Safari 5 Announced, Then Pulled

A press release announcing the release of Safari 5 hit the wires and was pulled shortly thereafter — indicating that although we didn’t hear anything about it in today’s WWDC keynote, the next version of Apple’s WebKit-based browser should be available in the extremely near future.

We don’t see Safari… read more

Thoughts on Apple WWDC 2010 Keynote

San Francisco – It’s 9.00am people is enthusiastically getting inside the Moscone Center, gearing up for whatever announcement is about to be made in front of their eyes, on stage.

Milan – I rushed out of the office at 5.35pm in need of money from the ATM, tickets for the subway… read more

Is There a Possible Alternative to Google?

I started surfing the Internet in September 1997 when I was eighteen. At the time it took the equivalent of one hundred dollars a month delivered to a small local provider as fixed charges in order to connect, to which you had to add the regular cost of phone units…. read more

VISA FIFA YouTube Channel Aims to Create Longest “Gooool!” Cheer

With the World Cup kick-off just about one week away, football (or soccer, as it’s known stateside) fans are already going wild in anticipation. Today Visa has launched its VISA FIFA YouTube Channel to collectively harness this enthusiasm and create the longest “goool!” shout in history.

The channel’s sole purpose… read more

Getting Started With E-Commerce: Your Options When Selling Online

The world of online sales, whether of products or services, can be daunting at first; the options seem confusing and the information conflicted. Yet as the designer or developer of an online store, you will need to guide your client through the maze of choices in order to get it… read more

Steve Jobs at D8 on Flash, iPad and the Post-PC Era

Events have just kicked off at the D8 Conference with Apple CEO Steve Jobs taking the stage for a conversation with All Things Digital producers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. After an introduction from Rupert Murdoch commenting on how content creators and technology companies are “finally getting along,” the… read more

Introducing: Daniele Machado

As we always say, it’s a great pleasure for us to introduce new talented artists here for you. We really like to get to know the work of someone that is new to the audience and have the privilege to show it here to you first. And today this is… read more

100 Incredibly Useful & Free Mac Apps

Everyone loves free applications. One of the greatest things about Macs is the wealth of extremely talented developers that are willing to share their amazing creations without asking for a single cent.

We’ve compiled an enormous list of 100 amazing free Mac applications that you can download and start using today…. read more

New MacBook Air Might Arrive Tomorrow [RUMOR]

According to Australian Macworld, a new version of the MacBook Air may show up in the Apple Online Store tomorrow morning. The same source who correctly predicted the MacBook Pro refresh last month alerted Australian Macworld of a new Apple product number in the Apple database.

The product… read more

24hrs With a Steampunk Aeronaut – Narrative Showcase

By Claire Stokoe

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction in an alternate Victorian era that runs mostly on steampower. The word Steampunk was coined by the science fiction author K. W. Jeter and takes a romantic and diverse look at the works of such writers as Jules Verne, H.G. Wells,… read more

Acquisition Creates Strong Player in Social Media Monitoring Space

Attensity Group is currently drying the ink on its deal to acquire social media monitoring company Biz360. Attensity hopes this move will give it an edge in the social CRM (consumer relationship management) and analytics game.

Both companies attempt to give valuable and actionable meaning to the wealth of data… read more

8 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Electronics

This series is brought to you by Best Buy. For more information on their recycling program and to make your recycle pledge, please visit recycleiton.com.

When it comes to the “reduce, reuse, recycle” equation, we often hear more about the former and the latter options and less about the middle… read more

Designing For A Hierarchy Of Needs

Based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the idea of a design hierarchy of needs rests on the assumption that in order to be successful, a design must meet basic needs before it can satisfy higher-level needs. Before a design can “Wow” us, it must work as intended. It must meet… read more

Should CEOs Be Fluent in Social Media? [INTERVIEW]

We had a chance to sit down with Forrester Research CEO George Colony at this year’s Forrester Marketing Forum to talk about whether or not CEOs should be engaged in social media. His morning keynote talk, “The Social CEO?”, presented a number of perhaps startling statistics about the number… read more

Attack of the Mac Emulators: Retro Games on OS X

Remember all those great video games you had when you were younger? Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could download and play those games on your Mac? It turns out you can.

Today we enter into some seriously shaky territory that often stretches the bounds of both legality and awesomeness:… read more

The Designer Who Delivers

Whether you design and code websites all by yourself or run a small business with a pool of talent, you will always face the challenge of how much to work on a design and UI before passing the mock-ups on to the developer? Moreover, how much visual work needs to… read more

45 Humorous Examples of 3D CG Creatures Artworks

Here is a funny collection of some interesting, beautiful and well-designed 3D CG Creatures Artworks. Although we have already posted some articles on computer graphics, this post is unique and original. In this post, we have compiled a list of CG Creatures Artworks that are very attention-grabbing and just nice… read more

5 Ways Facebook Changed Dating (For The Worse)

Facebook can mess up your life in a whole bunch of ways. It can get you fired or evicted, plunge you into debt with its addictive games, and even (yeah, right) infect you with syphilis. We wouldn’t look at all of those as serious threats, but we all know… read more

Eye Contact in Photography

image by kkelly2007

In our 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits tutorial I talked about ‘Playing with Eye contact’ (point #2) as being one technique to add change the feel of an image.

Today I was flipping through an old photography magazine (called ‘photography focus guide’) and a quote about eye contact… read more

How and Why to Upgrade Your Mac’s RAM

Today I’ll walk you through the potentially frightening process of upgrading your Mac’s performance through increasing your RAM. We’ll start with a brief discussion of what RAM is and why you should upgrade, before taking you through every step of the upgrade process so you can be confident you’re doing… read more

60 Fascinating AppStorm Reader Setups

After featuring our huge roundup of stylish Mac setups last week, we then asked you to submit your own setup for inclusion in another post. We’ve gathered 60 of your setups over the past week, and found out about some great new gadgets and software in the process.

Without further ado,… read more

Cast Official Votes for “American Idol” via Facebook

Idol Fanatic promises to do what FOX’s television enterprise American Idol never has: It lets fans vote for their favorite contestants via a Facebook application — at any time.

The application uses Ribbit — a web-based phone service à la Google Voice — to dial in user votes during American Idol’s… read more

Apple seeds Mac OS X 10.6.3 build 10D573 to devs, release probably not imminent

Last week a TUAW reader was able to download a *PRERELEASE** build of 10.6.3 on his iMac. We took the Apple slip-up as a sign of an imminent launch, but the builds just keep on coming. Is it going to be released soon? Who the heck knows? But now my… read more

KoldCast Brings Its Web Shows to Boxee

Today Boxee (the media player software with a social twist that you can use on your Mac, PC, Apple TV and soon, Boxee Box) has announced its latest content partner: KoldCast TV. KoldCast TV bills itself as a premier destination for original web-based on-demand programming.

KoldCast TV has… read more

iMac Steampunk Mod Is Retro Awesome [PICS]

Are you a modern tech geek with retro sensibilities? Old Time Computer might be able to help you out with these gorgeous handcrafted oak and brass mods. Inflation renders these kinds of antiques pricier than their original counterparts, but you can pick up your own custom antique skin on… read more

iMac goes steampunk

Brian Chen over at Wired came across this sweet Victorian iMac mod. If you’re a steampunk fan, it’s a must have. The owner of Old Time Computer makes all the covers by hand. This iMac’s cover is hand crafted oak with brass and gold trim accents. A hand painted faux… read more

Ask TUAW: DVD Sharing on an iMac, menubar calendar, network scanning, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume that you’re running… read more

Cool weird stuff: TUAW reader accidentally downloads 10.6.3 pre-release

Here’s one for the freak occurrence archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us after running Software Update on his new 2.8GHz i7 iMac last night. Something odd popped up.

“I got a new 27-inch iMac earlier this week,” he wrote. “Last night I checked for updates and it starts… read more

PCMag offers “best” alternatives to Apple products, redefines “best” in process

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Hoping to appeal to those who have some innate desire to not buy from Apple due to “a limited budget or an anti-Apple stance,” PCMag put together a list of “alternative” products to Apple gear like the iPhone, iPod touch & iPod shuffle. The headline will surely grab attention, but… read more

27-inch Cinema Display, 12-core Mac Pro by June

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple is preparing to launch a 27-inch Cinema Display and 12-core Mac Pro by June. The 27-inch Cinema Display is rumored to use the same panel as the one used in the 27-inch iMac and will look similar to the 24-inch Cinema Display launched in October… read more

Applying “A Pattern Language” To Online Community Design

A Pattern Language is a book about architecture that was written in the 1970s, before the Web as we know it was even conceived. But the book provides hundreds of valuable patterns for community planning and architectural design, many of which can easily be applied to online communities and social… read more

Analysts: iMac to take over 25% of PC sales, Mac to see 31% growth

PC sales in general are also expected to increase, with the iMac carrying a whole quarter of all desktop growth this year. Desktop sales are finally headed upwards for the first time in a few years, and along with bigger sales numbers in terms of netbooks and notebooks, Apple’s iMac… read more

You can’t always trust Drobo Dashboard

<ps your Drobo up to date? Don't trust Drobo Dashboard for the answer.

Drobo and I have not been getting along this week. I have two Drobo units: a FireWire model and a USB model. I moved them to my office last week, and the USB model started complaining about being… read more

40 Detailed Drawing Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator can at first seem a little bit intimidating and daunting (speaking from first hand experience) to work with, whereas it is in many ways similar to working within Photoshop (or any other graphic editor), but in others very very different. And the thing is, quite often certain design… read more

Apple about to drop new hardware, raise prices?

A reader at Engadget has spotted new Apple ads on the Australian tech site PC Authority that show higher prices for the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac Pro. Apple’s Australian online store lists the most affordable versions of the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac Pro at A$1599, A$1999… read more

Make your Magic Mouse more comfortable and ergonomic

But doesn’t necessarily feel great in your hand. It’s no hockey puck, but for some users the ergonomics aren’t what they should be.

Will, an Apple fan and part owner of hybridracing.com, decided to do something about it. After some testing, he came up with a small chunk of… read more

Ask TUAW: Clocks, screen guards, MacBook hard drive replacement, NFS automount, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Use DynDNS for better success with Back To My Mac

<po maximize your chances, you're supposed to use a supported router, but even that's no guarantee. At home I have an Airport Extreme Base Station (Wireless-N), and at the office I have an Airport Extreme Dual-Band model. I don't think it's possible to get a "more compliant" setup, yet I… read more

Why Sex-Ed Remains a Challenge for Social Media

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007.

Addressing the very private nature of intimacy remains the most difficult aspect of sex-ed on the social web. While “Public Health 2.0″ is a top priority for related… read more

Apple Sells 90,000 iPads in the First Day? [REPORT]

The iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today and while plenty of you are still debating about whether or not to pre-order, it appears as if the device might already sold 51,000 units in just two hours via pre-order. Wow.

If you’ve ever doubted how dedicated Apple fans are,… read more

TheMacSale Bundle Offer

Although the recent MacHeist bundle is now over, there is still another great deal going on over at TheMacSale. You can pick up ten popular Mac applications for $49 – a remarkably low price, considering what’s on offer.

Here are the applications included in the bundle:

PathFinder – The ultimate file manager… read more

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls

On the Make: magazine blog, they recently posted a piece about the evolution of a project. It was an iPod remote from last year that has gone from a “start and stop” only device to a full featured remote. It is a lovely piece of tech, powered by Arduino hardware…. read more

Don’t trust the critics: Four Apple products they thought would fail

Don’t you believe it, because the critics have been wrong before. Several times, actually, according to The Week, which provides a list of five Apple products the critics thought would fail. Out of those five, only one, the Newton, failed to find mainstream success. The other four were industry-defining products… read more

Automatically open Bittorrent files using Dropbox and Hazel

<p also remembered a tip from my friend Guillermo Esteves (who did the awesome Star Wars crawl using only HTML and CSS), about using Dropbox to start torrents remotely. Guillermo provides some detailed instructions for Transmission and µTorrent to set them up to "watch" a folder for new .torrent files,… read more

Mac 101: Use the tab key in more dialog boxes

TUAW reader Cody Rogers wrote in to say: “I’m fairly new to my iMac and Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. One of my biggest annoyances from switching over from PC to Mac is when a dialogue box comes up and says ‘cancel’ or ‘okay’ I can’t find the keyboard… read more

Steve Jobs: iPad Won’t Support iPhone Tethering

Not one to mince words, Steve Jobs squashed all hope of the iPad supporting iPhone tethering for wireless internet access with one word — “No.”

The succinct answer was communicated by Jobs via email (from his iPhone) to Jezper Söderlund of Sweden who emailed Jobs to ask, “Will the wifi-only… read more

Daily Deals for March 5, 2010

<p Ending today, ExperCom offers the Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 21.5" Desktop, model no. MB950LL/A, upgraded to 8GB RAM and bundled with three years of AppleCare for $1,399.
The Apple Store again has six factory-refurbished Apple Mac Pro workstations on sale in its Special Deals… read more

I have seen the future and it’s SSD

On the Macworld show floor, I really didn’t see one product that blew me away, but what I did see is conceptually, the next big thing that’s going to not only blow all of us away, but it will change the way we relate to our computers. It’s the SSD… read more

Some things we may not see again from Apple

Conan O’Brien once had a recurring segment on Late Night called “Guests We Won’t Have Back,” during which he would look back at guests (who were fake) that he regretted having on the show. There was bug expert Sara Wiggins, who ate a live beetle in front of the camera…. read more

Rumor: Apple prepping HDMI Macs

<ppicture above comes from AppleInsider, who are claiming that Apple is about to release a Mac mini with an HDMI port in place of the current DVI connector. And that sound you just heard was hundreds of thousands of mini-based entertainment center owners everywhere crying out in excitement, as a… read more

My on-again, off-again Apple relationship

The Apple IIe was the only computer I used in school through 1990. I spent most of seventh grade cooking up little text-based adventure games in BASIC, and I even learned some rudimentary drawing and audio programming, all of which I forgot long ago. In mid-1990, the school revamped our… read more

Yelp CEO Denies Extortion Scheme

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppleman has just released a passionate statement denying all wrongdoing on Yelp’s part, addressing a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday that purports that Yelp is running an “extortion scheme.”

In the statement, Stoppleman begins by addressing “the long history of people accusing Yelp of monkeying around… read more

Ask TUAW: Shopping for new Macs, iPhone home screens, home folder on external disk, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Clearing the air on iPhone terminology: 4th generation vs. “4G”

It made sense to call the second-generation iPhone the iPhone 3G, as the addition of a faster 3G wireless chipset and antenna was in many ways the defining feature of the device. The next iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, once again has its distinctive feature spelled out right in the name:… read more

Mac 101: 3 volume control tips

When you adjust the volume, a sound is played to help you determine when it is loud enough or quiet enough. Most times I find this helpful, but sometimes I want to adjust the volume without hearing the noise. To temporarily disable the “volume change” sound, hold down the shift… read more

iMaxi: Finally, the iPad Gets the Protection it Deserves [FUNNY]

When it comes to branding their products, Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world. iPod has all but replaced the words “MP3 player”, and iPhone, MacBook, iMac and most of their other products are equally as successful.

The iPad, however, invokes an obvious joke, and that… read more

Freeware find: Smith Micro Photo A.K.A. bulk file renamer

The app is a single-tasker — it is a bulk file renamer, much like Dare to be Creative’s Renamer (US$29). Like its more expensive competitor, you can rename any batch of files, not just photos. While I don’t think that the user interface for Photo A.K.A. is as well-designed as… read more

40 Absolutely Free Vector Pack Collections

As designers, we are all familiar with various resources that we use in our usual designs, images and creations. Resources such as brushes and textures are just a few examples of these resources that help improve the quality and artistry of every image. More and more websites are into providing… read more

Turn that old Mac into a functioning clock

<ps say you have a Mac collecting dust in the corner of your garage. Rather than succumb to your spouse's demands and send the old friend to computer heaven, why not re-purpose that Mac into something both functional and beautiful?

Cult of Mac points us to one enterprising hardware… read more

TUAW review and giveaway — Bookarc from Twelve South

The US$49.00 Bookarc takes advantage of the ability of Apple’s MacBooks (Air and Pro included) to work as a desktop machine when the screen is closed and the computer is connected to an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor. You could just lay your MacBook on the desktop, but then it… read more

Couple marries at 5th Avenue Apple Store on Valentine’s Day

We’ve seen robberies at Apple Stores before, we’ve seen kids rapping and we’ve even seen death threats, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a wedding in an Apple Store. That’s what newlyweds Ya Ting Li and Joshua Li decided to do at midnight in the Fifth Avenue… read more

Get a TUAW discount on Mac theft recovery service from hidden

Most of these apps have two things in common; they will attempt to locate the whereabouts of the computer and also send a picture of the thief using the built-in iSight camera. Now a new name has appeared in the field; hidden. The name is apt, since there’s no visible… read more

Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Notational Velocity, Simplenote, and Dropbox bring child-like wonder

<p had heard about Notational Velocity when Merlin Mann posted about it on 43Folders. It changed how I use my iMac, MacBookPro, and iPhone, bringing them all together in a very cool way.

The app has been around for awhile (we talked about it five years ago!) but some… read more

Couple marries at 5th Avenue Apple Store on Valentine’s Day

We’ve seen robberies at Apple Stores before, we’ve seen kids rapping and we’ve even seen death threats, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of a wedding in an Apple Store. That’s what newlyweds Ya Ting Li and Joshua Li decided to do at midnight in the Fifth Avenue… read more

Steve Jobs visits Wall Street Journal, trashes Flash again

Click the “read more” link to see some more tidbits from the meeting and some analysis of the remarks.

It bears noting once again that none of these quotes are confirmed, direct quotes from Jobs, but rather hearsay from others purportedly present at the meeting. That having been… read more

Swede’s iMac takes a burnin’ and it’s still turnin’

Norman’s experience (translated from Swedish) follows: “Unfortunately, the whole house and all things in there completely destroyed, so even the iMac. What’s funny is that it is still in operation. While damaged from smoke and dust and partially melted, but yet, however in operation.

After I plugged in… read more

40 Amazing Examples of African Digital Artworks

African art represents one of the most diverse legacies on Earth. Though many casual observers tend to generalize “traditional” African art, the continent is full of peoples, societies, and civilizations, each with a unique visual special culture. Africa is well known for its wonderful art and culture that we are… read more

Macworld 2010: Kanex shows HDMI to Mini DisplayPort for iMac input

<p stopped by the Kanex (pronounced "connects," I soon learned) booth to check out their latest product offering: an adapter that lets you plug external HD video (and audio) sources into your 27-inch iMac, which was honored with a Macworld Expo Best In Show award. They demoed the product playing… read more

Better User Experience With Storytelling, Part 2

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics… read more

Gearing up for Macworld: My 5 apps & packing list

The good news is, of course, that a few well-chosen apps can substitute for destination guides and navigational help. The bad news… there’s still a lot of stuff to bring along. Here are five-plus apps I loaded specifically for this trip, and a few hardware items that I couldn’t do… read more

Clipstart: Simple Video Management and Organisation

iPhoto, Shoebox, Bridge – these pieces of software may ring a bell if organization is important to you. The problem is that they all have one thing in common – dealing with photos.

Why does it seem like keeping home movies and video organized is always overshadowed by static photographs? … read more

5 Insightful TED Talks on Social Media

The 2010 Technology Entertainment Design conference will be kicking off tomorrow in Long Beach, California, bringing the leading minds of many fields together to talk shop about innovation, change, and what the future holds.

As social media has become a game changer for industries across the board, you can bet the… read more

Turn your old Macs into clocks, lamps and more

Looking for other handcrafted Apple goods for your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day? How about a cap honoring Apple of a bygone era? Or an Alfred Hitchock decal for your MacBook? Or if you want a custom-made laptop case, here’s one made out of denim. If you need a new lamp… read more

iPad in the family: What it’ll take

<p Steve Jobs announced the iPad, I thought it was neat, but I didn't see how it would really fit into my life. What could it do for me that my iPhone or MacBook Pro couldn't? It seemed like that gap Steve Jobs said the iPad filled was targeted at… read more

60 Excellent Gadget Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

Designing your own (or redesigning existing) gadgets such as MP3 Players, Game Consoles and Computers is an incredible way to improve your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (or any other design-related software package for that matter). You’re bound to pick up new skills every time, even if you’re… read more

The 10 Oddest Apple-Themed Products [PICS]

Apple fandom has inspired a generation of designers to create products that complement, contrast or clash with design guru Jonathan Ive’s cleverly thought out consumer electronics.

We’ve pulled together a list of Apple-themed products — both real and conceptual –- that ooze wit, and celebrate those that nod to the fun… read more

Apple paying back bonuses on cost of defective 27-inch iMacs

The news broke yesterday with a UK-based Apple Authorized Service Provider/Reseller claiming that Apple is out of 27″ screens in Europe, and they’re dealing with a waiting list of customers already. So they’re now offering up (to only certain customers so far, not an official policy) not only a full… read more

10 reasons to pass on the iPad? TUAW fact check

1. There’s no physical keyboard

Debra’s correct that the iPad has no physical keyboard. But what she fails to account for is that not only will Apple sell a keyboard dock for the iPad, the device can also be paired with any existing Bluetooth keyboard. Apple’s reasoning for not… read more

Ask TUAW: Power adapters, Windows 7, iWork refresh, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

What a Google Chrome Tablet Might Look Like [PICS]

Apple might have dominated the news last week with its iPad announcement, but the company hardly has a monopoly on the burgeoning media tablet market. Last night, Glen Murphy, who does user interface for Google, blogged about some Chrome OS-based tablet ideas that Google has been toying with.

Apparently,… read more

Apple releases another 27-inch iMac firmware update

<pates the display firmware on 27-inch iMac systems to address issues that may cause intermittent display flickering.

The update weighs in at 294KB and can be downloaded here or through Software Update.

The first 27-inch iMac update was released on December 21, 2009 that updated “the graphics firmware on… read more

Apple acknowledges continuing 27″ iMac screen issues

According to Ars Technica, Apple’s internal support system is aware of the continuing problem and working on a fix. Customers who complain about the issue are to be told that their faulty display can be replaced “…in about three weeks.” Note that the units currently for sale have a 3-week… read more

The MacView: An incredibly well-done concept tablet

<p at TUAW, we've been treated to so many concept drawings and fake photoshopped tablets over the past several months that we've become somewhat jaded about them. However, Polish designer Patrycjucz Brzezinski's concept for an Apple tablet, named the MacView, is so well done that it deserves mention. The MacView… read more

Apple and the Rise of the Machines: Don’t worry, they’re just here to rock

Whenever I heard “robots” and “Los Angeles” used in the same sentence, I thought of only one thing: the end of the freaking world as we know it. But all that’s changed after I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak at a current rise of a group of… read more

Pants on the Ground Epic YouTube Remix [VIDEO]

When do you know a new internet meme has reached true legitimacy? A remix involving Auto-Tune passes 100k views on YouTube.

The original Pants on the Ground already got some cover treatment from Jimmy Fallon as Neil Young and keep-your-day-job Brett Favre, and you can of course even pick up a… read more

Interview with Rubens Scarelli

Rubens Scarelli, also known as Rusc, is an illustrator and graphic designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It seems like there is something special in Brazil’s air, that it produces some amazing designers and illustrators.

Ruben’s illustrations are crafted with clean linework and attractive colors that are perfect for t-shirts. He… read more

27-inch iMac shipping delays extended 3 more weeks

AppleInsider is reporting that the 27-inch models currently have a three-week shipping time. Earlier this week, Apple’s web store showed estimated shipping times of less than a week.

The delay could be due to several factors. First, initial users of the 27-inch model had been experiencing screen flicker… read more

Apple Tablet to Be Sold Through Verizon [RUMOR]

Northeast Securities analyst Ashok Kumar — the man behind the rumors that Qualcomm will power the Verizon iPhone — has an even bigger assertion this time around: Apple’s tablet will feature a wireless chip made by Qualcomm — meaning its telecommunications partner will be Verizon.

The new revelations are… read more

Gene Munster: 2010 is the “Year of the Mac,” sales up significantly

The Piper Jaffray analyst delivered one of his missives this morning stating that his analysis of Mac retail sales in the U.S., based on numbers tracked by NPD Group, are up about 26% year-over-year for the December quarter. This is higher than the average Wall Street estimate of 19% year-over-year… read more

Rumor: 22″ touch computer coming from Apple

This rumor amounts to little more than that sentence, but we assume that something that large won’t be meant for carrying around. Instead, think of an iMac with a Troll Touch display (above), or something like the HP Touchsmart line. On one hand, it makes sense. If the tablet proves… read more

TUAW Tip: Getting your fill with iTunes’ autofill

<prom the 3rd generation iPod classic to the iPhone 3G S, and from The Arcade Fire to ZZ Top, there exists an eclectic iPod and music mix in my family. How I would sync music for each person varied on a case-by-case basis, and usually took shape in syncing specific… read more

The BearExtender n3 gives you more Wi-Fi range at a low cost

It’s not often that I’ve come across a product that works perfectly, does exactly what it says it will, costs a lot less than its closest competitor and provides a real and salient difference in my computing experience. The US$44.97 BearExtender n3 does just that. Roland Saekow, a recent graduate… read more

Interview with Chris Leavens

Chris Leavens is a talented vector artist born and raised in Pennsylvania who now resides in Los Angeles. He graduated with a BA in film and video and initially worked in the film industry. Later Chris decided to take a break from the film biz and began working as an… read more

30 Things To Create The Ultimate Web Designers Work Environment

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TUAW Review and Giveaway: Twelve South BassJump subwoofer for MacBook

The idea behind the US$79.99 BassJump is simple — the built-in speakers on the current MacBooks do a poor job of replicating the low-end of the sound spectrum, so why not add a USB-powered subwoofer to the mix to make the MacBook sound better?

The BassJump portable subwoofer kind… read more

Ask TUAW: Firewall settings, Snow Leopard faxing, MacBook battery life, and more

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Leave your questions for next week in the comments section at the end of this post. When asking a question, please include which machine you’re using and what version of Mac OS X is installed on it (we’ll assume you’re running Snow… read more

Rain Design’s iMac turntable sends the iMac for a spin

That’s the idea behind the Rain Design i360, a turntable that encloses the base of an iMac or Apple Cinema Display, and then allows easy movement of the display. Want to show a co-worker on the “back” side of your iMac something? Just spin the entire computer around. Need to… read more

16 Designer Desks to Kill For

As lovers of technology many of us spend time at one place: our desk! There are an amazing assortment of designer desks around. In this post I’ve gathered some of the coolest, geekiest, and most interesting desks I could find!

Studio Desk

This desk by Blue Lounge offers many amazing features to… read more

How Social Media Has Changed Us

Mike Laurie works at London agency Made by Many where he helps design social digital stuff. You follow him on Twitter @mikelaurie.

Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen social media galvanize thousands over politics, create as many industries as it has destroyed, and offer an abundance of visual and audio… read more