Blogging Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Dear Uncle TUAW: What's the best way to blog while backpacking?

by Steven Sande (Apr 29th, 2013)

Dear Uncle TUAW: Over the next two years my husband and I plan to hike El Camino de Santiago in Spain. I'd love to keep family and friends up to date on our trek by blogging on the trip, but since we want to keep our backpacks at less than 14 lbs. total weight, I'm not sure I want to carry an ...

Preparing Blog Images with Automator

by Ben Waldie (Dec 3rd, 2012)

Automator's the perfect tool for streamlining some of the repetitive things you do on a daily basis. One thing it's great at is doing basic manipulation to lots of image files. Need to resize a bunch of images or convert them from one format to another? No problem, Automator is ready to help. In ...

Tumblr iOS app updated, now completely native

by Mike Wehner (Nov 8th, 2012)

Finally jumping headfirst into iOS with a redesigned experience, the updated Tumblr app is now live on the App Store. Whereas the previous version relied in part on simplified web views to replicate the Tumblr feel, the new experience is 100 percent native to iOS. After playing around with the ...

TUAW TV Live: Bloggers talk about blogging tools

by Steven Sande (Aug 8th, 2012)

Good morning, afternoon, or evening, depending on what part of the world you're coming in from! Today we're going to be talking about blogging tools on TUAW TV Live. I consider personal journals to be a kind of self-blog, so those tools will be covered as well. Of course, I can't use every ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM: Blogging tools overview

by Steven Sande (Aug 8th, 2012)

Whether you're keeping a private journal for yourself or publishing a blog for the whole world to read, blogging tools of various types are proliferating in the Apple world. Join me this afternoon for an hour of chatroom banter and demonstrations of some of my favorite tools for keeping a ...

Tumblr 3.0 for iPhone completely rebuilt

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2012)

Easy blogging service Tumblr has released an update for its official iPhone app, and its interface has been completely rebuilt. The dashboard is cleaner, and it's done away with that custom bottom bar found in the original app. There are almost too many big updates to count: You can now upload ...

How to avoid sounding dumb when you write about Apple

by Chris Rawson (Feb 11th, 2012)

So, you want to write about Apple? Lots of people do these days. The company is a household name, its financial performance is virtually unparalleled, and it makes products that millions upon millions of users enjoy every single day. I can tell you from personal experience that getting paid to ...

Hey Dude, Where's my Blog? (Follow up to Blogging with Siri)

by Erica Sadun (Oct 24th, 2011)

If you pop by the blog I set up with Siri, you may notice it's been vaporized. Harsh, Google, harsh. Admittedly it wasn't a particularly edifying blog (didn't have to be, was just demonstrating a tech solution) but there wasn't any spam on it. And I just set it up a few days ago. So I tried ...

Blogging with your voice: Siri, Blogger, and post-by-SMS

by Erica Sadun (Oct 21st, 2011)

As I mentioned on my earlier post, Steve Sande and I have been hard at work collaborating on "Talking to Siri," an ebook that will soon hit the Kindle store. One of the topics we're exploring is how to push Siri beyond its advertised limits. Take blogging, for example. Did you know that you ...

WordPress iOS editing app gets styling buttons, full-screen mode

by Michael Rose (Sep 25th, 2011)

It's only fair and right that one of the world's most popular content management/blogging platforms should have a snazzy and capable iPhone app to go with it. The WordPress app has been updated to version 2.9, adding three new features for mobile users. The new version adds handy styling ...

BYTE retracts anti-Apple rant by blogger

by Steven Sande (Jul 18th, 2011)

Back in the early days of the personal computer revolution, there was no better magazine to read than BYTE. It was often a thick tome full of reviews, programming tips, and insightful columns by industry legends. The magazine disappeared in 1998, but was recently resurrected as an online magazine ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Tumblr

by Mike Schramm (Jul 8th, 2011)

Tumblr is, of course, the blogging platform that's taken off lately, featuring an easy way to quickly post a lot of different kinds of media, as well as share it across friends and networks. Tumblr's iPhone app has been serviceable since it came out, but it hasn't always been the best option ...

Squarespace iPad app brings blog editing joy to subscribers

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2010)

Anyone who is familiar with the Squarespace hosted blog service knows how great it is. Themes are professionally designed and give bloggers an opportunity to tweak them for unique sites with beautiful typography, and the service keeps providing more and more capabilities to subscribers. Squarespace ...

What is it like to work at Apple?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 17th, 2010)

Ever wondered what it's like to work at Apple? AOL Jobs spoke to Joe Moreno, a software engineer who worked at Apple from 1998 to 2007. Joe touched numerous products and projects, notably WebObjects and the Apple Online Store (No, he wasn't the guy who puts the yellow sticky note up when new ...

MarsEdit 3 adds rich text editing, enhanced media browsing

by Michael Rose (May 4th, 2010)

In the "send an email, post a blog entry" fun and fast-paced world of tomorrow, services like Tumblr and Posterous make it exceedingly simple to prepare and post to your blog; meanwhile, Twitter, Facebook and AOL Lifestream push past the article metaphor to 140-character status snippets. ...