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Wunderlist announces Wunderlist Pro for Mac, iOS and the web

by Mike Schramm (Apr 17th, 2013)

The folks behind Wunderlist, the excellent to-do app that recently updated to version 2, have announced that Wunderlist Pro is almost ready for prime time. Wunderlist is a free service and is remaining free, but Wunderlist Pro is a new premium service that's designed to help get Wunderlist ...

Best of 2011 nominations: iPhone productivity apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Appsterdam: building a haven for app developers in Amsterdam

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 28th, 2011)

Mike Lee, formerly of Apple and Tapulous, has moved to Amsterdam and is looking to set up a new application development community. Lee left the US after he became disillusioned with how the country and the development community was headed. He was frustrated with not being able to afford heath ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: AppCleaner

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 23rd, 2011)

Last week on the Daily Mac App we featured the infamous uninstaller AppZapper. Today we've got a fully-featured free alternative, AppCleaner. Available from FreeMacSoft, the freeware (donations accepted) AppCleaner does what it says on the tin. Just like AppZapper, you can drag-and-drop the ...

Boxcar Beta for Mac available, brings notifications to Mac

by Chris White (Mar 31st, 2011)

Today brings a delightful surprise for Mac users with Boxcar joining the Mac family. Boxcar has been the standard for getting push notifications from your social networks, email, RSS and other services on iOS devices since it launched in July of 2009, and it has been one of my favorite iPhone ...

Become a sumo wrestler by stepping into SumoBooth

by Rick Martin (Jan 25th, 2011)

The facial expression experts over at MotionPortrait (makers of PhotoAvatar and ZombieBooth) have just dropped another fun photo effect application on us. SumoBooth takes your photo and transforms your head shot into a pudgy and powerful sumo wrestler. Once the animated sumo face is generated, ...

Finder now offers to search Mac App Store for unknown file types

by TJ Luoma (Jan 7th, 2011)

If you try to open a file in the Finder and it doesn't recognize the extension, it will now offer to search the Mac App Store for applications that can open that file type. Before the Mac App Store's launch, the alert panel you see above would simply say, "There is no default application specified ...

The ever-growing iTunes basket

by Mike Schramm (Sep 28th, 2010)

The Guardian puts to words something I've been thinking for a long time: that iTunes is actually Apple's weakest link. You'd be forgiven for believing the opposite -- iTunes is arguably Apple's strongest brand, given that it encompasses all of the "mobile device company's" products, and remains the ...

iPad used for 3D effect

by Mike Schramm (Jul 21st, 2010)

This is really wild -- Japan's Aircord lab has used the iPad to create a 3D effect, but not what you'd think, with the standard glasses and views. Instead, the iPad is used to project a set of three images onto a specially-coated glass pyramid, which then reflects the three video images in all ...

TUAW's Daily App: Diacarta

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2010)

Diacarta is a to-do app like you've never seen. I saw it on the excellent Well-Placed Pixels blog, and the design of the thing is really interesting. Basically, to add items to the to-do list, you just add icons to the image of the clock. Once items have been added, you can see a visual ...

iTunes 9.2 adds checkbox for automatic sync of new apps

by TJ Luoma (Jun 19th, 2010)

We already told you about iTunes 9.2 being released, but there was a little new feature in there which may have escaped your notice. At the bottom of the list of apps that you can install on your iDevice is a checkbox to automatically sync new apps. This has been the default behavior of iTunes, but ...

TUAW's Daily App: Mint.com Personal Finance

by Mike Schramm (May 21st, 2010)

Not all of the apps we spotlight here are new or games (though I admit that most of them have been lately). Mint.com's app has been around for a while, and it's just as useful as the site that gives it the name and functionality. If you have a bank account, you should at least give Mint.com a look ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: August Trometer on UI design and the iPad

by Mike Schramm (Apr 28th, 2010)

August Trometer is a veteran iPhone and Mac developer -- along with his own stable of titles, he's also one of the developers behind the popular Yowza!! mobile coupon app, and the author of a book on web development for Apple's handheld device. He spoke not once but twice on the first day of the ...

Voices that Matter iPhone: Five iPhone app design mistakes, and how to fix them

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2010)

TUAW is at the Voices that Matter iPhone developers' conference this weekend, talking to iPhone OS developers of all walks of life. All weekend long, devs are here learning about how to code and design better iPhone applications from some of the best minds and artists on the App Store. We've ...

360iDev: Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK

by Mike Schramm (Apr 14th, 2010)

There are always a few SDK vendors lurking around any developer convention, and 360iDev is no different. However, unlike a lot of programs that work as a go-between for the iPhone Software Development Kit and some other language ("middleware," in developer-speak), Ansca Mobile isn't worried about ...