Flickr Find: Papercraft Steve Jobs

<pve this — papercraft artist Jay Hauf has constructed a little papercraft Steve Jobs cutout. Over on his Flickr account, he's posted a picture that you can print out, cut out, and then fold up into the form of our favorite CEO. The little figure even comes with a paper… read more

Opera Mini Submitted to Apple’s App Store. Your Move, Apple

Opera is playing a somewhat odd game with Apple. Their Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers are great mobile browsers, but the iPhone already has a great mobile browser – Safari.

This fact alone wouldn’t be that big of a problem if Apple’s rules weren’t prohibiting other apps to duplicate… read more

Windows Phone 7 Series Design

This is the century of the Smart Phone. If everyone was drooling all over the iPhone some years ago, Apple now got to watch its back, because there are some major contestants in market right now. The Windows Phone 7 Series is one of them.

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Does Form Follow Function?

You’ve likely heard the phrase “form follows function,” but have you really thought about what it means or what it implies about Web design? On the surface, “form follows function” seems to make a lot of sense. The way something looks should be determined by its purpose. Is this really… read more

You Can Now Buy an iPhone Without a Contract

According to a leaked document by Apple, everyone will now be able to buy an iPhone in Apple stores without an ID and without an AT&T contract.

You can buy one iPhone per day; the devices, however, will still be locked to AT&T, meaning you must either use an AT&T… read more

Chatroulette Beats Hot or Not in Reader Poll

It looks like Hot or Not just got nexted. The new shiny of the moment Chatroulette soundly trounced the older site in this week’s edition of the long-running Web Faceoff series.

At 742 votes, Chatroulette commanded 66% of the vote, more than twice the 281 votes Hot or Not netted… read more

SimCity Deluxe coming soon to iPhone

SimCity Deluxe from EA Mobile will have a user interface that improves on the current Sim City offering, with enhancements that make it look a bit more SimCity 4 on the PC. SimCity has been popular on the iPhone since it was released in 2008

The game includes different… read more

Now Software suspends day-to-day operations

<pSoftware, the company that for many years created and sold Now Up-To-Date and Contact to Mac users, has ceased day-to-day operations as of today.

As noted in a tip from TUAW reader Barry T., attempts to view the Now Software website are now redirected to a Google Sites… read more

Ngmoco’s We Rule is live, but buggy

<pco's We Rule is now available for download worldwide in the App Store — it's the first ground-up game developed for their big freemium experiment, in which they give away a game and then support it with periodic updates, bringing in revenue with in-app purchases driven by social interaction and… read more

Apple no longer requiring proof of AT&T contract for iPhone purchase

For twenty brief, shining minutes, this sounded like the iPhone was being offered unlocked by Apple, which would have been truly huge news — if you wanted to use the iPhone on another GSM carrier (meaning T-Mobile, in the States), you could have done it without jumping through any extra… read more

Vaja now selling iPad cases

<pof all of the iPod or iPhone cases I've seen, Vaja makes my personal favorites — I bought one of their cases for my 80gb iPod, and it's still the best gadget case I've ever owned. They're a little pricier than some cases, but the exquisite leather, custom design, and… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Events Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… read more

Seen at SXSW: rejected app Holopic

<pe's nothing offensive about Holopic. It's a rather ingenious app that (according to the developer) uses just a couple of pictures to create a sort of lenticular lens pseudo-3D effect. That is, when you tilt the image you can see other angles in the image, like 3D, but it isn't… read more

New York Times: The race is on for iPad apps

According to the post, those iPads are chained to desks in windowless rooms. Among the lucky few companies to actually be able to test their iPad apps are Major League Baseball, The Wall Street Journal, and (of course) The New York Times. While the iPad’s form factor is perfectly tailored… read more

You Can Now Gift iPhone Apps

A new feature has come to iTunes: The ability to gift specific iPhone apps to other users.

On the drop-down box on each application’s page (next to the “Buy” button) there’s now an option that says “Gift This App.” From that point, you then just enter in details like name,… read more

MoviePeg iPhone stand is cheap, cool, easy to clean

Here’s a nifty little iPhone stand for you. MoviePeg is basically just a piece of plastic with a notch cut into it that slides over an iPhone. Its design makes it the simplest iPhone stand I’ve ever seen. But as Apple has proven, simplicity works. I used to think that… read more

“Gift This App” appears in the app store

When the 2010 baseball season began, I knew I wanted to buy MLB At Bat for a friend. Unfortunately there was no way to do that directly, so I had to settle for a Gift Certificate. Then I discovered that Gift Certificates are only available in $10 increments, starting at… read more

iPad Launch Looks to be Dominated by Gaming Apps [STATS]

It seems as if the Apple iPad will uphold the iPhone platform’s strong gaming heritage, as almost half of the apps being tested on the device fall into the games category.

While apps classed as “entertainment” come in second, gaming apps are said to command 44% of Apple test time… read more

Oh dear, textaholic seeks iPhone for carpal tunnel relief

File this under “what did you expect?” Annie Levitz, a sixteen year old from Mundelein, IL has been sending 4,000 text messages a month. Yes, FOUR THOUSAND. She began to feel tingling, pain and numbness in her hands and went to her doctor who diagnosed her the the RSI injury,… read more

Found Footage: Urban Airship’s AirMail takes push notifications to the next level

Here’s an exclusive TUAW video preview of Urban Airship’s latest product, AirMail. Like their other products, AirMail is powered by a precompiled drop-in library that developers add to their iPhone applications. AirMail adds a whole new spin on push notifications by transforming them from lightweight messaging into a more… read more

iPodMeister: Swap 600 CDs for an iPad

If you reeeeally want an iPad but don’t want to scrap together $499 for the entry-level model, then the iPodMeister service has an interesting solution for you — swap 600 CDs for Steve Jobs’s newest product.

iPodMeister offers a one-stop solution for anyone looking to flog their CD or DVD… 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

5 Stellar Ways to Explore Space Using Social Media

Space — the final frontier, and all that jazz. As the folk over at the Hubble Telescope website say, “Your body may be trapped at your desk, but your imagination can roam the far reaches of the universe, thanks to the wonders of the web.”

Here’s a spaced-out selection… read more

Zosh Lets You Replace Your Fax Machine with Your iPhone

A representative for a new app called Zosh really started DEMO Spring 2010 off with a bang: He destroyed a fax machine on stage, Office Space-style. Complete with soundtrack.

The metaphor was actually pretty apt for the product being demoed: an app for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad that… read more

Now Enjoy Live Meetings, Seminars And Presentations On Your IPhones And iPod Touch Using Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro

Adobe have launched the FREE Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile application, which allows you to enjoy immediate access to collaborative meetings, web seminars, training sessions and video chat anytime, anywhere.

Users can watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter web cam video and screen sharing demonstrations. Users can also… read more

Found Footage: David Barnard of AppCubby talks about KaleidoVid

While roaming the floor at Macworld Expo 2010 in February, I had the opportunity to talk with David Barnard of AppCubby about several of their iPhone apps, including GasCubby and TripCubby. David also told me about a project that they had in the works at the time, which has recently… read more

Give Your Readers Personalized Content with My6sense

At DEMO this week, my6sense will be launching its free Attention API, which allows third parties to tap into the “digital intuition” technology that my6sense utilizes.

My6sense is a mobile app that basically gets to know what you like and what’s important to you, after which it organizes… read more

Another week, another terse email from Steve Jobs

So there you go, no Google Picasa library support for you! Picasa’s facial recognition feature was launched in September 2008, four months before Apple introduced support for facial recognition in iPhoto ’09 with the release of the iLife ’09 suite in January 2009.

An interesting note on the email:… read more

iTunes 201: Using smart playlists to fill your portable’s music library

One way of solving this dilemma is by using iTunes’s powerful smart playlists to filter your library into a size that’s a little more iPhone-friendly. The following smart playlists are examples from my own setup, but the smart playlist system is flexible enough that you can do almost anything with… read more

CoverScout: Tidy Up Your Album Artwork

Are you one of those people dreamily scrolls through their iTunes library, just to admire the beauty of the artwork flying by? And isn’t it annoying that sometimes there are blank spots? Or that iTunes seems to accept the artwork you manually add, but it isn’t showing up on your… read more

iPhone Font is Not Very Readable, Still Amazing

First, we’ll tell you that it took the author – self-described as someone with too much free time – 540 iPhone apps to create this font. Second, we’ll tell you that it’s not all just pretty pictures: he actually colored the iPhone apps so he can show off the… read more

The Perfect Office #29

We’ve seen some great gadgets and equipment for designers. So many cool stuff, that we could actually assemble infinite perfect office spaces! Every week we’ll assemble a perfect office, and we’d like you to help us. What equipment would the perfect office have?

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Not only gadgets and equipment, but also furniture,… read more

140 Reasons We Love Twitter

Today is Twitter’s fourth birthday, and to celebrate the occasion we asked our Twitter followers: “Let us know how Twitter changed your life – add hashtag #thankstwitter4 so we can find your tweet.”

We got thousands of responses — in fact, #thankstwitter4 has become a trending topic. As promised,… read more

iPodMeister gives you an iPad for your old CDs

<p to get a new iPad but a little short on cash? Trade in a bunch of your old CDs or DVDs to a company called iPodMeister and your problems are solved. Sound too good to be true? It's not, reports the New York Times. iPodMeister was founded by a… read more

Analytics Pro, the app that Google forgot

Thankfully Thomas Blackburn has picked up Google’s slack and created the slickest Google Analytics app I’ve seen. Called Analytics Pro, the app provides a simple but powerful UI to access Google Analytics on your iPhone. The default summary reports give you gives you a clear view of recent visitor activity… read more

Apple’s iPad ad goes viral

Apple’s “Meet iPad” ad, which debuted during the Oscars, became the second-most viewed viral video ad last week. Michael Learmonth, writing for AdAge, points out that “Apple has had a YouTube channel since 2005, but only recently started using it. In the past, they’d focused on driving views on Apple.com,… read more

PhotoNest: your Twitter stream, in pictures

<piven that Twitter doesn't have a genuine photo-posting mechanism, this seems like a grand idea to me. I've done something similar to collect and expand just the links posted to my stream, but this app does a great job of pulling photos posted with multiple services and presenting them in… read more

Wallpaper of the Week #92 – Carmelo Di Lorenzo

The wallpaper of this week is a beautiful illustration by Carmelo Di Lorenzo, an art director, designer and illustrator, from São Paulo, Brazil. Carmelo worked with Adhemas Batistas, one of his greatest influences, a few years ago and now he is working as Senior Art Director at Wunderman.

For more information… read more

Apple leads the App Store race with 170,000 apps

<pcon Alley Insider has posted an interesting chart that shows the total number of apps available across various mobile platforms. As you can see from the chart, Apple's iPhone leads the pack by a longshot with 170,000 apps according to AppShopper.com. AppShopper typically lists more apps than Apple publicly states… read more

Sprint features iPhone in 4G ad

Sprint has released an ad that features the iPhone with its Overdrive 3G/4G Hotspot mobile router. The Overdrive allows you to use Sprint’s 4G network with any WiFi capable device.

The ad features “Matt” and the appropriately-named iPhone-owner “Steve.”

“My friend Steve’s iPhone is cool, but it’s… read more

Educational institutions: Get your discounted iPad 10-pack

<pumors reports that Apple has begun offering iPad 10-packs to educational institutions at discounted rates. The discounts are relatively minor: $20 off of each iPad in a set of 10, or $40 off per iPad if they are ordered with AppleCare. The iPad 10-packs are shipped in a single box,… read more

5 Brilliant iPhone Apps for Baseball Fans

Attention baseball fans, the date that is no doubt etched in your brain — the start of the 2010 Major League Baseball Season — is fast approaching. To get you ready for April 4 (when the Boston Red Sox will take on the reigning World Series champion New… read more

Sprint Makes Your iPhone 4G [VIDEO]

The iPhone 4G (next generation iPhone) is yet to be released, but Sprint is cleverly advertising “4G speeds” on your iPhone thanks to its Sierra Wireless Overdrive 4G WiFi hotspot.

The nifty device lets you browse the web “up to 10 times faster” by providing a WiFi hotspot that uses… read more

Coming soon: Lightsaber duels on the iPhone

Lightsaber Duel will expand on that idea. Rather than merely going all Star Wars Kid with your iPhone, you’ll actually be able to engage in duels with your fellow wannabe Jedi or Sith via a Bluetooth connection with their iPhone. You’ll also be able to play music during the duel…. read more

To wait, or not to wait? Macworld weighs in on the lure of the 3G iPad

<phursday's Macworld article from Jason Snell on the relative merits of waiting for the 3G iPad sets out a good case for the superiority of the more flexible — and expensive — AT&T-enabled units. If you can keep your powder dry during the interminable wait through most of April, while… read more

Plastikman releases SYNK, an app for his tour

<pier we were hearing that Apple might get involved in location-based ad-hoc social networking, and now it looks like Plastikman might beat them to the punch. That's the DJ, not the superhero — he's released an iPhone app that's designed to be used at his concerts this summer, giving you… read more

11 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed

We know you’re busy. Even with every social media, web, and RSS tool at your disposal, you can occasionally miss out on some of the week’s most insightful content.

Never fear. We’ve taken a moment to round up the best Mashable resources from this past week and present… read more

The Beauty of India: 50 Amazing Photos

Today we’d like to publish something completely different for a change. India, the country of mysterious paradoxes; the land where civilizations and times intermix, a mysterious place which attracts people from all over the world. In today’s showcase we are presenting a little showcase of this astonishing contrast between wealth… read more

What do you want to see in Mac OS X 10.7?

It’s time again for another Dear, Apple letter from the readers of TUAW. In our first series (part one, part two, part three) you told us what you want to see in the next iPhone OS. Now we need your help again to tell Apple what you want to see… read more

Best of the Week #111

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Six Ngmoco iPad titles revealed

<pis panel at GDC last week, Ngmoco's Neil Young dropped the news that his company was going all out with their freemium business model — not only are they releasing twenty iPhone titles by the end of this year, but they're planning on having six iPad titles ready to go… read more

Wikipedia Gets Pretty with Articles iPhone App

When it comes to accessing Wikipedia on your iPhone, there’s no shortage of options. This week, a new app entered the arena dubbed Articles, and for users who value a solid interface and pleasant viewing experience, it’s an excellent choice.

The app, which is $2.99 in the App Store, features… read more

iPads sent out to select developers, kept under cover for now

Sounds crazy, but clearly there’s reasons for such a strict agreement from both sides: developers really want to get a head start on what will surely be a huge market for apps and content starting on the iPad’s release, and obviously Apple wants to make sure that the device stays… read more

China Mobile angling for iPad, iPhone service in China

Officially, Apple hasn’t said anything about this — it has been confirmed to be in talks about the iPhone, but those are only talks, of course, and it hasn’t been talking at all with China Mobile about the iPad. Still, being that China Mobile is the largest data provider in… read more

5 Things You Need to Know About Location-Based Social Media

Kevin Nakao is VP of Mobile & Business Search for WhitePages, a Top 40 Web and Mobile Publisher. You can find him on Twitter, and on the Whitepages Blog where he writes about mobile, local, and social media.

While last year’s SXSW seemed to serve as the “coming out” party… read more

Apple Takes iPad Secrecy All the Way to 11

In order to have access to iPad testing units, developers and testers had to agree to keep the device tethered to a fixed object in an isolated room with blacked-out windows, according to a report by BusinessWeek.

That’s pretty hardcore. It’s unclear from BusinessWeek’s report if that was a… read more

Square used for fundraiser payments at SxSW

If you haven’t seen it in action, check out our in-person walkthrough from Macworld Expo, or the official YouTube video demonstration. The demo features Adam Lisagor (creator of Birdhouse for iPhone and part of my favorite podcast You Look Nice Today) and Jason Permenter, who walk through a very simple… read more

Apple is now accepting iPad app submissions

Do you believe in miracles? If you clap your hands, will Tinkerbell appear? Are you willing to submit an application developed solely in a simulator and hope that it will work on real hardware? With real customers? In a real App Store? Well, now is your chance to find out…. read more

Non-Profit Challenges You to Ditch the iPhone for a Day

A non-profit organization called Reboot has a mighty challenge for you this Friday night: Power down your cellphone, let your FarmVille crops languish and sign out of Skype for a full 24 hours. What do you think: Can you hack a single day sans technology?

We’re seen efforts of this… read more

Apple Now Accepting iPad Apps

Calling all iPad and would-be iPad developers: starting today, Apple will be accepting apps for review. Only applications submitted to review by March 27th, 2010 will be considered for the grand opening of the iPad App Store. After an initial review, Apple will let developers know about the readiness… read more

iPad support for hardware Dvorak keyboards in latest SDK beta

<pw months ago Macworld asked where's the iPad's Dvorak keyboard? Well, in the iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 5, which was released on Tuesday, there's support for hardware Dvorak keyboards in the OS; however, still no sign of a soft keyboard layout for Dvorak fans.

A source sent us the… read more

hacksugar: Putting iPod touch GPS to the test with roqyBluetooth

When I heard about GPS for iPod touches, I got excited. For a while, I’ve been reading about roqyBluetooth (aka roqyBT). It’s a system hack that allows you to connect an iPod or an early model iPhone to an external GPS receiver over Bluetooth. Yesterday, I finally got a chance… read more

HOW TO: Follow Mashable Channels via RSS, Email, Twitter or Facebook

If you follow Mashable, chances are you either visit the website directly, or subscribe to our RSS feed, daily emails or Twitter and Facebook pages. Given that there are dozens of ways to follow Mashable, we thought we’d round these up in a useful blog post.

We’re also aware… read more

Bharti Airtel will sell iPhone 3GS in India

The iPhone 3G has been sold in India by both Bharti Airtel and Vodafone since August 22, 2008, but the iPhone 3GS has yet to go on sale. Most Indian service providers struggle to ensure decent call quality and while the rest of the world is preparing to adopt 4G,… read more

Mac OS X 10.6.3 imminent?

<p Compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
Performance improvements for 64-bit Logic
Changes to QuickTime X that increase reliability and improve compatibility and security
Printing reliability and compatibility with third party printers
Issues resolved that prevented files from copying… 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

Found Footage: iPhone alphabet made from 540 apps

Urikane, an iPhone user with a LOT of time on his hands, has put together a full alphabet using 540 apps. Each screen contains one letter. Outside of this being really clever, you have to admire the resolve of Urikane to actually get this done. It must have taken… read more

Analyst: Palm Shares Headed to $0

Following a disappointing earnings report, a Wall Street analyst has cut his price target on Palm to $0. In other words, he believes the company’s shares will be worthless within twelve months.

The report comes from Canaccord Adams technology analyst Peter Misek, who wrote this morning that, “We believe… read more

Showcase of Photography Portfolio Websites

Photographers, just like designers, often use the Internet to help promote their work.

Other than using mainstream photography and design sites such as Flickr, Behance and DeviantArt, photographers usually like to have their own portfolio. Not only is it professional, but it gives them an unlimited amount… read more

Chaos Rings trailer looks awesome

Just yesterday, we heard about this new Square Enix RPG due to come to the iPhone this year, and today, not only do we have official confirmation, but a first official trailer as well. And boy does it look great — over in the console world, Final Fantasy’s creators have… read more

80+ iPhone Inspired Website Designs For Your Inspiration

It’s not a secret that for years, Apple has had a huge impact on designers across the globe. Apple has always able to found an extremely effective way to deliver its message via their products to a wide audience and their design is often a key source of inspiration for… read more

Mobile Web Design

Adjusting a site for the mobile environment is a great challenge. A lot of techniques you are used to applying on web design would not make any sense on mobile, and vice-versa.

Mobile is a great place to try new things with different limits. People using the mobile web are much… read more

Review: Set card game on the iPhone is oh so close to the perfect puzzle app

Here’s the gist of the game: each card in the 81-card deck has between one and three images on it. These images come in three shapes (diamond, oval, and squiggly), three colors (red, green, and purple), and three levels of shading (solid, lined, and empty). Every possible combination is available… read more

Anticipating WWDC

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WSJ: Hundreds of thousands of iPads sold, Apple scrambling for content deals

<pWall Street Journal has written that Apple is scrambling to get everything ready for the iPad's release on April 3rd — not only has it already "sold hundreds of thousands of the device, [according to] people familiar with the matter," but Apple is also working hard to try and "nail… read more

Turn yourself into an alien avatar with PhotoAvatar

Using a carefully taken photo snapped by the camera or taken from a photo library, you decide on which alien you want to be and the app does the rest. The picture gets transformed into an amazingly realistic 3D moving image. The result can be emailed or saved to the… read more

Fisher Price Launches iPhone Apps For 2-Year-Olds

How many 2-year-olds do you know with an iPhone? Fisher Price seems to think there’s a fair few out there, as it’s released three new iPhone apps aimed at kids aged between two and five.

Perfect for keeping tots happy for five minutes or so on the go, there’s See’n… read more

The Ultimate Mac Setup for Musicians

There’s no disputing the fact that OS X is a brilliant platform for musicians and music lovers. Apple has invested a huge amount into the music industry and, whether or not they’ve left a good impression, it has lead to an abundance of useful software on the Mac.

Today we’ll be… read more

Make a molehill out of a mountain with Tilt Shift Focus

There are several modes that let you define where the blur and sharpness is positioned in your image. You can also use a paintbrush tool to draw sharpness onto an image that is pre-blurred.

To use the software, you manipulate control points. At first it seems very counter-intuitive, but… read more

Apple Patents Reveal Plans for Mobile Social Networking App

The smart folks at Patently Apple have uncovered some documents published to the USPTO today detailing a social application Apple is building for the iPhone.

The application, known as iGroups, is designed to let people meet up and exchange information in a way that is focused on ensuring privacy.

… read more

New Square Enix RPG coming to the iPhone this year

FFRing also says (via Japanese translation) that the game will be a 3D title, and it will feature a storyline concerning five pairs of warriors who fight to the death for the right to eternal youth. Each game stage will consist of a ring of battles with a boss in… read more

Get Things Done with Remember The Milk

Getting things done (GTD) is the hardest thing to accomplish in a world filled with so many distractions. Keeping track of tasks to be done is not easy. However high your IQ is, it is not a better practice to keep everything in your mind. Right from a moleskin notebook… read more

HTC responds to Apple’s lawsuit, will fight

Today Jason Mackenzie, vice president of sales and marketing at HTC America replied, “We strongly disagree with Apple’s actions and plan to use all the legal tools available to defend ourselves. Choice is important for customers, and healthy competition is instrumental to that.”

Apple’s filing cites twelve HTC phones,… read more

iTunesConnect now allows automated release dates, price changes

Back in the bad old days of the App Store, it was anybody’s guess when a submitted app might get blessed by Apple and show up in iTunes. It might be three days, three weeks, three months, or never. Recent improvements in the approval process have brought that time period… read more

Valve: Coming to the Mac is “biggest event in Steam’s history”

<pgood folks at Joystiq got to sit down and talk with John Cook, the director of Steam at Valve, and he says there's probably no comparison to the news about Steam coming to the Mac — it is "the biggest event in Steam's history." He says that not only is… read more

Attention, Star Wars Fans: the iPhone Lightsaber Duel is Coming

I sense a new trend emerging at geek gatherings everywhere – iPhone lightsaber duels. It’ll probably scare all the girls (far, far) away, but you’ll be able to show your iPhone wielding friends the true power of the dark side.

The upcoming Lightsaber Duel game is due to be released… read more

Kindle for Mac Has Arrived

Amazon has just added a major new platform to its Kindle arsenal: Mac. The free application lets you read ebooks on your computer, including those you’ve purchased previously from Amazon.

Like its applications for iPhone and iPod touch, BlackBerry, and the PC, Kindle for Mac is designed to sync… read more

Amazon stealthily releases Kindle app for Mac

No press release, no big fanfare, but reader Chris spotted the news earlier tonight: Amazon’s long-awaited Kindle application for Mac is ready for download. The 22 MB free application works on Intel Macs running Mac OS X 10.5 and above, and reports a version number of 1.0.0 beta 1. The… read more

First Look: Universal Music’s “Six String” Guitar Game for iPhone

Universal Music Group has debuted a new Guitar Hero-like music simulation game for the iPhone. Priced at $4.99 and available in the App Store right now, it’s called Six String [iTunes link].

The emphasis is on a more realistic and deeper guitar-playing experience than you get in other music games,… read more

Aol Autos app strips down car buying data for research, daydreams

Basically, the App is a stripped down version of the New Cars section of the Aol Autos website. Start by entering your search parameters – price, type, style and make/model – and the app will show you all the new vehicles currently available that fit what you’re looking for. <br… read more

iPhone SDK 3.2 Beta 5 available for download

And to all you TUAW readers, Irish or not, ERIN GO BETA!

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Tumblr Gets a BlackBerry App

Until recently, blogging clients for the BlackBerry have been pretty limited. But WordPress for BlackBerry was released last month, and today Tumblr released its official BlackBerry app, which lets you post photos, videos, audio, links and text directly from the BlackBerry to your microblog.

Mobelux, the guys behind… 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

Now All BlackBerry Apps Can Have Push Notifications

Today, RIM is opening up the BlackBerry Push Service to all BlackBerry developers.

Push notifications let applications notify users of an alert or new message in real-time. This feature has been available to some developers since October of 2008, but today, everyone can get in on the action.

This can be… read more

KaleidoVid turns your iPhone into a video kaleidoscope

If you played with a kaleidoscope as a kid, you’ll be familiar with this app. Instead of mirrors and beads, KaleidoVid makes use of the iPhone’s camera. To use it, simply turn it on and point the camera in any direction, then move the iPhone until you find a pattern… read more

Count The Beats: Learn to read and play sheet music with Etude on your iPhone / iPod Touch

From the creators of ShoveBox, Wonder Wrap Software has just launched their new iPhone / iPod Touch app Etude.

Etude is a beautifully designed app that helps you learn to read and play sheet music on the piano.

While the built-in synthesizer plays through a piece of… read more

Apple bans protective screen films from Apple Store

The ban will reportedly impact all forms of screen film, including completely clear film, anti-glare film, and mirrored film, regardless of whether the purpose of the film is protective, decorative, or both. The ban isn’t limited to iPhone films either. Apple will also prevent sales of film for iPods, iPads,… read more

Apple seeds new build of Mac OS X 10.6.3

<p Compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
Performance improvements for 64-bit Logic
Changes to QuickTime X that increase reliability and improve compatibility and security
Printing reliability and compatibility with third party printers
Issues resolved that prevented files from copying… read more

5 Fantastic iPhone Apps for Web Developers

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Contrary to popular belief, web developers do sometimes leave their desks, and when they do, that’s always when clients seem to call or disaster seems to strike.

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The differences between iPad and iPhone apps

<p's an interesting post by a blogger named teucher that echoes something we've heard from developers before — that the iPhone and the iPad will require completely different experiences. When the iPad was first announced, one of Apple's big selling points was that it already had a full library of… read more