Tag: TUAW

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Yaniv Berg's periscope inspired DSLR makes for a refreshing take on the standard camera body. [From: Tuvie] Memes spawning endless remixes are a fact of life these ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Animated GIFs are a source of endless hilarity around the office, but we usually disagree on the pronunciation of the animation-friendly image format. The GIF ...

Our friends over at The Unofficial Apple Weblog just launched a new iPhone app (already #3 in the free news category on the App Store), available now via iTunes [iTunes link] and via the TUAW app page. You mobile Mac-heads out there probably know about i.tuaw.com, the iPhone-optimized version of TUAW. Why go native? The new app offers offline browsing, allows you to bookmark articles for later ...

Okay Mac and/or art lovers... prepare to make your ultimate wet-tech dream come true. An Andy Warhol serigraph is currently up for auction at O'Gallerie in Portland, Oregon. This signed silkscreen print, which is expected to fetch between $20-30,000, was commissioned by Apple's first COO Del Yocam, and would surely be the prized piece of any tech aficionado's collection. We know we're in a ...

In honor of Apple Computer, Inc.'s founding, 33 years ago today, the Mac gurus over at our sister site TUAW are traveling back in time to bring you posts from important dates in Apple history. Check out the site's first "time-capsule" post from April 1, 1976, where Steven Sande delivers the newsletter of the Aptos, CA Amateur Computer Club. In it, he offers a sneak peek at a new Apple I computer ...

Most of us reacted with a mixture of relief and awe when we first heard about Captain Chesley Sullenberger III's deft landing of the bird-stricken US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. If you've ever wondered how you'd have fared in the pilot's seat that day, then check out the most recent iPhone/iPod touch app from Laminar Research, which, believe it or not, is the ...

We know that you watched '21' and started wishing you could count cards and take a casino for all its worth. You probably even thought you could do it and get away with it... if it weren't for your lack of math skills standing in the way. Fortunately, we live in an age in which one is never stuck with just one's wits and skills, which is why some gamblers are finding new, cutting-edge ways to ...

We're used to the iPhone saving people from things like boredom, and darkness, but according to one TUAW reader, the iPhone saved him from a traffic ticket. A man identifying himself only as Paul informed TUAW via e-mail that, as he was recently driving along a snow-covered road somewhere in the Midwest, he was rear-ended by another driver, damaging both vehicles. When an officer arrived at ...

It's not like geeks really need another reason to stay home and watch movies in their pajamas while surfing the Web on their laptop and eating snickerdoodles on the sofa, but here are six more anyway. The folks at Download Squad have compiled a list of six DVDs to make your favorite tech nerd happy this holiday season, ranging from the story of a robot who finds love in 'WALL-E,' to a ...

Research conducted by Handheld Games Corp. shows that the second-generation iPod touch is considerably faster than its predecessor, and both generations of the iPhone, so say write-ups in TouchArcade and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Thomas Fessler, the CEO of Handheld Games, creators of the game TouchSports Tennis, explained to TouchArcade: "Where we can easily display two 1500 polygon tennis ...