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Amazon's MacBook Air stock dwindles

by Steven Sande (May 23rd, 2013)

Last week TUAW reported on the diminishing numbers of MacBook Airs available from third-party retailers like Best Buy. Now the source of that information, AppleInsider, is reporting that Amazon is completely sold out of the 11.6-inch low-end MacBook Air (1.7 GHz Intel Core i5, 64 GB storage) with ...

Rumor: Amazon's Goodreads purchase cancelled a possible Apple partnership

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2013)

The Wall Street Journal says that before Amazon's purchase of the Goodreads service earlier this year, Apple was planning to possibly integrate the social reading-recommendation service into its own iBookstore. Apple and Goodreads, says the WSJ, had been talking for a year or more about ...

iBook Lessons: Why the Kindle App is still the best reader on iOS

by Erica Sadun (Apr 3rd, 2013)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. The important thing about e-books is this: the reader matters a lot less than the content. Over time, I've found myself using iBooks less and less and less, as I now turn almost exclusively to Kindle for my iPad ...

DevJuice: Beginning Objective-C

by Erica Sadun (Mar 18th, 2013)

Jim Dovey and Ash Furrow just released Beginning Objective-C. It is subtitled "Get started with programming the fast-growing language." It is not, however, really aimed at new programmers. Unlike Aaron Hillegass's superb Objective C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, the book expects a ...

iBook Lessons: Could Amazon create a used e-book market?

by Erica Sadun (Feb 12th, 2013)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. This Slashgear writeup about a newly awarded Amazon patent just caught our eyes here at TUAW Central. Apparently, Amazon may be exploring an online used digital goods market. Amazon proposes to establish an ...

Getting your iOS screen clean on: wipin' secrets

by Erica Sadun (Feb 12th, 2013)

In this world, there are those who don't let a little grease and grime bother them. And then there are those of us who buy bulk cleaning products at Costco and carefully tend to our oleophobic screens, caressing and conditioning our babies. Guess which group TUAW blogger Kelly H. belongs to? ...

iBook Lessons: Childrens picture books

by Erica Sadun (Jan 4th, 2013)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. I recently had occasion to give advice regarding an author considering the move from traditional books to ebooks. Normally, in these cases, I recommend starting with Amazon. It offers the simplest tools for publishing ...

iBook lessons: Mac clients and built-in updates

by Erica Sadun (Oct 24th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. Since yesterday's announcement, I've been having a series of conversations -- in email, on the phone, on Twitter -- regarding iBooks, the iBookstore, and why iBooks for Mac remains missing in action. Many in the book ...

iBook Lessons: The absolute beginner

by Erica Sadun (Jun 29th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. I get asked this a lot: what is the absolute minimum it takes to get started in ebook publishing. The answer is this: a manuscript in Microsoft Word .doc or .docx format, an Amazon account, and a smile. Everything else ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Preview

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2012)

Preview, the app that lets you view pictures and read PDFs in OS X, is one of Apple's unsung heroes. There's so much you can do with this app. It goes far beyond simply looking at images. It's a minimal image editor. You can crop your pictures, reorient them, and export them to new ...

Daily Update for December 6, 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2011)

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 ...

Steve Jobs bio Amazon's best selling hardback book of 2011

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2011)

When Steve Jobs selected Walter Isaacson to write his biography, he probably knew that the book about his life would be a bestseller. Sure enough, the hardcover edition of "Steve Jobs" topped the bestseller list for 2011, edging out "Heaven is for Real," "Unbroken" and other titles. This is an ...

Ten things I want Siri to be able to do for me

by Steven Sande (Oct 16th, 2011)

Now that I've had my iPhone 4S for a couple of days, I'm amazed with what Siri can do. I've asked a number of questions -- real ones, not questions like "What is the meaning of life?" -- and have been totally impressed with how my interaction with the iPhone has changed. But there are more things ...

Rumor: iLife '11 to be 64-bit, iOS compatible

by Steven Sande (Oct 4th, 2010)

iLife, the software suite that is included on every Mac and is made up of iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, and iDVD, hasn't been updated to a new version since January, 2009. That, of course, is making many of us in the Apple world curious about when the next version of the suite will appear on the ...

Offshore iPhone/iPod USB power adapters: Caveat Emptor

by David Winograd (Oct 14th, 2009)

When I opened my iPhone 3GS, I was surprised to find that the power adapter was nothing but a little 2-prong AC plug (I live in the US) that allowed you to plug in the standard USB to 30-pin connector to charge the phone. I wanted to get a spare; checking online told me that the Apple Store ...