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Daily Update for January 13, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2012)

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 ...

TUAW First Look: AUDIOPRESS for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Oct 11th, 2010)

AUDIOPRESS is a new app and free audio digest service available on iPhone that is designed to create a custom "radio stations" for you to listen to on your device. You add AudioArticles, "MyUpdates," Podcasts, and Radio Stations to a playlist, then the information is streamed to you on demand. ...

Slate comes to the iPhone, along with a lot of advertising

by Mel Martin (Mar 9th, 2010)

I've always liked Slate Magazine on the web. It's sometimes sassy and irreverent, but always interesting -- an eclectic mix of politics, culture and tech news. Now, Slate has come to the iPhone in a US$1.99 app that features all the articles from the site, as well as the blog posts, staff tweets ...

Macworld Expo: Podcaster rogues' gallery

by Michael Rose (Feb 21st, 2010)

They're the voices you hear coming out of your computer and your iPhone -- you know, the ones that tell you what's coming soon and why you might want to save up for future purchases. Yes, contrary to what you might have guessed, podcasters have faces to go with those voices; we showcased three of ...

Belkin releases FM transmitter with iPhone app for finding clear stations

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2010)

Belkin has announced the release of their latest FM transmitter for the iPhone and iPod touch, the TuneCast Auto Live. You know these things -- they plug into your iPhone or iPod touch's dock connector, and then send a local FM signal out to your car's radio, enabling wireless transmission of your ...

Apple quietly updates the 5th Generation iPod nano to 1.0.2

by Joachim Bean (Nov 13th, 2009)

This week Apple issued an update to the iPod nano, bringing it to version 1.0.2. Fixes and additions include: Fixed audiobook playbook setting so Normal, Slower, Faster, works for audio podcasts Resolved issue where Genius Mixes did not work when using the Nike+ Sport Kit Accessibility ...

Apple creates new iTunes Twitter accounts

by Joachim Bean (Oct 20th, 2009)

Just like the Facebook pages that Apple has set up for iTunes and the iTunes Trailers Twitter account, Apple has just set up several Twitter accounts for iTunes, which cover Music, Podcasts, Movies and TV Shows. First, the Music account, twitter.com/iTunesMusic , will provide information on "new ...

A walk through iTunes history

by Mike Schramm (Sep 17th, 2009)

Recognize the software above? The brushed steel, the rounded buttons, the liquid digital-style display. If you said SoundJam, you're right. But if you said iTunes, you're right, too -- SoundJam is the app that Apple originally bought to turn into the multimedia/handheld software juggernaut we ...

iTunes 101: How to prevent podcasts from spoiling

by Sang Tang (Jul 8th, 2009)

Like milk, podcasts will spoil if left unused for a period period of time -- at least in the mind of iTunes. iTunes will automatically unsubscribe from a podcast that hasn't been listened to within the last 5 updates, and more than 5 days have passed since an episode was played. The rationale, as ...

TUAW Tip: Removing duplicate songs from iTunes

by Cory Bohon (Dec 15th, 2008)

Have you ever been listening your iTunes library and wondered why a song played more than one time? Duplicate songs in your library can be very annoying, and waste precious space on your hard drive. In this TUAW Tip, I'm going to show you how to get rid of duplicates using a built-in feature in ...

Next talkcast: Open phones and giveaways

by Christina Warren (Apr 26th, 2008)

This Sunday night at 10 PM EST, Michael Rose, our consumate Talkcast host, will once agin be out of town, so I'll be taking his place. Hopefully, we won't run into any of the technical difficulties we ran into last week. We'll be taking open calls and discussing the top stories of the week, ...

Ringtone Subscriptions in iTunes

by Erica Sadun (Mar 24th, 2008)

Here's a clever concept that I would never have dreamed up myself in a million years: iTunes ringtone podcasts! The idea is this: you subscribe to podcast that delivers ringtones to iTunes and allows you to sync them directly to your iPhone. I gave it a try, downloading one "episode" and sure enough ...

How to: Create a smart podcast playlist in iTunes

by Mike Schramm (Feb 1st, 2008)

I picked up Awaken with the recent Macheist deal, and with it I planned to do something I've been thinking about doing for a long time with iTunes: try and figure out a way to wake myself up with a short roundup of the daily podcasts I never seem to find a time to listen to during the day itself. ...

Talkcast returns, live tonight 12/2 at 10 pm ET

by Michael Rose (Dec 2nd, 2007)

After our week off for the Thanksgiving holiday, the TUAW talkcast crew is back in action tonight. Join Christina Warren, Lisa Hoover, Dave Caolo and yours truly for a rundown of the week's top stories and previews of our upcoming gift guides. To join in live, visit our Talkshoe page for call-in ...

BBC introduces iPhone-optimized Podcast Page

by Erica Sadun (Nov 14th, 2007)

The iPhone mobile music store doesn't serve up podcasts, so where are you gonna go for a fresh hot bowl of Auntie Beeb? Why, to the BBC itself, silly. The BBC's radio labs blog just announced a new iPhone-savvy webpage that offers simple phone and iPod touch browsing. If you're on a touch or ...