News Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Talkcast tonight, 7pm PT/10pm ET: Hello 2012 Edition!

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 8th, 2012)

Howdy kids! It's been a couple of weeks since we all got together on a Sunday evening what with all the holiday hullabaloo, so now that we're all nice and settled in to the new year, let's hang out and catch up, shall we? We have all the gifts to talk about, the trials and tribulations of ...

Google Currents is latest Newspad reader-feeder app

by Mel Martin (Dec 10th, 2011)

We had an explosion of news apps this week. Zite added an iPhone version of its app, so did Flipboard. Now Google has joined the party with Google Currents, a free app that creates a magazine for you based on sites that you like, as well as content from particular bloggers and commentators. The ...

Flipboard for iPhone released

by Chris Rawson (Dec 7th, 2011)

Flipboard, the popular personal magazine app that's been tremendously successful on the iPad, has been updated to a universal version that now also works on the iPhone and iPod touch. Other features included in the latest Flipboard update include: Cover Stories for iPhone, a selection of ...

Little Printer to add tiny, adorable printing for iPhone and Android

by Kelly Hodgkins (Nov 29th, 2011)

Little Printer by Berg Cloud is a cute concept for a printer that'll produce a daily newspaper for you. It grabs the headlines from your social feeds, emails, news sources, horoscopes, puzzles and more. You can choose what it will print and when it will print using a companion app for your ...

Flipboard Accounts syncs data across devices

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 17th, 2011)

The latest Flipboard update introduces Flipboard Accounts, teasing to imminent and anticipated release of Flipboard for the iPhone. Creating an account will allow you to access your personal version of Flipboard on a shared iPad or link it to the iPhone version. MacStores walks users through ...

The future of photojournalism: Condition ONE puts you in the middle of world events

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 11th, 2011)

Back in April I gave you a preview of Condition ONE, a disruptive technology about to wash over traditional journalism. The app promised to allow viewers to become completely immersed in the event they are watching thanks to the proprietary camera technology used to record the event and the ...

Livestand from Yahoo! adds a slick magazine for iPad

by Mel Martin (Nov 2nd, 2011)

Livestand was released for iPad today and I have to say it is pretty impressive. The free app strives to provide you with a personalized magazine drawn from Yahoo! and other content sources like Scientific American, Consumer Reports News, Wired, Forbes, and Parenting. The onscreen presentation ...

Zite adds personal profiles to its iPad news app

by Mel Martin (Oct 21st, 2011)

If you find yourself fighting over the iPad with your significant other to get your fix of news from Zite, there is finally a happy ending to the debate. Since Zite learns what you like to read and adjusts your personal mix of news accordingly, it was pretty messy if more than one person shared ...

Facebook for iPad out now

by Mike Schramm (Oct 10th, 2011)

TechCrunch and a few other sites are posting that the Facebook iPad app has finally arrived on the App Store. I don't quite see it on the store yet, but the news has apparently dropped according to a schedule run by Facebook itself, so the app should follow soon. The app looks ... about like ...

Daily Update for October 5, 2011

by Steven Sande (Oct 5th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Daily Update for September 29, 2011

by Steven Sande (Sep 29th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

Daily Update for September 26, 2011

by Steven Sande (Sep 26th, 2011)

Zite searches show some fascinating regional differences

by Mel Martin (Aug 26th, 2011)

Zite is my favorite news discovery app on the iPad. I find myself using this free app several times a day as it crawls over thousands of websites looking for things I will be interested in. It works by noting my interests, and finding more based on a complex personalization algorithm. I'm ...

Daily Update for August 22, 2011

by Steven Sande (Aug 22nd, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline ...

Daily iPad App: News360 2.0

by Mel Martin (Aug 10th, 2011)

I liked News360 when a reviewed it last April. It uses several sources for stories, and it was interesting to see the different takes on any single event. Of course News360 was also an excellent news discovery tool, scanning thousands of news sources to keep me up to date. One of the issues ...