Feature: The Asus Zenbook: a steely marvel with an appalling trackpad
Following the runaway success of the slim and powerful MacBook Air, PC manufacturers have finally arrived on the scene with their own blade-thin models. The Asus Zenbook is one of the first compelling "ultrabooks" and...
Feature: Butterfly milking and pig nibbling: building the strange world of Glitch
Stewart Butterfield had a dream.
He wanted to build a game that was different from anything else he had played. He wanted to start a company to build that game and then make...
Deep dive: Aperture and Photo Stream, how do they work?
I'm a bit of a shutterbug, so Photo Stream is something I was really interested in when it was announced as part of iOS 5's feature set way back in June. Frictionless, automated sending of photos from my phone to my computer? Sign me up!
Of course...
Five apps to replace your iOS Calendar
Calendars are the cornerstone of our busy 21st century lives. Without them, many would not remember the long list of things they need to do and all the places they need to go. For some, the iOS default calendar is suitable, but many people want a ca...
MacTech 2011: Guy Kawasaki’s keynote address
Guy Kawasaki was the keynote speaker for the first day of MacTech 2011. Instead of a talk about Enchantment or Bozosity, this talk took a different turn: It was about Steve Jobs.
Specifically, it was about what Guy had learned from Steve and fro...
Feature: Burn, media, burn! Why we destroy comics, disco records, and TVs
On July 4, 1975 a group of artists assembled in front of the Cow Palace in San Francisco and delivered a legendary performance piece called "Media Burn." Members of the Ant Farm collective stacked a...
iHealth HS3 Bluetooth Body Scale reveals your weight to iOS
While my long-term quest for fitness has been stymied by a severe lack of motivation to actually get off of my butt and exercise, it comforts me to know that there are plenty of health-related iOS accessories to help me to at least track my stagna...
Feature: The seed of something great: Acorn 3.1 reviewed
When we reviewed Pixelmator 1.6.2 eight months ago, many readers were quick to demand a review of their favorite Mac OS X image editor: Acorn. We decided to hold out for the next major release—so here we are with a...
Talking to Siri: the Wolfram Alpha search tricks video
On Friday, I posted a list of ten nifty Wolfram Alpha tricks you could use with Siri. They were inspired from an ebook that Steve Sande and I collaborated on.
After the post was published, we received several emails and comments saying "every time...
NaNoWriMo: Some helpful hints and tools
This morning, I noticed a tweet from @rvbelzen that said, "As a NaNoWriMo veteran, do you have any tips for this NaNoWriMo newbie, maybe an article you wrote about it?" Most of the posts that I've done about National Novel Writing Month for TUAW hav...
iOS 5 and the TUAW iPhone app
As those of you using the free TUAW iPhone app in iOS 5 have already seen, there are a few issues with it; missing buttons, some broken functionality, et cetera. While we were expecting that the AOL team handling mobile development for us & al...
iBaby monitor: Keeping an iOS eye on your little one
One of the nicest things about Apple's iOS mobile operating system becoming ubiquitous is that accessory manufacturers are coming out with some wonderful devices that work with your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. The latest is one that new parents are...
