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TUAW’s Daily App: Mirror’s Edge

Usually, we like to use this space to highlight developers and apps that could use a little more exposure, not call out big-budget titles from developers like Electronic Arts. But this one’s worth it — Mirror’s Edge is a pretty terrific, completely original translation of the plaforming game that arrived on consoles last year. It [...]
Sep 4th, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Apps, Budget Titles, Consoles, Daily, Daily Mirror, Display Graphics, Ea, EDGE, Eight Months, Electronic Arts, Fri, Game Publishers, Heck, Heroine, iPad, Iphone, Launch, Mechanics, Mirror's, Premise, Retina, Rooftops, Tuaw, TUAW's -
iTunes 101: Using the Album Art widget

Here’s a cool new feature in iTunes 10 that we haven’t mentioned yet: when listening to any song in your library, you can double click on the album art window in the lower left hand corner to detach it from the main window and see it full size. That’s not new — you could get [...]
Sep 4th, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Album, Album Art, Apple Weblog, Art Window, Click Art, Closer Look, Coversutra, Fri, Functionality, Itunes, Left Hand Corner, Music, Nbsp, New Feature, Party Apps, Previous Versions, Replicates, Third Party, Tuaw, using, Widget, Zoom -
Apple trailers page adds showtimes and theater maps

Since people still seem to want to leave their houses and go to the movies (despite Apple’s best efforts to keep them firmly on their couches), the iTunes Movie Trailers site now features a sophisticated Showtimes view. This HTML5-savvy offering uses location awareness in your browser to show the movies playing nearest you, along with [...]
Sep 4th, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: adds, Apple, Apple Trailers, Apple Weblog, Best Efforts, Couches, Firefox, Fri, iPad, Iphone, Little Bit, Location Awareness, Maps, Movie Trailers, Movies, Nbsp, page, People, Safari, Screening Schedule, showtimes, Theater, Theater Maps, Ticket Purchases, trailers, Tuaw -
Analyst: Apple producing more iPads

Analyst Katy Huberty from Morgan Stanley tells All Things D that she believes Apple is ramping up production on the iPad, aiming to build as many as three million a month by the end of this year. That would mean that the company could make 36 million iPads next year, which brings the total close [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under Tuaw -
Why I’m not excited about the new Apple TV

I’ll admit it. I’ll buy almost anything Apple makes. I was going to hold out on the iPad, but after reading more about it, I wound up in line the first day it was for sale. As they say, resistance is futile.
That’s not the case with the Apple TV. When Apple brings a product out, [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: About, Apple, Apple Tv, Apple Weblog, Apple Works, Classic Apple, Classic Tv, excited, Fri, Hookup, iPad, Loaded, Nbsp, Oldies, Resistance, Tuaw, Tv Commercials, Tv Product, Tv Show, Tv Vcr, Vhs -
iOS surpasses Linux as browsing platform

Seems like only yesterday that Linux was vastly outpacing iOS in terms of how many were using it as a browsing platform. Actually, make that last November; at that time, Linux’s presence more than doubled the total iOS stake. Now, iOS-based browsers claim 1.13 percent of all browsing platforms, compared to a declining 0.85 percent [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Analytics, Apple Weblog, Browsers, Browsing, Desktop Os, Fri, Google, Last November, Linux, Nbsp, Os Users, platform, Platforms, Presence, Screengrab, Stake, surpasses, Time Linux, Traffic, Tuaw -
Fixing broken iTunes Automator workflows in iTunes 10

If you depend on Automator workflows for managing music or other tasks in iTunes, the upgrade to version 10 may have come as a bit of a cold shock. Macworld pointed out that most available workflows for iTunes simply would not load with iTunes 10; a frustrating circumstance, to be sure.
Fortunately, the problem turns out [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Apple Weblog, Automator, Broken, Circumstance, Cold Shock, Fixing, Fri, Functionality, Itunes, Macworld, Managing Music, Nbsp, Threshold, Tuaw, workflows -
Apple awarded new patents

This past week, Apple had a host of new patents officially approved by the US Patent and Trademark Office. From streamlining the way images are rendered to preventing the accidental opening of applications, a large chunk of the patents seem to relate to the ways that a user interacts with a device. Macsimum News has [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Apple, awarded, Basis One, Chunk, Computer Devices, Cupertino, Daily Basis, Fri, How To Spell A Word, Input Device, Iphone, Patent And Trademark Office, Patents, Profound Difference, Safari Search, Search Bar, Search Feedback, Search Query, Touch Input, Tuaw, Us Patent And Trademark, Us Patent And Trademark Office, Web Browser Application -
TUAW Review: Twitter for iPad

As soon as the official Twitter app for iPad (free) hit the App Store, you could tell that it was going to be a controversial app. Immediately, the twitterverse was filled with people either commenting on how much they loved the innovative and unique user interface, and others ranting about how much they despised the [...]
Sep 3rd, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Apple Weblog, Bloggers, Cigarette, Fri, Initial Reaction, iPad, Nbsp, New Features, Review, Tuaw, Twitter, Ui, User Interface -
TUAW’s Daily App: Zentomino HD

There are lots of frantic action games available on the App Store, but sometimes all you want to do is get home, sit down with your iPad, and relax with a fun puzzle. Zentomino is a game that lets you do exactly that. It’s a very zen take on the “pentomino” puzzle game, requiring you [...]
Aug 29th, 2010 | Filed under TuawTags: Action Games, Ads, Apple Weblog, Colorful Shapes, Couch, Daily, Flair, Frantic Action, Fri, Fun Game, Hd, iPad, Iphone, Lot, Nbsp, Pentomino Puzzle, Puzzle Game, Puzzles, Relax, Tuaw, TUAW's, Zen, Zentomino
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