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Pogoplug Mobile shares media with iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 2nd, 2011)

Pogoplug, maker of a popular line of remote storage solutions, has introduced Pogoplug Mobile, a remote storage device that lets you access your media using your iOS and Android device. The device connects to a USB hard drive or an SD card and uses your home network to serve up the content of ...

Dolly Drive brings the Time Machine cloud closer to European customers

by Steven Sande (Aug 16th, 2011)

Everyone's favorite sheep-shaped online backup point, Dolly Drive, has opened a data center in Rome, Italy to give European Mac users faster Time Machine backups to the cloud. The new facility is part of a planned grid of data centers for the relatively new (less than a year old) and ...

Printer patents portend driver-free future

by Michael Grothaus (Aug 15th, 2011)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published two patents in the past week that suggest Apple is trying to eliminate the much-loathed printer driver. As first noted by ConceivablyTech, the two patents each describe a way for your Mac to get the necessary driver information from the printer ...

Daily Mac App: Xmarks

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 8th, 2011)

Need to sync bookmarks across multiple platforms and/or different browsers? You need Xmarks. The service that was on its way out, then bought by LastPass, allows you to sync bookmarks to the cloud, between machines and between different browsers. Xmarks has extensions or plugins for Safari ...

Video App Demo: GENWI

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 4th, 2011)

We've covered GENWI before, but to recap: GENWI is a cloud-based (read: Web) app creation and management system for businesses. While there are numerous platforms and 3rd party services which will "wrap up" your content into a native app, GENWI does all of this on the web, and it's a pretty ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Producteev

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 29th, 2011)

Task management is something most loathe but have to do to keep productive. Producteev, a previously web and iPhone app focused task management service has just launched a Mac app. Producteev focuses on creating and managing tasks with the ability to connect those tasks with other people, ...

Scientific study shows internet use changes human memory

by Chris Rawson (Jul 18th, 2011)

The internet has fundamentally affected the way people access and store information, and many people (myself included) have wondered if it's also changing the way our minds work. According to the New York Times, a recently published scientific paper shows that we are indeed changing the way we ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Wunderlist

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 20th, 2011)

Have you ever found managing and syncing your task list more difficult than it really needs to be? Wunderlist is the answer. An incredibly simple, intuitive and good looking program, Wunderlist makes creating, syncing and clearing a list of tasks quick and easy. Either use the "Add your task ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me merge my music accounts

by Erica Sadun (Jun 17th, 2011)

Dear Auntie, Half of my music collection was purchased with an old Apple ID, using a defunct email address. I can play music from both accounts on my devices, no problem. But when iCloud comes out, I wonder how I'll be able to have it sync both accounts as one cloud in the iCloud? I wish I ...

WWDC Interview: Push IO

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jun 14th, 2011)

TUAW and MacTech Magazine teamed up to speak to developers at WWDC 2011 about the keynote announcements and how Apple's new technologies will help them and their customers. We'll bring you those videos here, MacTech.com and MacNews.com. Also, check out the free trial subscription offer for ...

Pandora Media offering IPO tomorrow

by Mike Schramm (Jun 14th, 2011)

Music service Pandora is set to introduce its stock to the public tomorrow, becoming one more in a series of social networking and online service companies going with an IPO. Pandora isn't specifically an iOS company, of course, given that its music service runs both through browsers and on a ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: CloudApp

by Samuel Gibbs (Jun 14th, 2011)

Sharing small files via email is easy with attachments. But what about sharing files via IM, Twitter, Facebook or the myriad of other services? That's where the incredibly simple CloudApp comes in. CloudApp sits in your menu bar waiting to upload files to the cloud, ready for sharing with ...

Apple unveils iTunes Match for $25 per year

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 6th, 2011)

Apple introduced its iTunes in the Cloud solution, which lets users access their iTunes music purchases in the cloud and share them among devices. That's all well and great, but what happens when you have a song that you ripped and did not buy from iTunes? Thanks to the new iTunes Match ...

Considering iCloud's potential against existing cloud services

by Erica Sadun (Jun 3rd, 2011)

There have been any number of rumors floating around in the last day or so about Apple's Time Capsule integrating with the new iCloud service. Ars Technica reports that the updated Capsules might mirror Apple TV's CPU strength with capable A4 or A5 processors that do more than just perform ...

iCloud icon revealed, LA Times says service will cost $25 annually

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 2nd, 2011)

In what turned out to be a busy day for the future iCloud service, AppleInsider posted images of banners unveiling the new service's brushed-metal icon at the Moscone Center, while the Los Angeles Times reported that iCloud will likely cost just US$25 a year. The L.A. Times also said Apple has ...