Filed under: Hardware, iPhone, App Store Coming this CES (which is actually next week): a complete credit card transaction accessory and service for your iPhone. If this thing works as expected, you might actually see it in more than a few places (think: street vendors that will take credit card payments). A company called Mophie [...]

Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Freeware We know the Magic Mouse is selling well. I was one of the many who was pretty excited when I heard about it and grabbed one the first week it was out. When I actually went to use it, however, it was a major downer. On my Mac [...]

Filed under: Gaming, Hardware, Software, Odds and ends, Apple, Apple TV Apple has updated a patent that they already held featuring a sort of a Magic Wand — a remote control for operating a media system by controlling an on-screen cursor. That might sound familiar if you own a Wii — even the pictures look [...]

Filed under: Developer The very first book I bought for programming the iPhone was none other than Erica Sadun’s iPhone Developer’s Cookbook. It wasn’t the first book of Erica’s I had purchased — years ago I bought her Desktop Video book — but it was an excellent introduction into the secret world of iPhone development. [...]

Filed under: Odds and ends, iPhone, iPod touch, App Review If you’re like me, you find it impossible to keep up with the constant stream of apps being written for the iPhone and iPod touch. As a result, you wind up missing some useful or fun apps that you would buy if you just knew [...]

Filed under: Deals ‘Tis the season to shop until your brains melt (or skip it all entirely, depending on your interpretation of the term holiday). In that spirit, for the next few weeks we’ll be rounding up a dozen daily deals courtesy our friends at DealNews.com. Each afternoon tune in to TUAW for this handy [...]

Filed under: How-tos, Mac 101 Text replacement: it’s one of Snow Leopard’s really cool features. With it, you can type abbreviations and they’ll automatically expand into full text. You can convert your most common phrases into just a few keystrokes, and let Snow Leopard take care of the rest. Here’s a quick summary of what [...]

According to former chief Chinese Googler, Lee Kai-fu, who apparently is well connected with Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn, the upcoming iTablet/iSlate looks like a giant iPhone with: an awesome UI packed in a beautiful 10.1-inch screen 3D graphics, virtual keyboard, video conferencing, e-books, Internet and other functions All this from a connected friend, discussed in [...]

According to former chief Chinese Googler, Lee Kai-fu, who apparently is well connected with Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn, the upcoming iTablet/iSlate looks like a giant iPhone with: an awesome UI packed in a beautiful 10.1-inch screen 3D graphics, virtual keyboard, video conferencing, e-books, Internet and other functions All this from a connected friend, discussed in [...]

As part of OnLive’s intent to stream you your Crysis Wars over the internet (rather than on physical media like a DVD or Blu Ray), they’ve put together a 48 minute demo, including the use of their companion iPhone app. The iPhone part starts at 19:30 in, and they say latency over current 3G networks [...]