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TUAW review and giveaway: RadTech RadSleevz for iPad

by Steven Sande (Jul 4th, 2010)

Happy Independence Day! TUAW continues a weekend of giveaways with the RadTech RadSleevz sleeve case for iPad. We're all aware of the huge ecosystem that has built up around accessories for all of the iProducts: iPod, iPhone, and now iPad. One ...

TUAW review and giveaway: Quirky Beamer iPhone case

by Steven Sande (Jul 2nd, 2010)

We're starting off the Independence Day holiday with a bang -- a giveaway to one lucky TUAW reader of the Quirky Beamer iPhone case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Before you enter the contest, however, I'm sure you'd like to know what makes the Beamer ...

TUAW Hands-on: POWER A turns your iPhone into a universal remote

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 17th, 2010)

There are a few options for turning your iPhone into a home entertainment remote control, but I recently got a chance to try out the POWER A, and it's become my current favorite. The hardware portion of the POWER A package has been available for a ...

Hands-on with Elgato EyeTV Hybrid and EyeTV app for iPhone

by Steven Sande (May 13th, 2010)

Elgato Systems has been in the business of turning Macs into TVs for quite a while now. The company's most powerful USB digital TV tuner, the EyeTV Hybrid (US$149.95), is an amazing little dongle that comes equipped with EyeTV 3 tuner / recorder ...

A hands-on look at iStat Menus 3

by Steven Sande (Apr 27th, 2010)

During the summer of 2008, I was using my MacBook Air outside on a very hot (102°F in the shade) day when I noticed that the laptop seemed to have slowed down to the point that it was almost unusable. Fortunately, I had installed iSlayer's ...

Chronicle: An elegant way of tracking your bills

by Sang Tang (Apr 25th, 2010)

Let's face it: paying bills is not fun. There's the $75-plus monthly AT&T bill (assuming $40 voice + $30 data + $5 text messages) for your iPhone, the $25-plus broadband bill that your iPhone, iPad, and Mac use, as well as a host of other ...

TUAW review: LaCie Network Space 2 low-cost NAS

by Steven Sande (Apr 12th, 2010)

Everybody needs storage, and lots of it. The race for space began when we started taking digital pictures, accelerated when we began purchasing music online, and went positively orbital when movies and TV went digital. While big drives in desktop ...

TUAW Bookshelf: Final Cut Pro 7 Quick-Reference Guide

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2010)

When it comes to software reference books, there are three major varieties -- the detailed soup-to-nuts books that try to tell you everything and weigh about ten pounds, the "dummies" type that are usually so full of obvious information that they're ...

Get a TUAW discount on Mac theft recovery service from hidden

by Steven Sande (Feb 19th, 2010)

Apple's laptops and iMacs are attractive targets for thieves, since they're easy to move and have a good resale value. We've seen several Mac applications or services that work to help you retrieve your favorite Apple product if it is ever stolen; ...

TUAW review and giveaway: KeyGrinder for iPhone. It's PwdHash in an app

by Steven Sande (Feb 17th, 2010)

Have you ever heard of PwdHash? It's a Stanford University security project that has been implemented in a website, browser extensions, and now an iPhone app -- KeyGrinder for iPhone. This US$0.99 application is from the same people at Massively ...

TUAW's headed to Big Nerd Ranch!

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 29th, 2010)

I'm writing this at the Minneapolis airport, waiting to board a plane to head for Atlanta. You see, back in 2009 we got a call from Big Nerd Ranch asking if we could send a blogger for a week, have him take part in the computer programming classes ...

Review: Dark Horse Comics' "The Goon: Chinatown and The Mystery of Mr. Wicker"

by Mike Schramm (Jan 26th, 2010)

I used to collect comics pretty religiously when I was a kid (after all, there was a comic book store right across the street from the church my parents always took me to), and lately I've been thinking of getting back into the hobby -- there's ...

Review: Monoprice's iPhone leather-cased battery backup is another great deal

by David Winograd (Jan 22nd, 2010)

We like Monoprice around here. They are a wonderful source for cables and iPhone battery backups as well as lots of other accessories and add-ons. We covered their 2200 mAh battery dongle a few months back and nearly everyone who bought one was ...

Review: On the road with the Magellan Premium Car Kit

by Mel Martin (Jan 22nd, 2010)

Magellan was nice enough to loan me a Premium Car Kit for the iPhone or iPod touch, so I put it in the car and drove around on both city streets and highways to get an idea how it worked, particularly with the excellent Magellan Road Mate software ...

Tutorials as you like them with N.E.D. and its family

by David Winograd (Jan 21st, 2010)

Nonlinear Educating Inc., has been selling tutorials on a wide variety of subjects for years. Their catalog of 146 video tutorials cover just about everything from all the programs in the Adobe CS4 Suite, to iLife 09 and iWork 09, or virtually ...

Thwapr: Mobile-to-mobile video sharing from one of the creators of QuickTime

by Steven Sande (Jan 20th, 2010)

It's not every day that I get to view a product introduction on my iPhone. In fact, today may have been the first time ever that a product intro has been done through mobile messaging. Eric Hoffert was one of the original developers of QuickTime ...