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Best Buy teaches Wolfram Alpha (and Siri) new tricks

by Erica Sadun (Dec 15th, 2011)

When it comes to Siri innovation, it's not just about work at Apple's end. Today, Wolfram Alpha introduced new shopping features built around Best Buy's public APIs. You can now use Siri queries to browse upwards of 35 thousand appliance and home computer products. You can say "Wolfram, tablet ...

Boxee back on Apple TV

by Mike Schramm (Feb 25th, 2010)

Boxee recently released a brand new version of their beta software, but unfortunately, that build didn't happen to work on the Apple TV. That's now been fixed, however, and you can now get the USB flash drive creator app that will give you a patchstick to install the latest version on that Apple box ...

Signal 1.1 adds AirTunes support, landscape mode, Webclip icon

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2008)

We covered Signal when it first dropped in the middle of last year, and now Alloysoft has sent us a note that they've upgraded to version 1.1. The app turns your iPhone into an iTunes remote through a server connection, so you don't need to jailbreak or hack the phone at all -- just run the program ...

TUAW Tip: An easier way to email your logs

by David Chartier (May 12th, 2007)

Since we play around with a lot of pre-release and beta software in the name of you readers, we often have to email logs to developers to help them iron out quirks that help an app get all growed up from alpha to beta and to the big release version. As any of you who have gone through this kind of ...

Firefox 2.0 alpha released

by David Chartier (Mar 19th, 2006)

DownloadSquad has noticed that an alpha release (read: not stable) of Firefox 2.0 is live, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, and waiting for your clicks. I'm having a hard time tracking down any kind of official list of what's new in this next major point release, but after quickly running ...

Camino 1.0 alpha released

by David Chartier (Sep 18th, 2005)

Camino, my favorite Firefox alternative that's OS X native and Mozilla-made, just reached 1.0 alpha status. The list of changes in the release notes is massive: faster page drawing speeds, new certificate management, downloads list saved between sessions.. let's just say that nearly every facet and ...