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Talkcast tonight, 7pm PST/10pm EST: Beard Edition!
Once more we come to that point in the week where we ...
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Share between devices painlessly with Instashare
There will come a time when you would like to simply transfer a file from one iOS device ...
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Caturday: Mac mini is Biru's pillow
What can be more comfortable to a cat than a pillow that blows warm air out of an ...
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DevJuice: Spark Inspector offers real time iOS interface inpection
Spark Inspector (US$39.99 single-license) offers an exciting new development tool. Targeting devs looking ...
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Weekend Poll: What apps did you discover via the 50 billionth download contest?
On Wednesday, Apple sold its 50 billionth iOS app. ...
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Samsung follows Sharp in upping the ante for Retina displays, offering 276ppi
Following Sharp’s announcement of a 262ppi display, Samsung has gone even higher-res with the announcement of a 276ppi display in the form of a 13.3-inch QHD ...
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Inside AT&T’s 83GB/hour mobile cell tower …or why your iPhone no longer drops out at huge events
AT&T shared a little bit of what goes into a portable network cells they put up at special events where bandwidth needs will be extraordinary. Remember, AT&T’s ...
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Listen to our 9to5Mac Happy Hour (5/17/13)
Seth and Mark were traveling back from Google I/O this week, but Scott and Zac sat down to discuss what Google’s announcements mean for Apple ...
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Weekend 9to5Toys roundup: App freebies, 50% off SlickWraps, $30 Bluetooth keyboard, more
From 9to5Toys.com: 9to5Toys scours the net each day to bring our US readers the best deals in consumer electronics. Below are the absolute hottest deals ...
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“Bang with Friends” mysteriously pulled from App Store
Apple might have just ruined everyone’s weekend plans by pulling the provocative “Bang with Friends” iPhone app from the App Store. BWF, which is the ...
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How to Check an iTunes / App Store Account Balance Quickly from iOS & Mac OS X
Ever wanted to check the remaining balance of an Apple ID, so you know how much credit is remaining for iTunes, iBooks, or App Store ...
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How to Save Web Pages as PDF Files on the iPad & iPhone
One little feature that iOS really needs is the ability to natively “print to PDF” directly on the iPad and iPhone, a popular trick on ...
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How to View All Running Apps & Processes in Mac OS X
There are a variety of ways to see all applications or programs which are running on a Mac, ranging from only seeing “windowed” apps running ...
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How to Add Text to Photos Easily Using Preview in Mac OS X
Adding text to images is a fairly simple process to begin with that is made even easier with Preview, the basic image viewing app that ...
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Get a New iTunes MiniPlayer & Show Album Artwork with Songs in iTunes 11.0.3
Apple introduced an update to iTunes versioned as 11.0.3 which adds a few user interface refinements and some minor features. The update can be downloaded ...
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Turkish Prime Minister Visits Apple Ahead of Major Tablet Purchase [iOS Blog]
Anatolia News Agency reports that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan visited Apple yesterday as part of a tour of Silicon Valley companies ahead ...
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Apple and Sony 'iRadio' Negotiations Stalling Over Skipped Songs
Earlier today a report suggested that the launch of Apple’s upcoming streaming music service deemed “iRadio” ...
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Gameloft's 'N.O.V.A. 3' and 'Gangstar Rio: City of Saints' Are Free for the Weekend [iOS Blog]
Gameloft is offering up two of its most popular games for free this weekend. Both N.O.V.A. 3 – Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance and Gangstar ...
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Tightening MacBook Air Supplies at Resellers Hint at Upcoming Refresh
As noted by AppleInsider, MacBook Air supplies are beginning to dry up as Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference approaches. Currently, the
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Difficult Negotiations May Prevent 'iRadio' Launch at WWDC
Last week, we noted that Apple was still struggling to convince the major music labels to ...
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Clearing up Mac App Store confusion
Reader Jack Sanford is being lied to by the Mac App Store and would like to do something about it. He writes: When I checked for ...
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How to sync an Android phone to your Mac
Thanks to iCloud, syncing an iPhone with a Mac is a piece of cake. But Mac users who don’t buy into the whole “one vendor ...
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The Macalope Weekly: Missed connections
You can almost see the “missed connection” personal ads these pundits would write: “You: gullible reader, looking for more information about the technology industry. Me: ...
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The Week in iPad Cases: Just keep swimming
If you enjoyed this week’s roundup of iPhone cases, check out last week’s edition, Opposites Attract.
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Remains of the Day: Shape up, ship out
iOS devices are in the army now, Intel’s former CEO recounts his Apple misstep, and Apple’s got its work cut out for its WWDC keynote. ...
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Rumor: Production of Apple's 33% lighter fifth-gen iPad to begin in July
Trial production of Apple’s thinner and lighter fifth-generation iPad is rumored to begin soon, with full-scale volume production to kick off in July, according to ...
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Google engineers talk fragmentation, how to make Android work for emerging markets
This week’s Google I/O saw no announcements of any new versions of the company’s mobile operating system, Android, and that may be because the team ...
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Editorial: Apple's billions are building an empire for the future
Given that Apple now sits on well over $144.7 billion in liquid resources, there’s lots of discussion about how the company could or should be ...
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Review: AL13 raises the bar for iPhone bumper design
Designed by m has managed to craft one of the most exquisite and well designed iPhone bumpers we’ve ever seen ? in fact “bumper” seems ...
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10M Samsung flagship phones in 28 days a 'record,' 5M iPhone 5 in 3 days 'disappointing'
Samsung earned industry praise for estimating that it expected to ship 10 million units of its flagship Galaxy S4 to carriers in its first month ...
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Double Vision – TechFan Podcast #119
Download the show here Subscribe in iTunes Google Glass is the discussion this week, as well as Tim and David disagreeing on the state of ...
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Mac Hacks – Book Review
Mac Hacks - Tips & Tools for Unlocking the Power of OS X Author: Chris Seibold Publisher: O’Reilly Media Price: US $24.99 (print) | US $19.99 ...
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An AppleTV TV set? Why?
For quite some time various Apple watchers have been talking about an AppleTV as an actual television set. Oh so very high end with all ...
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Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad – Review
Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad Strotter Price: $170 Strotter’s unusual Platforma Messenger Bag for iPad is basically a high quality carrying case that can be ...
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iCookbook – App Review
iCookbook Company: Publications International, Ltd. Version: 3.1 Price: $4.99 Requires: iPhone 3GS and above, iPod touch 3rd generation and above, iPad, iOS 4.3 or later. ...
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Google whistleblower reveals massive tax avoidance scheme; ready to hand over 100,000 emails to UK authorities
A former Google executive has blown the whistle on a massive and ‘immoral’ tax avoidance scheme…
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Can Apple’s design guru Jony Ive fill Steve Jobs’ shoes?
When Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, 2011, many investors were afraid the company’s…
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Teen dies, run over trying to hold onto iPad during theft
It’s a natural instinct to resist if someone tries to steal something out of your hand…
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2013 MacBook Air: Coming sooner than later, but those wanting Retina display will have to wait
Intel and its OEMs are expected to begin shipping new Haswell…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook to propose ‘dramatic simplification’ of U.S. corporate tax laws
Apple chief executive Tim Cook plans to propose a ‘dramatic simplification’ of corporate tax laws…
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Screenhero: Work Together Across Screens
Undoubtedly the first time you used a real-time collaborative web tool like Google Docs, you were wowed. I definitely was, and ...
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Let Organize:Me Help You Turn Todo Into Done
In the continuing search for the perfect task management app, I’m trying out Organize:Me. More than just simple todos, Organize:Me gives ...
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Viber for Mac: Video Calling, Sync, and Easy Call Transfers
Since 2004, I’ve used Skype for free calls and instant messaging between friends, clients, and loved ones abroad. And because of ...
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Cloud Storage Without Using up Local Storage with The New ExpanDrive 3
Cloud storage is anything but a panacea for small SSDs. You might have 25Gb of iCloud storage, or 100Gb in Dropbox, ...
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Weekly Poll: What’s Your Favorite Built-in OS X App?
You’re the oddball. There’s that one built-in Mac app that everyone else replaces, and yet, you love it. It’s built-in, works ...
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1970s PanAm Life Rafts Repurposed As iPhone Cases
Last seen wrapping the iPhone in chopped-up fire hoses, the folks at Station Supply ...
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WeatherPro Now Supports Your Own Netatmo Backyard Weather Station
There are probably more slick-looking weahter apps in the app stoire than there are ...
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Single Sheet Of Leather Folds Into $385 iPad Bag
Question: Do you associate complexity with value? That is, do you think that an ...
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This Bumper Case Has Packaging That Doubles As A Stylish Stand
The Atrio case, a Kickstarter project from Craftwerk USA, is an aluminum bumper that’ll ...
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Clipping Magic Brings Photo Background Removal To Your Mac’s Browser
One of the coolest features of Photoshop for iOS is the "Scribble Select" tool. ...
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Game Spending for iOS Outpaced 3DS, Vita in Early 2013
On the off chance that you need further evidence of mobile gaming’s rapidly changing landscape, IDC and App Annie recently released the results ...
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Free App Friday: Realtor.com Rentals
Summer is rapidly approaching, and with that comes the burden of moving. Whether your family is expanding and ...
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Overnight Recap: MacBook Air Firmware, eBay Updates, BlueHarvest 5.5
It’s our last recap of the week, which means the weekend is once again upon us! There ...
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Karateka Classic Review
If you were a gamer with an Apple II in the mid-’80s, there are a few names likely to stir nostalgic echoes somewhere deep in ...
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Windows Phone Passes BlackBerry in Q1 Smartphone Shipments
To the surprise of virtually no one, Android and iOS dominated almost all of ...
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All Things D: Yahoo Board Approves $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Tumblr
Kara Swisher: As part of the deal, Tumblr CEO David Karp — who got a windfall of cash from the deal — will stay at Yahoo ...
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EA Sports Developer Calls Wii U ‘Crap’ and Nintendo ‘Walking Dead’
Owen Good, Kotaku: At the end of a week in which Electronic Arts confirmed it wasn’t developing a thing for the Wii U, one of the ...
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Bloomberg’s Lazy Apple Bias
Starting to get silly at this point. ★
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‘Blinking or Winking, as They Relieved Themselves’
Nick Bilton on the pervasiveness of Google Glass at I/O. ★
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Everything Apple Needs to Introduce at WWDC to Appease the Internet
Justin Williams: With WWDC just a few weeks away, I thought it’d be beneficial to the Internet at large to compile a working list of everything ...
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How iPads, apps and YouTube can be a band’s best practice tools
While OS X continues to be a starting point for my music, I find now when it comes to rehearsals, everything I need is on ...
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Games for the weekend: Skylanders Cloud Patrol
A carnival-style shooting game that resembles Fruit Ninja — except the targets are trolls, not fruit.
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Surprise: Yahoo’s mobile push is working better than you think
… according to new statistics from Onavo, which tracks actual use of mobile apps and games by “millions” of iOS users.
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Apple may not have answer for Google’s music service at WWDC
Reports indicate Apple is still working out the licensing details with music publishers for its “iRadio” service.
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Apple CEO will detail his corporate tax policy ideas to Congress next week
It’s an unfamiliar role for an Apple executive to be in. But Tim Cook will say that while he believes 35 percent is too high ...
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Tim Cook hints about US-built Mac
Tim Cook has again talked about the Mac Apple will build in the US later this year. The Apple CEO told US politics website, Politico ...
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Apple announces fifty billion downloads from App Store
Apple confirmed today that the 50 billionth app has been downloaded from the App Store. The milestone was reached when a man from Ohio, Brandon ...
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Google beats Apple to launch streaming music service
Google used the keynote at its I/O developer conference today to launch a streaming music service, the snappily-titled Google Play Music All Access. The new ...
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Hadfield Space Oddity recorded on iPad using Garageband
International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield’s video of Space Oddity was recorded on an iPad using Garageband, according to his son Evan. In a discussion ...
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Daft Punk album available to stream in full on iTunes Store
The long-awaited new album from French duo Daft Punk is now available to stream on the iTunes Store. The album, Random Access Memories, is due ...
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Save disk space by deleting copies of Mail attachments
By default, Mail will keep file attachments that you’ve opened or viewed in your ~/Library/Mail Downloads folder, until you delete the associated email. You can ...
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Fix for missing "Assign to..." Mission Control bug in 10.8.x
Having originally upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7, all of my applications’ desktop assignments in (now) Mission Control were already set. I recently decided to wipe ...
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Set up Facebook chat in OS X Messages
You can set up Facebook chat in Messages. Since Facebook uses Jabber, all you need to know is your user name, and you can create ...
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Disable swipe gesture to go back and forward in Chrome
A Stack Exchange user asked a question a while back: is it possible to turn off the swipe gesture in Chrome that goes back ...
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Easy way to open new Finder window in same folder as frontmost window
You recently published a hint explaining how to open a new Finder window in the same folder as the frontmost window, using an AppleScript. ...



