Tag: TUAW

Our sister site, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (aka TUAW) just made a move that I think is perfectly fitting for a blog about all things Apple: they've launched a free iPhone app. The TUAW app is like the TUAW RSS feed on steroids, offering all of the site's content, categories and selected galleries, in one slick little package. There's even a built-in mini browser, so you don't have to jump back ...

If you're a Mac user, did you know that Tetris comes with your Mac? Have a look through your Applications folder - you won't find it there. Thanks to Cory over at TUAW, I now know that Tetris is an Easter Egg that can be found in the Terminal application. Here are the steps to get the game going: Open Terminal, which you can find in the Utilities sub-folder in your Applications folder In ...

Thanks Microsoft. No seriously, thanks. As far as I can tell, the new .docx default document format in MS Word 2007 and 2008 (for Mac) does nothing to make my life easier, but has certainly made it more of a pain. Although my office predominantly uses Office 2003, our users are starting to receive documents saved in the newer .docx format, and are unable to open or edit them. Since I happen to ...

When we heard that AOL (this blog's parent company) was coming out with a new version of Desktop for Mac, we were pretty excited to see what they'd been up to since the last release five years ago. Now that we've had a chance to play with it, we like it but think it's still got a ways to go before there's a compelling reason to leave behind whatever browser / IM / email combo you're using now. ...

If you love your Mac but still need or want to run Windows, Linux, or Solaris, then VMware's Fusion is worth a look. Though it's still in beta and not expected to launch until later this summer, this virtualization tool gives you access to all the apps in a second operating system without requiring a reboot to access them. We downloaded it to a MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo and then installed Windows ...

If you are a reader of our sister (or brother) site TUAW, you may have seen this covered a little while back. Spyder is a handy offline MySpace client for Mac OS X by Michael K. Link that you may find useful if you are a hardcore MySpace user. Its clean interface, which seems to be inspired by a little bit iTunes 7, a little bit Delicious Library, allows you to manage your social network with ...

If you a) are an Apple fan (or are just Mac-curious) and b) enjoy refreshing your browser, you should do what I'm doing and head over to our sister blog TUAW, where they're liveblogging Steve Jobs' keynote right now. Speculation as to whether any Earth-shattering plans will be revealed today is rampant as ever--iPhone? iTV? iBex? Tune in to find out. If your reloading finger gets tired and you're ...

Chris Pirillo has an interesting take on the whole Vista versus Leopard debate and why Vista will only hurt Microsoft and help Apple. He says Vista will help Apple double its market-share. Is he wrong? I generally agree with what he says in this article, because frankly I think he's right. I am not sure if I am a Vista fan, I like the user interface and eye-candy, but the way it functions just ...

DLS reader and FreeMacBlog webmaster Brian has put up a nice summary of the the available screen recording options for the Mac (at least the affordable ones). The list is a good rundown that features some old favorites as well as some new players. His pick of the litter is iShowU. Actually, it seems, surprisingly, to be the only real contender. None of the other options offer audio and video ...

I always hem and haw over featuring individual widgets, but this one I couldn't resist: Chi Pet is a Dashboard widget for OS X that simulates, ah.. having a Chia Pet. I'm not quite sure what kind of animal it's supposed to be-maybe a turtle?-but it's definitely cute. Like a real Chia Pet, Chi Pet starts out orange and naked and, if you keep it watered (by clicking on the droplet icon every two ...

Folks I've tried 'em all, del.icio.us, Furl, even my .Mac's ability to sync Safari bookmarks online... And what I've wound up with is a mishmash of bookmarks all over creation, some with tags, some without. I don't know if WebnoteHappy is the ultimate answer, as it doesn't necessarily push the list to the web (more on this in a minute), but it does have a lot to offer. For instance, I switch ...

I remember Claris. What a great little tool, ClarisWorks. Then Apple snarfed the company back up, and it became AppleWorks. And let's face it, aside from an ugly port to OS X, AppleWorks has remained the "free with your iBook" crappy Office knockoff it's been for years. But I had no idea they still offered AppleWorks for Windows. What a world. And why bother? OpenOffice is fantastic in ...

So you've put Windows XP on your Mac. What now? As someone who has to constantly switch between the two, I have a few tips. There are problems inherent in dual-booting, as opposed to running a virtual machine inside another OS (virtualization has its own issues of course). The big one for me is the issue of data storage. While I need to use USB memory sticks at work to move data from my iBook to a ...

TUAW's David Chartier dropped us a line to point us to Simply Google, a sort of meta-homepage for Google's many, many services. In addition to the requisite Google search box, it also has search boxes for Images, Groups, Books, Blogs, and so on and so on, plus links to other Google sites like Analytics, Personalized Home, and Gmail, plus all of Google's blogs (and their feeds). Simply Google also ...

I tried this on my Mac and PC and it seems to provide just a little relief. If you recall, Firefox tends to eat memory during browsing, especially if you use a lot of tabs. For each tab, each page will cache several pages back and forward. This is nice if you want speed, but bad if you have several tabs open at once, all active in different Windows. While some said this was a memory leak, Mozilla ...