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Daily iPhone App: Vintage Radio

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2012)

Vintage Radio is an interesting idea for an iPhone app: It's a ton of various old-time radio recordings (more than 34,000 mystery, horror, comedy, and other old 1930s and 1940s radio shows), all accessible to stream on demand. The app allows you to browse and search shows, set up and save ...

Nvidia CEO loves Apple, possesses mysterious alien device

by Mike Schramm (Nov 10th, 2009)

Talk about burying the lead -- Shufflegazine did a piece on Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Hwang during a visit to Dubai recently, in which he talks about how much he and his family love their Macs, and Apple's machines add value, and in his house it's just "Mac, Mac, Mac," and OH MY GOD, what is that SITTING ...

Mystery Apple box

by Steven Sande (Jul 14th, 2008)

TUAW reader Gabriel Moore runs an Apple Certified Sales and Service store called Computer Evolution in Davenport, IA. He sent us a short note and link to a MobileMe Web Gallery with several pictures of a strange, Apple-labeled wooden box (picture above). Gabriel writes "One of our customers ...

iTunes and Gracenote help expose classical plagiarism

by Michael Rose (Feb 19th, 2007)

She was among the most mysterious figures in classical music: Joyce Hatto, a renowned pianist who retired from active performance in 1976 due to ill health. With the help of her husband and his private recording studio, however, Hatto released scores of recordings in the 1990s, performing the ...

Another Hubert?

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2006)

Sharp-eyed TUAW reader GPessia spotted a curious puzzle piece on the Midnight Apps ChaChing page. The icon links to a PDF file, which contains the puzzle piece shown here. The name of the PDF file is 61616F7765.pdf, which translates to realmacsoftware in Hex Ascii. I popped over to ...

StoryZOT

by Dan Lurie (Sep 1st, 2006)

MacZOT is back with more ambiguity in the form of a special edition triple-Xtreme MysteryZOT they're calling StoryZOT. Three mustery developers talk about their pasts, how they came to write software, and their philosophies on various issues. One application out of each of the developer's software ...