Hands-on Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Engadget goes hands-on with iOS 5

by Steven Sande (Jun 8th, 2011)

Our big sister site, Engadget, had a chance to go hands-on with iOS 5 the other day at WWDC and took oodles of screenshots to enjoy. TUAW, of course, has a number of writers who also have had a day or two to grope the new iOS, but who are limited by Non-Disclosure Agreements to what they can ...

HBO GO for iOS lets you play over 1400 programs from just about anywhere

by David Winograd (May 3rd, 2011)

HBO GO allows an HBO subscriber to stream over 1400 programs on a computer with a Flash-enabled browser, but just last week, a few days ahead of the scheduled May 2nd release, HBO released the HBO GO iOS app. This free universal app is pretty amazing. If you are an HBO subscriber and your ...

Hands-on: HipstaCase for iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd, 2011)

I'm not a big fan of iPhone cases. I got my free bumper because my iPhone showed attenuation when I bought it, and I'm a sucker for free stuff. The Apple bumper worked brilliantly when I dropped my iPhone on the pavement once -- it saved the iPhone from being shattered. But I use cases for ...

Preview of CaseGoods TypeCase for iPad

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2011)

Sometimes the most important things you see at Macworld Expo are the things that you don't like. For example, there were a lot of iPad case manufacturers who were showing off their take on case + keyboard combos. A lot of these cases use an awkward "chiclet"-type keyboard that, in my opinion, is ...

Hands-on with the iPad ClamCase keyboard/stand

by Mike Schramm (Jan 8th, 2011)

We've been stopping by the trailer of our sister site Engadget quite often here at CES for the excellent company (and the excellent Wi-Fi), and while we were in there the other day, the good folks from ClamCase came by to show off their product. Engadget got their own look, but we were kindly ...

Sparrow for Mac beta hands-on review

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 21st, 2010)

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} Sparrow is essentially what happens when Gmail and Tweetie for Mac hook up and have a baby. It's very much what Gmail should be on the Mac -- minimalist and classy. I tried out Mailplane a few months ago, but ...

Hands on: AirPlay for audio streaming in depth

by Richard Gaywood (Nov 23rd, 2010)

My colleague Mike Rose has already taken a long look at video streaming via AirPlay and found it a rather mixed bag. Although it works well as far as it goes, it doesn't support non-Apple apps -- even video streaming ones such as Netflix -- and can't even manage to stream video footage shot on an ...

WWDC 2010: Hands-on with Chopper 2

by Mike Schramm (Jun 15th, 2010)

Chopper's been in the App Store since day one, and David Frampton of Majic Jungle Software is the guy who put it there. Since then it's garnered over a million downloads, he's made a number of other App Store titles (and brought the game to the Mac), and he's hard at work on the game's sequel. ...

WWDC 2010: Interview with Moodboard developer Chris Nurre

by Mike Schramm (Jun 12th, 2010)

I believe we've mentioned Moodboard exactly once on the site before, as one of Brett's picks back when the iPad first released. But it deserves another mention -- developer Chris Nurre of A Tiny Tribe (a company founded with a friend to help pay for skeleton equipment and travel) stopped by to see ...

WWDC 2010: In the Trenches with Thunder Game Works

by Mike Schramm (Jun 10th, 2010)

Thunder Game Works kindly came by to meet up with us this week at WWDC, and Michael Taylor and Kris Jones of the company behind the popular Trenches iPhone game. They shared some insight about what they saw this week, offered us a chance to see concepts of the iPad version and check out a brand new ...

TUAW First Look: Flick Baseball Pro

by Mike Schramm (May 5th, 2010)

Freeverse has released the latest title in their Flick Sports series, and Flick Baseball Pro is now out on the App Store for $2.99. We got a quick hands-on with the game right after release, and while it's a pretty good arcade-style baseball simulation, there are a few quirks and missing features ...

Hands-on with Max Adventure from Imangi Studios

by Mike Schramm (May 1st, 2010)

Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckynova are the husband-and-wife team that make up iPhone developer Imangi Studios, creators of the popular Harbor Master iPhone game and its iPad cousin. I got to meet them both at the 360iDev conference a few weeks ago, and they kindly showed me an as-yet-unnamed ...

Hands-on with Fruit Ninja for the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Apr 20th, 2010)

Halfbrick Studios is an Australian game developer that's done a few licensed games on other platforms before along with the App Store title Blast Off, and they're back on the iPhone today with Fruit Ninja, a simple-but-fun arcade game that has you hacking fruit in half on the iPhone's touchscreen. ...

360iDev: Hands-on with Freeverse's Warpgate HD and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2010)

We got to play two of Freeverse's current and future offerings this past week at 360iDev. Warpgate HD was the first -- it's out now on the App Store, and is due out for the iPhone and iPod touch. It was originally designed for the iPhone, but it ended up being a good fit for the larger device, so ...

SecondBar puts your menu bar on a second monitor

by TJ Luoma (Mar 31st, 2010)

The menu bar is a quintessential piece of the Mac "experience." On the left, it shows all of the menu items for the currently active application; on the right, it shows icons from various menu bar application programs: the date/time, WiFi status, MobileMe sync status, and many, many more. The ...