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Use your iPhone to navigate Inauguration Day

by Michael Rose (Jan 19th, 2009)

Second Update: You can also use the free SHOUTcast Radio [App Store link] to listen to WTOP for Inauguration Day coverage on your iPhone or iPod touch. The stream works great with EDGE, 3G, and WiFi. (SHOUTcast is published by AOL, the parent company of this blog.) Update: Late word is that the ...

Vote Report helps poll the polls on Election Day

by Mike Schramm (Oct 30th, 2008)

I love this idea -- if there's one thing our voting system here in the US could use, it's a little more transparency, both in how the votes are counted and weighed, and in how the polling itself takes place. And now there's an iPhone app aimed at making sure that on next month's Election Day, we get ...

Official iPhone app for Obama '08 now in App Store

by Michael Rose (Oct 2nd, 2008)

We're officially a nonpartisan bunch here at TUAW (actually, quite partisan, but only for the Mac) but the announcement of an official iPhone application from the Obama campaign is still worthy of mention. Several high-profile iPhone devs & designers were involved in the project, including ...

Macs helping behind the scenes at the DNC

by Erica Sadun (Aug 28th, 2008)

Doesn't matter if you're Obamapublican or a McCainocrat. One thing all Americans can agree on is that Macs rule when it comes to live media presentation. The Democratic national convention here in Denver is no exception. TUAW reader-on-the-spot YodaMac sent in these pictures live from the Pepsi ...

Found Footage: Obama reinvents that 1984 iPod commercial

by Erica Sadun (Mar 19th, 2007)

Think you know that famous Ridley Scott 1984 iPod commercial[1]? Think again. Think different. Think politically. A group of anonymous Obama supporters have mashed up footage of Senator (and Prez Candidate) Hillary Rodham Clinton with Apple's iconic iPod ad--even to the point of reshaping the ...

Welcome to Brooklyn -- now turn off that iPod

by Michael Rose (Feb 7th, 2007)

If a state senator from my home borough has his way, New York City and Buffalo police officers might soon be telling iPod users "Fuggeddaboutit!" if they try to cross the street while listening to music. Sen. Carl Kruger of Brooklyn, in response to two recent pedestrian deaths, has proposed ...

Rumsfeld resignation captioned well by Mac OS X

by David Chartier (Nov 8th, 2006)

While TUAW certainly isn't a political blog (though there is an easy argument to be made that politics and technology are fatefully intertwined), you might have heard Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense, is stepping down. While I don't want to incite the ever-prevalent political arguments of mass ...

iPod as a catalyst for DMCA reform?

by David Chartier (Jan 24th, 2006)

CNET News has a really interesting perspective piece highlighting the video iPod's potential for being a catalyst for DMCA reform, specifically: the (outlandish) portion that makes it illegal to sell or distribute DVD-ripping software. The idea behind the article is that, until now, these measures ...