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While store customers get Halloween patches, Apple's retail VP cleans up

by Michael Rose (Nov 1st, 2010)

File under "Awww": Children visiting the Bellevue, WA Apple Store on Halloween were treated to collectible instant-stick logo patches, says iPhone Savior. The patches ran out pretty quickly, but they were popular while they lasted. Patches are certainly nice keepsakes, but if you want to talk real ...

Vaja now selling iPad cases

by Mike Schramm (Mar 22nd, 2010)

Out of all of the iPod or iPhone cases I've seen, Vaja makes my personal favorites -- I bought one of their cases for my 80gb iPod, and it's still the best gadget case I've ever owned. They're a little pricier than some cases, but the exquisite leather, custom design, and solid crafting makes the ...

Leopard's Dock doesn't work on the side

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2007)

Rogue Ameoba's got a legit complaint with the Dock in Leopard: it looks horrible sitting on the side. Personally, it's not really a concern for me, because I've never moved my Dock from the bottom of the screen (seems weird to have it on the side, like the workspace is off balance). But they're ...

TUAW Tip: Safari's reset button

by Mike Schramm (Jul 25th, 2007)

Brandon sent us a great tip that I should have known was in Safari, but that I hadn't found yet. For you paranoids out there, the Safari 3 beta offers an easy way to clean up every single thing you've ever done, including the history, passwords, cookies, and even favicons and Autofill text. Under ...

Jobs and Apple not out of the Options scandal woods yet

by Scott McNulty (Jan 2nd, 2007)

The Wall Street Journal has the best summary (subscription maybe required) of the Apple options backdating scandal that I have read to date. They take a look at Apple's filings and point that that Steve 'recommended the selection of some favorable grant dates,' though he was not involved in the ...

Apple to file Annual Report today

by Scott McNulty (Dec 29th, 2006)

The New York Times is reporting that Apple will be filing their delayed annual report today. The report will likely contain information gathered from Apple's internal investigation into the options backdating scandal. The article gives a nice overview of what this whole rigmarole consists of, as ...

Apple forges financial docs

by Scott McNulty (Dec 27th, 2006)

We have written about the Apple stock options story before, but things just keep getting worse. The Associated Press is reporting that former Apple execs forged documents in order to maximize options payouts. The article also goes on to say that Steve Jobs has retained his own legal counsel, apart ...

Fred Anderson resigns from Apple Board

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 5th, 2006)

In a comment under yesterday's report on the outcome of the Apple stock option investigation, SubGenius wisely proclaimed "Fred is going to be the fall guy." Congratulations, SubGenius - you win a brand new star! (or at least you will when the star system is working again) Fred Anderson, who ...

Apple's Special Committee Reports Findings of Stock Option Investigation

by David Chartier (Oct 4th, 2006)

Back in August, Apple announced they had found some stock option irregularities and launched an internal investigation to get to the bottom of things. This voluntary audit netted a warning of de-listing from NASDAQ because they had to delay filing their Q3 earnings results (fortuately, NASDAQ cut ...

Nasdaq warns Apple of non-compliance

by Dan Lurie (Aug 14th, 2006)

Following reports of possible stock option improprieties by Apple executives and continuing internal and external investigations of these concerns, Apple has announced that it will delay the filing of its Q3 quarterly earnings reports until it is satisfied that the issues have been properly ...

On improving the iPod's aging UI and experience

by David Chartier (Jul 22nd, 2006)

The iPod is the 800-pound gorilla of the DAP industry - there's no doubt about it (well, almost). In its 4+ years of existence, the player has quickly won owner's hearts because of its ease of use and seamless iTunes management experience, amongst other reasons. I personally have owned one of every ...

Location Switch Automator action

by David Chartier (Jul 17th, 2006)

Location Switch is an Automator action that adds some painfully missing features to Mac OS X's built-in Locations option (y'know, that feature you never touch in the Apple menu?). Location Switch can a whole host of application preferences and settings based on which location you chose, such as ...

iChat Extender - tweak iTunes status message, chat bubbles

by David Chartier (May 15th, 2006)

iChat Extender is a little app that lets you tweak various settings of iChat that unfortunately don't have a pref pane of their own. Features such as the format of the 'iTunes now playing' status message and the style of chat bubbles can easily be adjusted with this handy and free app. For more fun ...

Google Importer - search Google with Spotlight

by David Chartier (May 1st, 2006)

Google Importer is a Spotlight plug-in that can add a Google search to the list of results Spotlight returns. It is installed as a System Preferences pane with options to adjust how many results are gathered from Google, whether to show a link to an actual Google results page, and how many seconds ...

Creammonkey is great - but where are the scripts?

by David Chartier (Mar 28th, 2006)

I found a Safari plugin by the name of Creammonkey, which is more or less an attempt at bringing Greasemonkey's abilities to Safari's side of the fence. For those unfamiliar with Greasemonkey: it's a Firefox extension that allows savvy javascript ninjas to add functionality to websites and services, ...