Viral Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Parallels weirds us out with this Eminem/Avatar Mac parody

by Mike Schramm (Dec 9th, 2010)

A warning: The video after the break is one of the weirdest things we've ever seen promoting the Mac OS. Sure, it's from Parallels, and sure, the virtualization software guys know how to sell a switch over to the Mac. But here they've chosen to do it in an extremely weird way, by creating a parody ...

iShred jumps up the charts thanks to viral video

by Mike Schramm (Oct 19th, 2010)

Last Saturday, we posted this video of the band Atomic Tom singing with their iPhones on the B train over the East River. Since then, the video has gone viral, nabbing more than a million views on YouTube. But the band isn't the only group benefiting from the attention -- we heard from the ...

Apple's iPad ad goes viral

by Michael Grothaus (Mar 21st, 2010)

Apple's "Meet iPad" ad, which debuted during the Oscars, became the second-most viewed viral video ad last week. Michael Learmonth, writing for AdAge, points out that "Apple has had a YouTube channel since 2005, but only recently started using it. In the past, they'd focused on driving views on ...

Found Footage: The Powerbook snowboard

by Mike Schramm (Feb 26th, 2010)

Ok, we'll admit it -- the recent snowpocalypse may have driven some people nuts. But probably not this nuts -- these two German guys wanted to go snowboarding, but didn't actually have a snowboard around, so they did what most of us would naturally do in this situation: take two old PowerBooks, ...