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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 ...

Daily Update for August 9, 2011

by Steven Sande (Aug 9th, 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, 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 player ...

Daily Update for August 8, 2011

by Steven Sande (Aug 8th, 2011)

AOL launches Editions into the personal-newspaper iPad app fray

by Michael Rose (Aug 3rd, 2011)

Well before the iPad was even a gleam in the most ardent Apple-lover's eye, the marriage of tablet computing and a personalized newspaper was already a foregone conclusion/killer app in waiting. Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick even captured the possibility of the 'Newspad' in the 1968 ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Blobster

by Mike Schramm (Jul 22nd, 2011)

I got to see Blobster in action earlier this year at both GDC and E3, and both times it impressed me with its wacky premise and followthrough. It's a platformer, but unlike any you've ever played before. Instead of jumping around, you're instead flinging a little blob of goo around, pushing him ...

CNN streaming 24 hours a day to browsers, iPad and iPhone apps

by Steven Sande (Jul 18th, 2011)

CNN and HLN announced today that they're now streaming programming 24 hours a day on CNN.com, the CNN App for iPad, and the CNN App for iPhone and iPod touch. According to the press release (below), CNN Worldwide is the first news organization to stream its channels online and on mobile ...

TUAW's Daily iPad app: NPR 2.0

by Mel Martin (Jul 8th, 2011)

NPR has rolled out a rather hefty update to its venerable and well-liked iPad app. As before, the app is kind of a digital magazine that mirrors the content mix on NPR, with world and U.S. news, the arts and music features. The iPad app is more fully featured than the NPR app for the iPhone, ...

Reeder makes a successful leap from iOS to Mac

by TJ Luoma (Jun 15th, 2011)

When I heard that Reeder for Mac was being developed, I was thrilled. Ever since I had moved to Google Reader, I had been looking for a Mac app which was more compelling to use than the web interface. Reeder for iPad (US$5) was so good that I used it almost exclusively. Could Reeder make the ...

Fox News releases iPad app

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 4th, 2011)

Fox News has released an iPad app that lets you read and view the latest news on your tablet. The iPad app is heavy on the multimedia with picture-rich links to the top news articles and videos. If you like a news story, it can be saved to your Favorites or shared on Twitter or Facebook. The app ...

Pulse News app now saves and syncs

by Mel Martin (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Pulse News app for the iPhone and iPad received a nice update today allowing selected stories to be saved and automatically synced to other Pulse News apps you have or retrieved via the web. Sign-up for the service is free and can be done from within the Pulse News app. All that's required is a ...

Official WWDC app available now

by Mike Schramm (Jun 2nd, 2011)

Apple has released an official WWDC app for next week's developer conference, now available for both iPhone and iPad. The app includes a full schedule of events and the ability to make up your own custom schedule, detailed floor maps to see where everything is, and even up-to-date conference ...