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Early Apple employee Jerry Manock remembers Steve Jobs

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 10th 2012 1:00PM

When you think of notable, early Apple employees, you think of the big names like Steve Wozniak, Andy Hertzfeld, and John Sculley. Beyond these key names are a multitude of lesser-known people who played a crucial role in the early years of the company. One such employee is Jerry Manock, who worked on the Apple II, the Disk II, the...

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Bill Gates's original PC game now on iPhone

by Dave Caolo Feb 10th 2012 12:00PM

Donkey, or more properly DONKEY.BAS, was computer game co-written by Bill Gates in 1981. It was included in early versions of the PC-DOS operating system and had players drive a car down a street while avoiding donkeys. Why there were so many donkeys on the road is a mystery. Today, Donkey is available for the iPhone. It's a fun example...

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Daily Mac App: Text2Speech lets hear what you write in record time

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 10th 2012 11:00AM

OS X has a neat text-to-speech engine that'll read back what you write. You can start and stop TTS from the contextual menu or launch it using a keystroke that you set up in the Speech section of the System Preferences. Most of the settings for TTS are buried in the System Preferences which is inconvenient when you want to change a...

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Two new iPhone 4S ads highlight everyday Siri usage

by Chris Rawson Feb 10th 2012 10:00AM

Apple has released two new iPhone 4S ads on its YouTube channel, "Rock God" and "Road Trip." If they haven't already started airing, they should be popping up as TV commercials soon. "Rock God" follows the adventures of a teenager who uses Siri to find a guitar, learn how to play chords (very cool -- I didn't know Siri could do that),...

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Foxconn server hacked, CEO's password revealed

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 10th 2012 9:00AM

Hacker group SwaggSec took a swipe at Foxconn when it broke into the company's servers. The group stole login information and documents, both of which were promptly leaked to the internet. SwaggSec claimed the information would let individuals place fake orders using accounts from Dell, Apple, IBM and Microsoft. As soon as the hack was...

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Daily iPhone App: Cupidtino

by Mike Schramm Feb 10th 2012 8:00AM

We covered Cupidtino a little while ago. It's a dating site for Mac users who are looking for love. Given its purview and the fact that no web service is complete without an iPhone app, Cupidtino has released an iPhone app for single Apple fans. I kid but it's actually pretty nice. You can browse user profiles, your own, send messages...

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Spacetime Studios' games hit 100 million play sessions

by Mike Schramm Feb 9th 2012 7:00PM

Spacetime Studios has hit a pretty crazy milestone, even in the ever-more-massive world of iOS and mobile gaming. The company's MMOs on the iPhone, Android, and Chrome platforms have hit a total of 100 million play sessions, which means people have loaded up and logged into Spacetime's titles more than 100 million times. They're not...

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iPad assists South African President Zuma with State of the Nation address

by Steven Sande Feb 9th 2012 6:00PM

South African President Jacob Zuma seems to be a big fan of the iPad. About a year ago, a photo was tweeted just prior to the 2011 State of the Nation address showing Zuma preparing his speech on an iPad. This year, as you can see at right, President Zuma is using his "indispensable" iPad again for the address. He appears to like the...

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Dear Aunt TUAW: Help me share my iPhone data to my iPad

by Erica Sadun Feb 9th 2012 5:30PM

Dear Aunt TUAW, I find myself in an interesting position. I am going to be traveling for several weeks within the US. I have my iPhone on a grandfathered unlimited data plan and a wifi iPad 2. I would like to be able to use my iPad while away not only for FaceTime but also general use and even using my slingbox. I would rather keep my...

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Daily Update for February 9, 2012

by Steven Sande Feb 9th 2012 5:20PM

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 (requires Flash) or the non-Flash link below. To...

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Swiss company SmartData sues Apple over Apple TV, iPhone

by Chris Rawson Feb 9th 2012 5:00PM

Another company you've probably never heard of before today is after a slice of Apple's pie. This time it's Swiss company SmartData, who claims Apple is willfully infringing its patent on a "modular computer" with the Apple TV, iPhone, and Remote app. As noted by Electronista, SmartData doesn't seem to produce any products or have any...

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Warner Music reporting more stable sales, propped up by iTunes and streaming services

by Mike Schramm Feb 9th 2012 4:30PM

There's finally some good news in the music business, but don't get too excited, it's not that good. Warner Music reports (before we hear about the full industry sales from 2011) that its sales were steady last year, at $780 million. In this case, steady is better than a drop, which is what most of the music industry has seen lately....

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Study shows Android handsets depreciate in value faster than iPhone

by Chris Rawson Feb 9th 2012 4:00PM

The iPhone has always had a robust market for used handsets, with even older models still getting rather good returns for their former owners. Priceonomics has done a study of the used smartphone market and compared the depreciation in resale value for the iPhone versus Android and BlackBerry handsets. Unsurprisingly, the iPhone holds...

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Court says reworked Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1N can be sold in Germany

by Mike Schramm Feb 9th 2012 3:30PM

Apple's been going back and forth in German courts over the Samsung Galaxy Tab, suggesting it "borrows" a few too many features from the iPad, but the latest ruling has fallen in Samsung's favor. A German court has now decided that the Galaxy Tab has "clear differences" from the iPad, and thus can be sold in that country. Note, also,...

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Apple Store employees accept petitions from protesters

by Chris Rawson Feb 9th 2012 2:00PM

Slightly over a dozen protesters from Change.org and SumofUS delivered a petition signed by more than 250,000 people to the Grand Central Terminal Apple Store today. Both organizations are urging Apple to improve working conditions at factories run by its overseas suppliers, particularly Foxconn's massive facility in China. CNET...

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NOAA drops BlackBerry, embraces iPhone and iPad

by Steven Sande Feb 9th 2012 1:00PM

The Loop is reporting that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is taking RIM BlackBerry devices off of the list of officially supported mobile devices. What's taking the place of the trusty old BlackBerry? iPhones and iPads running iOS 5 and newer versions of the mobile OS. While a February 3rd memo from NOAA...

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Daily Mac App: Text2Speech lets hear what you write in record time

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 10th 2012 11:00AM

OS X has a neat text-to-speech engine that'll read back what you write. You can start and stop TTS from the contextual menu or launch it using a keystroke that you set up in the Speech section of the System Preferences. Most of the settings for TTS are buried in the System Preferences which is inconvenient when you want to change a...

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Daily iPhone App: Cupidtino

by Mike Schramm Feb 10th 2012 8:00AM

We covered Cupidtino a little while ago. It's a dating site for Mac users who are looking for love. Given its purview and the fact that no web service is complete without an iPhone app, Cupidtino has released an iPhone app for single Apple fans. I kid but it's actually pretty nice. You can browse user profiles, your own, send messages...

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Slidevana provides pro design templates for Keynote

by Erica Sadun Feb 9th 2012 8:00AM

Slidevana is a curious thing. This US$69 bundle offers a set of professionally designed slides. These templates map out the kinds of data most speakers want to communicate, providing specific elements you can customize. Called "Dark," this first release includes a clean presentation style that would feel at home at any boardroom or...

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White MacBook reaches end of life, education sales to cease

by Chris Rawson Feb 8th 2012 6:30PM

Although discontinued for consumer sales last July, the plastic MacBook remained available for sale to educational institutions as a (relatively) low-cost option for schools seeking portable Macs for students. If you were wondering how long that would last, wonder no longer; seven months later, Apple has ceased distributing the MacBook...

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Hacksugar: Live AirPlay mirroring to Mac from iOS

by Erica Sadun Feb 8th 2012 1:00PM

iOS developer David Stanfill of Napkin Studio has been looking for a better way to demo his iOS apps during online meetings, as well as to record live videos of the UI as the apps run. (We've rigged up various hardware approaches to do this, although none of them reach the highest quality standards.) Well versed in video compression,...

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Daily Mac App: PopClip brings iOS-style copy and paste to your Mac

by Kelly Hodgkins Feb 8th 2012 11:00AM

PopClip is a lightweight Mac utility that improves your ability to work with text. It sits in the menu bar and gives you an iOS-style popup that lets you cut, copy and paste text. You can also search for the selected text, open text links, correct spelling, and more. It's a real time saver once you get accustomed to using it. That's...

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EFI Firmware Update brings Lion Internet Recovery to 2010-model Macs

by Chris Rawson Feb 7th 2012 11:30PM

Apple has released three EFI Firmware Updates for 2010-model Macs, including the iMac, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro. This update enables Lion Internet Recovery on those older Macs. Introduced in OS X Lion alongside the mid-2011 updates to the MacBook Air and Mac mini, Internet Recovery enables access to disk repair or OS X Lion...

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WiebeTech Drive eRazer Ultra provides super-secure drive wiping

by Steven Sande Feb 7th 2012 7:00PM

For Mac repair shops, enterprise tech support teams, and consultants who need to wipe all data off of hard drives before selling or recycling old Macs, there's now a fast way to erase those drives without tying up a machine for a long time. WiebeTech has a new device called the Drive eRazer Ultra (US$249) that promises to make cleaning...

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Daily Mac App: Book Palette adds ten new templates to iBooks Author

by Steven Sande Feb 7th 2012 2:00PM

That didn't take long. Only a few weeks after Apple's iBooks Author app debuted, template publisher Jumsoft began shipping Book Palette (US$2.99), a collection of ten professionally designed templates for iBooks Author. I had an opportunity to try Book Palette, which is packaged as a Mac app. Once installed from the Mac App Store and...

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Twelve South HoverBar a unique way to marry iPad and iMac

by Steven Sande Feb 7th 2012 1:00PM

The design wizards at Twelve South have come up with another unique and useful accessory for Apple gear. This time, they're introducing the HoverBar (US$79.99), a mounting clamp and flexible bar that floats an iPad 2 (or several) next to your iMac or Apple monitor. The HoverBar can be clamped onto the upright of an iMac or Apple...

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OS X 10.7.3 includes new high-res pointer icons, rampant speculation ensues

by Chris Rawson Feb 7th 2012 8:00AM

Soon after the 10.7.3 update to OS X Lion, people started finding subtle differences in the pointer icons for OS X (hat tip to Daring Fireball). Specifically, the link, grab, copy, and screenshot pointers have all been updated with slightly new iterations for the first time since OS X 10.2, released in 2002. The link pointer features a...

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Mike Daisey's "The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" is funny, forceful agitprop

by Michael Rose Feb 6th 2012 9:00PM

If you're looking for coverage of working conditions at Foxconn and other Apple manufacturing partners, there's plenty to go around. The drumbeat of sharply critical stories continued today with CNN's interview of a Foxconn worker; this follows a scathing New York Times story from late January that explores the gulf between electronics...

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Daily Mac app: Droplr

by Mel Martin Feb 6th 2012 9:00AM

Do you want to share files easily and quickly? Then take a look at Droplr, which has been around for some time and recently hit the Mac App Store in an improved version 2. Droplr is free and easy way to share images, documents and other files. You can run it from a web browser or the Mac app which lives in your menu bar. To share a...

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Snow Leopard security update revised to fix Rosetta issues

by Michael Rose Feb 4th 2012 1:30PM

As noted yesterday, many of the users who updated their OS X 10.6 systems with Apple's most recent security patches found themselves unable to run PowerPC legacy apps via the Rosetta compatibility layer. Today a new version of that update (Security Update 2012-001 v1.1) is now available, and it should resolve the issues. The latest...

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iBackFlip Somersault available for preorder; watch creator explain improvements

by Victor Agreda, Jr. Feb 3rd 2012 7:30PM

I met up with the guys behind iBackflip while at Macworld, and was impressed with their passion for design. Their first iBackflip was a pretty straightforward flip-down arm sling for the iPad. Using Velcro, it offered a basic black design and minimal extras. The new iBackflip Somersault, now available for pre-order, is a thoroughly...

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