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Winter Wake-Up app adjusts your alarms for bad weather

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2011)

As we settle in for the rest of the long, cold winter, we're just about to hit the time of year where it's most likely you'll hear the two sweetest words in the English language. No, not "cellar door." I'm talking about "snow day." Winter Wake-up is a new app that combines two different usual ...

iOS code names head for the hills

by Michael Rose (Dec 5th, 2011)

Apple's modern desktop OS is famous for its feline monikers -- Panther, Tiger, Leopard/Snow Leopard and Lion, among others. But what about the other Apple operating system, iOS? While the code names for those versions aren't used in the public branding and promotion of the iPhone/iPod ...

TUAW's Daily App: Solipskier

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2010)

Solipskier is kind of a mix of the growing line drawing genre and the classic Line Rider game. A little headphone wearing skier (at least he wears headphones as long as he can keep them on) travels along a snow ridge that you actually draw with your finger as you play the game; he speeds up or ...

Ski resorts busted by iPhone app

by Mike Schramm (Jan 12th, 2010)

Want to see past a ski resort's lies? There's an app for that. The iPhone's ability to track snowfall at ski resorts has been well publicized (it even showed up in an official Apple commercial), but apparently there's been an unintended consequence: ski resorts are actually losing money. The UK's ...

iPhone apps and tips for snowed-in TUAW readers

by Steven Sande (Oct 28th, 2009)

As I write this, snow is falling. That was the view out of my office this morning. Yes, I know it's only October 27th. Yes, I know that winter starts on December 21st. But sometimes in Colorado we get blizzards or major snowstorms in "non-standard" months. We're supposed to get two feet of the ...

Frozen iPod returns from the grave

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2009)

Andrew sent us this great story -- he found an iPod classic in the melting snow of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It had apparently been there "since early winter," and was frozen solid... as is the case, we'd imagine, with most things left outside there between September and April. Incredibly, ...

Smule's Zephyr sends snowy messages around the world

by Mike Schramm (Dec 29th, 2008)

As much as I hate to do it, I'm always willing to admit when I'm wrong, and I was wrong about Ocarina. Not about the app itself, per se -- I still think it's one of the silliest, most pointless apps I've seen on the App Store. But it has been nothing but popular since its release, so apparently lots ...

MacNN: Snow Leopard could ship 1Q 2009

by Robert Palmer (Nov 19th, 2008)

Snow Leopard could ship as early as January, according to comments made by the director of Apple's Unix Technology Group. Jordan Hubbard said at the Large Installation System Administration conference last week that Mac OS X 10.6 will ship in the first quarter of 2009, according to MacNN. This ...

Let it snow: Snow Reports for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Oct 21st, 2008)

It's late October in ski country, and that means skiers and snowboarders are getting their gear ready, trying to get into shape, and starting to watch the skies for signs of snow. Snow Reports, from Eddit Incorporated, provides the ability to create your own personalized lists of your favorite ski ...

AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow 4.2.5

by Cory Bohon (Apr 3rd, 2008)

Along with the Keynote update, today Apple posted an update for the Graphite and Snow AirPort Admin utility. You can read more information about this Admin Utility update on the Apple support website; in a nutshell, it adds Leopard compatibility -- a good thing. If you want to download the update, ...

Snj�r

by Scott McNulty (Dec 21st, 2006)

First it was Snowfall, then LotsaSnow came to my attention, and now Snjór is the current snow related OS X app that has my eye (thanks to Sveinn). Snjór creates little snow like globes that float down your Mac's screen while you are using it (that is to say that this is not a ...

Lucky LEM writer finds a $25 iMac at a thrift store

by David Chartier (Jul 31st, 2006)

Some people have all the luck. In this case, it's Adam Robert Guha over at LowEndMac who found a $25 Snow iMac at a thrift store. The store (obviously) didn't know much about it, so when he got the machine home he found that it had a 500 MHz PPC CPU, 30GB hard drive and 384 MB of RAM. Adam went for ...

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