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MacTech 2011 pulls in huge attendance, videos available now

by Mike Schramm (Nov 4th, 2011)

MacTech Conference 2011 was held this week in Los Angeles, California, and since last year, this conference has definitely grown. There were almost twice as many people as last year's event, says MacTech publisher Neil Ticktin, reaching a total of almost 350 people. There were plenty of great ...

Dear Apple: Thank you for pulling out of Macworld Expo

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 8th, 2011)

It feels weird to be thanking Apple for something it hasn't done, instead of one of the things it actually has done that I am very pleased with. But here goes: thank you, Apple, for finally and officially blowing off Macworld Expo. I attended two Macworld Expos with Apple, both in 2007 and 2008. ...

Happy 10th birthday to Mac OS X Hints

by Mike Schramm (Nov 5th, 2010)

Because we veteran Mac sites have to stick together, we're sending congratulations out to the good folks over at Mac OS X Hints, who yesterday turned the ripe old age (in blogging years, anyway) of ten years old. The site, created by Rob Griffiths and now run by Macworld, continues to be a terrific ...

TextPlus goes beyond free texting, boosts communities

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 27th, 2010)

When I bought my iPhone 3GS, one of the helpful Apple retail guys told me to give textPlus a try for sending text messages, as I'd bought into the cheapest texting plan AT&T offers. I've since graduated to unlimited texting, and had left textPlus by the wayside until I found out it had a ...

Chat live during the iPad 3G release

by Erica Sadun (Apr 30th, 2010)

You waited, you waited, and you waited. And now some of you finally got your new iPad 3G. Sure, most of you had to remain patient while us Wi-Fi owners preened and showed off our new babies. And some of you are still waiting for the next ship date (the "arrives by" in May). For some of you, ...

Current game network developers comment on Apple's Game Center

by Mike Schramm (Apr 8th, 2010)

Way back in February at Macworld, one of my questions to Eros Remini of OpenFeint was pretty blunt: "Why," I asked a representative from the biggest third-party social gaming network on the iPhone, "haven't we seen an official platform-wide network?" Remini didn't have a good answer for Apple, but ...

Going to Macworld Expo 2010? Join our community for updates and news

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2010)

For the past several years, IDG World Expo has created a community on Ning for Macworld Expo. You can join up and follow various bloggers and companies, and now TUAW has a group page for the show. To join the group, just head over to http://macworldexpo.ning.com/group/tuaw. You can participate in ...

Psystar alienates the Hackintosh community, too

by Mike Schramm (Nov 12th, 2009)

Say what you will about Psystar, the community that continues to sell computers running OS X, despite bankruptcy, constant legal problems with Apple, and a case so slim even their own legal team gave up. Sure, they're out of reason, out of room, and way out of line, but at least they've got plenty ...

Gamesalad aiming to bring their development system to the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 3rd, 2009)

Here's yet another interesting take on the burgeoning App Store environment. A company called Gendai Games has a game creator IDE/app called Gamesalad, designed to let you put together rapid prototype-style games for the Mac. They've been doing this for a while, and they even let you export your ...

SeeClickFix for iPhone helps communities help themselves

by Michael Rose (Aug 14th, 2009)

One of the oft-unsung but quite awesome things about living in New York City is our urban help line, NYC 311. Whether it's a leaky hydrant or a burnt-out streetlamp, a missing manhole cover or a mixed-up parking sign: there's only one number to call for any non-emergency question, and they will ...

MacTech's 25 most influential, version 2007

by Mike Schramm (Jun 7th, 2007)

MacTech has released their MacTech 25 for the second year in a row-- it's a list of the top 25 most influential people in the Mac community (as selected by the community itself), and it reads like a who's who of people doing great stuff : John Gruber, the suave-looking Aaron Hillegass and Brent ...

Juhu for Jaiku: A Mac OS X client for the other lifestream service

by David Chartier (Jun 1st, 2007)

We've definitely caught the Twitter wave here at TUAW (we even have our own account), but it is by no means the only 'what are you doing' or lifestream service on the block. Another big player is Jaiku, which brings a fairly different perspective and set of features to the table. While Twitter ...

Revisiting CoverSutra, now with Last.fm and Growl integration

by David Chartier (Apr 26th, 2007)

It's been a while since we first mentioned Sophia Teutschler's CoverSutra, a new iTunes interaction and manipulation app, and it's come quite a ways since its v1.0 debut. From the start it's offered things like global keyboard shortcuts for controlling iTunes (including one for toggling Shuffle), ...

Widget Watch: Twitterlex - Yet Another Twitter Dashboard widget

by David Chartier (Jan 27th, 2007)

The web just keeps showing its love for Twitter, the new social service that asks the simple question: "what are you doing?" The service has exploded recently, capturing users from all around including Leo Laporte, Darth Vader and even your favorite Apple blog! Naturally, when a site becomes this ...

Pimp your Camino

by David Chartier (Apr 17th, 2006)

Safari isn't the only browser that can pimp it these days, as it looks like Camino has its own custom parts shop now. Pimp My Camino (started by John Hicks; he who set up Pimp my Safari) keeps track of the plugins, addons, haxies and scripts (and more!) for Mozilla's fantastic Camino browser. I ...