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The MacBook Air turns four years old today

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 15th, 2012)

Four years ago today, Apple introduced the MacBook Air, then the world's thinnest notebook. It was Steve Jobs's last Macworld appearance and the next to last Macworld keynote for Apple. The presentation is a classic Steve Jobs performance. The keynote has his usual smooth delivery, a genuine ...

Lorex Home Video Monitoring System links with Skype, has wireless monitor

by Steven Sande (Jan 13th, 2012)

One accessory category that always seems to stir up reader interest is wireless webcams. We've seen our share of them over the last year: the Stem Innovations iZon (US$129.95), the iBaby Monitor ($199.95), and the WiFi Baby 3G ($279) among others. Lorex, a manufacturer of a number of security ...

Matias Slim One keyboard at CES

by Kelly Guimont (Jan 13th, 2012)

Yesterday I got a chance to chat with Steve McGowan of the Matias Corporation about one of their new products, the Slim One Keyboard. It's a fabulous idea, really: Take the form factor of the Apple Wireless Keyboard, and give it a button in the top right that says "iPhone". You've got your ...

TUAW TV Live: A refreshing respite from CES 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 11th, 2012)

Apple's upstaged the entire CES 2012 event by announcing their own education event on January 19 at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, so now I'll continue the trend by demonstrating some real shipping products for Apple equipment. Who wants to hear CES rumors about products that may never ship? ...

Video shows face recognition unlock for iPhone

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

One of the features that graces the screens of many Android 4.0 phones is FaceUnlock, which uses facial recognition technology to unlock a phone rather than a simple swipe or swiping and entering a passcode. Now some devs have ported that capability to iOS and are promising that the capability ...

Proof of concept: iOS apps on jailbroken Apple TV

by Michael Rose (Jan 2nd, 2012)

If you're eager for the possibilities for a fully app-enabled Apple TV, the jailbreak hacker geniuses are right there with you. Last week saw some proof of concept demonstrations from Steve Troughton-Smith and @TheMudkip, featuring native applications running on the iOS-based settop ...

TUAW TV Live: The 2nd anniversary show

by Steven Sande (Dec 21st, 2011)

Yep, as noted in the promo post earlier today, this is the second anniversary of the TUAW TV Live show. Over those 104 weeks, I've managed to demonstrate hundreds of new Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps and accessories, have a bunch of fun visitors, and have enjoyed the rantings of the regulars in ...

TUAW TV Live: Steve's Demo Derby

by Steven Sande (Dec 14th, 2011)

As promised (threatened?) in the promo post earlier today, I'm going to demonstrate a pileup of products on TUAW TV Live. Accessories and apps are both on the menu, so expect to see a lot of action on the show today. No, I won't be driving the TUAW demolition derby car (above) in a battle ...

OnLive iPad app delivers console-quality gaming, custom touch controls

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2011)

OnLive is one of the most impressive gaming options out there -- it's a cloud gaming service with the games actually 'playing' on remote hardware. That may sound clunky, but it works like a charm. Instead of running the games from a local executable on your PC, Mac or console system (as you ...

TUAW TV Live: Paul Kent interview, a few cool Mac apps

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2011)

Welcome to another episode of TUAW TV Live! On today's show, I have a prerecorded interview with Paul Kent of IDG World Expo, the man behind next January's Macworld | iWorld: The Ultimate Fan Event. In the interview, Paul gives TUAW TV Live viewers the word on what is going to make Macworld | ...

Camtasia for Mac 2 screen recorder is out

by Mel Martin (Dec 6th, 2011)

Camtasia is certainly among the most popular of the apps for producing training and demo videos. Mac versions of the popular Windows software first became available in 2009. This latest version, released today, has a boatload of new features, including custom annotations, tilt and restore ...

my-Ditto lets you access your data from literally anywhere including your iOS devices

by Mel Martin (Nov 30th, 2011)

There are a lot of solutions to getting your hands on files, video and audio remotely. You can do it on your own configuring firewalls. Apple had iDisk, but that is slowly fading and it's going to be dead next year unless Apple changes its mind. Of the many methods I've seen, Dane-Elec has come ...

Amidio's Laugh Synth makes you cry -- with laughter?

by Matt Tinsley (Nov 30th, 2011)

Amidio is known for their mobile music creation apps for iOS devices. They've brought us fully featured apps like the recent Songineer, Seline HD and Touch DJ. But the focus of their newest app, Laugh Synth, is a little more, well... light-hearted. Laugh Synth does what it says on the tin, it ...

A Siri hack to start your car

by Steven Sande (Nov 28th, 2011)

Today's edition of "1,001 amazing things you can do with Siri" comes courtesy of our sister blog TechCrunch. In a post this morning, TechCruncher Chris Velazco tells the story of hacker Brandon Fiquett, who has figured out a way to use Siri to control a Viper SmartStart system and start up his ...

TUAW TV Live: Hot Black Friday deals, tablets on Fire

by Steven Sande (Nov 23rd, 2011)

Wow, TUAW TV Live is going to be hot enough to cook a 22-lb. turkey today. I have a pile (and I mean that literally) of new goodies to show you. I have a taped interview with Dan de Granpre of DealNews.com talking about the great deals you can expect on all sorts of techie toys on Black Friday. ...