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Hazel 3.1 update adds powerful date-matching feature

by John-Michael Bond (Jun 19th, 2013)

Noodlesoft's Hazel is a file-organization tool for Mac OS X that uses a set of customizable rules to automatically move and sort your information. It can be set to automatically move your new music or movies to your Music and Movies folders, or sort files by name, email address, the website they ...

Asymco's Horace Dediu measures the iTunes video store

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2013)

The iTunes video store is a strange market to track. Most of Apple's attention and press these days is going to the App Store, and obviously iTunes wouldn't exist without the music store. But the video store, where you can buy and rent movies and TV shows, is sort of the quiet third pillar of ...

Feedly RSS reader launches cloud service

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2013)

Feedly is a service that's risen in popularity recently for the most part because the much-loved RSS service Google Reader is coming to close on July 1, but the company is definitely doing its best to make a space for itself as something more than just an alternative. Today, Feedly released the ...

Dev Juice: Parallels Desktop 8 update makes OS X Mavericks VMs, hosts possible

by Steven Sande (Jun 19th, 2013)

Just last week I was bemoaning the fact that neither Parallels nor VMWare Fusion provided an easy way for a developer to create a virtual machine (VM) for testing of OS X Mavericks, so I ended up installing the new Mac operating system on a separate partition. Today Parallels released an update to ...

Reflow: A music composition and notation app for Mac and iOS with iCloud sync

by Matt Tinsley (Jun 19th, 2013)

Reflow for Mac (US$19) and iOS ($5.99) is a tool that makes composition and practice of music easier. A few weeks ago you may have seen TUAW's Editor-in-chief Victor Agreda, Jr. interview Sébastien Bourgeois, creator of Reflow, in our Origin Stories series. The interview spiked my curiosity ...

GOG.com hosts big summer sale, including lots of cheap Mac games

by Mike Schramm (Jun 18th, 2013)

GOG.com has launched a huge summer sale today, with over 500 games available for very cheap and more changing in and out every day. I'm mentioning it here because the site has a big Mac section with classic games like Dungeon Keeper, Syndicate and even the great System Shock 2 all on sale for ...

Chatology for Mac lets you easily search Message histories

by Dave Caolo (Jun 18th, 2013)

Flexibits has released Chatology for Mac (US$19.99), which lets you search your Messages chat history with great ease and success. Its looks will make it familiar to just about anyone who's used a Mac within the last ten years and and its integration with Messages is just lovely. Say goodbye to ...

Wren Sound Systems V5AP AirPlay speaker: Stunning design, incredible sound

by Steven Sande (Jun 18th, 2013)

When it comes to getting music from your iOS device to a good speaker, there are a lot of different methods. There's the tried and true dock method, which can fall to pieces when Apple comes out with a new connector design as they did last year with Lightning. Some manufacturers have the mistaken ...

Satechi 7 Port USB 3.0 Premium Aluminum Hub looks good, works well

by Steven Sande (Jun 15th, 2013)

Satechi is now shipping a new 7 Port USB 3.0 Premium Aluminum Hub ($69.99 MSRP, on sale for $54.99) that matches good looks with the speed of USB 3.0. The company came out with a 10 port USB hub earlier this year that comes in a black plastic case and sports special switches for turning various ...

Test-driving the Blue Microphone Spark Digital

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2013)

Many podcasters and musicians love the digital and analog microphones made by Blue Microphone. The company's booth at trade shows usually has a long line of computer geeks eager to see what the latest mic is, and earlier this year we were wowed by both the Spark Digital (US$199.95) and the ...

TweetDeck 3 now available for OS X

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 14th, 2013)

Twitter announced last week it was redesigning TweetDeck and giving it a fresh look and feel. Today, those changes hit the OS X version of the social networking app. The latest version of TweetDeck has a powerful, new sidebar that gives you quick access to items like your columns, your lists and ...

FX Photo Studio for iPhone reaches 10 million downloads; special deal for Mac version

by Steven Sande (Jun 14th, 2013)

We're used to hearing about the huge numbers of downloads that are produced by the App Store, but it's rare when TUAW gets news about a specific app. MacPhun, the company that develops FX Photo Studio and a host of other iOS and Mac apps, recently decided to make FX Photo Studio for iPhone a free ...

How we write for TUAW: A look at blogger workflows and tools

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

I love it when another blog comes up with a great idea that we can borrow, and that was the case over at iMore when Rene Ritchie published a post over the Memorial Day weekend titled "How we write for iMore: Our workflows from Mac to iPad to iPhone and back!" Not surprisingly, just about every one ...

ECBC announces a colorful new line of laptop, backpack, and messenger bags

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

TUAW has reviewed a number of the high-quality bags from ECBC in the past; their Poseidon Messenger Bag was a favorite of mine, and the Dart Laptop Tote is perfect for smaller Apple laptops. Today the company announced the new K7 Color Collection, bringing the tough ECBC design to a colorful group ...

DevJuice: The easy way to set up an OS X Mavericks test environment

by Steven Sande (Jun 13th, 2013)

OK, this is going to be a "duh" moment for most Mac developers, but apparently there are some people who are having issues with setting up a test environment in which to run OS X Mavericks. I have to admit that I was one of those who first started asking if anyone was having success running the ...