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Now You Can Get All Of iLife And iWork On iPad [iPad 3 Event]

iphoto.jpgApple just announced new apps and updates for its iLife and iWork apps on iOS, as part of today’s new iPad announcement. Now both collections are available – in full – for iPad. Here’s an overview of what’s new. Phil Schiller said proudly: “We’ve...

Python’s Hunt For Holy Grail Continues On iPad – One For True Fans Only [Review]

pythongrail.jpgFans of Monty Python, gather your dead parrots and your stuffed John Cleese plushies: today is your day to celebrate the official launch of Monty Python: The Holy Book of Days for iPad, an app that gives faithful Python followers everything they could ever...

Keep Calm And Make Posters [Review]

keepcalmapp.jpgThis simple image has become a cliché in the UK in recent years, and is now much parodied and remixed everywhere you look. Now you can remix it yourself, thanks to an app for iOS. First, some background. The phrase “Keep Calm and Carry...

Pxl Gives Your Photos A Generous Dose Of Weird [Review]

photo.JPGYesterday we showed you how to make your own gorgeous pixel art with The Grix. Today we’re looking at pixels again, this time with a clever new photo toy for iOS called pxl, by Rainer Kohlberger. Apps that pixellate and otherwise mess with your...

Certainly The Smallest Camera Of Its Kind, But The Pentax Q Isn’t The Best [Review]

P1020547.jpgFirst things first: Pentax calls this “the smallest, lightest interchangeable lens camera in the world,” and they’re dead right. This camera is small. You thought your micro four-thirds camera was small, but it’s huge compared to the Pentax Q. It’s hard to appreciate just...

Camera Awesome: Quite Awesome, But Awesomizer Could Be Awesomer [Review]

cameraawesome.jpgCamera Awesome is a new all-singing, all-dancing photo app on the iOS Store this week. But just how awesome is it? Brought to you by photo sharing site SmugMug, the first noticeable thing about this app is the price: it’s free. There are no...

Use Slick Grix For Pixel Art Tricks [Review]

grix.jpgThe Grix is a cool new $5 pixel editor for iOS, with wide appeal for serious pixel artists and anyone looking for a creative way of killing a dull moment. Grix art is shown on a grid. Below it is a tray of pixel...

Social Music Player Tomahawk Finds Songs Everywhere, Including The Net [Review]

tomahawk.jpgHere’s Tomahawk, a music player with a difference: it plays music from anywhere and almost everywhere. Not necessarily music from your collection, either. When you first open it up, it does index your iTunes library, so all the songs from there are available to...

TinkerTool Is A Useful Pocket Knife For Tweaking Your Mac’s Hidden Controls [50 Mac Essentials #50]

tinkertool-icon.jpgTinkerTool is the Swiss Army knife you need for your Mac. With its blades you can activate – or deactivate – all sorts of features that are normally hidden from view. What sort of features? Here are a few of them: Speed up the...

Raspberry Pi Now On Sale

raspberrypi-schematic.jpgRaspberry Pi, the $35 computer-on-a-board developed by a team from Cambridge, UK, went on sale at 6am GMT this morning. Although the Raspberry Pi team went to great lengths to ensure their own website was prepared for the traffic spike, its two retail partners...

Launch Center Puts More Of iOS At Your Fingertips [Review]

launchcenter.jpgI first heard about Launch Center from my old TUAW colleague Dave Caolo when he began writing a series of posts about it on his excellent 52 Tiger blog. Read what Dave writes, and take careful note of his wise words: Launch Center is...

ThumbTack Menu Widget Puts Your Pinboard Links In Easy Reach [Review]

thumbtack.jpgThumbTack is a Menu Bar utility for OS X that puts your most recent Pinboard bookmarks in easy reach, no matter what application you’re using. Once you’ve signed in, an unobtrusive pin icon appears in your Menu Bar. Click this and you’ll see, in...