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America's Cup book dives into Larry Ellison-Steve Jobs friendship

by Michael Rose (Jun 2nd, 2013)

The San Francisco Chronicle has been running weekly excerpts of The Billionaire and the Mechanic, and today's sample (behind the Chron's paywall) is worth a look. This recently-published nonfiction book, written by Chronicle staffer Julian Guthrie, tells the story of Oracle founder Larry Ellison's ...

Cut the barcode scanning cord with CLZ Barry for iPhone

by Michael Rose (Jan 22nd, 2013)

Did you have a New Year's resolution to organize your book collection (again)? It's definitely on the list in our household, but it's a daunting job; we have thousands of books (literally and literarily) scattered across many shelves, basement boxes and a home office, plus another whole library ...

The Human Face of Big Data: an unlikely subject for a great book

by Richard Gaywood (Dec 4th, 2012)

Big data is, like many trendy IT buzzwords, an increasingly nebulous term. The Wikipedia definition, for example, is rather jargonistic and impenetrable. If you read big data conference information you'll typically see a lot of naked commercial stuff that might be terribly important to bigwigs ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion

by Erica Sadun (Oct 15th, 2012)

Dave Taylor's "Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion" offers an in-depth tutorial for OS X power users who have not yet mastered Unix. Written for technically competent readers, it focuses on introducing common command-line tasks. The book starts with Terminal, and then moves on to the basic ...

DevJuice: Regular Expressions Cookbook enters 2nd edition

by Erica Sadun (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Regular expressions are a staple of development. A grammar for matching forms to text, regular expressions are used in Apple development for use with predicates, in validating text entry and more. O'Reilly just released a new edition of Jan Goyvaerts' & Steven Levithan's "Regular Expressions ...

TUAW TV Live: Brett Terpstra reveals Mountain Lion tips

by Steven Sande (Oct 3rd, 2012)

Welcome back to TUAW TV Live! While you may miss the smiling faces of my substitute hosts Kelly Guimont and Doc Rock, you'll get to see my relaxed post-vacation visage as well as that of today's guest -- the one and only Brett Terpstra. I've got the usual avalanche of accessories to demo, and ...

Pitch Perfect is the perfect marketing primer for the indie developer

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th, 2012)

If you're a developer with an app and a dream, you would do well to pick up Pitch Perfect by TUAW's Erica Sadun and Steve Sande. Their book lifts the veil on how app reviewers, bloggers specifically, operate. Most of the advice I give to people looking to pitch an app is in this book. Added to the ...

iTunes Match book delivers useful guidance in minutes

by Michael Rose (Apr 4th, 2012)

Writer Lex Friedman has covered Apple's iTunes Match cloud music service for Macworld, his home base, but if you want all your Match instruction in one convenient ebook, you're in luck. Friedman has written Sams Teach Yourself iTunes Match in 10 Minutes, a full guide that provides all the ...

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 ...