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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Filed under: Features , Troubleshooting , Ask TUAW In this riveting episode of Ask TUAW we're catching up a bit on the backlog, so we'll be looking at a couple of problems generated by Microsoft products (Hotmail and Photo Story), charging an iPhone from a sleeping Mac, syncing personal data between two user accounts, using a Mac mini as a backup server, and more. As always your suggestions are most...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Multimedia , Video , Features , TUAW Interview As we recently showcased here at TUAW, filmmaker Dennis Liu 's Mac-inspired video for the group The Bird And The Bee combines his love of music, filmmaking and the Mac to create a very entertaining and innovative piece of work. In fact, we liked it so much here at TUAW, that we decided we wanted to know a bit more about Dennis and his creative...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 18 minutes ago
Filed under: Software , Freeware We've all been there: you have the Dock set to auto hide and you miss the Mail.app notification telling you there's new mail. Well, don't miss that presidential e-mail again with Mail Unread Menu . This little app sits in your menu bar awaiting your e-mail. This menu bar application can replace right-clicking on the Mail.app icon in the dock. You can check for new...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 52 minutes ago
Filed under: iPhone In a short press release today, Orange announced it would bring the iPhone to "customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange's African markets later this year." The company offered no other details. For some of these countries , it means that many carriers will be providing service for iPhone. Thanks...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Filed under: Freeware , iTunes Potion Factory brainiac Andy Kim has just unleashed a new free app on the world - I Love Stars . This little app does two things very well. First, it displays your iTunes rating (from zero to five stars) in the menu bar for the song that is currently playing, and second, I Love Stars lets you change the rating. All this is done without having to flip between programs....
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Filed under: Cult of Mac , Apple John Mayer has been closely related with Apple for years. He has played after multiple keynotes and he got his MacBook Air earlier than anyone else. I wonder how Apple feels about his latest blog posting ? Yeah, that's right, his new cell phone is a... erm, how should I put this nicely... a Blackberry? Seriously, John, did you ever even consider that your friend Steve...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Filed under: iPod Family , Software , iPhone Gallery: PhoneView Remember iPhone Drive? And MegaPhone? Well, Ecamm 's pretty sure they're (finally) not going to get sued with their newly renamed "PhoneView." Along with the new name for the iPhone/iPod touch data access tool, PhoneView delivers an overall software refresh. You can now add and edit notes without rebooting after each change -- wait until...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Filed under: Gaming , Humor , iPod Family , Cult of Mac Hot on the heals of the GTA IV iFruit parody comes another console gaming nod to Cupertino, though this time with considerably less snark. The upcoming PS3 presumptive blockbuster Metal Gear Solid 4 will apparently feature some interesting equipment to augment Solid Snake's already impressive arsenal: a 5th generation 30GB iPod. The French video...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
Filed under: Tips and tricks , Odds and ends , Troubleshooting , Leopard , Books Take Control Books, the digital delivery brainchild of long-time Mac authors Adam and Tonya Engst, has announced the publication of two new ebooks in their Take Control series. Author Joe Kissell has written a 95-page tome titled Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard that describes the 14 new features in the latest version...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Odds and ends It sounds like the plot of a Roger Corman film, I know, but as reported on our sister blog, apparently swaths of Texas are being overrun by " Crazy Rasberry Ants ," named for their discoverer (and exterminator) Tom Rasberry, not for the tasty fruit. The ants, for some reason, are attracted to electrical equipment, including your Mac. A friendly chat with an AppleCare representative...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: WWDC , Developer Apple has posted the complete conference schedule for the upcoming 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference . With a very slick web-based interface all the sessions and labs are broken down by topic (iPhone, Mac, iPhone and Mac, and IT) for each morning and afternoon of the conference (though, Apple, where are the iCal calendars'). By the looks of it, Apple seems pretty serious...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Software The long and sometimes rocky history of the America Online client for the Macintosh -- a saga stretching back to the original AppleLink Personal Edition service, with a detour through a place called eWorld -- has now moved on to a new generation with the 1.0 release of AOL Desktop for Mac last week. We noted the test version ( Cheshire ) and the beta last year. For users of the...
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Legends of the Sun Pig (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cool music video by filmmaker Dennis Liu, built by recording a Mac desktop. Nice song, too: "Again" by The Bird And The Bee. (Via TUAW)
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Software There are lots of great FTP clients out there for Mac OS X, but my favorite is Cyberduck (if only because the icon is so darned cute). Recently Cyberduck 3.0 was released, and it brings with it a bunch of neat new features, including: Support for WebDAV Support for Amazon S3 (that's Amazon storage cloud service) Bookmark searching Quick Look for files in the Cyberduck browser...
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Textually (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Unofficial Apple Weblog has picked up on new website, Coolspotters , which tracks brands and the celebrities that use them, and the iPhone is one of them. 36 celebrities have been spotted so far and the list keeps growing -- from Barak Obama to Spike Lee, Catherine Heigl, Matt Damon, Whoopie Goldberg, Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Gossip Girl's Blake Lively (above)...
