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Daily iPad App: Sector 33

Do you think you have what it takes to be an air traffic controller? Before you're responsible for hundreds of lives, you should test your flight controlling skills with NASA's latest iOS app, Sector 33. Sector 33 is a game similar to Flight Control ...

Daily Mac App: Saturn

I've just spent a pleasant hour exploring Saturn, which is free for a short time in the Mac App Store. The GUI is based on LCARS (Library Computer Access/Retrieval System) featured on some of the Star Trek shows and films. The app has a massive amount...

Flowfold iPad sleeve: a water-resistant case with an eco-friendly footprint

If you live in an area that gets warm rain in the summer or cold rain in the winter, then you'll want to check out the iPad sleeve from Flowfold. It's a basic sleeve that'll protect your iPad from the elements. It's made of recycled materials, which ...

Retro Heaven: Bill Gates’s 1980s Game Donkey Returns For iOS [Review]

donkey.jpgBack in 1981, Bill Gates co-wrote a PC game called Donkey, commonly known (as some apps were back in those days) by its filename, DONKEY.BAS. If you’re old enough to remember those days and old enough to yearn for them, you might enjoy playing...

Hands on with NuTouch Gloves

iPhone owners who live in cold climates have many solutions for staying warm while using their devices. I've seen gloves with metal dots on their fingers, cutoff gloves with caps that transform into mittens, and gloves with conductive fabric tips des...

Evi Siri-Alike Tries Hard To Please [Review]

evi1.jpgMeet one-eyed Evi, a one-dollar alternative to Siri which works on older (non-4S) iPhones. She’s had a bit of a rough introduction to life, thanks to a much-hyped launch followed by 24 hours or so of struggling to keep up with demand. All my...

Serenity App Hopes To Soothe Away The Worries Of The Day [Review]

serenity.jpgNew from Tap Tap Tap is Serenity, a relaxation app for iPhone or iPad. Relaxation app? What’s one of those? It’s an app for relaxing by; in this case, a digital jukebox of all things peaceful, calm, tranquil, and imperturbable. It plays sounds and...

Feature: Is Lion Server suitable for home use? Ars investigates

Jorge Herskovic, a member of our community, wrote up a detailed account of his own experience working with OS X Lion Server for the benefit of our Mac forum readers. We asked Herskovic to expand...

iBooks Author: An ebook publisher looks at Apple’s textbook creation app

TUAW's Erica Sadun and I are ebook publishers. Late last year, we started up an ebook publishing company -- Sand Dune Books -- and were fortunate to hit a publishing home run right off the bat with our book "Talking to Siri." Since we're familiar with...

Daily iPhone App: Async Corp

Async Corp. is about as charming as a puzzle game gets. There are a few flaws with it (most notably that the game does a terrible job of actually telling you how to play, but I'll fix that in a second), but it's just so cute and so charmingly devised...

Pad & Quill’s cases: Classy covers for iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air

Pad & Quill has been making book-bound iPad and iPhone cases for a couple of years. By book-bound, I mean that the cases made using traditional book-binding materials and techniques. Like DODOcase, the cases have evolved a bit over the years to ...

xScope 3 out today, design tool adds mirroring and other new features

My non-TUAW job is in print journalism, where I spend my nights as a designer for a newspaper in central Pennsylvania. Part of that work involves being able to estimate, from the glance at a photo in InDesign or a paper dummy, how much of a story I ...