Archive for November 25th, 2009

Holiday Gift Guide: The Perfect iPhone Ringtone

Filed under: Humor , Holidays Looking to get something for that new, special 3G or 3GS owner that doesn’t cost a lot of money? Or even a little something for yourself

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Cook that turkey, drink that wine! Five cooking apps for Thanksgiving

Filed under: iPhone , Holidays , App Store , iPod touch Are you ready for the Thanksgiving Day feast tomorrow? If you’re a typical American, the day will go something like this — wake up, watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV, watch some football, eat some snacks, cook and eat a huge feast, watch some more football while dozing, eat some dessert, take some Maalox, and go to bed with visions of Black Friday in your mind.

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New Swype Technology For Typing Text Launched For Smartphones – Will It Replace QWERTY?

A lot of mobile phones today, including the iPhone, have made typing easier by providing QWERTY keyboards. But can typing on mobile handsets get much more easier than this? Swyping is an upcoming technology that strives to achieve just that

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API Glitch Breaks Facebook App For Smartphone Users

When Joe Hewitt quit the Facebook app development team earlier this month, the company’s VP of Communications, Elliot Schrage had said that a “great team of engineers” would be replacing Hewitt. The question of whether the team has lived up to the expectations of their VP has now risen with…

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A Dozen Daily Deals

Filed under: Deals ‘Tis the season to start shopping until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely , depending on your interpretation of the term holiday ). In that spirit, for the next few days we’ll be rounding up a dozen daily deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com . Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this handy summary.

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Review: vTie and vTie Premium for iPhone

If you’re an occasional wearer of neckties or a student just getting a start in the working world, both of these apps from Lab48 offer a handy reference for assorted knots and how to tie them.

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Do Android & WebOS need iPod touch clones?

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Dan Frommer’s post this morning over at Silicon Alley Insider suggests that one of the missing pieces from the competitive pie, as far as Google and Palm’s mobile OS offerings are concerned, is a 3G-free & contractless device. Something, perhaps, like the iPod touch

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Daily Deals: Free ITunes, EA iPhone Apps and Parallels 5.0

While you wait for the bird, the pies and the Thanksgiving Day football, check out some of the deals for your iPhone, iPod and Mac. Nothing goes better with gorging yourself on apple pie than yet another freebie from iTunes. This time we have Royce da 5′9″ “Something to Ride.” Next up is a number

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iChapaev Puts a Russian Twist on Checkers

iChapaev by MaxNick is supposedly fashioned after a Russian board game, but I have no real idea. At first glance, it resembles checkers a great deal

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Featured job of the week: Mac developer for graphics focused project

Filed under: TUAW Business , TUAW Tips Job Description Join an award-winning ex-Apple graphic designer as well as a respected computer vision/graphics researcher, with patents licensed by a number of well-known technology brands, to take a patent-pending technology and build it into a best-of-class Mac application. We are looking for a talented developer with a passion for building creative solutions in the graphics space. Candidate will be responsible for overseeing software development, testing and launch

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Study: iPhone Owners ‘More Willing’ To Pay For Digital Content

iPhone owners are more willing to pay for digital content than the wider online audience, two new UK surveys find. The results may support publishers looking to the iPhone to boost sales of digital magazines, video and other material.

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UK to get 4th carrier for iPhone

Filed under: iPhone When I visited Liverpool last month, I saw that Tesco was everywhere — as big box store, as a gas station, in smaller markets, and even Tesco Mobile , a joint venture with O2. So, it’s no surprise to me to hear that Tesco is planning to offer the iPhone at its stores in the UK

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Apple’s Got AT&T’s Back In The Current Carrier Bar Brawl. Or, Wait, Is Its Back Up Against The Wall?

They’ve been out for the last few days, so you’ve probably already seen one or both of the two new TV spots where Apple hops in to aid AT&T.

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