On Wednesday, Apple sold its 50 billionth iOS app. TUAW was there keeping track of the excitement and monitoring the iTunes store. Many of our colleagues and readers used this contest as an opportunity to stock up on numerous free apps, to test and e…
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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. TUAW was there keeping track of the excitement and monitoring the iTunes store. Many of our colleagues and readers used this contest as an opportunity to stock up on numerous free apps, to test and e…
MacBook Air supply dwindling as WWDC approaches
It’s clearly not the best time to be looking for a MacBook Air — 13-inch versions are in especially short supply. The reason for the shortage will be obvious to those who follow Apple closely: it’s almost time for the Apple World Wide Developer Conf…
Apple's 50 billionth app contest winner saved up five app purchases
21-year-old Brandon Ashmore of Mentor, Ohio has a lot to smile about as the winner of a $10,000 gift card from Apple for being the person who downloaded the 50 billionth app from the App Store. Ashmore told NewsChannel5 in Cleveland that he had saved…
Apple's 50 billionth app contest winner saved up five app purchases
Brandon Ashmore, a 21-year-old from Mentor, Ohio, has a lot to smile about as the winner of a US$10,000 gift card from Apple for being the person who downloaded the 50 billionth app from the App Store. Ashmore told NewsChannel5 in Cleveland that he h…
DevJuice: Apple's ObjC-JavaScript Bridge
In a new post at his Steamclock Software blog, Nigel Brooke writes how Apple has added new Objective-C-to-Javascript bridging to WebKit:
“This new API supports straightforward embedding of the JavaScriptCore interpreter into native Objective-C pro…
Tim Cook talks about US-made Mac with Politico
Last year, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple was bringing production of an existing Mac line to the US. Cook shared some additional details on the project in an interview with Politco that was published yesterday.
Besides being assembled in th…
Apple's Retina display aids accessibility
Macworld blogger Steven Aquino wrote a fascinating piece today on how Apple’s Retina display technology has helped him — a legally blind individual with extremely low vision — to be able to enjoy Apple’s products as if he had no vision limitation…
Apple's Retina display aids accessibility
Macworld blogger Steven Aquino wrote a fascinating piece today on how Apple’s Retina display technology has helped him — a legally blind individual with extremely low vision — to be able to enjoy Apple’s products as if he had no vision limitation…
Apple to re-locate flagship store in San Francisco
Attendees of Macworld/iWorld and WWDC have always known that if they needed an Apple fix during their conference stay, they could walk over to the Apple Store at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets. The SFGate blog is reporting that the company …
Preview, sips, and more: OS X image processing tools
On a recent trip, I found I had failed to add copies of my auto-resizing drop tools to my travel MacBook Air. My droplets allow me to convert images to TUAW-standard sizes, namely 225 pixels for small images and 456 pixels for banner images. (See? In…
Apple announces 50 billionth app download, contest winner
Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio hit the App Store lottery yesterday by downloading the 50 billionth app to be served by Apple’s App Store. Namely, it was Say The Same Thing by Space Inch that allowed Brandon to collect his prize, and what a prize i…
App Store Downloads Surpass 50 Billion Milestone
Apple’s App Store hit 50 billion downloads a couple of hours ago, and the one lucky user who happened to download the 50 billionth app will be receiving a $10,000 gift card for the App Store. If you happened to be one of the 50 people who downloaded so…
App Store Downloads Surpass 50 Billion Milestone
Apple’s App Store hit 50 billion downloads a couple of hours ago, and the one lucky user who happened to download the 50 billionth app will be receiving a $10,000 gift card for the App Store. If you happened to be one of the 50 people who downloaded so…
Daily Update for May 15, 2013
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 …
Bids for Tim Cook Coffee Chat End at $610K
Somebody just paid $610,000 for a coffee date, and it wasn’t in Seattle. That’s right, the bidding just ended for the Tim Cook charity coffee chat for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights that we reported on back in April (at the…
Siri update prompts users to be brief
Apple’s voice interaction system Siri has been updated, this time specifically to ask users to keep it short. Siri’s system doesn’t deal well with longer user queries, so if you happen to ask something that’s just too long for Siri to deal with, sh…
Siri update prompts users to be brief
Apple’s voice interaction system Siri has been updated, this time specifically to ask users to keep it short. Siri’s system doesn’t deal well with longer user queries, so if you happen to ask something that’s just too long for Siri to deal with, sh…
Apple job postings suggest iWork team is growing
Just when you think that Apple has decided to totally ignore iWork, along comes news that the company has added job postings for a number of positions on the iWork team.
The last official release of the iWork suite — Pages, Numbers and Keynote — i…
T-Mobile raises iPhone down payment amount
The launch of the iPhone 5 on the T-Mobile USA network last month was greeted with a lot of fanfare and a new pricing structure — customers could pick up a 16 GB iPhone 5 with a US$99.99 down payment and then make 24 payments of $20 to purchase the …