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Angry Birds Rio out now on iPhone, iPad, Mac

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2011)

The movie tie-in game for Angry Birds, called Angry Birds Rio, is now available on the iOS App Store for 99 cents on iPhone and $2.99 on the iPad; it's $4.99 on the Mac App Store. The game features 60 new levels of the popular bird-throwing game and stars two characters from the upcoming movie ...

Why Apple.com hosts movie trailers

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2011)

Here's a pretty interesting story about why Apple.com, of all places, hosts movie trailers. It all goes back to that first Star Wars: The Phantom Menace trailer back around 1998 (which I watched hundreds of times, before I saw the actual, less exciting movie). Over on Quora, a former Apple ...

Doodle Jump makes deal with Universal, gets movie tie-in

by Mike Schramm (Jan 28th, 2011)

Here's an interesting story out of Macworld this week. Doodle Jump, recently featured as the Top Paid App of all time, is going to Hollywood, but not quite in the way you might think. Rather than a Doodle Jump movie, the movies are instead coming to Doodle Jump, as Universal has announced a deal to ...

TUAW's Daily App: Movie Triangles

by Mike Schramm (Jan 17th, 2011)

Movie Triangles is a fun Java game where you connect movie stars and their films in a Sierpinski triangle-style grid. Developer Jim Blackler originally had the idea to create a trivia game made up of information straight from Wikipedia, and Movie Triangles is what that idea eventually became. It's ...

iPad-equipped Quatto costume for Halloween

by Mike Schramm (Oct 18th, 2010)

OK, this is a little weird, and a little gross, but if you're as big a fan of Total Recall as I am, you'll love it. One of the characters in that movie, named Quatto, actually lives in the stomach of another character, and rather than recreate the creepy effect with puppets or makeup, YouTube user ...

Fake Steve Jobs to be a TV show

by Mike Schramm (Mar 17th, 2010)

Dan Lyons, better known as blogger Fake Steve Jobs, has apparently signed a deal with Seinfeld writer Larry Charles to create a half-hour, single camera, satirical TV show about a Silicon Valley hotshot. As of now, Lyons is only writing the pilot script for the series, but since it's called "iCON," ...

Macworld 2010: The faces behind Welcome to Macintosh

by Michael Rose (Feb 12th, 2010)

The producer/director team of Mac history documentary Welcome to Macintosh came by the TUAW booth to chat a bit yesterday; Josh Rizzo and Rob Baca shared their experience as the film has taken off, the work they're currently doing to update it and add new interviews, and their expectations for the ...

TUAW Tip: Get your animated slideshows to MobileMe

by Mel Martin (Jan 8th, 2010)

For all the things Apple does right, there are some strange decisions in the integration of iPhoto and MobileMe. iPhoto has a wonderful way to create animated slideshows with music and professional looking transitions and you can look at them all day on your Mac, or send them to your iPhone or ...

How to make iPhone videos sparkle with iMovie

by Steven Sande (Jun 28th, 2009)

If you read my recent post about taking movies with the iPhone 3GS, you probably noted that I talked about the lack of editing capabilities on the iPhone with the exception of trimming the beginning and ending of your videos. What if you want to edit your movies, add titles or effects, or combine a ...

First Look: Pixelpipe 1.4.1

by Tim Wasson (Jun 23rd, 2009)

So you got a shiny new 3GS (no more space!) and are looking for new ways to play with the new videos you've recorded? If the iPhone's built in YouTube uploading functionality isn't quite enough for you, Pixelpipe has stepped in to fill the void and allow you to send that video (or photo) to over 40 ...

Giant iPhone video is cool, but quite fake

by Mike Schramm (Jun 16th, 2009)

This video is making the rounds lately -- on first glance, it looks someone running the iPhone OS on a Mac Pro with a 24" multitouch monitor. As you can see, everything more or less works as you'd expect, and therein lies the rub: anyone who's looked at it with a critical eye, including our friend ...

HD movies on the way in iTunes

by Michael Rose (Mar 19th, 2009)

Got $20US and a hankering for lots and lots of pixels? iTunes has a deal for you: Apple announced earlier today that it is launching HD movie sales and rentals in the iTunes Store, beginning with a small selection of titles (Transporter 3, W. and more) and with a couple of big-ticket films up for ...

Welcome to Macintosh documentary to premiere on 4/6

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th, 2008)

The new documentary Welcome to Macintosh has just been been accepted to the Wisconsin Film Festival, and is scheduled to make its debut on April 6. The film features interviews with a variety of Mac-notables like Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki and others, and traces the history of the development of ...

99Rental.com keeps track of the iTunes weekly movie special

by Mat Lu (Mar 6th, 2008)

A while back we noted that Apple had introduced a weekly movie rental special in the iTunes store for 99 cents. Each week there's a new movie available at the special rate (Changing Lanes [iTunes link] this week), but until now there hadn't really been a convenient way to keep track of them. Enter ...

MacHeads: The movie

by Dave Caolo (Jan 22nd, 2008)

Perhaps you've seen the documentary Trekkies. Hosted by the late Tasha Yar (curse you, Armus!), it profiles several of the show's most zealous fans and by that I mean people with serious mental disorders. Did you see what they did to that poor truck? None of us would get so carried away with our ...