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Pocket Informant planning public beta for cloud service

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2012)

The team from Pocket Informant is at Macworld|iWorld this week to show off the app and announce a new cloud-based service that will share information across all of the company's mobile apps and new web interface. Pocket Informant is a GTD/calendar/tasks app that combines all sorts of functionality ...

Apple seeds seventh 10.7.3 beta to developers

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th, 2012)

Apple released the seventh beta of Mac OS 10.7.3 (build 11D50) to developers yesterday amid the hubbub of the financial conference call. The update lists no known issues and asks developers to focus on iCloud Document Storage, Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight and Safari. The delta update is a ...

Apple releases iOS 5.1 beta 3 to developers

by Chris Rawson (Jan 9th, 2012)

Apple has released the third beta of iOS 5.1 to developers. iOS 5.1 beta 2 was released nearly a month ago, but now that the holiday lull is out of the way it's probably not going to take that long before the next beta comes out. The beta is available both through over-the-air download and a ...

App developers skirt Apple's 100-device testing limit

by Mike Schramm (Dec 30th, 2011)

The Wall Street Journal reports that some big iOS developers are having a real issue with Apple's limit on testing devices. According to the App Store rules, developers are restricted to 100 devices for testing via ad-hoc distribution. That may sound like a lot (and it likely is for small or ...

Apple seeds OS X Lion 10.7.3 to testers

by Chris Rawson (Dec 16th, 2011)

Apple has seeded another build of OS X Lion 10.7.3 to testers. According to 9to5Mac, this third build of 10.7.3 addresses issues with Address Book, iCal, Mail, Spotlight, and Safari. Apple lists no known issues with this build of 10.7.3, and it may be the last developer build issued before the ...

Apple iOS 5.1 beta 2 available to developers

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 12th, 2011)

Looks like iOS 5.1 beta 2 is now available for developers, a few weeks after the first beta dropped. BGR has a nice list of what's new/fixed in this release but the big news appears to be that you can finally delete images in your iCloud Photo Stream. There's also the hope this will clear up any ...

Why Siri is like skeuomorphic UIs: the magic is just skin deep

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 1st, 2011)

By now you've probably heard of the widely reported case of Siri's alleged pro-life stance. Walking the dogs this morning, I thought through what I hoped would be an interesting blog post about what I feel this means about Apple and our relationship to technology. I see an interesting link here ...

Did you experience a Siri outage?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 28th, 2011)

We've seen a few minor outages for Siri since its debut, but those were minor blips compared to what appears to have been a more widespread, longer lasting outage that took place earlier today in the US, Europe and South Korea (according to Electric Pig -- we can attest to seeing an error message ...

Skype 5.4 beta available

by Erica Sadun (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Skype Beta 5.4 was made available last week with more Facebook integration. For the most part, TUAW isn't comprised of big Skype users. Skype came under fire with a redesign in version 5. Our beloved leader, Victor, is still on version 2.8 -- or as he puts it, "2.8 FOR LIFE." As the Mac beta ...

iTunes 10.5.1 beta 3 released with more fixes for iTunes Match

by Chris Rawson (Nov 13th, 2011)

Apple has released a third beta of iTunes 10.5.1 to members of its developer program. According to Apple, "iTunes 10.5.1 beta 3 includes a number of important stability and performance improvements for iTunes Match, and is a required update for all subscribers to iTunes Match beta." This beta ...

Apple seeds iOS 5.0.1 Beta 2 to developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 4th, 2011)

Coming roughly two days after releasing the first iOS 5.0.1 beta, Apple has pushed a second version of the beta to developers, presumably as the company works to correct battery issues with devices running iOS 5. MacRumors states this version is build 9A404 and is available as an over-the-air ...

Apple releases iTunes 10.5.1 beta 2, supports iTunes Match on Apple TV

by Chris Rawson (Nov 3rd, 2011)

It looks like despite the "end of October" launch estimate at the iPhone 4S event, iTunes Match still isn't quite ready for public release. Apple has released a second beta of iTunes 10.5.1 so developers can further test iTunes Match. The update addresses the usual "stability and performance ...

Apple has missed iTunes Match launch date

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2011)

Did you notice this morning that it was November 1st? Did you also notice that iTunes Match isn't working yet? Yep, Apple missed a deadline date, having "promised" that the new iTunes service would be available "by the end of October." That date was set at the October 4, 2011 "Let's Talk ...

iTunes 10.5.1 beta available for developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 11th, 2011)

A little more than an hour after the public release of iTunes 10.5, the beta of iTunes 10.5.1 with iTunes Match was pushed to developers. As commenters have noted, iTunes 10.5 disabled iTunes Match, so for developers who are testing the service, you'll want to head to the Apple Developer Center ...

iWork for iOS beta 4 released to developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 1st, 2011)

Apple has released a fourth beta build of iWork for iOS to developers. This comes a little more than a day after iTunes 10.5 beta 9 was issued. The beta is available now through the Apple Developer Center. ...