Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, OS
I held the phone tightly in my right hand. With my left, I rubbed my dry, tired eyes. I looked at the clock in my Mac’s menu bar. I had been on the phone for forty-five minutes, with no indication that I’d be hanging it up any time soon.
“OK,” I […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, Multimedia, iTunes, Apple
Apparently this iPod-enabled dance performance has been around for quite a while (here’s an NYT piece on it from 2006), but it’s the first we’ve heard of it, and it’s pretty amazing. The 87-year-old choreographer, Merce Cunningham, who has collaborated with John Cage and Andy Warhol […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
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 […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Desktops, Software, Freeware
My personal favorite desktop wallpaper app, the echo-named Desktoptopia, sent us a tip with a great announcement today: not only have they released version 1.5, and not only have they released a PC version (for your work computer to use, I guess), but Desktoptopia is now a completely […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, iPhone
Employee malfeasance and underwear gnome schemes cannot account for the nationwide shortage of retail iPhone availability. As many TUAW readers discovered to their delight, AT&T has been clearing out their refurb iPhone stock and Apple stores are short on the shelves. As Apple’s supply chain is almost certainly […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPhone
Over at Fortune, Jon Fortt reports on a conversation with Tom Gibbons (right), the VP in charge of Microsoft’s Specialized Devices & Applications group. SD&A is the MS umbrella that contains the Mac BU, along with projects such as Surface, Windows Embedded and Sync. Yes, Mac folk, we’ve been saying […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Apple, Macbook Pro, MacBook
Almost a year after those two photogs first tried to bring a class-action suit against Apple for supposedly underperforming colors on MacBook and MacBook Pro LCD screens, our own Mike Rose has been proven right — Apple has “quietly settled” the suit, and presumably Apple didn’t […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gaming, Retail, Software, Apple
Codeweavers has released CrossOver Games, a games-specific version of CrossOver, their Windows emulation software. Jeremy White has the story behind the release over on their blog — apparently the application team wasn’t working quite as quickly as they wanted, but the games team was chugging right along […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Freeware, iTunes, Software Update, Bad Apple, Apple
If you run iTunes or QuickTime on your Windows PC, but not Safari, you might have seen an uninvited guest show up in the Apple Software Update earlier this week. Yes, Apple thinks you need yet another browser. They tried to slip the new […]
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Apple, iPhone
If you were one of those people who were excited that Adobe was going to apparently fight to get Flash on the iPhone, get ready to be unexcited: Adobe has decided that despite what they thought earlier, they’re not actually going to be able to get […]
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