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TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Puzzle Agent 2

by Mike Schramm (Jul 1st, 2011)

I've been looking forward to this one. I first enjoyed Graham Annable's Puzzle Agent last summer actually on the iPhone, even though it was also released for the Mac and PC previously. The sequel is now available on iOS, and I can't wait to play it. Annable's weird mix of homespun comedy and ...

Old Navy pilots iPod-based point-of-sale system, still has creepy mannequins

by Steven Sande (Dec 2nd, 2010)

Old Navy, the retail clothing store chain that owned by another retail clothing store chain (The Gap, former employer of onetime Apple retail exec George Blankenship), is reportedly piloting an iPod touch-based point-of-sale (POS) system like that used in Apple Stores. The system, known as EasyPay ...

Talkcast reminder: Macs that go bump in the night! 10 pm ET

by Michael Rose (Oct 25th, 2009)

It's the Sunday before Halloween, and that can mean only one thing! No, not that you should have set your clocks back an hour -- that's next weekend. Tonight is about scary tech and the users that love it: Apple's most frightening products of all time. Whether the fuzzy-scary iPod Socks or the ...

Big Brother! ActyMac DutyWatch spies on your employees

by Steven Sande (Apr 9th, 2009)

Employers: do you want to know exactly what your employees are doing every second of the day on their Macs? Would you like to be able to log every keystroke they make, take screenshots of their Macs every once in a while, or even take pictures of them with the iSight that's built into their Mac to ...

Dream recorder

by Scott McNulty (Dec 29th, 2006)

If I were giving out awards for creepiest Mac application Dream recorder would be the front-runner. This app, as the name implies, aims to help you record your dreams and get a sense for how well you are sleeping. As you can see in the illustration to the right, the proper usage of Dream recorder ...