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Macworld 2010: Telltale Games live in our booth

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2010)

We're cleaning out the video files from the chaos of Macworld last week, and while we've already shared with you an interview that we did with Dan Connors of Telltale Games (who just recently announced that they're bringing their whole catalog over to the Mac), his co-founder Kevin Bruner also ...

How to: Facebook chat in iChat or Adium

by Aron Trimble (Feb 16th, 2010)

Last week, the fine Facebook folk let us know (via the Facebook Help Center) that you can now sign in to Facebook's chat service using iChat. Of course, the free Adium client has directly supported Facebook chat since version 1.3 (released in 2008), but this step opens up a much wider range of ...

TUAW TV Live: the pre-Macworld, post-iPad edition

by Steven Sande (Feb 3rd, 2010)

Welcome back for another edition of TUAW TV Live with your host Steve Sande. We'll be starting at about 5:00 PM ET today with a special guest, Aaron Vronko, service manager for Rapid Repair in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Aaron provided TUAW with some insights into possible iPad hardware options a few ...

Join us for the iPad edition of TUAW TV Live at 5 PM ET

by Steven Sande (Jan 27th, 2010)

It's gonna be all iPad, all the time on this edition of TUAW TV Live. Join your host Steve Sande here at 5 PM ET when we'll be discussing the newest member of the Apple family, the iPad. We'll also try to link up to the TUAW Talkcast that will begin at 5:30 PM ET (with a few surprise guest ...

Thwapr: Mobile-to-mobile video sharing from one of the creators of QuickTime

by Steven Sande (Jan 20th, 2010)

It's not every day that I get to view a product introduction on my iPhone. In fact, today may have been the first time ever that a product intro has been done through mobile messaging. Eric Hoffert was one of the original developers of QuickTime and is now the CTO for Thwapr, so he really ...

Grab the Cheetos, it's time for TUAW TV Live (5 PM ET)

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2010)

Today marks the fourth episode of TUAW TV Live, our regular Wednesday Ustream broadcast featuring news, reviews, and discussion of eveything Apple. Join TUAW lead blogger Steve Sande in the chat by watching the live stream in the window below (starts at 5 PM ET, 2 PM PT), then using the chat tool ...

TUAW TV Live Episode 3: The calendar strikes back

by Steven Sande (Jan 7th, 2010)

Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! It's time for another episode of TUAW TV Live. To view the show, you can either watch that video frame after the break at about 5 PM ET (2 PM PT) and chat from the embedded chat field below it, or you can join us at http://ustream.tv/TUAW. ...

TUAW Talkcast live tonight at 10pm Eastern

by Mike Schramm (Dec 20th, 2009)

Sunday night means it's time for our world famous talkcast, and tonight's going to be a good one. I'll be hosting the last pre-Christmas show, so I'm sure we'll fit in some last minute gift discussion, and we'll chat about the most popular posts of the past week, including Operation Chokehold, ...

Live chat tomorrow: Application Development for the (mythical) Apple Tablet

by Erica Sadun (Dec 17th, 2009)

From a developer's point of view, what do these rumors mean? Is it enough to assume that App Store products will "just work" out of the box on a new device class? Will adherence to Apple's resolution independence design principles allow well-built iPhone applications to adapt to new window sizes? Or ...

First Look: WhatsApp

by John Burke (Nov 16th, 2009)

There's a lot of buzz about iPhone IM clients.Other applications have gotten a lot of coverage for allowing iPhones to chat from their AOL, Google, ICQ, Jabber or a host of other screen names. WhatsApp [iTunes Link] is different, calling itself an "iPhone-to-iPhone chat application" that provides ...

TUAW exclusive: Makers of Aurora Feint unveil new game, codenamed "VSL"

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2009)

Aurora Feint was one of the iPhone's first big games, way back in the early days of the App Store. Since then, the company behind that first hit has added on a few different games in the same universe, each with their own separate features and focus, but all in the same vein of puzzle-based RPG. ...

First Look: Agile Messenger with push notifications

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 18th, 2009)

Agile Messenger was recently updated to support iPhone OS 3.0's push notifications. The obvious comparison will be to BeejiveIM, since they both do the same thing: provide a multi-client chat app offering push notifications on your iPhone. We'll have a hands-on with Beejive later, but this is how ...

First Look: Mobile Colloquy

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 22nd, 2009)

I've used the IRC for at least 10 years, if not more, and I've utilized a range of clients starting with the stalwart mIRC for Windows. When I migrated my home system to a Mac, the IRC client of choice quickly became the open-source Colloquy. It was simple to use and easy to integrate scripting via ...

Mac 101: Tabbed windows in iChat

by Dave Caolo (Nov 18th, 2008)

New to the Mac? Welcome back to our Mac 101 series, which explores the basics of Mac OS X, provides tips and tricks, and dives into key features of Apple's bundled tools. As a Mac user, you've got several options for chat clients -- Adium, Fire and IRC are all worthy -- but in this post we're ...

The wrong kind of 1%

by Giles Turnbull (Jul 31st, 2008)

MobileMe account holders trying to contact Apple's email outage chat support service have been promptly and brutally cut off if they're not on Apple's list of the "1%" of users affected -- and in one case, even if they are. Some TUAW readers have been in touch to tell us that when they tried to get ...