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Take your apps to the table with these iPhone icon coasters

by John Burke (Nov 28th, 2009)

With over 100,000 applications available, there's no shortage of ways people are using the iPhone's features. But how about on the coffee table or in the dining room? A new website is offering sets of coasters featuring the iPhone's default application icons. According to the website, the ...

HP makes nice with Apple users, intros two new MediaSmart Servers

by Steven Sande (Sep 15th, 2009)

While there are still some Snow Leopard users who are cursing HP and Apple for incompatible or nonexistent drivers for a variety of printers that worked well under Leopard, HP has made an announcement that shows that they really do love all things Apple. HP today announced two new MediaSmart ...

Extending your iPhone's battery

by Mike Schramm (Jul 23rd, 2008)

IntoMobile has a few good tips on how to extend your iPhone's battery life, and most of them involve the most obvious thing you can do to keep your iPhone running: cut down on any and all extra functions. They actually recommend to turn off 3G, but you don't have to go that far -- just by holding ...

Mac Geekery debunks Dashboard 'phoning home'

by David Chartier (Jul 11th, 2006)

JC (yes, the Ungenius guy) at Mac Geekery has used some UNIX tricks to do some digging into the whole 'Dashboard phoning home' topic that's been heating up the Mac web lately. After all is said and done and JC lays out exactly what is happening, he concludes that not only is Mac OS X 10.4.7 not ...

TUAW Tip: visit your Library

by David Chartier (Mar 2nd, 2006)

This tip could definitely be classified as rudimentary to some, but I thought it would be handy to shed some light on a folder in the Home directory that is rarely opened by many users: the Library. For those who sometimes wonder things such as where Safari stores your bookmarks or where Mail.app ...

TUAW Tip: Put your apps wherever you want

by David Chartier (Jan 27th, 2006)

When you download a new application, its installation process typically tells you to either drag it into your Mac's Applications folder, or it has a full-blown installer that takes care of this process for you. But who says you have to keep all your apps in the Applications folder? Many ...