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Vintage meets future: importing photos to an iPad from a floppy disk

by Michael Rose (May 26th, 2013)

The iPad's Camera Connection Kit is a remarkably talented accessory. With its standard USB connector plus a bit of ingenuity, clever folks have found all sorts of things to connect that would not ordinarily be expected to connect: headsets, keyboards and a variety of storage devices. You can even ...

HTC handsets delayed at US customs due to ITC injunction over Apple patent

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 16th, 2012)

HTC confirmed to The Verge that its One X phone for AT&T and EVO 4G LTE handset for Sprint are being held at the border by customs officials. The shipments are being delayed while the government agency reviews the packages in accordance with an ITC ruling that banned the import of HTC's ...

Russia reclassifies iPad as a computer, avoids 5% import tax

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 6th, 2012)

According to a report in the Russian newspaper Vedomosti, the Russian government has classified the iPad as computer. While this will bring a smile to analysts who love to compare iPad and PC sales, this move has nothing to do with the market category of the device. This change is an ...

Samsung files ITC complaint against Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 29th, 2011)

Samsung and Apple's legal battle over trademark and patent infringement continues to heat up. The latest salvo was fired by Samsung which lodged a complaint with the ITC asking for a ban on the import of the iPhone, iPad and iPod. The court has up to 18 months to make a decision on this request. ...

Digital collections make comics on your iPad easy and cheap

by Mike Schramm (Dec 31st, 2010)

Our friend Macenstein has a nice tip running over on his blog about how to get more comics on your iPad. The iPad is a device that seems made for comic book reading -- that display is colorful and bright, and the touchscreen lets you examine comic art from any size or angle. The problem, however, ...

Tips for creating an iPad-compatible Keynote presentation

by Sang Tang (Jun 3rd, 2010)

While the iPad version of Keynote represents a slight twist on Apple's flagship presentation app and serves as a gateway into multitouch computing on a large display, it has a few shortcomings when compared to its Mac OS X counterpart (as we noted back in April). As a result, those who start their ...

South Korea lifts ban on iPad, personal imports permitted

by Dave Caolo (Apr 28th, 2010)

South Korea's ban of the iPad is being lifted. The Korea Communications Commission issued the ban earlier this month because it had not certified the iPad's wireless networking features. Under the restriction, customers would not be allowed to import the iPad for personal use. An additional ...

AppleScript: backup iCal calendars

by Cory Bohon (Mar 30th, 2008)

iCal is great for storing your calendars and appointments, but what if you want to export (or backup) your calendars in case of a data emergency? Well, you could backup your calendars manually; however, AppleScript is so much cooler. Let's automate the backup of iCal calendars through the use of an ...

TUAW Tip: iPhoto '08 does selective importing

by David Chartier (Aug 10th, 2007)

Praise the heavens, do a little dance and buy Apple's iLife engineers a beer - iPhoto '08 finally solves a long-standing annoyance by allowing selective importing. In previous versions, iPhoto simply offered a big fat 'Import' button, giving you no choice in which images to bring over from your ...

TUAW Tip: Aperture can download videos, just not catalog them

by David Chartier (Jun 20th, 2007)

Well shiver-me-timbers: while Aperture doesn't catalog anything but images, it at least helps you download 'non-image files' off your camera so you can manage them some other way. When I performed the initial import from iPhoto (using Aperture's handy File > Import > iPhoto Library ...

TUAW Tip: Address Book offers a lot of handy contact management

by David Chartier (Jun 7th, 2007)

Address Book is one of Apple's apps that might seem too basic at first glance to many a user. While this under-appreciation could largely be due to its unassuming name, Address Book offers a surprising amount of useful features, especially in the contact management department. Of course, there are ...

Import del.icio.us bookmarks into Yojimbo via AppleScripts

by David Chartier (Jan 7th, 2007)

Kenneth Kirksey has posted two AppleScripts on the Yojimbo mailing list for importing your del.icio.us bookmarks into Yojimbo, complete with all your tags. You can get these scripts from the mailing list archives of course, but Kenneth gave me permission to host both of them here on TUAW to make ...

YABI: iCal birthday and anniversary alarms done right

by David Chartier (Dec 8th, 2006)

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger's iCal introduced a 'Show Birthdays calendar' option which automatically adds an all-day event for any contacts who have birthdays listed in Address Book. It's smart, but it isn't very flexible - there is no option for alarms and no way to add extra information like age or ...

Directly access digicam images in iPhoto

by David Chartier (Aug 16th, 2006)

The fact that iPhoto, even the latest and shiniest '06 version, doesn't allow access to a camera's storage card to pick and chose which images get imported has irked users across this great planet of ours for years - until now. macosxhints has discovered that striking the return key twice when the ...

delicious2safari goes Universal

by David Chartier (May 19th, 2006)

C.K. blogged delicious2safari what feels like a year ago, and not much has changed since. It still allows you to import your del.icio.us bookmarks into Safari as either a flat list or in folders according to your tags, except now it has gone the way of the Universal Binary. delicious2safari is ...