Peripherals Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Two OWC products win TUAW Best of 2011 voting for Best Mac Peripheral or Accessory

by Steven Sande (Dec 15th, 2011)

We have another winner! Or should I say we have two winners? Other World Computing, familiar to Mac users worldwide as OWC, has two products that won the coveted title of Best Mac Peripheral or Accessory of the Year in TUAW's Best of 2011 voting. Tied with precisely 24.2 percent of the votes ...

Best of 2011 Nominations: Mac peripherals and accessories

by Steven Sande (Dec 6th, 2011)

During December and January, The Unofficial Apple Weblog is soliciting your nominations and votes for the best products for Mac, iPhone/iPod touch, and iPad. We'll start with nominations in a category, and then tally your votes for the top-nominated products a few days later. The winner in each ...

Intel says Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables

by Chris Rawson (Sep 26th, 2011)

While currently-shipping Thunderbolt cables and peripherals are still running over copper, Macworld reports that Intel has confirmed that current Thunderbolt ports in Apple's latest Macs will support data transfer over optical cables. Back when it was known as Light Peak, Thunderbolt was ...

Intel distributing Thunderbolt developer kits this quarter, more peripherals on the way

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 13th, 2011)

According to IDG News, Intel announced yesterday that Thunderbolt developer kits would be making their way out to manufacturers within this quarter, opening up development for the fledgling standard. The technology, previously known by its code name 'Light Peak,' began shipping on the 2011 ...

Thunderbolt peripherals announced at NAB this week

by Mike Schramm (Apr 11th, 2011)

Sure, you've got a shiny new MacBook Pro with that top-of-the-line Thunderbolt interface, but odds are that you don't have anything besides a DisplayPort adapter to plug it into yet! Worry not -- the National Association of Broadcasters is meeting in Las Vegas this week, and a few companies ...

Want to write on your iPad? Here's some tips to get started

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Dec 27th, 2010)

So, you received an iPad under the tree. As you're playing with it, you're wondering what you can do with it in regards to creating the written word. For the writer -- from fiction author to enterprising blogger -- the iPad is also a very portable way to get some serious writing done, even though it ...

Elgato EyeTV HD: A review of the Mac DVR for cable and satellite HDTV

by Steven Sande (Dec 18th, 2010)

Elgato has been in the Mac video market for quite some time, developing and marketing such popular products as the Turbo.264 HD USB video compression device and various varieties of EyeTV, a tuner and digital video recorder for Mac. Eariler this year, TUAW reviewed the EyeTV Hybrid, a US$149.95 USB ...

Drobo updates Drobo S with USB 3.0, gives away goodies to TUAW readers

by Steven Sande (Nov 16th, 2010)

Data Robotics has added a new feature to the Drobo S, the five-drive BeyondRAID storage device that can be expanded up to 10 TB of space. While USB 3.0 (note the new port at far right on the image shown here) isn't currently supported out of the box by any Apple products, there are third-party USB ...

Drobo wants Mac users to "Upgrade your RAID"

by Steven Sande (Sep 13th, 2010)

Did you buy one of those "quasi-RAID" storage devices over the last few years? You know, the ones that tried to squeeze a few hard disks into a shiny silver box and call it RAID? In many cases, those devices simply implemented RAID 0 (block-level striping without parity or mirroring) as a way to ...

Griffin confirms PartyDock iPad/iPhone peripheral is on the way

by Chris White (Aug 28th, 2010)

If you're familiar with the Scene It? franchise for the Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii, you've probably never thought of having a similar model work on an iPhone or an iPad. If you're like me, you may have an "of course" moment when you first see the Griffin PartyDock. Thanks to the FCC posting the ...

SD card reader for iPhone might help bridge the photo gap

by Aron Trimble (Feb 9th, 2010)

It's cool that Apple is getting all cozy with SD cards for the iPad; it helps to sell the idea that the iPad is closer to a MacBook than an iPhone. As useful as an SD card reader is for the iPad, there is one minor hiccup: it probably won't work with the iPhone. ZoomMediaPlus aims to fill that ...

CES Watch: Apple accessories from the show floor

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2010)

CES 2010 is in full swing in Las Vegas, and while we aren't there, we have been able to scour the webs and bring you the latest, the greatest, and the weirdest new Apple-related peripherals and accessories from the show floor. Griffin has announced a few new devices, including a Display ...

Apple's next mouse may be mighty, but probably not a "Mighty Mouse"

by Ken Ray (Oct 8th, 2009)

Talk around the water cooler (in particularly geeky offices) is that Apple is on the verge of launching a new, touch sensitive mouse to go along with the computers it hasn't announced and the keyboard it hasn't announced. No doubt the company wants the mouse to be mighty, but it's unlikely the ...

Mac 101: Get a PC printer running on a Mac. There's a driver for that!

by Mel Martin (Jul 31st, 2009)

More Mac 101, tips and tricks for new Mac users. While this tip may be old news to tech-savvy folk, I think it might help a lot of recent Mac switchers who want to leverage their existing investment in their Windows-compatible peripherals. I have a friend who has been on Windows forever. He finally ...

TUAW Macworld Video: Griffin Technology

by Steven Sande (Jan 7th, 2009)

Although I'm the veteran of about a dozen Macworld Expos, this is the first time I've attended as a member of the media instead of as "just" a showgoer. Let's face it; the level of attention that you get from companies is a lot greater when you're writing or shooting video about a company's products ...