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Meet CARROT: the game-ified to do list

by Erica Sadun (Feb 27th, 2013)

CARROT (US$0.99) is essentially a game with delusions of productivity. In fact, it was initially pitched to me as a utility app with "personality." That's problematic because it's not really all that useful. What it is, though, is silly fun with occasional side benefits of getting things ...

The storied past and changing future of encyclopedias on the Mac

by Mel Martin (Mar 19th, 2012)

It was with some nostalgia and sadness that I noted the death of the print edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica last week. It's yet another casualty of our rapid move to a digital world. The EB survived for 244 years, but interest was clearly not there for a set of books costing more than a ...

Hyper Facts for iOS: A powerful and fun database query app

by Mel Martin (Dec 24th, 2010)

It's amazing what you can find with your iOS device. With the whole internet in your hands, vast databases are yours to explore with a couple of taps. Hyper Facts is a new way to more easily manage these searches, and overall it works pretty well. You type in a search term, a name, or an event (like ...

Swearch brings style to the iPhone web app

by Josh Helfferich (Oct 16th, 2010)

I guess you could say that it finally happened: Someone built a web app for the iPhone so beautiful that it's nearly indistinguishable from something natively run. That person is Steve Streza, and that app is Swearch. Swearch does one thing, and it does it very well. It allows you to search ...

Mongoliad project has launched, apps still coming soon

by Mike Schramm (Sep 7th, 2010)

Neal Stephenson's Mongoliad project has launched -- you can go browse the website right now and read through the offerings available. As Cory Doctorow posts, the project is a series of episodic stories and materials portraying a universe put together by Stephenson and a few other author friends. ...

TUAW's Daily App: Articles

by Mike Schramm (Jul 20th, 2010)

We've talked about Articles here on the site before. Out of all of the apps that won Apple Design Awards this year, I would say it's probably the most underrated and most useful. It's a Wikipedia reader, which doesn't sound like much since the mobile version of Wikipedia is pretty good already. ...

Four widgets for learning

by Sang Tang (Apr 7th, 2010)

While the app store ecosystem for the iPhone, and now iPad, are filled with a host of useful apps to help students convert, translate and calculate figures and words, there may be times where an iPhone or iPad app just don't fit into your workflow. Back when Mac OS X Tiger was launched, which ...

Articles: Wikipedia with class

by Brett Terpstra (Apr 2nd, 2010)

If you frequent Wikipedia -- and appreciate an interface that's both beautiful and highly functional -- Articles is an iPhone (and iPad) app you should try. Going beyond just being a wrapper for the less-than-beautiful compendium of user-generated knowledge, it offers a very pleasing way to navigate ...

Robotvision: A decent early stab at augmented reality

by David Winograd (Oct 10th, 2009)

Ever since I first saw heads-up-displays in science fiction movies like The Terminator, I knew that I had to get my hands on one. How neat it would be to get instant information on anything about anything in my field of vision? Well, just as the iTablet won't be the Knowledge Navigator, the new ...

Wikimedia Foundation creates official iPhone app

by Mel Martin (Aug 20th, 2009)

The Wikimedia Foundation has just released a free app for accessing the web based encyclopedia right on your iPhone or iPod touch. Wikipedia Mobile [iTunes link] brings the full boatload of Wikipedia knowledge to a nicely formatted iPhone screen. In my tests, it responded quickly, and without any ...

First Look: Wikipedia Mobile

by Steven Sande (Dec 15th, 2008)

I'll admit it -- I'm a Wikipedia junkie. Sometimes I just pull up Wikipedia, type in the first word that comes to my head, and then start following links. It's amazing how much information is available out there, and the connections that you can find are remarkable. Until now, most of my Wikipedia ...

Mac 101: Search Wikipedia from your desktop

by Cory Bohon (Sep 9th, 2008)

When Apple made the move from Tiger to Leopard, they decided to throw in more than a few features. One of those new features was the ability to search Wikipedia right from Dictionary. To start searching Wikipedia, just open Dictionary (located in /Applications). Next, click on the Wikipedia ...

Yet another way to Wikipedia on your iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (May 18th, 2008)

iPhone web application developer, Comoki, has unveiled a new, iPhone-compatible Wikipedia interface. It's not alone, of course, but joins the ranks of web applications like iPodia with some nice interface improvements. It has a more reliable "Save" feature and makes some nice formatting decisions on ...

Mac OS X Leopard demo videos a'plenty

by David Chartier (Jun 25th, 2007)

As excited as I am for the iPhone, I'm just as excited for Mac OS X Leopard - that's why I have to thank TUAW reader Uros for sending us a link to a big ol' batch of Leopard demo videos posted at Brightcove, a video sharing service. Demoed in the videos are features like Screen Sharing, Cover ...

Ironcoder V results

by Mat Lu (Apr 5th, 2007)

Ironcoder is a Mac software developer competition inspired by the cult Japanese television cooking show Iron Chef in which Mac developers have about a weekend to produce a cool piece of software based on a particular API and theme. The latest contest was Ironcoder V and featured the ...