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TUAW Best of the Week

Welcome to this week's installment of TUAW best of the week, where we gather up our favorite posts of the week for your easy clicking enjoyment.

TV out locked in new iPod classic and nano
Serious, why is Apple making this so hard?

1 millionth iPhone has been sold
Lessee. How long did it take to sell a million Zunes, again?

Vienna 2.2 is available
Nice update for a favorite utility.

iPhone versus iPod Touch: What to buy
The iPhone is looking more and more like the better deal, even if you don't want phone service.

iPhone Coding: Using the Accelerometer
Practical access to your iPhone's sensors.

Six Apart launches iPhone/iPod Touch specific Movable Type 4/Typepad
Blog on-the-go.

Making the impossible possible: iPod Touch VOIP
Still working on getting SIP and Asterix and all.

Rogue Amoeba releases free Ringtone Maker
Simple. Easy-to-use. Free.

Fox: We'll keep our content in iTunes
Fox avoids an NBC-style hissyfit.

Cyberduck hits 2.8 with file transfer queueing
Another great upgrade to a another favorite utility.

Gearlog interview clears up iPhone and Touch details
Don't believe the buzz. Apple is NOT pro-hacking.

Guitar Hero III coming to the Mac this year
And my kids start begging in 3...2...

iPhone hackers create open source unlock
The iPhone has been unlocked in dozens of countries now.

iTunes: Free Wednesday
Still Free.

Ask TUAW: Anti-Virus in Parallels, inventory management, sharing iCal without .Mac and more
This week's installment of Mat's always-wonderful series.

The real story behind the iPhone unlock GUI drama
It's like a daytime soap opera, I tell you.

Rig of the Week: Mac mini at sea
Glub blub blub click blub.

iPod Touch unboxing
Our new toy. What's an iPhone again?

More rumors about iTunes movie rentals
It will be nice when you're stuck at an airport to whip out your iPhone or iTouch and just rent a movie while you wait.

iPhone Early adopters: Claim your store credit!
$100. Remember, if you took your iPhone in for service at any time to use your new serial number not your original one.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Because you can't spend every minute at TUAW--and we know you would if you could--every week we collect our favorite posts of the week and put them together into a single entry. This way, you get the concentrated high-test version of TUAW's week and you can instantly read those stories that most appeal to you. We hope you enjoy our selections.

iPhoneInterface starts to crack open iPhone
In which we first learn about the software that directly accesses iPhone data.

SSH shell for iPhone
Not for connecting to the iPhone but rather for connecting from the iPhone. Still, very handy.

exPhone: don't throw that old cell phone away
Love the Earth. Recycle a cell phone.

Spy shot: Apple Store Touchwood, UK
Captain Jack, Gwen and...what did you say? Touchwood? Oh, I thought you said Torchwood.

AppTrap
Taking application disposal to the next level by adding a system preferences pane that catches your OS X Applications and offers to get rid of their assorted miscellany.

JP Morgan retracts. Now says "No" to near term "Nano" iPhone
TUAW is there, complete with a gallery of the retraction report.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free! Go get 'em.

Found Footage: iPhone Dev Camp Hackathon
What happens when bright minds meet a new device.

Found Footage: iPhone blends
Does it blend? Why yes, it does.

Ecamm brings iPhone disk storage
Use your iPhone as a data drive.

Flickr Find: Geek Your Earings, PowerBook Style
Geeky and pretty and pretty geeky. But we love 'em.

Ask TUAW: iPhone alerts, Migration Assistant, annoying coworkers and more
This week, it's Chris Ullrich at bat, fielding TUAW reader questions.

Kiwi IMAP email client goes closed source
Moving away from the everything-goes-open trend.

QuickTime 7.2/iTunes 7.3.1 now available
The controversial update is ready for you to install.

Disney HD on Xbox Live... but not iTunes
We. want. our. HDTV.

Apple buys CUPS
A major acquisition for the UNIX printing world.

Discover the Secret Field Test iPhone Mode
Fun way to peek at some iPhone internals. And there are more codes in this post.

How I deactivated and reactivated my iPhone and it lived
TUAW does appalling things to the iPhone--so you don't have to!

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TUAW Best of the Week

The weeks fly by faster and faster. Here it is, once again, the weekend. And if you didn't have a chance to spend quite as much quality time here at TUAW as you might have liked, here's your opportunity to peruse our favorite posts of this past week.

TUAW Tip: Create smaller PDF files
Discover the "Compress PDF" option in the Print dialog.

The inside story on Apple Genius training
Secrets of the Genius Bar.

Engadget and ads confirm iPhone on sale June 29
Finally. A specific date.

NYTimes: iPhone SDK at WWDC?
We may yet see an open development environment for the iPhone.

New iPhone Ads: what Mac ads should be
Instead of two guys joshing each other, these ads actually show the product.

Steve Jobs: iPhone runs "Real OS X"
Small, embedded, real.

Speculation: TVPredictions sez RIP AppleTV
Barely three months old--is the Apple TV a failure? TUAW doesn't think so.

Zaprudering the iPhone Commercials: Maps
Yes, "Pacific Catch" is a real restaurant.

Happy 30th Birthday, Apple II
10 PRINT "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

Students get free iPod nano with every Mac
The deal is back.

TUAW crashes WWDC, invites friends over to party
C'mon and geek out with us.

AT&T tuning EDGE network for iPhone?
Maybe 2.5G won't be so bad?

iTunes: Free Tuesday
There's still time to take advantage of these free items.

Ask TUAW: MacBook Pros, iMovie Export, Shuffle Autofill, Windows Gaming and more
Mat versus TUAW reader questions. Mat wins! (Congrats Mat from all of us!)

"30 Days with Mac OS X"
Reviewer decides that the Mac isn't really his thing.

Found Footage: Just the Internet, on your Phone
A fourth iPhone commercial bows.

Maybe a contract-free iPhone is NOT out of the question
Apple and AT&T drop the "2 Year Activation Required" from the iPhone commercial.

ZFS to be the default file system in Leopard?
Sun technology and a bright future.

MacBook Battery Charger/Conditioner
Charge a backup battery and your MacBook at the same time.

Apple releases Boot Camp 1.3 beta
This was the week of Windows on Mactel hardware. We also saw Parallels 3 debut and VMWare Fusion: Unity.

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TUAW Best of the Week

June is bustin' out all over. The feelin' is getting so intense, this week you might have stayed outside, from TUAW you did hide, but we saved our favorite posts for you because it's June, June, June, June!

Tide to give away Orange Nano
Funky and Warhol-esque, don't you want to own a Pop nano?

NY Times compares Apple and Sony retail experiences
Psst. One of them is doing it right.

Why you won't be buying an iPhone-like iPod anytime soon
Want an iPod without the iPhone features? Our David C. says don't hold your breath.

Seattle Times interviews AT&T point man for iPhone
Who knew that the iPhone had a point man?

Apple TV BackRow SDK
We at TUAW are huge fans of Alan Quartermain.

TUAW Tip: Preview has basic text, cropping and editing tools
Thar's a lot more in that thar Preview than thou knowest, young'un.

iTunes Plus debuts DRM-free music
Play it back on your Zen, your Zune or zome zother muzic player.

iTunes 7.2 Gallery
New to iTunes 7.2.

TUAW Tip: Don't Torrent That Song...
Your user id is embedded in your DRM-free AAC music.

Ask TUAW: Sharing iPhoto and iTunes between users, seeing who's connected, scrubbing Sercices, and more
You ask 'em. Mat answers

iTunes: Free Wednesday
Still free. Go get 'em

Apple TV to support YouTube videos
In h.264 no less.

Apple offers 160 gig Apple TV
Now available at the Apple store.

Found Footage: Steve Jobs at All Things Digital 2007
Watch the Steve.

Is the Apple TV a dud?
No. It's not.

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TUAW Best of the Week

You must remember this: a post is still a post that you might have just missed. The fundamental posts fly by, as time goes by. So when TUAW posters post on Apple's deeds and glory, if posts may pass you by, enjoy the best posts of the week, don't sigh. On this you can rely, as time goes by.

Mac 101: Launch at startup, the Login Items tab
Select those items you want to launch whenever you log in.

10.4.10 on the way
It looks like the next Tiger update is on the way.

Apple Camp schedule is now available
Free seminars for your young'uns.

Terminal Tip: ASCII-ify your Videos
Play your movies back from the command line and *at* the command line.

Rig of the Week: Al Gore's setup
We long for Mr. Gore's monitors.

Mac 101: Sharing your iTunes Library in 3 easy steps
If you've heard about library sharing but never got around to actually trying it, here's a quickstart for you.

Terminal Tip: Four ways to turn off Finder animations and speed up your system
Make Finder zippier, especially over VNC.

Adobe CS3 may disable your firewall
Important security information.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free, still available.

Terminal Tip: Interactive Command-line File Encryption
Combine Finder's drag and drop with Terminal's shell scripts.

AutoRate: iTunes rating done right
Song ratings that are based on both times-played and times-skipped.

Hauppauge USB TV tuners now EyeTV compatible
Use EyeTV software with your Hauppauge tuner to take better advantage of scheduling, recording and video edits.

Ask TUAW: Open With, AFP, iTunes with cell phone, escaping iPhoto, and more
This week's installment of the always fabulous "Ask TUAW" with our very own Mat Lu.

iPod transformer?
12 inches high and deadly.

Terminal tip: Remind yourself about appointments
Quicker and easier than iCal for one-shot reminders.

Rumors: Mac Mini Deathwatch
Say it isn't so. Could the mini be on the way out?

Security Update 2007-005
Apple's latest security update contains lots and lots of fixes.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Instant TUAW's gonna get you, gonna get you right in the face. Start reading TUAW's best posts of the week and join the human race. And TUAW shines on, like the moon and the stars and the sun, yes, TUAW shines on. Everyone c'mon.

Pacemaker study leads to rash of "Granny's iPod" jokes
Mike brings a smile and some common sense to the iPod/pacemaker panic.

iPoetry
Poems were made by fools like me; your iPod deserves iPoetry.

TUAW Tip: An easier way to email your logs
There's actually a handy dandy button you might not have known about...

Found Footage: AT&T's Stan Sigman gifts iPhone at West Texas A&M
The first iPhone in the wild.

Bruce Willis iChats
Live free or iChat harder.

Found Footage: Gee that commercial seems familiar
Fratellis they ain't.

McCartney on iTunes, Beatles to follow?
Paul's on iTunes, yeah yeah yeah.

Mac 101: Viewing long file names
Double-click the bottom of the divider thingie.

10 big Apple rumors that never came to pass
Still waiting for the iMower.

MacFusion: a GUI for MacFUSE
It keeps getting easier and more convenient.

Widget Watch: Photo Drop "10 sec photo editing"
Quick photo edits at your fingertips.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free. Go get 'em, tiger.

Mac 101: Things NOT to do on your Mac
The power cord is not an "off" switch.

The Twittervision and Flickrvision screen saver
Because your computer deserves to enjoy Twitter and Flickr even when you're away.

Coca-Cola to give away iTunes songs again this summer
Free songs served with your soda.

Mac 101: Transfer files with iChat
Check out the reader comments for even more file transfer tips.

Moody: mood-based iTunes tagging and playlists
Moody's mood for Love would be, what, yellow?

Listz - a powerful organizer with rich media, iPod exporting and more
Not cheap, but powerful.

Ask TUAW: Text manipulation, Networking, Managing the Trash, multiple iPhoto libaries and more
Mat Lu skillfully takes on TUAW reader questions.

Ive wins 2007 National Design Award
All the Ive fangrls squee with happiness.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Welcome to this week's edition of TUAW Best of the Week. We know you have a life. We know you have limited time. You just can't spend as much time as you probably would like here at TUAW reading every post and joining in on the conversation in our friendly and laid back comments section. So here's your big opportunity. We've sorted through all the posts of the past week and collected our favorites. Here are the freshest and shiniest posts of the week. Reading them will help you lose 20 pounds and improve your dental hygiene as well as sooner establish world peace. So take a few moments to look over these great posts. Your hips will thank you.

Jobs total compensation a bit more than $1 per year
The poor man is hardly going hungry.

Mac 101: Dragging and dropping from the Title bar
Discover the secrets behind proxy icons.

AAPL moves up
TUAW readers sound off with their investment advice.

SimpleMovieX: QuickTime Pro replacement
Get more features than QuickTime Player--but not as many as QuickTime Pro.

Ten things we still love about Tiger
Don't be too much in a hurry to ditch Tiger for Leopard. We love our old cat.

Open a beer with your iPod
Designed by a 17-year-old!

10 things that Sort of Mildly Displease PC World about Apple (and why PC World thinks Apple is Doing Well)
The whole PC World controversy comes to...not much. Even the editor who resigned ends up coming back to work.

Wear your iPod with iWear
Become a creepy iPod droid and impress your friends.

Mac 101: Enabling Built-in Spell Check
It's on a per-application basis. And Safari doesn't always play nice.

Platypus: create Mac applications from Ruby, Perl, shell scripts, etc.
Mat found this cool little app-maker.

Apple posts 3 more Get a Mac ads: Choose a Vista, Genius, and Party is over
Those guys just crack us up. Hee-larious.

Leopard beta for developers at WWDC
Bring home your own baby Leopard from WWDC.

Apple 6th most desirable employer for new MBAs
TUAW congratulates all the new MBA grads. Now go get a job.

TUAW Tip: Four Fun Scroll Wheel tips
Make sure to read the comments. TUAW readers add a few more tricks to these four.

Ask TUAW: Windows Media Audio, VCDs, Finder keyboard navigation, and more.
Mat is a TUAW treasure.

iTunes: Free Wednesday
Still free. What are you waiting for?

Partially inside Apple's design process
Technology Review has a great design theme this month. Learn about Apple's industrial design team.

Mac 101: Address Book Tricks
Make your phone numbers display really really big.

Finder Fu: Force an Application to open your Document
A great way to get tabbed data into Excel.

Best Buy "Apple Boutiques" appearing
It's like a little Apple Store inside Best Buy.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Weekend has broken, like the first weekend. TUAW has posted, like the first post. Praise for the blog posts, praise for the weekend, praise for the best posts of TUAW all week. Mine is the round up, mine is the weekend review. Mine is the collection of our favorite posts. Praise with elation, praise every weekend. TUAW's reclamation of the weeks' best posts. (With apologies to Eleanor Farjeon)

Aspyr releases iQuiz Maker
Create your own iQuiz trivia sets with this free UI.

Mac 101: Hide Hard Drives, CDs, etc on your Desktop
Use Finder's built-in preferences.

iTunes movies in Europe this year
And the iPhone in Q4. Sounds like an Applelicious year for Europe.

TUAW Interview series with Gus Mueller: The Leopard delay - does it change anything?
Another in David Chartier's fabulous interview series.

Tip: Easily cycle through toolbar icon sizes and formats
The Finder "lozenge" is more powerful than you might have realized.

Blast from the Past: Apple Introduces "Easier to Use" portable music player
The latest in our Monday series of Blasts from the Past introduces a new media player called the "iPod".

Flickr Find: First iPhone Pics?
Yes, it's a picture of a guy.

The soul of an iPod vending machine
Thar be Windows in that thar gadget thang.

iGoogle -- not an April Fool's joke, not a merger
The "i" is for "individualized".

Terminal Tip: Showing and Hiding Disks using Developer tools
Use SetFile to update a disk's visibility.

iPhone: it isn't the price I'm worried about
It's the service plan that worries us.

WWDC early registration extended to May 11
Still a week left to get in on the discount.

Ask TUAW: Printing Finder window contents, CornerClick, a Finder hotkey, editing AVIs and more
Our in-house hero Mat rides to the rescue of readers with questions.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free. Still available. Go get 'em.

Steve on a Greener Apple
Kumbaya, dudes. Kumbaya.

Apple confirms LED displays in Macs during 2007
Oooh. Shiny!

Mac 101: DMG files are Disk Images
One of the most common obstacles for Switchers to overcome.

Apple launches One to One and Personal Shopping
New services from Apple.

George Foreman's iGrill
"Shuffle off to Buffalo" with this music/grilling combo.

TUAW Tip: The best way to add the Trash to your Finder sidebar
Drag it in from the Info window

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TUAW Best of the Week

Wind us up, put us down, start us off and watch TUAW go. TUAW is running circles around the news more than you know. You feel missed posts running through your bones, so we pick 'em out, yeah, we pick 'em out. Best of the week. We pick 'em out, we pick 'em out.

Sleep Display, put your monitor to sleep instantly
Mat tracked down this monitor insta-sleep solution.

Ubuntu, Yellow Dog Linux for PPC updated
Hot, fresh, and linuxy.

Apple Modest Mouse video contest
Break out iMovie or Final Cut, lots of coffee and your best creative approach to win.

AAPL chosen for the Bar Mitzvah portfolio
Oy. We want to kvell.

43Folders: Using smart folders in Mail
Create flagged, recently-sent and recently-viewed folders.

Mac 101: Tweaking your keyboard shortcuts
Discover the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane.

Fission 1.5
Scott's favorite audio editor hits 1.5.

Automatically restart crashed programs
Create a launchd daemon that restarts applications after they crash.

iQuiz is available
A great new game for your iPod for just a buck.

Jobs, Ive nominated for Time's "most influential"
"Magazine covers, national recognition, a billion-dollar company...just another day at the office."

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free. Still available for download.

Gracenote and iTunes in lyrics talks
We may yet see automatic lyric search built into iTunes.

Liveblogging Apple's 2007 Q2 results
Scott's fabulous live blog of the Q2 Financials conference call.

Mac 101: Dragging onto the Open dialog
A quick and easy tip to navigate to the right directory.

Live in Austin, TX? Get early access to iPhone. And a job
Apple is hiring.

Apple Board members release statement supporting Jobs
Apple's board stands behind the Steve.

Firefly: Streaming to iTunes with DAAP
Live transcoding lets you play back non-standard iTunes formats like OGG and FLAC.

Jobs: iPod users don't want to rent music
It's hard to be anti-DRM and still support a subscription model.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Welcome to this week's TUAW Best of the Week post. We know that you can't spend every waking minute here at TUAW, so every week we pick our favorite posts so you can jump right into the the most exciting items. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoyed writing them. Have a great weekend!

New TUAW feature: Mac 101
Scott introduced TUAW's newest feature, aimed at new Mac users and switchers.

Mac 101: Quickly resize the Dock
The first Mac 101 how-to featured this trick for directly resizing your dock.

New Get a Mac Ad: Stuffed
Looks like PC is packing on a few pounds.

Macworld shows us how to get DVDs on your Apple TV
Because Apple TV users want More Content!

Apple announces Final Cut Server
The latest and greatest in pro-level video production.

TUAW Guide: Xbox 360 and Mac
Mat's great write-up kicked some major how-to.

iTheme: OS X WordPress Theme
It pays to look OS X.

Steve receives his $1US paycheck
Who says you can't get good help cheap?

Making the switch: App for app
Me? I can't live without fully caffeinated Office, but here are some great software alternatives for switchers.

Poll: Missing Announcements
What MIA Apple offerings are you most waiting for?

JellyFiSSH: secure shell the easy way
SSH and VNC are our friends.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still available. Still free. Go download some good stuff.

HOWTO: Matting rotated QuickTime videos
Learn how to matte videos onto an image background with QuickTime Pro.

Ask TUAW: middle button paste, screen lock, previewing pictures, Mac 101 questions
Mat fields lots of reader questions.

BBC does the right thing: will support Macs with iPlayer
British Mac users will be able to watch BBC content along with their Windows-using pals.

Elgato releases EyeTV 2.4 update
Now with the Apple TV export feature we've all been waiting for.

Apple Tattoo: Now that's a fan girl
Nothing says corporate loyalty quite like permanent body art.

Found Footage: Apple TV Plugin Loader
New Apple TV plug-in will install other third-party plug-ins.

Sling Media wants to stream to iPhone
Wouldn't this be the perfect combination of devices? Your TiVo or Apple TV streaming directly to your iPhone no matter where you are?

Mac 101: Finder Slideshows
A fabulous but too-often overlooked built-in Finder feature.

Security Update 2007-004
Lots of bug and security fixes.

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TUAW Best of the Week

There never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them. So if you just have a few moments right now to spend reading TUAW, let us make things easier for you. Here are our favorite posts of the week. We've saved them all up like the treasures they are, again just to spend them with you.

TUAW How To: Use your iTunes library over AirPort Disk
Dave shows you how to keep your iTunes library on an AirPort Disk.

DuckCall
Set your iChat or Adium buddy picture to a live iSight snapshot that automatically updates every thirty seconds.

Namco Interview
Learn what games are on the way to the iPod and iPhone from the people who brought you Ms. PacMan.

Emailing entire Webpages (not just links)
Check out this handy video tutorial that walks you through the process of using this little-known Safari feature.

Blast from the Past: Apple Lisa Emulator
The Lisa. So similar to and yet so different from the Mac. See lots and lots of screenshots showing how the Lisa worked.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 will shipbe announced March 27
The news a lot of Mac Pro buyers have been waiting for. A definite shipannouncement date for CS3.

iTunes 7.1 first impressions
First looks and a gallery of new feature screen shots.

HDHomeRun HDTV Mac Streaming Tool
Another AppleTV competitor.

Go RED for less
Refurbished red nanos.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still available. Still free.

The Onion: Apple launches iLaunch
Simply hilarious. Gotta love the Onion.

LicenseKeeper tracks your serial number collection
Organize your purchases.

Apple is America's most profitable retailer
More selling power per square foot than Tiffany & Co. But no cute little blue bags.

iPhones and Jajah
Use the iPhone's browser to place your calls and let Jajah connect to your iPhone using only incoming minutes.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Welcome to TUAW's best of the week. In this list, we gather together all our favorite posts from the week gone by. If you didn't have a chance this week to spend as much time at TUAW as you might have liked, here's the perfect opportunity for you to catch up with some great posts. Enjoy!

MediaFork to 'unfork' back into HandBrake
The developers who "forked" their development from the standard HandBrake DVD Ripper project rejoin the fold.

Cory Doctorow on Steve's 'Thoughts on Music'
Scott replies thoughtfully to Cory Doctorow's response to Steve.

First Thoughts: AirPort Extreme Base Station
David provides a first-hand look at the new AirEx.

Flying pigs, dancing daisies, robotic Barbies...and the iPod
The New York Times rounds up some of the strangest iPod accessories available.

New iPhone Commercial
Airing during the Oscars, this commercial gave just an iPhone tease.

Apple founders film released as DRM-free download
A cool month in Silicon Valley from some independent film producers.

Apple TV delayed until Mid-March
It's going to take a bit longer than expected for Apple TV to hit our living rooms.

Oscar-nominated short films in iTunes Store
Yeah, they get those awards but no one ever seems to have actually watched them. Here's your opportunity.

Ms. PAC-MAN now available for your iPod
Fresh new gaming goodness at the iTunes store.

iPod mini hacked from microdrive to flash
An iPod with a broken microdrive is brought back to life through some intensive hacking.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Still free. Go and grab your downloads while they're still available.

Parallels Desktop Finally Ships
It lives!!! Parallels leaves beta.

WWDC07 Session Tracks Announced
Have you bought your plane tickets and made your hotel reservations yet?

TUAW Tip: Use ambient noise reduction for chats and sound recording
Improve the quality of your conversations with this great TUAW tip.

Boomwave™ Bearaphim iPod case
Our favorite useless iPod accessory of the week. It's so sweet, it might kill.

Skip the AppleScript with Ruby
Applescript: old and stodgy. Ruby: the new hotness.

Listener-annotated audio with SpotDJ
Add a radio-touch to your iTunes listening experience.

Ask TUAW: Cookies, Mail.app vs Outlook, Party Shuffle and more
Mat answers reader questions.

Tim Cook talks Apple
Apple's COO talks about iPhones and iPods and Tigers. Oh my!

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TUAW Best of the Week

You made it to the weekend. Congratulations! And once again, we're pleased to bring you our picks for the best posts of the week. Go grab a donut, a hot and highly caffeinated beverage, and enjoy these gems from the TUAW week gone by.

iTunes Repair Tool for Vista 1.0
Apple's first piece of Vista-specific code allows you to repair permissions for critical files needed to play iTunes Store purchases under Vista.

Bill Gates: "security guys break the Mac every single day"
Bill, security and Apple's theft of Longhorn's design. Seriously, who can't love this guy?

YouTube history of Stevenotes
It's like a visit to the "Steve Museum of History".

Mac-compatible USB Missile Launcher at Last
Aim. Shoot. Macintosh!

More on Geocoding Your Photos: GPSPhotoLinker and Geotagger
More ways to geocode your image library. Neat stuff.

High Priority: iCal To-Do's in Your Menubar
A simple drop-down pane listing your iCal To-Do items.

Apple Inc. and Apple Corps Ltd. finally settle trademark dispute, still no major iTunes release from Beatles
Finally. A settlement between Apple and Apple. All we needed was love.

Super Bowl highlights now in iTunes
Relive the rain, the pain, and the hard-won gains. Go Colts!

WWDC 2007: June 11 - 15
Developers, mark your calendars!

iTunes: Free Tuesday
There's still time to download your free items.

Ticketmaster, iTunes promo
Buy a ticket, get a free track.

Freecycle meets iPod
"Save the cheerleader, save the iPod"...er, no, that's wrong. "Who's Her iPod"...no, that's not right either. "An iPod will fly, an iPod will die". Yeah, that's the ticket. Man saves iPod, gives back to his community. Our hero!

DasBoot makes iPod into a bootable drive
Load your DiskWarrior CD onto your iPod so you always have a bootable recovery disk with you.

Zune spokesman: Jobs "irresponsible, or at the very least naïve"
We love Zune spokesmen, we do.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Ah! The weekend. Time to finally kick back, relax, and put up your feet. If you were all busy this week, rush rush rushing around, getting things done, and not having much time to spend reading TUAW, then we've got a special post for you. Here's an executive collection of our favorite posts of the week, put together for you to read at your leisure. So take a few deep cleansing breaths, stretch your mousing muscles, and enjoy.

iPod Valentines Negligee
Because nothing says "Valentines" like wrapping up your consumer electronics in fishnet.

DotNET developer visits Leopard developer tech talk
MS developers can find lots to appreciate in Leopard's technology.

Take your iTunes on the road with WebDAV and S3
It's a little on the costly side, but Amazon's S3 service allows you to globally upload and access your data--including, perhaps, your iTunes library.

How to buy Vista, Joy of Tech style
TUAW inspires Joy of Tech's recent cartoon.

iPod Hacks post iPhone Shuffle spoof
Life is random. Should your phone calls be random too?

New UK Get A Mac ads
Hey! Look! It's the Peep Show's Mitchell and Webb as Mac and PC.

Monday man page: dig, host & nslookup
Mike shows how to use some great command line DNS tools.

Witch - bring Windows app switching to Mac OS X
A different way to switch between OS X applications.

iPod Shuffle comes in colors
We like the Orange one.

Airport Extreme 802.11n Enabler for Mac
Ready for purchase and download. Airport Extreme Base Stations are now shipping, too.

Ask TUAW: The Finder, iTunes Artwork, and More
Mat answers reader questions.

Found Footage: CNN asks Bill Gates about copying Mac OS X
Because OS X is, like, such a ripoff of Vista. Totally.

Resize photos within Mail
Use the built-in pop-up menu to pick the size of the image you send.

My Mac needs a Tardis
No well-dressed Mac should be seen without its basic nerd peripherals.

Skype reveals how to place high-quality Mac video calls
If you've got the bandwidth, you can place 640x480-pixel resolution vid-calls.

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TUAW Best of the Week

Time, it rushes by so quickly. And sometimes you just don't have time to read the entire TUAW feed. So once again, we bring you our favorite posts of the week, so if you weren't able to catch them the first time 'round, you'll have some good reading for the weekend. Enjoy!

NBC and NPR feature iPhone humor
The new iPhone. It does everything. It's a phone. It's an iPod. It's a...sonogram?

Reverting your iPod back to 1.2 from 1.2.1
Sometimes you've got to move back in order to go forward with a more stable installation.

Did Cisco lose its right to iPhone trademark last year?
Slapping the word "iPhone" onto an already existing shrinkwrapped box? Not a really great defense of "use" in our opinion.

Screenshots of Office 2008 for Mac
Nice fresh hot Office screen shots. Get 'em while they're hot.

Actiontastic 0.9 raises GTD bar with iCal syncing
Why wait for OmniFocus when Actiontastic does iCal synching today?

iPod + Nike Dissected
Psst. It's a simple piezoelectric switch inside. It's a bit less sophisticated than Mat expected, but it's still fun to peek.

What about NAB2007?
Are we going to see Final Cut 6 this year?

TUAW Video: A Mac Moment with David Pogue
TUAW goes one-on-one with David Pogue.

The Keynote boom count
We find this endlessly amusing. Hopefully, you will too.

iTunes: Free Tuesday
Get your downloads while they're still free.

iTunes Producer updated to 1.5.1
It's all about the back end of iTunes.

Apple Financials Q1 2007 Liveblog
Apple's First Quarter report.

SuperBowl Bombshell?
Word is that Apple's going to make an announcement. Will it be the Beatles?

Apple to charge $1.99 for 802.11n enabler
Apple confirms they'll charge only two bucks to enable 802.11n for many already-shipped Macs.

Macworld 2007 Show Floor Showoff: Griffin Technology
They're one of our favorite accessory makers. See what they had to offer at Macworld 2007.

Tip of the Day

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