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TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best iPhone productivity app

by Steven Sande (Dec 22nd, 2011)

The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing ...

Mac 101: Getting iWork files on your Mac onto iCloud

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 18th, 2011)

Here's another Mac 101 tip for novice Mac users. When I first heard about iCloud syncing iWork documents between Apple devices I became quite excited. Like many, I create iWork documents on my Mac and then access them on my iPad or iPhone on the move. Up until now, I've been using Dropbox to ...

Daily Mac App: WriteRoom

by Michael Rose (Nov 17th, 2011)

It seems every writer, coder or GTD aficionado has a favorite plain text editor on the Mac these days. For everyone who starts each day with a screenful of untitled TextEdit windows full of different short notes (that would describe my dear spouse, for the record) there's a TextMate guru, an ...

Forbes: Apple tried to buy Dropbox

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2011)

When we began hearing about Apple's iCloud, a lot of the TUAW staffers thought the same thing -- why doesn't Apple just buy Dropbox? After all, it works the way that a lot of Apple fans think cloud storage should intuitively work. Well, a story by Forbes staffer Victoria Barret spills the beans ...

Daily Mac App: Clarify

by Michael Rose (Oct 13th, 2011)

We're unabashed fans of the folks at Blue Mango Learning Systems; in fact, we did a video introduction to their flagship product, ScreenSteps, after we met with them at Macworld Expo 2008. ScreenSteps has saved countless hours of effort in quickly developing software documentation, but the Blue ...

Emulate Lion's Versions in Microsoft Word

by TJ Luoma (Sep 25th, 2011)

Microsoft Word does not support Lion's "Versions" feature yet, but there's no reason to panic. There are a few options that you can use to cobble together a work- around until the Mac BU team updates the Office suite. Also worth mentioning: although I am focusing on Microsoft Word, the same ...

Daily iPad App: Elements 2

by Kelly Hodgkins (Aug 19th, 2011)

Elements is one of many text editors available in the App Store. It supports Dropbox, Markdown and TextExpander which makes it popular among iOS users. It's available for the iPhone, iPod touch and the iPad, but the iPad version really shines as a text editor. Version 2 was just released and ...

Silent Dropbox update adds Lion support

by Erica Sadun (Aug 19th, 2011)

Unless you have super-sekrit magic powers, haunt the Dropbox forums or are Steve Sande, you might not have noticed that Dropbox finally upgraded to a Lion-compatible build. Dropbox normally uses a silent-but-deadly approach to handle its updates. Basically it installs it automatically for you ...

Dropbox security bug temporarily allowed logins without authentication

by Chris Rawson (Jun 20th, 2011)

Earlier today, a code update to Dropbox introduced a bug that temporarily allowed access to users' accounts and files without authentication via the company's web interface. For approximately four hours, from the time that Dropbox made the changes until the service's developers were able to ...

Ten ways to replace iWeb and MobileMe hosting

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2011)

Yesterday, we reported on a rumor that Apple's website creation software, iWeb, is about a year away from obsolescence, along with MobileMe's hosting of iWeb sites. An iWeb user allegedly sent Apple CEO Steve Jobs an email asking if he should start looking for another website builder and a new ...

MobileMe: Some speculation about the transition to iCloud

by Steven Sande (Jun 7th, 2011)

I'll start this post off by stating the obvious -- there's a lot about how MobileMe services will transition to iCloud that we don't know yet. But I'm going to take a stab at some of the most pressing questions we've received from TUAW readers regarding the transition. As more facts come in, ...

BoxyTunes app streams music from your Dropbox music folder

by Chris Ward (May 18th, 2011)

There's a short but interesting analysis on Wired's Gadgetlab about Google's Music Beta service and how a simple US$2 app, BoxyTunes, does everything you hoped Google's service would do but doesn't. Music Beta was launched last week at Google's I/O Developer conference. It currently only works ...

Dropbox under fire for security concerns (updated)

by Richard Gaywood (Apr 19th, 2011)

Update: Dropbox has sent us a response to the issues raised in this article; it is reproduced in full at the end of this post. Popular cloud file syncing service Dropbox, much beloved by TUAW, has been in the news lately. On the one hand, it announced it had hit a new high of 25 million users, ...

Dropbox app updated as the service hits 25 million users

by Steven Sande (Apr 18th, 2011)

Dropbox has quickly become the must-have app and service for many people. Launched in 2007, about the same time as the original iPhone, Dropbox is a wonderful way to synchronize files between computers of all types. According to Michael Arrington at TechCrunch, the company is announcing that ...

World Backup Day: Ad-hoc backups to the cloud & more giveaways

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Happy World Backup Day! The only safe way forward is to back up; that's why we've joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today. As Steve mentioned earlier today, there are lots of cloud-based backup services eager to help you protect your data while solving ...