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Inside Apple offers a quick read, corporate insights

by Erica Sadun (Jan 26th, 2012)

I just finished Adam Lashinsky's "Inside Apple", now available for sale at most major vendors. It's a quick, easy read and clocks in at just over 200 pages with large, readable type. If you're looking for an exhaustive Tracy Kidder take on how Apple works and operates, this book isn't it. Instead, ...

Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple now available

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 25th, 2012)

I'm sure by now most of you have read Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. If you're still hungry for more information on Apple, then you should pick up a copy of Adam Lashinsky's Inside Apple book. The book takes a corporate look at the inner workings of Apple. It introduces more of the ...

Inside Apple describes Scott Forstall as Apple's CEO-in-waiting

by Steven Sande (Jan 17th, 2012)

Apple CEO Tim Cook is an excellent business manager and responsible for much of the company's success in low-cost manufacturing and skinny inventories. But as we saw with Cook's first product announcement on October 4, he lacks a lot of the charisma that marked the Steve Jobs era. A new book is ...

Germanmade handmade wood and leather g.2 iPad-Case for iPad 2

by Samuel Gibbs (Nov 19th, 2011)

Most premium iPad cases are pretty similar. Some are bags, some flips cases, some sleeves -- Germanmade has done something a bit different with their book-style case. Construction and design Made from leather stretched over veneer, the case has a uniquely organic feel. From the outside it ...

The New York Times goes one-on-one with Walter Isaacson

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 18th, 2011)

It's turn-the-table time, and the man who spent the last several years interviewing people for his Steve Jobs biography is now being interviewed by the New York Times. As expected, the interview focuses on Isaacson's book and the time he spent with Steve Jobs. In his conversation with New York ...

E-book series details the evolution of iMovie

by Kelly Hodgkins (Oct 28th, 2011)

I am slowly reading through Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs and, like many of you, I'm fascinated by the complex series of events and people who created the Apple we know today. Another good read that covers a portion of Apple history is a e-book series called Timeline. Written by ...

First, fake Apple Stores. Now, fake Steve Jobs biography.

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 19th, 2011)

First fake Apple Stores, now China has fake Steve Jobs biographies. The fake biography's title roughly translates to Steve Jobs Gives 11 Advices To Teenager in English and its author is a man who goes by the name "John Cage." MicGadget says the fake bio first went on sale at Taiwanese ...

TUAW's Daily iPad App - Warplanes: A History of Aerial Combat

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 13th, 2011)

Gameloft recently released a new iPad book-app, Warplanes: A History of Aerial Combat (US$6.99). This app is follow-up to Gameloft's earlier book-app, War in the Pacific. This latest offering includes detailed information on 43 historic war planes including popular bombers like the B-52, ...

TUAW TV Live: Brian X. Chen, author of 'Always On'

by Steven Sande (Jul 6th, 2011)

Thanks for joining me today for a very special episode of TUAW TV Live. Today's guest is Brian X. Chen, interim editor for Wired.com's Gadget Lab and the author of the recently published "Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In." To quote the ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: Brian X. Chen talks about "Always On"

by Steven Sande (Jul 6th, 2011)

Today's TUAW TV Live features a guest whose new book, "Always On: How the iPhone Unlocked the Anything-Anytime-Anywhere Future--and Locked Us In" is garnering praise for its unblinking look at the good and bad aspects of the iPhone phenomena. Brian X. Chen is the interim editor of Wired.com's ...

Steve Jobs biography gets new title: 'Steve Jobs'

by Mike Schramm (Jul 5th, 2011)

"iSteve: The Book of Jobs" was the title originally ascribed to the very first authorized biography of Apple's head honcho, written and put together by Walter Isaacson. But according to CNNMoney, the title has changed. While the book's Amazon page now lists the title as the much more tame, ...

Apple faces trademark infringement lawsuit over the use of iBooks

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 16th, 2011)

Apple is facing yet another trademark infringement lawsuit. This time the company must defend its use of the term iBooks. Apple is being sued by New York publisher John T. Colby who bought Byron Preiss Visual Productions and Ibooks, Inc during a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy proceeding back in 2006. ...

Taking Your iPhoto '11 to the Max: A power guide to Apple's photo app

by Steven Sande (Apr 5th, 2011)

iPhoto '11 is an easy Mac app to begin using and play with, but a difficult one to master. In his newest book for Apress, TUAW blogger Michael Grothaus takes his knowledge of iPhoto '11 and presents it in such a way that anyone can learn to use the app, not only for organizing and editing their ...

TUAW readers get 30% off "Take Control of iWeb '09"

by Mike Schramm (Mar 26th, 2011)

TUAW's very own superstar Steve Sande has released a new ebook version of "Take Control of iWeb '09," and it's updated to reflect the fact that iWeb is practically the same in both iLife '09 and the newer iLife '11. No matter which iLife you're using, Steve's got some excellent tips in here for ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Enchantment by Guy Kawasaki

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Mar 8th, 2011)

Guy Kawasaki, for those of you who don't know, was an original Macintosh evangelist and when the Mac debuted, he went to software developers, advocating that they write software for the new platform. Over the years Guy has been a loyal devotee of Apple and heard numerous startup pitches (and ...