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Shazam offers unlimited free tagging to iPhone app

by Michael Grothaus (Sep 29th, 2011)

Users of Shazam, the popular iOS app that allows people to discover what song is playing on the radio, television, or almost anywhere, will be happy to hear that Shazam is offering unlimited free tagging in its iPhone app. Shazam allows users to simply hold up their iPhone while a song is ...

Daily Mac App: MetaX

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 23rd, 2011)

While getting ready for my husband's move to the US from the UK, we've both been digitizing our DVD collections so it's less for him to haul, and I gain extra room for what he does bring. What I'm using to tag the files for easy browsing in iTunes and on the Apple TV is MetaX. We wrote a ...

Drowning in information? Tags can help

by Mel Martin (Oct 8th, 2010)

If you're anything like me you have lots and lots of information. Endless folders and files are scattered about, and while Spotlight in Mac OS X is very helpful, it's not a perfect fit for every situation. One solution I've found very helpful is Tags, from Gravity Apps. Our own Brett Terpstra took a ...

Shazam updates for iOS 4.0, adds subscription model for Encore features

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2010)

The great Shazam app, which I'm still using after downloading it to my iPhone on day one, has released another update, bringing the whole suite of apps (including the paid Shazam Encore and the Shazam (RED) version) to version 3.3. This one updates the app for iOS 4.0 and includes Retina Display ...

Facebook for iPhone updated with 'Places' GPS check-in

by Chris Rawson (Aug 19th, 2010)

If you've ever wished Facebook would integrate some of the functionality of online check-in apps like Gowalla or Foursquare, you're in luck. The Facebook for iPhone app has been updated to version 3.2 and includes a new feature called "Places." Places is Facebook's stab at sharing locations with ...

Batch tagging your iTunes videos the easy way

by Sang Tang (Jun 30th, 2009)

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet If we applied Shakespeare's logic to today's digital age, then it would also mean that watching mis-tagged or untagged videos on your Apple device (be it a Mac, iPhone, iPod or Apple TV) would be just as ...

Tags takes organization to a new level

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 19th, 2009)

The idea of tagging files as an organization and project management method has been around for some time now, and we've mentioned applications in the past (FileSpot, TagBot, Punakea ... ) which touched on some useful applications for the tagging method. A truly seamless, system-wide implementation, ...

Mac 101: Tag almost anything in Leopard

by Dave Caolo (May 5th, 2008)

Here's a very simple and even more useful tip from Dennis Best. He's thought of a clever way to tag almost any document he creates in Leopard with Spotlight and a clever use of keywords. When writing a note, composing an email message, etc., he precedes keywords with the ° bullet character ...

iEatBrainz gets a Universal bump

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 12th, 2008)

Jay Tuley's original IEatBrainz apparently went defunct before it ever grew up to be a Universal build. Fortunately for us, Pierre Andrews picked up the (open) source code and made a version that works for just about everybody. IEatBrainz uses the online acoustic fingerprint service "MusicBrainz" to ...

Resolve to organize: Together 2.0.4

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 2nd, 2008)

The all-purpose organization app, Together, has been updated to version 2.0.4. Formerly known as KIT (Keep It Together), the new name came with the 2.0 version and a Leopard-only status. Together, by way of background information, offers functionality similar to Yojimbo with several major ...

FileSpot 2.1 released: Supercharged Spotlight interface

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 29th, 2007)

Synthesis Studios has released version 2.1 of FileSpot (formerly MoRU), their advanced interface for Spotlight. It allows you to make advanced, boolean logic queries and makes accessible some of the more complex aspects of Spotlight. Not to make it sound complicated, though, its iTunes-ish interface ...

Keyword Manager updated for iPhoto '08

by David Chartier (Aug 19th, 2007)

While I wasn't exactly dying without Keyword Manager in iPhoto '08 just yet, thanks to its new built-in keyword abilities, I am nonetheless relieved to see that my favorite iPhoto keyword plug-in for power users has just been updated for the latest version. While the major new feature in Keyword ...

iPhoto '08 does tagging right

by David Chartier (Aug 8th, 2007)

I've been waiting (impatiently) for a tagging UI like this to come to iPhoto for some time now, and I'm generally happy to say that iPhoto '08 finally does tagging well (for the sake of this post, however, I'll be using the terms 'tags' and 'keywords' interchangeably, since iPhoto refuses to adopt ...

Journler beta gets proper tagging abilities

by David Chartier (Jul 23rd, 2007)

In case you missed TUAW Podcast #24, I've gone gaga for Philip Dow's Journler. It's a phenomenal donationware app that offers robust features for keeping a diary, storing files you need to keep track of, recording audio/video entries and even blogging. One of Journler's cruxes, however, is that ...

MailTags 2.0 leaves beta, goes official

by David Chartier (May 30th, 2007)

Scott Morrison's fantastic MailTags 2.0 is hands-down the best (and not because it is the only) plug-in that brings the wonders of tagging and iCal integration to Apple Mail. We've mentioned it plenty of times here on TUAW, and with good reason: Scott has put this new version of MailTags and its ...