Filed under: Retro Mac

People didn’t always know how to point and click. The ubiquity of today’s mice, trackballs, touch-pads and other UI inputs clouds the memory of a time when Apple needed to train users to work with pointing devices.
GUIdebook, the Graphical User Interface gallery, works to preserve and showcase historical GUIs. Today’s Blast [...]

Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools
If you’re using Microsoft Messenger, you can now download version 6.0.2. According to Microsoft, Messenger 6.0.2 lets you “…take advantage of the full power of instant messaging.” Well that’s exciting. Additionally, this version enables logging to ~/Documents. Never lose another conversation!
Messenger 6.0.2 requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.
Thanks, Raffi!

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Filed under: Multimedia, Software

It is mid-February, and you know what that means: Adobe today announced the immediate availability of it’s competitor to Apple’s Aperture, Photoshop Lightroom. Version 1.0 includes the updated Camera Raw 3.7 framework which adds support for a number of new cameras including the Nikon D40 and Pentax K10D. Lightroom is available at [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, iPod Family, iTS
Fred Amoroso, president and CEO of Macrovision, has posted a public response to Steve Job’s recent open letter on DRM. Amoroso[1] argues that DRM is of net-benefit to the consumer. It allows consumers to rent intellectual property, such as video, software and games as well as music, without [...]

Filed under: Audio, Multimedia, Software
voXover is a new, high end voice-over automation and batch recording application for OS X intended for multimedia, video game, telephone voice-response, and related production uses. Designed for maximum efficiency for projects that require large amounts of individual voice recording, voXover allows the user to write and import scripts and rapidly [...]

Filed under: Multimedia, How-tos, Tips and tricks, iTunes, Apple TV
One thing that seems to be missing from Front Row is access to the same streaming media “radio” stations that are in iTunes. Fortunately enough, the guys at EntertainMac have found an easy way to get around this limitation. Basically, all you need to do is [...]

Filed under: Apple Corporate, Retail

This past Sunday, Best Buy ran the above insert in San Francisco-area newspapers (You can see a larger version here). And just a couple weeks after all the Vista ads…how fickle retailers are.
There aren’t any Macs at my local Best Buy. There used to be one mini, but it has disappeared. [...]

Filed under: iPod Family
NotePage has released a free PDF describing everything you want to know about the iPod. From tech specs to usage, everything is covered in thorough detail. It’s a good reference for seasoned users like you and me, and certainly valuable for new users (like my mom) who may be a bit intimidated [...]

Filed under: iPod Family
For 50 pesos, or about $5, Mexican air carrier Volaris will rent you a 30-gigabyte iPod pre-loaded with music and Mexican TV shows. Public relations officer Alfonso Collantes describes how they went out, bought a bunch of iPods, and begin providing them as in-flight entertainment in this Reuters report from over the [...]

Filed under: How-tos, iTunes, TUAW Tip
I don’t know about you but my iTunes source list gets crowded. Sometimes I just need a little more space for my list. Command-G gives me that space.
Its menu equivalents (View -> Show Artwork and View -> Hide Artwork) aren’t exactly hidden features menu-wise but this option isn’t as [...]

Filed under: Software, Internet, Internet Tools

iCal and Google Calender synchronization is something that many people want. We’ve recently looked at Spanning Sync, which gets the job done (Spanning Sync is currently in beta).
Today, TUAW reader Jim has pointed out gSync, another application on the scene. I played with it briefly this morning, and it seemed [...]

Filed under: How-tos, Developer
When we posted about Part I of Scott Stevenson’s Learn Cocoa tutorial, some people complained that there wasn’t actually any coding involved. Well Part II at least introduces what Scott calls “Thinking in Code” and begins to dig a little deeper into what is required to actually use Xcode to write a [...]

Filed under: Desktops

Ok TUAW Desktop of the Week‘ers, the series is back in action, and I couldn’t think of a better way to re-kick it off than with this desktop titled ‘Screenshot Saturdays’ from James Acklin. Created from his favorite Flickr picks, it’s a collage of Mac OS X desktop proportions, and quite the eclectic [...]

Filed under: Hacks, How-tos, Tips and tricks
The über-Mac geeks over at mac geekery answer a reader question I have often wondered about myself: is it possible to hide an application’s icon so it does not appear in your Dock, even though the application is running? And the answer is yes, if you’re up for a [...]

Filed under: iTS, Deals

I don’t watch Lost. It’s one of those shows that I’ve caught bits of here or there but whose story was so big and so involved that I never took the time to catch up. Now iTunes brings a free catchup episode, the Lost Survival Guide, meant to hook potential viewers like [...]

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

iWebFlinger is great for those who want to use HTML to customize their iWeb sites, but they neither have nor want a .Mac account with which to publish.
On the customization front, this useful tool allows you to insert code into your iWeb sites by wrapping it in a specific [...]

Filed under: Education, Odds and ends, Steve Jobs
Well having annoyed a lot of folks with his recent missive on DRM, Uncle Steve seemed likely to be making more enemies on Friday at a conference in Texas about K-12 education reform where he appeared along with Michael Dell. The AP reports that Jobs said, “I believe [...]

Filed under: Beta Beat
Remember Joost, aka the ViennaVilniusVegemite Venice Project? It’s the new free streaming TV service from the guys who brought you Skype. And the new Mac beta just went live. Joost for Mac Intel 0.8 is available for all Joost beta testers and it works great. Smooth playback, nearly identical interface to the [...]

Filed under: Retail
Earlier today, Apple opened its newest retail store at Bentall Centre in the UK. As usual, we asked any TUAW operatives who may have attended to share their reports and/or pictures. So, did you go, and if you did, how was it? Let us know in the comments. Here’s hoping you scored a [...]

Filed under: Multimedia, Software, iTunes, Beta Beat
Peel is an interesting application for reading and subscribing to MP3 blogs. What is an MP3 blog (or musicblog) you ask? Well Wikipedia says that a musicblog is simply a blog whose main point is offering MP3s (or other digital audio files) for download (along with commentary). Peel is [...]