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Automattic buys third-party Wordpress app Poster to improve its own mobile apps

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 17th, 2013)

Automattic, the company behind Wordpress, has purchased the iOS Wordpress client Poster. Developer Tom Witkin is joining Wordpress' mobile team with the aim of bringing his app's unique features to Wordpress' own app. Sadly, progress for Wordpress means Poster is no longer available in the app ...

Daily Update for June 6, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jun 6th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player (requires ...

Dropbox for Mac beta adds automatic screenshot sharing, "Move to Dropbox" contextual menu

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 6th, 2013)

Dropbox offers an experimental builds channel where it lets users try out potential new features via beta builds. The latest build of Dropbox for Mac offers a few cool new features, including: Screenshot to Dropbox -- this feature puts every screenshot taken in OS X into a new "screenshots" ...

Evernote introduces two-step verification, other security enhancements

by Steven Sande (May 30th, 2013)

Evernote's motto is "remember everything," which means that you might put everything onto the cloud service -- work notebooks, pictures of food, business cards, you name it. One problem with placing all of that personal and work-related information in the cloud is that it makes it a target for ...

Productivity Tip: Synchronizing tasks for the individual

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 28th, 2013)

This week's Productivity Tip... As a kid I used little Day Timer notebooks to keep track of my schedules and projects. Of course my duties in high school were minimal compared to today, but those pocket-able sprial-bound notepads were great for capturing and tracking all my "stuff." In film school ...

Google Drive triples free storage to 15 GB

by Mel Martin (May 13th, 2013)

We were just talking about how Amazon is competing with Apple and other cloud services by offering 5 GB of storage for free. Now, that turns out to be old news, because today Google announced that free storage spanning several Google services like Gmail, Google+ and Google Drive is now going to ...

TodoMovies: The must-have movie app for movie lovers

by Matt Tinsley (Apr 24th, 2013)

Taphive's TodoMovies (US$1.99) app for iPhone has recently been updated to version 2.0. I'd not seen or used TodoMovies before, but as a huge movie enthusiast, I knew I had to check it out. At its heart, TodoMovie is an app that keeps track of movies you want to watch, but it's supercharged ...

Popup Window for OS X

by Erica Sadun (Apr 17th, 2013)

Popup Window (US$5.99) provides an organizer utility for your desktop, enabling you to stick folders onto the edges of your screen and fold them in and out on demand. I loved the idea of this app although I ran into several problems when actually using it. The app is meant for anyone who ...

Bump removes ability to share iTunes tracks in latest update

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2013)

We see tons of app updates come through the App Store every single day, but it's very rare that one of those updates removes functionality rather than adds it. The latest update for Bump for iPhone does exactly that, unfortunately. Bump is an app that came out very early in the App Store's ...

Amazon introduces Cloud Drive File Sync for OS X

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 3rd, 2013)

Amazon has introduced file syncing to its Cloud Drive app for OS X, which essentially makes Cloud Drive Amazon's version of Dropbox. Mac users can install the app on OS X 10.6, OS X 10.7 or OS X 10.8, and drag files in and out of the Cloud Drive folder. Any file put into the Cloud Drive ...

Mailbox app has filled 1 million reservations, gets new features

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 22nd, 2013)

Orchestra took the iOS world by storm last month when it released its iOS email client, Mailbox. It was so popular at launch that Orchestra had to institute a registration process that gave access to the service on a rolling basis. Less than one month after launch, the team at Mailbox announced ...

Dropbox has a new "Fix Permissions" feature

by TJ Luoma (Mar 19th, 2013)

I consider myself fairly savvy when it comes to Dropbox, but I learned a new tip from Mac OS X Hints. If you get "Permission Denied" errors, you can try to "Fix Permissions" in Dropbox. This is not repairing disk permissions in Disk Utility, it's within the Dropbox app itself. To get to it, ...

iPhone email manager Mailbox merging with Dropbox

by Dave Caolo (Mar 15th, 2013)

This is going to make for a few Box-heavy headlines: the company behind Mailbox, the streamlined email client for the iPhone, has merged with Dropbox, according to the Mailbox blog. The developers note the app's huge growth and eager would-be users as the motivations to join forces. "We can't ...

A Quick Guide to Dropbox Versioning

by TJ Luoma (Mar 14th, 2013)

One of my favorite features of Dropbox is 'versioning,' which keeps a copy of every change that you make. Every time you press 'save' on a document that's in your Dropbox, a new version is saved. There are two things I have been wondering about versioning: What happens to changes that ...

Dropbox for Mac updated to version 2.0

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 12th, 2013)

Dropbox has released an overhaul to its Mac client today. Version 2.0 of the client for OS X introduces a new tray feature. Now users can see the most recently shared files right from OS X's menu bar and share files directly from the drop-down menu. Users can also accept or reject shared items ...