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Canadian Supreme Court rules no separate copyright fee for iTunes previews, game downloads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 13th, 2012)

The Canadian Supreme court ruled on two copyright cases that affect music previews in iTunes and video game downloads. According to a report in Paid Content, the Court upheld the Copyright Board's decision that the 30- to 90-second audio previews in iTunes do not constitute a public performance ...

Getting Ready for Mountain Lion: Preview

by Erica Sadun (Jun 28th, 2012)

Preview, the app that lets you view pictures and read PDFs in OS X, is one of Apple's unsung heroes. There's so much you can do with this app. It goes far beyond simply looking at images. It's a minimal image editor. You can crop your pictures, reorient them, and export them to new ...

Apple releases third preview build of OS X Mountain Lion for developers

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 18th, 2012)

Apple has pushed the third preview of OS X Mountain Lion to developers. A number of known issues are still present in the preview, including booting issues with FileVault enabled and installing Mountain Lion on a system running OS 10.7.2 or earlier with FireVault turned on could fail. Other ...

Finding small changes in Mountain Lion developer preview

by Mike Schramm (Feb 23rd, 2012)

You've probably heard about the biggest features of the new OS X, Mountain Lion, by now: Apple's implementing some popular iOS features like Notifications, Game Center, and Reminders on the desktop OS. But unless you've actually played with the OS for a little while (which would mean you're a ...

Infinity Blade 2 and The Sims FreePlay get previews

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2011)

It's likely going to be another banner week of releases on the App Store, headlined by the long awaited sequel, Infinity Blade 2. Chair Entertainment has released a developer diary, which you can watch below, and holy swords of power, Batman, this game looks good. As we've heard before, the ...

Dungeon Hunter 3 screenshots leak

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2011)

Gameloft's Dungeon Hunter series has delivered some of my favorite gameplay on iOS -- the second game, especially, has made for some really great single-player moments, and even some terrific co-op gameplay. Sure, the series is heavily influenced by Diablo and other hack-and-slash RPG titles, ...

New OS X 10.7.2 seed posted

by Michael Rose (Sep 11th, 2011)

The latest developer seed build of the next version of the Mac's OS is available for download. OS X 10.7.2 build 11C55 is on Apple's servers, and it reportedly includes iCloud beta features for testing. As always, we remind developers and testers to read the release notes carefully before ...

Mac 101: Capture your signature using OS X Lion's Preview app

by Chris Rawson (Aug 10th, 2011)

OS X Lion has made signing PDFs easier than ever before. It's been possible to scan in your handwritten signature and sign documents in earlier versions of Mac OS X, but it was a complex process and one most people probably never trifled with. More often than not, I found it easier to simply ...

Preview app in Lion will act as Word, Excel, PowerPoint viewer

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 23rd, 2011)

Mac OS X's Preview app has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a PDF viewer. AppleInsider reports that in the latest build of Lion, Preview has received a UI overhaul and added some pretty cool new features. For example, Preview will act as a Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ...

Possible fix for font issues in 10.6.7

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 21st, 2011)

Late last month, a troubling font issue came to light after Apple rolled out version 10.6.7 of Mac OS X. The update appeared to cause problems with the printing and PDF handling of OpenType PostScript fonts. Apple has not officially acknowledged the problem, but a growing thread on Apple's ...

10.6.7 update causes OpenType font issues

by Dave Caolo (Mar 28th, 2011)

There's a thread on Apple's Discussions boards suggesting that Mac OS X 10.6.7 introduces issues with OpenType PostScript fonts when it comes to printing and PDF handling. Kurt Lang writes: "As soon as you install 10.6.7, OpenType PostScript fonts are indeed broken... [the issue] is confined to ...

GDC 2011: Halfbrick's Machine Gun Jetpack

by Mike Schramm (Mar 2nd, 2011)

Halfbrick Studios is one of my favorite developers on iOS. While they've released games on other platforms before (including the PS3 and the Nintendo DS), here at GDC 2011, they told me that "iOS development is always our focus." They've found a huge hit with Fruit Ninja, but they're not ...

Xcode 4 posted to developers, pulled, may hint at 10.7 beta release

by Mike Schramm (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Apple apparently posted the gold master of Xcode 4 this morning -- that's the final pre-release version before the final version is eventually offered up to the public. Unfortunately, just as soon as the new version of Xcode went up, it was pulled right back down again. Reports from developers who ...

Preview of CaseGoods TypeCase for iPad

by Steven Sande (Feb 1st, 2011)

Sometimes the most important things you see at Macworld Expo are the things that you don't like. For example, there were a lot of iPad case manufacturers who were showing off their take on case + keyboard combos. A lot of these cases use an awkward "chiclet"-type keyboard that, in my opinion, is ...

Gameloft's holiday iOS releases: NOVA 2, Asphalt 6 and Shadow Guardian

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Gameloft kindly allowed TUAW to sit in on a preview yesterday of the games it's planning on releasing later this year, and we got to see three new iOS titles. NOVA 2 (seen above) is the sequel to the very popular first-person shooter for iPhone. Asphalt 6: Adrenaline is the latest in Gameloft's ...