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Next talkcast: Parenting with Mac moms & dads

by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Apr 10th, 2008

We had a fun time on the ol' TUAW talkcast last Sunday, with panelists Christina Warren, Dave Caolo, Erica Sadun and reader Brett Peters (yes, the broken iPhone guy). Brett had a sad saga of MacBook Air performance woes to tell -- his machine refused to run on two cores under moderate load, apparently a thermal management feature run amuck, and it's going back to the mothership now (read the details here). We also ran through the iPhone 3G rumors with a coarse-toothed comb. You can download direct, listen in your browser or subscribe to the TalkShoe feed in iTunes.

For this coming Sunday's show (4/13), we're going to be talking about parents, kids and the Mac with Dave Caolo and hopefully some special guests. We'd love to get your suggestions and recommendations for the best educational software, kid-friendly peripherals and utilities, art and music tools for tots, and more. If you'd like to contribute your picks and pans, you can comment below or use our handy PBwiki page (you'll need a login, so just comment that you want to help out and I'll send you an invite). If you're wondering how to introduce your tots to computers or whether content filtering/parental controls really work as advertised, call in and we'll talk.

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Tags: brett-peters, christina-warren, dave-caolo, erica-sadun, kids, mac, mike-rose, parenting, talkcast, tuaw

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware, iPhone

SendSong updated for 1.1.1

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 18th, 2007

Just because Steve has promised to give us an SDK in February doesn't mean TUAW's own Erica Sadun is giving up on us. She's still going strong on getting more and more functionality onto the iPhone as we speak. Case in point: her new SendSong, which is updated from before to work with 1.1.1 and the latest ringtone developments.

She warns that it's still pretty "flakey," but the idea is that you can click any song in your iPhone's library, and then choose to send it by email to someone else, or (and here's the kicker) automatically make it a ringtone. Give it a try, and let her know how it works. Official iPhone development may start in February, but unofficial iPhone development continues.

Gallery: SendSong for 1.1.1 iPhone

Tags: 1.1.1, development, erica-sadun, iphone, sendsong, update

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Hacks, Apple

Apple sends takedown notice to iPod hacker's ISP

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 25th, 2007

Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that a hacker named "Martyn" had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn't plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site in order to let the other touch hackers have a crack at it.

But even before his upload finished, we're told, his ISP showed up, with a takedown notice in hand. Apple had somehow found his site, had contacted his ISP, and let them know that it would be against copyright law for him to upload that code to the Internet. Martyn isn't interested in breaking the law (and it would be illegal to share that code), so he pulled the page off. But what's amazing here is how fast Apple moved on this-- either they've got someone listening in on the development wiki, or they're taking cues from us on how things are going over there (hi, Apple!).

Despite what we've heard before, clearly they are very, very interested in making sure the iPod touch doesn't get hacked. Martyn tells me, as has Erica, that Apple has clearly gone out of their way to keep hackers out of their latest iPod. We're also told that progress continues despite all that, but Apple is apparently bending over backwards to do everything they can to keep the iPod touch closed.

Tags: apple, erica-sadun, hacker, hacking, ipod, ipod-touch, isp, legal, martyn, takedown, takedown-notice

Filed under: Humor, Hacks, Retro Mac, Apple History

Connecting the Newton as a serial terminal

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Sep 12th, 2007

A little while back we linked to ByteCellar's Apple //c terminal, and now he's gone and put a Newton online. You can check out the whole setup in the gallery, but the short story seems to be that he hooked up the eMate 300 to a serial-to-USB terminal, and then ran it through his Mini. Pretty easy, he says, since he'd already done it with the Apple //c, and apparently it's just an experiment-- while he could easily keep it around for IRC, he says the eMate is bound to its eFate as a paperWate.

And if getting the Newton hooked up as a terminal revs your engine, I was surprised to find out that TUAW houses the original Newton serial connector. Very impressive-- even in 1993, Sadun was doing stuff with Apple hardware that makes my head spin. Figgles, apparently, is her Newton.

And finally, if you don't have the knowhow or the patience to hook your Newton up to a serial internet connection, you could always just pull an Ihnatko and fake it. How long has he had that sticker sitting around? If you're not up for actually stickering your iPhone, Jer Wood's wallpaper might be more your speed.

[ via MacBytes ]

Tags: andy-ihnatko, erica-sadun, iphone, newton, serial-terminal, SerialTerminal, sticker, wallpaper

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