Valentines day Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Five apps for Valentine's Day

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 12th, 2013)

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, so now is the time to grab a box of chocolates and secure a bouquet of roses for your loved ones. For a special twist on this holiday, check out our list of Valentine's Day apps that'll help you share your love both today and each day going ...

AppleScripting Dates > Elapsed Time Calculator

by Ben Waldie (Feb 11th, 2013)

Since Valentine's Day is this week, I thought I would take this opportunity to share an AppleScript I wrote to calculate how long my wife and I have been married. With this baby, I'll never be accused of forgetting how long it's been when our anniversary rolls around. The script determines the ...

Talkcast tonight, 10 pm ET/7 pm PT: Pre-Valentine's potpourri edition

by Michael Rose (Feb 10th, 2013)

The annual flurry of chocolate, flowers and crowded restaurants is only a few days away! Valentine's Day is this coming Thursday, so tonight we'll talk Apple-themed romance. How can you charm and celebrate the beloved geek in your life? Then again, if you are the Mac geek in your relationship, ...

X-Doria makes a case for your Valentine

by Steven Sande (Feb 8th, 2013)

With Valentine's Day just around the corner (next Thursday, to be exact) you might want to get thinking about that special someone with an iPhone or iPad mini. X-Doria has a selection of cases that are perfect for Valentine's Day, that day when pink and red seems to be everywhere. The X-Doria ...

Daily Update for February 5, 2013

by Steven Sande (Feb 5th, 2013)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Apple shares Valentine's Day gift guide

by Steven Sande (Feb 5th, 2013)

Perhaps you haven't glanced at your calendar lately, but it's February 5 -- and Valentine's Day is just around the corner. Apple has created a Valentine's Day Gift Guide in the iTunes App Store to help you find the perfect gift for that certain someone in your life. The gift guide is full of ...

Apple offers free iPad, iPod engraving for Valentine's Day

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 23rd, 2013)

Apple has announced a promo on its online store for free engraving and gift-wrapping on iPads and iPods bought as Valentine's Day gifts. The company is also offering free shipping on orders over $50. To make sure you get your gifts in time for Valentine's Day Apple has also created a special ...

Apps for Valentine's Day

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 13th, 2012)

Image: Shutterstock Today's smartphones are, by their nature, quite versatile. It's impossible to guide every lover on Valentine's Day to the app for their particular needs, because despite the requisite "flowers, chocolate, *something*" expectations, we all do it differently. I tried to round up ...

Apple Store is down (Update: Back up with Valentine's Day gift guide)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 27th, 2012)

The yellow sticky note of doom has appeared, and the Apple Store is currently down. What sort of updates will this bring? Since it's early Friday on the East Coast, most likely maintenance. But with Macworld, it could be anything. We'll let you know of any changes once it's back up! Update: The ...

TUAW's Daily App: Rayman 2: The Great Escape

by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2011)

For a few different reasons (the recent Verizon iPhone release probably being the primary one), Valentine's Day has become another holiday for big sales on the App Store. We covered quite a few titles on sale last week, and of those, Rayman 2 is the one I'll recommend today. It's a port of an old ...

iPads don't make you attractive to the opposite sex

by David Quilty (Feb 11th, 2011)

Sorry to burst your bubble, iPad owners, but owning and using an iPad doesn't exactly make the opposite sex swoon, at least according to Retrevo 's Gadgetology Report. The report asked consumers if they notice other people's gadgets and, if so, how they react to them, and it turns out that seeing ...

Valentine's Day specials coming to the App Store

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2011)

Ah, Valentine's Day, when Spring is just around the corner, love is in the air, and ... iOS games are on sale for 99 cents? Apparently -- since the holiday is largely made up by gift card retailers anyway, a bunch of big iOS developers are putting their games on sale for just a buck over the ...

Couple marries at 5th Avenue Apple Store on Valentine's Day

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2010)

We've seen robberies at Apple Stores before, we've seen kids rapping and we've even seen death threats, but I don't know that I've ever heard of a wedding in an Apple Store. That's what newlyweds Ya Ting Li and Joshua Li decided to do at midnight in the Fifth Avenue Apple Store on Valentine's Day ...

TeleNav: GPS helped guys get out of the Valentine's Day doghouse

by Steven Sande (Feb 19th, 2010)

TeleNav is known for its phone-based GPS navigation products, particular the AT&T Navigator app for iPhone. The company has over 11 million subscribers to its services, so it has a lot of data to sift through to find interesting location search trends. That data showed that GPS location ...

First Look: Touch Poet lets anyone be a poet

by Cory Bohon (Feb 11th, 2009)

With Valentines Day right around the corner, it would seem that everyone is looking for something to get their loved ones. While most might settle on candy, or other holiday items, would you ever think of writing your special someone a poem? Even if you've never written a sentence in your life, you ...