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How to: Share iCal calendars without MobileMe

by Mike Schramm (Jun 1st, 2011)

This how-to over at Gearz.de will help you share your iCal calendar around even if you don't have a subscription to Apple's online MobileMe service (a very forgivable offense, especially since its expected replacement iCloud service is now just a week away). Unfortunately, the writeup is a ...

The iPad 2 is highly unpopular... as a camera

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 13th, 2011)

Photo sharing site Flickr tracks and publishes the device origin of all the photos that are posted to its site. With over 4.5 million users uploading photos daily, this data set is enormous. Stats from a month ago show the iPhone 4 is at the top of the heap of not just smartphones, but of ...

Half of iPad subscribers willing to share information

by Mike Schramm (May 12th, 2011)

At first, publishers were wary of the terms of publishing for Apple's iPad that would require them to ask consumers whether or not they could use their information. In traditional magazine publishing, magazines would get access to their subscribers' information, and publishers worried that they ...

Social sharing on The Daily dropping fast

by Mike Schramm (Apr 6th, 2011)

The Nieman Journalism Lab reports that social sharing from iPad news app The Daily is falling precipitously, according to data from a firm called PostRank. Social sharing is when users share content on networks like Twitter or Facebook; the average number of pieces shared from The Daily on ...

Air Display for Mac: Turn another Mac into an extended display

by Steven Sande (Apr 4th, 2011)

One very popular and fun iPhone / iPad app that I love to use is Avatron Software's Air Display. As we described in a First Look back in May of 2010, Air Display turns an iOS device into a small wireless monitor that can be used to display app windows from a Mac or Windows computer. Now ...

Twitter update adds photo, video capture to iPad 2

by Mike Schramm (Mar 25th, 2011)

The official Twitter app for iPad has been updated to version 3.3.2, and it now allows you to take and share photos and videos directly from your iPad 2. This functionality was already in there for the iPhone, of course, but now that the iPad is outfitted with a camera, Twitter has made it easy ...

Flickr gets iPad-friendly with slideshows

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 18th, 2011)

Flickr has announced some improvements to its photo-browsing/sharing website for iPad users. The new light box photo viewer (aka slideshow) enables you to view photos from Flickr's website in a larger format on a black background, similar to what happens when you click on a photo on Flickr's ...

Instagram photo sharing service reaches 2 million users

by Mike Schramm (Feb 15th, 2011)

Picture-sharing service Instagram (driven only by the popularity of its free iOS app) has hit a whopping 2 million users already. As TechCrunch notes, the service hit its first million users in just three months, and six weeks after that, it has doubled that number. That's pretty astounding growth ...

Lawsuit over app privacy targets Apple and developers

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 28th, 2010)

Apple and several mobile developers are facing two separate lawsuits over the collection and unauthorized sharing of private user data with third-party advertising networks, according to iLounge. The first lawsuit, Freeman vs. Apple, was filed in a northern California federal court and targets ...

TUAW social club: What did you get for Christmas?

by Erica Sadun (Dec 26th, 2010)

Were you nice and not naughty? Did Santa reward you with Apple-branded products for all your hard work and effort this year? If Santa left a few Apple goodies under your tree (and helpfully cleaned up your Safari browser cookies and milk), here's where you can share the joy of new ownership. ...

DropDAV: An easy way to link iWork for iPad and Dropbox

by Steven Sande (Dec 24th, 2010)

iWork for iPad is an incredibly powerful tool for folks who want to use their iPads as a MacBook Air surrogate. However, if they want to round-trip their documents through the popular Dropbox service, there hasn't been a way to save or open files from within Pages, Keynote, or Numbers for iPad. ...

Several iPhone and Android apps sharing private user data

by David Quilty (Dec 20th, 2010)

An investigation by The Wall Street Journal has found that some iPhone and Android apps are spying on users and potentially transmitting personal data to other companies. While both Apple and Google say that they have privacy protections in place for their customers, many apps are able to skirt ...

Xmarks finds new owner, isn't going anywhere

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2010)

Look at that -- while I was sad to hear that my favorite bookmark syncing service Xmarks would be calling it quits after trying and failing to find a profitable business model, its users stepped in to support the service, and at the beginning of this month, Xmarks announced that it would be ...

Beta Mac client for Evernote adds sharing controls, notebook stacks

by Michael Rose (Dec 2nd, 2010)

The perennial TUAW favorite 'bucket app' Evernote has added two intriguing new features in the beta version of the Mac client: in-app notebook sharing controls and Stacks for notebook organization. Both are available immediately to free and paid Evernote users who choose to update to the beta (just ...

TUAW's Daily App: Flickr HD

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2010)

Flickr HD (or flickr hd, as it's styled in the App Store) just got a nice update recently to version 6.0, and it's quite an excellent way to browse and view the popular photo-sharing site Flickr on an iOS device. The latest version brings a feature called "Instaswitch," which will automatically ...