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NaNoWriMo tools for Apple devices ... and a few hot deals on writing tools

by Steven Sande (Oct 31st, 2012)

When it's time for Halloween, it's also time for another autumn tradition -- National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. Over the years, a number of TUAW bloggers and readers have participated in the annual event, which runs exactly thirty days and is designed to give would-be ...

Tip: Making ITPC links work with the official Podcasts app

by Mike Schramm (Sep 24th, 2012)

My iPhone 5 arrived last Friday, and because my old iPhone 4 had gotten so cluttered with apps, I decided that instead of restoring from an old backup, I would go ahead and just start over completely. Most of my important documents and logins are all stored in iCloud, so it wasn't a big ...

Send Instagram to Dropbox for a cool Apple TV screen saver

by Mike Schramm (Sep 4th, 2012)

Just recently, I posted about the Instacube, a Kickstarter project that allows you to more easily show off your great (or at least well-filtered) photography work on Instagram. But it turns out you don't need a whole cube to do that. With the proper tweaking of IFTTT (a tool we at TUAW also ...

Mountain Lion 101: Silencing Notification Center alerts

by Dave Caolo (Aug 7th, 2012)

Mountain Lion's Notification Center is handy. It displays banners and alerts from notification-aware apps to keep you informed of changes, like a new Twitter mention, Calendar event or email message. That last one can get distracting, depending on how much email you receive. Here are some ways to ...

Mountain Lion 101: Notification Center in a hot corner

by Dave Caolo (Aug 6th, 2012)

Apple's Mountain Lion introduced Notification Center to the Mac. This handy feature lets notification-aware apps display pop-up style alerts when something changes, like an incoming email message, Twitter mention, Calendar appointment and more. Apple notes that you can access Mountain Lion's ...

8 clever iPhone headphone tricks from Tekserve

by Steven Sande (Aug 6th, 2012)

You see them everywhere -- the ubiquitous white iPhone headphones. For many people, they're just a way to listen to your tunes and look cool, but to the Apple Specialists at New York City's Tekserve, the standard Apple headphones a powerful tool for controlling your iPhone. Tekserve's Chris ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me stick my scroll bars

by Erica Sadun (Jun 12th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I know I'm late to the party but Lion killed my scrollbars. Please bring back my scrollbars. I miss my scrollbars. Sobbing, Scrollbarless in Seattle Dear, um, "Scrollbarless", Head on over to Settings > General and just set the "Show scroll bars" preference to ...

TUAW TV Live: Handy tips from Steve and Doc

by Steven Sande (May 9th, 2012)

Today on TUAW TV Live Hawaii's most famous podcaster -- Doc Rock -- is going to join me for an hour of handy tips that you may not already know about as a Mac or iOS user. If you're in the chat room -- which we hope you will be -- be sure to pipe up with your favorite tips, too! We'll also ...

TUAW TV Live at 5 PM EDT: Steve and Doc talk tips

by Steven Sande (May 9th, 2012)

It's always fun when someone shows you a Mac or iOS tip that has you saying "I didn't know you could do that!" I surprised myself last week when I showed fellow blogger Erica Sadun a simple Finder keyboard shortcut that she wasn't aware of, and she made squeeing noises expressing her pleasure ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: I'm going to WWDC. What should I pack?

by Erica Sadun (May 2nd, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I've got my golden tickets to WWDC but this is my first time traveling to Oz. Do you have some suggestions for what I should pack and any tips for dealing with things once I'm out there? Thanks a bunch! Your loving nephew, Arthur Dear Arthur, Auntie turned to two of ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Help Siri call me Gerry

by Erica Sadun (Apr 25th, 2012)

Dear Aunt TUAW, Is there a way to change Siri's spelling of my name at the end of an email? I would like it to print out "Gerry" and not "Jerry," but I can't figure out how to do it. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Your loving nephew, Gerald ("Gerry") Dear Gerry, That's ...

Preparing your old iPad for sale in five easy steps (Update)

by Steven Sande (Mar 12th, 2012)

It appears from the huge pre-sales of the new iPad that a lot of people are getting the new model. We've also heard from a number of iPad "recyclers" that they're seeing record numbers of people who are selling their original iPad or iPad 2 to trade up to the new model. Since I'm among those who ...

How to enable iCal's debug menu

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 24th, 2012)

ZDNet (via Macgasm) has posted a couple of neat iCal tweaks that should make your life a bit easier: Enabling the debug menu and showing two weeks worth of appointments at once. The trick involves a couple of Terminal commands. To enter debug mode, use the following: defaults write com.apple.iCal ...

A very handy 1Password tip

by Steven Sande (Feb 14th, 2012)

I can't vouch for everyone out there, but at least amongst the blogging tribe here at TUAW, 1Password (from Agile Bits) is an indispensable piece of utility software. Now former TUAW blogger and current Evernote expert Brett Kelly has documented a cool 1Password tip that I'd like to pass along. ...

Unofficial "Look Up in 1Password" bookmarklet for iOS 5

by TJ Luoma (Jan 29th, 2012)

1Password is one of my most-used iOS apps, since I need it to log in to any site which requires a password. Since the introduction of 1Password on iOS, Agile has provided a bookmarklet which will open 1Password and then search for the current domain. That helps the fact that 1Password can't be ...