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Cool Bananas SmartShell complements your Smart Cover in TPU

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 28th, 2011)

The Cool Bananas SmartShell Case for the iPad 2 is a TPU Smart Cover-compatible back cover for the iPad 2 that's available in five different colors. Coverage The SmartShell provides good all-round coverage including complete bottom, top and side edge protection. There are, of course, the ...

iSkin solo Smart: an iPad 2 Smart Cover-compatible case

by Samuel Gibbs (Sep 26th, 2011)

Today we'll be looking at the first in a series of reviews following up on our iPad 2 Smart Cover-compatible backplate roundup. If you want a case to cover the back of your iPad 2 that still allows you to use your Apple Smart Cover, then these are the cases for you. On the chopping block ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Bowtie

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 13th, 2011)

Have you ever thought iTunes was just a bit plain? Want a customisable controller that you can theme to match your mood? You need Bowtie. We've covered Bowtie before, but it's basically a replacement for the iTunes Mini Player, giving you track information, controls and the ability to rate ...

Hard Candy Street Skin for iPhone 4 makes for a decent everyday case

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 10th, 2011)

Hard Candy, the folks behind the Street Skin line of tire tread-like rubber cases for Apple's iDevices we've talked about before, also has an iPhone 4 variant. The Street Skin for iPhone 4 is made of TPU, a shock absorbing semi-flexible rubber, which encases the iPhone leaving only the screen ...

Put a Windows Phone 7 theme on your iPhone

by David Quilty (Feb 1st, 2011)

Been trying to think of a way to try out a new Windows phone without crossing over to the dark side switching sides? If that's the case and you have been looking for a way to recreate the Windows Phone 7 interactive theme on your iPhone or iPod touch, Wyndwarrior's "OS7" is available in public beta ...

iPhone accessories from Toy Fair 2010

by Mike Schramm (Feb 19th, 2010)

Woot.com is one of my favorite sites on the entire Internet -- not only do they offer some great deals, and not only are they witty folks, but they're from my original hometown of St. Louis, MO. They recently went to the Toy Fair 2010, and in their roundup of the best stuff they saw are a few fun ...

Gelaskin review: Dark Horse style!

by Kelly Guimont (Oct 17th, 2009)

It's likely you've heard of GelaSkins before. They make stickers to cover a variety of gear. They are of a nice thickness with a slight texture, and removal won't hurt either your equipment or the GelaSkin itself (if you're careful). Here's the latest project from the GelaSkin folks: They have ...

Infectious 'Cut to the Core' design challenge winners

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 10th, 2009)

We reported the Infectious "Cut to the Core" design contest a while back, but the winners have just been announced and their designs are truly gorgeous. I rarely sticker my computers, but the Infectious skins are vinyl and won't leave a mess behind when you remove them. These designs are created to ...

Dvorak Desktop Keyboard non-Mod

by Mat Lu (Dec 31st, 2006)

Our previous post about a MacBook Dvorak keyboard mod generated a number of comments, including hearty suggestions from several our readers to try the Dvorak keyboard layout. Now desktop users of the Apple Keyboard (both wired and wireless) have an even easier option for testing the Dvorak layout. ...

Unsanity releases beta of Universal ShapeShifter

by David Chartier (Jul 27th, 2006)

In a post aptly titled 'At Long Last!', Unsanity announced a beta of a Universal version of ShapeShifter, their UI haxie for skinning Mac OS X. As the post states, your Intel Mac can finally "get its spank on" (what on Earth are those guys at Unsanity selling??). Obviously, as their post states, ...

PSA: read your MacBook user manual

by David Chartier (May 19th, 2006)

Given all the recent MacBook Pro drama of late, what with overheating issues and all, it might be a good idea to peruse your MacBook/MacBookPro owner's manual one of these days to make sure you've covered the basics, even if most of Apple's care recommendations are obvious these days. Gearlog found ...

VLC 0.8.5 released with Intel Mac, Growl support, many improvements

by David Chartier (May 7th, 2006)

The most excellent jack-of-many-formats VLC media player has just reached version 0.8.5, and boy does it pack a whallop - just check out the release notes. The biggest new additions to write home about are Universal Binary support, Growl notifications, a statistics system, new skin support ...

Skin Thunderbird with a Mail look

by David Chartier (Sep 19th, 2005)

Apparently someone by the name of "Riz" has a love-hate relationship with Apple's Mail, for Riz has gone and created a pretty darn accurate Mail theme for Mozilla's Thunderbird. While I don't have a copy of Thunderbird to test this, it seems the look, feel and most of the icons are all ...