Tempo Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Highnote for iOS gives musicians tempo and key control over their music

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 13th, 2013)

Highnote allows you to slow down or speed up the tempo of songs in your iOS music library, without affecting the pitch or key. It also allows you to change the key without affecting the tempo. Any aspiring musician will need to spend hours practicing and honing their skills in order to master ...

Smart calendar app Tempo speeds up your day

by Michael Rose (Feb 13th, 2013)

Not to bother you with a study from the University of the Obvious, but if you think about the history of technologically facilitated intelligent agents, the goal always seems to be to sub in for a clever, always-on human personal assistant. There's a reason that hyper-busy, well-compensated folk ...

Apple patents multitouch gestures

by Mike Schramm (Apr 30th, 2010)

Patently Apple reports that Apple has picked up a major patent from the USPTO for a long list of mutitouch gestures. The gestures all involve moving two or more fingers on a multitouch surface, and cover everything from cut and copy shortcuts to global search and find and replace motions. I'm sure ...

Pixelmator releases 1.3.1

by Mike Schramm (Dec 1st, 2008)

The good folks at Pixelmator have released version 1.3.1 of their lightweight and smooth photo editing software. While the update is mostly "bug fixes and minor improvements" (isn't that exciting, unless maybe you really were waiting for "iSigh support" -- which probably means iSight), but there ...

Pixelmator 1.3 Tempo is on the street

by Mike Schramm (Nov 11th, 2008)

The team over at Pixelmator has announced the release of their much-awaited 1.3 version, which they've titled Tempo. TUAW did a preview of this version a while ago -- it features lots of back-end updates, making the app itself much, much faster, especially when handling large images. And it brings ...

TUAW preview: Pixelmator 1.3 "Tempo"

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2008)

We've praised Pixelmator here before (and we've even shared our love with the devs directly) -- I am by no means an image-editing professional (Photoshop and Aperture are way, way beyond my ken), but Pixelmator lands exactly where I want it to: it's a relatively lightweight application with just ...

Pixelmator puts new shortcuts in 1.2.3, pitches 1.3 Tempo beta

by Mike Schramm (Sep 8th, 2008)

My favorite plucky little picture editor, Pixelmator, has recently updated to version 1.2.3 with a few bug fixes and improvements. They've also added even more keyboard shortcuts -- enough to necessitate a keyboard shortcuts document. Unfortunately, making it white-on-black, which may fit the app's ...

App roundup: Timekeeping and billing

by Robert Palmer (Jul 30th, 2008)

When I started freelancing last November, I knew I needed to get my act together about billing. I have a love/hate relationship with billing: I love getting paid, but I hate doing billing. Thankfully, there are many, many apps that help you do this. If you're just starting out, you might be a ...

Pixelmator 1.2 "Draftsman" in the wild

by Mike Schramm (May 12th, 2008)

My picture editor of choice, Pixelmator, has updated to version 1.2 (as with many other applications, it's just in time for the Apple Design Awards deadline), which they're calling Draftsman. Among the new features are the much-awaited addition of rules and some guides to the UI (with a flashy ...