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TUAW First Look: Comcast Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jul 15th, 2009

Cable, broadband, and phone giant Comcast has joined the ranks of companies jumping on the iPhone bandwagon with a helpful and free new app: Comcast Mobile [App Store].

Let's get one thing out of the way right now; this app will not let you stream video from your Comcast set-top box to your iPhone. So what does it do?

Provides a unified inbox for Comcast email and voicemail
Lets you sync your SmartZone contacts with your iPhone or iPod touch
Shows call logs for Comcast Digital Voice, and allows call forwarding and control of voicemail.
Gives you detailed TV listings in The Guide, complete with reminders and favorites
Allows viewing of On Demand movie trailers

How does this compare with the AT&T U-verse and DirecTV apps? The AT&T app doesn't provide any email or voicemail features, nor does it provide a way to sync with an online address book. Both apps do provide the capability to remotely schedule a DVR, a feature missing in Comcast Mobile that the company says will be available in the next release. DirecTV doesn't provide phone service, although they do provide HD television for some traditional telecom firms like Qwest.

I had a chance to work with a pre-release version of the app loaded on an iPod touch, and I was impressed with the stability, speed, and functionality of Comcast Mobile. Read on for more details about the app.

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Tags: broadband, comcast, email, featured, iphone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, on-demand

Filed under: Enterprise, Software, Features, iPhone, App Store, iPod touch

TUAW review: Daylite 3.9, Daylite Server, and Daylite Touch

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Apr 17th, 2009

Marketcircle's Daylite is a popular business productivity management application for the Mac platform, and it was recently updated to version 3.9. While this sounds like it might have been just another version upgrade, it was actually a major update to Daylite. Coinciding with the release of Daylite 3.9, Marketcircle also released Daylite Server and Daylite Touch, two new components that bring the power of Daylite to the iPhone and iPod touch platforms.

We'll be talking with Marketcircle CEO Alykhan Jetha (AKA A.J.) this Sunday, April 19th, at 10 PM EDT on the TUAW Talkcast, so be sure to listen in and bring any questions that you'd like to ask A.J. about Daylite.

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Tags: daylite, daylite touch, DayliteTouch, featured, iphone, mac, marketcircle

Filed under: iPhone, App Store, iPod touch, App Review

Another fistful of apps: Ember, Headspace, myMovies, Nozbe, Juglir and LiveView

by Brett Terpstra (RSS feed) on Apr 14th, 2009

According to my completely unscientific research, about 90% of the TUAW mailbag is comprised of iPhone app announcements. In our continuing effort to not deluge you with iPhone app reviews, I present another "fistful of apps": 6 iPhone app reviews in one post. If you don't have an iPhone, you only have to skip one post. For the rest, this is some serious bang for your blog-reading buck.

I don't play games much, aside from the occasional word challenge, so the apps I've chosen to review are definitely of a more utilitarian ilk. I'd classify them as productivity apps, including a Campfire client, a 3D mind mapping app, a movie cataloger, a task-management solution, a multi-status updater and a nifty tool for developing iPhone interfaces. Read on for the nitty gritty.

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Tags: App Store, App-Store, AppStore, campfire, developers, ember, featured, features, gtd, headspace, iphone, juglir, liveview, mind maps, mind-maps, MindMaps, mymovies, nozbe, productivity, social networking, social-networking, SocialNetworking

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Hardware, Software, MacBook

Putting the MacBook through the paces with Warhammer Online

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 16th, 2008

Since the new MacBooks were released earlier this week, everyone's been talking a good bit about gaming on the thing, but our friend (and TUAW alum) C.K. Sample III decided to actually load up a game and make the new Nvidia chips put up or shut up. And as you can see above, put up they did: he loaded up XP in Boot Camp, installed Warhammer Online (not a small task, with a 13GB install and all the patching it took about two hours), and entered the Age of Reckoning with all the graphics turned up. The verdict: it worked. And pretty well -- while there was a tiny bit of slowdown on the highest settings (and YouTube compression makes it look worse than it is), the game was clearly playable and actually looked really good. The trackpad wasn't too easy to use, but you already know that for any substantial games, you've got to plug a mouse in anyway.

This was the 9400M running in the new MacBook, with the 2.4 GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. You have to think the MBP would run even better, too. Seems like Apple's done it -- even on the low end machines, gamers should have no problem (assuming they're willing to load up Boot Camp and deal with a permissions error or two) running even the latest PC games. Now if we could only convince game companies to all make Mac-specific versions...

Tags: 9400M, boot-camp, featured, graphics, macbook, nvidia, pc-games, pc-gaming, warhammer-online, windows

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