Sadun Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

BananaTunes beta streams beautiful music from iOS to your Mac

by Steven Sande (Apr 25th, 2011)

One of the great things about being a buddy of Erica Sadun is that sooner or later, she surprises you with an amazing app. [Ed: This is also known as "assault by beta testing" under Utah's penal code.] Her BananaTunes beta evolves iOS-to-Mac video app BananaTV to the next logical step -- it ...

Give presentations on Apple TV with AirPDF and AirFlick

by Erica Sadun (Dec 31st, 2010)

As I've been exploring the newest Apple TV, people keep asking to see if I can push boundaries in new directions. Apple TV's concept of a wireless video endpoint that connects to a large screen TV has excited a lot of people. Although I haven't yet been able to produce a way to show live game ...

DVDs are playing back on my Apple TV using AirFlick and AirPlay!

by Erica Sadun (Dec 21st, 2010)

The Unicorn has landed! Rainbows! Starshine! Skittle poo! It's like Christmas in...um...December! So why this exuberance and excitement? My Apple TV is right now, this very second, even as we speak, playing back a DVD of Finding Nemo. It's seriously awesome. Why watch a DVD on a laptop when you can ...

Introducing AirPlayer: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback

by Erica Sadun (Dec 14th, 2010)

AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don't own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it's not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99, the Apple TV mark 2 is a pretty sweet purchase. Just saying.) So I decided to figure out a way that ...

Apple TV Hacking: Spelunking into the AirPlay video service

by Erica Sadun (Nov 24th, 2010)

When Apple announced its new iOS 4.2 feature set, Apple TV's AirPlay video service really caught our attention. That's why we were particularly disappointed when 4.2 debuted on Monday -- only Apple's own applications could ship video from iDevices to the 2nd generation Apple TV; third party ...

iPad and iPod touch books show off TUAW pride

by Michael Rose (Nov 12th, 2010)

There's a Yiddish word, naches, that doesn't refer to tortilla chips with kosher sour cream; it translates literally as 'joy' but with a strong connotation of pride and pleasure in the achievements of family or friends. It is, therefore, with substantial naches that we point to the work of several ...

hacksugar: Bringing back the on-screen keyboard

by Erica Sadun (Jun 2nd, 2010)

You've got an iPad. You've got a Bluetooth keyboard that you love. Now imagine this: You're in bed. Your keyboard is somewhere downstairs. And yet, it's still in range and paired to your device. You can tap, tap, tap in the iPad Spotlight text entry field, but there's no keyboard for you to use. ...