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Siri may speak and understand Chinese, Japanese, and Russian by March

by Chris Rawson (Feb 8th, 2012)

According to Chinese tech site DoNews (sketchy English translation here), Apple plans on bringing support for Mandarin Chinese to Siri as early as March of this year. Other dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese, will remain unsupported for the time being. Support for Japanese and Russian is ...

Tweetbot 2.0 update adds inline images, Readabilty integration and more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 8th, 2012)

Tweetbot was already a great Twitter client and the 2.0 update that rolled out today makes the app even better. Tweetbot 2.0 has several notable features including inline image preview and a single-tap link which automatically opens content inside the app. If the page you request is text-heavy, ...

Apple TV now offers Genius recommendations for movies, TV shows

by Chris Rawson (Feb 3rd, 2012)

A silent update to the backend has introduced Genius recommendations for movies and TV shows to the Apple TV. No user action is required to access the new feature, as it's not part of a device firmware update. Instead, Apple has updated its own servers to send this information to the Apple TV from ...

Ticket to Ride Pocket adds asynchronous multiplayer

by Mike Schramm (Feb 2nd, 2012)

The pocket version of Ticket to Ride by Days of Wonder is among the best board game adaptations for the iPhone, and it's just gotten better with asynchronous multiplayer support. Now you can start a game with friends through Game Center, and take turns back and forth across the Internet. The ...

Apple updates Final Cut Pro X with multicam, more

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 31st, 2012)

Apple released an update to Final Cut Pro X, bringing the video editing app to version 10.0.3. The latest update adds several significant features for video professionals including new advanced chroma keying, support for XML 1.1 and beta broadcast monitoring for Thunderbolt devices and PCIe cards. ...

Disney introduces new 'Cranky's Story' levels for Where's My Water

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2012)

Disney has released the very first new content pack for the extremely popular Where's My Water, "Cranky's Story." It features 40 new levels for the price of 99 cents. Instead of guiding clean water to a shower head as you did in the original game, this update has you direct dirty water to Cranky's ...

Parrot updates the AR.Drone for a second version

by Mike Schramm (Jan 25th, 2012)

CES 2010 was where we first heard of the Parrot AR.Drone, a radio-controlled quadricopter that hooked up via Wi-Fi to an iPhone app. And now, two years later, that product is out and successful -- and now, obsolete. Parrot used CES 2012 a few weeks ago to introduce the AR.Drone 2.0, a brand new ...

Time Warner Cable's app goes universal

by Mike Schramm (Jan 24th, 2012)

Time Warner Cable released an official iOS app early last year that let subscribers watch live TV. Despite some early issues with channel agreements, the app is still going strong, and appears to be popular with customers. So popular, in fact, that the company has just updated the app to also work ...

Boxee explains dropping PC and Mac clients at CES

by Mike Schramm (Jan 14th, 2012)

We found Boxee at CES' ShowStoppers event this year, and when we cornered them to complain about dropping official PC and Mac support late in 2011, they were appropriately apologetic. Boxee's Liz Dellheim said that yes, they're sorry that they've abandoned that part of the company, and says ...

OS X 10.7.3 build 11D42 seeded to developers

by Matt Tinsley (Jan 11th, 2012)

Apple has seeded Mac OS X 10.7.3 beta build 11D42 to developers. The build comes in at 989.75 MB for those updating from 10.7.2 and 1.26 GB for those updating from any previous version of Mac OS X Lion. According to MacRumors, Apple has asked developers to focus their attention on Spotlight, ...

Daily iPad App: Trenches 2

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2011)

Thunder Game Works' Trenches was quite the hit on the iPhone last year, combining a cartoony World War 2 setting with some solid real-time strategy combat and quite a few innovative game features. The game also spawned a few spinoffs, and was popular enough for EA to publish the sequel. There ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's the OnLive App?

by Mike Schramm (Dec 23rd, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, More of a question rather than a tip, but with the App Store lockdown today, I presume OnLive's Player App will not be live in time for Christmas. I was thinking: Do you think Apple delayed approval of the app to maximize profits by sales over Christmas, including the ...

Firefox 9.0 offers Mac OS X Lion gesture support

by Mike Schramm (Dec 21st, 2011)

Firefox 9 is out now (the public page hasn't been updated yet as of this writing, but the build is available from official links already), and while that in itself isn't really big news (the uberpopular browser updates all the time, and plenty of people have already chosen to use Chrome or ...

iTunes 10.5.2 available for direct download

by Michael Rose (Dec 12th, 2011)

Fire up your updaters, campers, because there's a prize inside -- in theory, anyway. iTunes 10.5.2 has appeared on the iTunes direct download page, but it's not yet showing up in Software Update, and the KB article covering the update is now 404ing. Reader Chasapple also points out that the Apple ...

Safari 5.1.2 out now, fixes memory leaks, stability

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2011)

Apple has released version 5.1.2 of Safari, now available in a Software Update near you. The new version, according to the notes, increases stability, fixes a few issues that could cause hangs and memory leaks, and fixes an issue that would allow web page to flash to white. No more more freaky ...