Shazam Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Shazam offers paid app, downscales free version

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 9th, 2009)

VentureBeat reports that Shazam [iTunes Link], an app that's long been a favorite among several TUAW staffers, is now offering a paid version. The $5 Shazam Encore (link opens iTunes) offers faster, unlimited tagging of music. A new mode designed for your car will tag whatever music is playing over ...

Shazam picking up investors, boasts 50 million users

by Mike Schramm (Oct 20th, 2009)

Shazam is one of the first apps I actually used in context on the iPhone, and while we haven't heard much about the app since it debuted way back in the early days of the App Store, apparently the company itself has been blowing up, thanks to the free app. They've picked up a nice round of ...

Shazam updated to 1.7, adds location awareness

by Mike Schramm (Jun 19th, 2009)

Shazam is an app that's been on my iPhone since the beginning, and in fact, everyone should have it. Besides the fact that it's free, it's useful in a very innovative way: if you hear a song anywhere that you don't know the artist or name of, just pull up the app to hear it, and it'll tell you what ...

2008 Best iPhone App Ever winners announced

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2009)

The voting only went underway a while ago, but they've just announced the winners for the 2008 Best App Ever awards, celebrating (according to 148apps.com and the people they got to nominate and vote in their contest) the best iPhone apps of last year. As I said for the voting, you can probably take ...

My favorite iPhone apps: Jason's picks

by Jason Clarke (Aug 28th, 2008)

Picking my favorite iPhone apps was pretty straightforward. I went with three apps that save me time. The first one wows me because using it sort of feels like magic, and the other two are great mobile companion applications to wonderful Mac-based programs. Shazam [iTunes link] Free When I say ...

Favorite iPhone apps: Schramm's take

by Mike Schramm (Aug 27th, 2008)

As you might imagine, my iPhone is more littered with games than useful stuff like Steve's or Victor's. Sure, I've got Twitterific and NetNewsWire, but my most-used apps are of the video game variety. The game that's most grabbed me so far is Aurora Feint. When it was first released, I didn't get ...