support to its iOS app

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 20th, 2012)

Back in November, popular blogging site Tumblr updated its iPhone app to be completely native (as opposed to an app in an HTML wrapper), which brought tremendous speed improvements to users. Now the company has updated its app again -- but this time they've made it universal, bringing native ...

Tumblr iOS app updated, now completely native

by Mike Wehner (Nov 8th, 2012)

Finally jumping headfirst into iOS with a redesigned experience, the updated Tumblr app is now live on the App Store. Whereas the previous version relied in part on simplified web views to replicate the Tumblr feel, the new experience is 100 percent native to iOS. After playing around with the ...

Last Shot for iOS posts your most recent photo to social sites

by Erica Sadun (Aug 13th, 2012)

Urban Apps' "The Last Shot" (free for a limited time) is an app that provides extremely narrow utility. The Last Shot posts your most recently-snapped picture to social networking sites. And that's about it. Fortunately, that functionality is both well thought out and convenient. The ...

Tumblr 3.0 for iPhone completely rebuilt

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2012)

Easy blogging service Tumblr has released an update for its official iPhone app, and its interface has been completely rebuilt. The dashboard is cleaner, and it's done away with that custom bottom bar found in the original app. There are almost too many big updates to count: You can now upload ...

Blogging with your voice: Siri, Blogger, and post-by-SMS

by Erica Sadun (Oct 21st, 2011)

As I mentioned on my earlier post, Steve Sande and I have been hard at work collaborating on "Talking to Siri," an ebook that will soon hit the Kindle store. One of the topics we're exploring is how to push Siri beyond its advertised limits. Take blogging, for example. Did you know that you ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Tumblr

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

Tumblr is, of course, the blogging platform that's taken off lately, featuring an easy way to quickly post a lot of different kinds of media, as well as share it across friends and networks. Tumblr's iPhone app has been serviceable since it came out, but it hasn't always been the best option ...

Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2011)

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should start looking for another website builder and a new ...

Rumor: Steve Jobs says iWeb and MobileMe hosting are going away

by Steven Sande (Jun 12th, 2011)

Those of us with a vested interest in iWeb have been perplexed by the lack of interest shown by Apple in the former iLife web design app. Couple this with the pending demise of MobileMe on June 30, 2012, and that confusion turns into concern. MacRumors featured a post a few hours ago about an ...

Post pictures to Tumblr Quickr

by TJ Luoma (May 17th, 2010)

Quickr is a $0.99US iPhone app to take pictures and quickly post them to your Tumblr account. Here's the simplest explanation I can give for how Quickr lives up to its name: Steps necessary to take a picture and post it through the Tumblr app: launch Tumblr app tap post (assuming you have the ...

MarsEdit 3 adds rich text editing, enhanced media browsing

by Michael Rose (May 4th, 2010)

In the "send an email, post a blog entry" fun and fast-paced world of tomorrow, services like Tumblr and Posterous make it exceedingly simple to prepare and post to your blog; meanwhile, Twitter, Facebook and AOL Lifestream push past the article metaphor to 140-character status snippets. ...

The iPhone app showdown

by Mike Schramm (Jan 20th, 2010)

This was an intriguing experiment undertaken over at Minimal Mac: Patrick decided to play a little Homescreen Survivor with his iPhone app icons -- he cleared everything off his homescreen, and then only let those apps back on which he used more than once throughout the course of a week. The result? ...