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AOL's Play app gets social with your music

by Michael Rose (Jul 12th, 2011)

Our corporate cousins at AOL have a new tool for enjoying and sharing your favorite songs: the free Play app. First introduced at SxSW as an Android-only offering, it's now available in the App Store for iPhone. Play meets the table stakes for a social music app by allowing you to play songs ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Music Commander

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 1st, 2011)

Controlling iTunes with the keyboard is easy enough, but what if you want a little more information without having to resort to the full iTunes window? Music Commander is here to help. Sitting in the menu bar, Music Commander allows you to control iTunes with an extensive drop-down menu. ...

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs previews early

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 17th, 2010)

We reported on Mike Daisey's monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs earlier this year. The play was (and is still) scheduled for a run at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre from January 14 to February 27, 2011, but due to popular demand, the monologue will now preview for one night only on ...

Dr. Seuss iPhone apps get supersized for the iPad

by David Winograd (Apr 7th, 2010)

Oceanhouse Media has updated three of their popular Dr. Seuss iPhone/iPod touch apps for the iPad by updating their existing apps to universal binary. If you are already an owner of The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss's ABC, or How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (US$2.99 each), all you need do is accept ...

Playlist Alarm Clock, drift off and wake up to custom soundtracks

by Brett Terpstra (Jul 17th, 2009)

Be sure to check the end of this post for details on your chance to win a free copy of Playlist Alarm Clock! We covered Chilli X last year, with their release of the successful iPhone to-do application, "Done" (iTunes link), and again with myCal, their app for creating custom calendar wallpapers for ...

iPhone Bingo from TUAW: What's Next?

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 2nd, 2007)

What's next for the iPhone? TUAW hasn't a clue, but we've got ideas. Kooky ideas, like Chris Pirillo buys an iPhone, loves it, and rants about his errant ways and logical fallacies. We've got some pretty obvious ideas too, like someday iPhone will probably support Java-- maybe. More likely than the ...

Flip4Mac begins beta testing Universal Binary WMV QuickTime components

by David Chartier (Jun 5th, 2006)

For Intel Mac users who either love or hate WMV but have to deal with it one way or another, Flip4Mac has just begun beta testing the long-awaited Universal Binary version of their WMV QuickTime components. Announced in their forums today, it is more or less an invite-yourself program, as I had to ...

Access iPhoto and iTunes libraries with a simple Automator action

by David Chartier (May 3rd, 2006)

You could also file this under "fantastic Automator actions that Apple should've advertised when Tiger was being released." A post at macosxhints has discovered a simple Automator action you can use to open panel containing your entire iPhoto or iTunes library (pictured), complete ...

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