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iPad claiming .03% of all 'net traffic already

by Mel Martin (Apr 16th, 2010)

I must say, my iPad has become my primary way to access the Web when I'm at home, and it looks like Apple's latest device is getting a lot of exercise from other iPad users too. In a report from NetApplications, the iPad averaged 0.03 percent, per day, of all Web traffic for the ten days after ...

Millions of app store downloads everywhere

by Mike Schramm (Jan 7th, 2010)

Last year was a big one for mobile downloads, according to a number of sources. A Quantcast mobile trends report says that mobile web activity grew 110% in the US throughout 2009, and of course Apple was responsible for most of that, with a 65 from the iPhone and the rest from the iPod touch. ...

Study: Android and iPhone users show same usage trends, heavy app usage

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2009)

A study put together by analytics firms comScore and Compete says that while Android and iPhone users probably aren't the same people, they certainly act like it. Usage patterns line up almost exactly across the board, differing by only a few percentage points in categories from social networking ...

iPhone usage metric for Flickr drops big time

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2009)

We've posted before how popular the iPhone is as a camera on Flickr, with people uploading tons of photos, both shot by and straight from the iPhone. But now, The Next Web has covered a huge drop in photos referencing the iPhone over on the popular photo sharing site. The suspected culprit? Flickr ...

Dear Auntie TUAW: Did I overstep my data limits?

by Erica Sadun (Aug 14th, 2008)

Cara Tia TUAW, I need your help please. I am in Mexico and have an iPhone with a 150 MB data plan and 300 minutes. My carrier says that I have passed my data limit and owe them around $150 usd. According to the Cellular Network Data on my iPhone, I have used 35MB and 83 minutes (Settings > ...

iPhone owners do everything but talk

by Dave Caolo (Apr 4th, 2008)

I always pay my iPhone bill with the phone itself. It's simple -- touch settings, then phone then AT&T services. In just a few seconds, I can wave about $70US goodbye. What a world! There are other options on that screen, like "View my minutes," which I usually check when I pay my bill. As of ...

Apple raising Mac production, lowering iPod quotas?

by Cory Bohon (Feb 5th, 2008)

According to a recent Macworld UK post, the Mac's sales are surging, and Apple has ramped up production on the Mac lines. Macworld received its information from recent Banc of America Securities research, which leads to the conclusion that along with raising Mac production, Apple has lowered ...

The curious case of how bad AT&T sucks Episode 2: Just the Internet - every last bit of it

by David Chartier (Jul 27th, 2007)

First AT&T botches what is probably the most significant activation event in mobile phone history, and now they're including the complete data records - and I mean complete - in the first iPhone-related bills they're sending out to customers. Both David Pogue and John Gruber are reporting that ...

TUAW poll: How much iPhone data have you used?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 19th, 2007)

Yesterday, I wrote about setting up the iPhone with pay-as-you-go service. Without purchasing feature packs, the data plan goes for an exorbitant $0.01/KB. (With a feature pack, the data goes down to $2/MB, or $0.002/KB.) This got me wondering. It's been almost a month since the iPhone debuted. How ...

View a graphical chart of file and folder sizes with Disk Inventory X

by David Chartier (Jul 19th, 2006)

Disk Inventory X takes a unique approach to helping you analyze your disk space usage by visualizing it as a graphical chart. You can see a breakdown of which types of files are hogging the most space, and clicking on a graphical portion will display the file's location in your Mac's system. Let's ...

Safari's market share on the rise

by David Chartier (Jul 7th, 2006)

Safari's market share has been slowly climbing the charts over the last couple of years, and depending on which statistics you google, it has now reached an all-time high of 3.19 from June 2005. MacNN interestingly points out that, in a way, this statistic could also be viewed as a (very unofficial) ...

iStat nano updated with support for Intel Mac CPU temp

by David Chartier (Jun 18th, 2006)

iStat nano, a handy system monitoring Dashboard widget, has been updated to version 1.51b with support for CPU temps on Intel Macs. The one catch is that you'll have to install SpeedIt, a System Preference pane and kernel extension that allows this kind of functionality (and much more). We've heard ...

CoreDuoTemp 0.8

by David Chartier (May 24th, 2006)

CoreDuoTemp, the handy little app for monitoring your Intel Mac's temp, CPU usage and frequency, has been updated to version 0.8. New features include: window position saved menu extra indicator new panel prefs correction of the English translation German language added You can grab ...