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- Open-source multi-touch: Touché
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Open Source, Developer
Dust off that FTIR table you've got down in the basement and fire up your internets to play with Touché, an open-source multi-touch tracking environment for Leopard. You too can have a giant iPhone-like interface in your own den.
That's right, no more calling up Perceptive Pixel with (emotional) support questions or fretting over when Surface will invade your Motel 6 with a Blue Screen of Touchy Death. Touché is free, just like a number of other apps from Georg Kaindl. Said FTIR table, however, is slightly less than free. But once you've got a table, a Mac running Leopard and some functional digits, you're ready to rock multi-touch style.
Other apps from Georg that may tickle your fancy include:
- AppUpdate, a Dashboard widget that checks for updates using MacUpdate and VersionTracker and Apple's software directory. We covered it back in 2006.
- WidgetUpdate does the same thing but for widgets (shocking, I know). We covered this back in 2005.
- VoodooPhone, a plugin for VoodooPad for viewing those notes on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Переслать - Back to School: new iLearn ezine on using Macs in education
Filed under: Education
TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September.
Reader Kelly T wrote in to give us a heads up about iLearn, a new ezine devoted to using Mac technology in the classroom. The first issue, which you can find here, is free but future issues will cost $1US each and be available at the main site. Topics in the first issue range from Leopard in the classroom to iPods in education.
The first issue is full of great content. There's a full lesson plan on empathy that includes the standards met, tech skills addressed, and necessary materials. Finally, Kelly explains just how to use PhotoBooth and Pages to complete the lesson and assess the students' participation.
Our favorite article is the Ten Technology Time Savers, including document naming standards (which is huge on a shared computer) and set your daily apps to launch at startup.
Good job, Kelly! We're looking forward to future editions.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Take a virtual tour of Infinite Loop
Filed under: Apple Corporate, Odds and ends, Apple
Join TUAW as we go on a weekend road trip to Apple's campus at 1 Infinite Loop. No, not really, but we can always take a virtual visit to Apple HQ thanks to Google Maps Street View, now that Google has finally completed their street level photography of Infinite Loop.
This allows you to see the buildings in their full grandeur. Unfortunately, you cannot visit the legendary Apple Company Store. To start your virtual road trip, click here.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Hands on with Watch It Change
Filed under: Software, iPhone, App Store
Watch It Change from Anglebar Solutions offers a stop-motion-animation studio for your iPhone. With it, you can snap a series of images, one at a time, making small changes between each shot. This morning, I sat down with my iPhone and Watch It Change and used it to bring my Mac's mouse into "life".
As I slowly moved the mouse, I used the software to capture each shot. Although Anglebar sells a stand for the iPhone, I used a business card holder to keep my phone in a single position and that worked out fine. I was able to frame my shots and tap the onscreen buttons without jogging my phone's location or losing its steadiness.
Follow the jump for my overall feedback about this iPhone application.
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Searchlight, remote Spotlight on your Mac or iPhone
Filed under: Software, Cool tools
Searchlight 2.0 was officially released last week. Searchlight offers remote Spotlight functionality, allowing you to search your computer's files via a web browser, and it includes an iPhone-optimized interface. I talked with Searchlight's authors, Gravity Applications, during WWDC and got a good look at the pre-release version which left me pretty impressed. I've personally been using the beta for a while now to access the Mac Mini at my house which serves as my central file repository. Read on for a Searchlight overview ... and an exclusive TUAW giveaway!
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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - MacBundleBox: 15 apps for 50 bucks
MacBundleBox is offering 15 Mac applications for $49.95: an 85 percent discount (compared to buying each app individually). The apps included are:
- Headline - A full-featured RSS/ATOM feed reader with an ultra-minimal UI.
- Mac Pilot 3 - A system optimization and customization utility.
- iConquer - A game not unlike Risk.
- Mahjong Forests - A traditional mahjong game.
- Shoebox Express - A solution for organizing all your photos by content.
- Caboodle - A way to collect random snippets of text or images on your machine.
- Narrator - A program that will read out stories in multiple voices.
- WriteRoom - A distraction-free word-processor, and possibly the most popular app in the bundle.
- Scribbles - A simple drawing utility.
- Money - An accounting app.
- Operation - A simple project management application.
- Aurora - An iTunes-integrated alarm clock.
- Compositor - A CoreGraphics-based image editor.
- Sofa Control - Allows you to control your applications remotely, using an Apple Remote.
MacBundleBox is available directly from their website.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - TapeDeck updated to 1.1, adds YouTube export
More audio news on the Mac today: the undeniably cute, surprisingly functional TapeDeck recording app (yes, it looks exactly like a cassette deck, and works pretty much the same way) has been updated to version 1.1. The headline features in this version are improved export capability (to most QuickTime-supported audio formats, including MP3 and AIFF), the option to record high-quality at 320kbps, and built-in YouTube exporting, complete with a charming tape-playing video.
TapeDeck's simplicity, and the very easy (possibly too easy) YouTube export, are bound to have plenty of Mac users releasing their quick & dirty audio recordings to the world in short order. TapeDeck (Universal Binary) is $25 and a demo is available at the tapedeckapp.com site.
Video of the YouTube export in action after the jump.Continue reading TapeDeck updated to 1.1, adds YouTube export
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - When your finger just won't cut it, the iPhone Touch Stylus
Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family, iPhone
Although the iPhone and iPod touch were designed with your finger in mind, for those who have trouble controlling the screen (or who have long, styled fingernails), there is the iPhone Japanese Touch Stylus.
The stylus has a flexible tip that mimics your finger's capacitive ability to control the objects on the screen. The tip is flexible, allowing for easy dragging without gouging your screen. It also includes a handy SIM eject tool.
The stylus is imported from Japan, and is available in silver or black. Both colors are $14.99 from ThinkGeek.
[Via iPhoneIndia]
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Ambrosia releases WireTap Anywhere audio capture tool
Filed under: Audio, Software, Podcasting
In the Mac audio software market, Ambrosia's WireTap Studio made a splash last year when it launched, offering lossless capture and audio editing with a fresh interface (and competing with incumbent heavyweight Audio Hijack Pro from Rogue Amoeba). Although it aimed at being an end-to-end solution for basic podcasting and audio production needs, the limitations of the built-in editor meant that high-end and pro users still needed to export from WTS to complete a project elsewhere. Since most pros end up in another editing environment anyway, why not have the underlying capture engine from WTS available to any recording application, and turn your Mac into a virtual patch bay?
That's the concept behind Ambrosia's new pro-level (and pro-priced at $129US) capture tool, WireTap Anywhere. Rather than the two-channel recording options of WTS, with the WireTap Anywhere preference pane you can route and mix multiple audio sources and deliver them to the recording application of your choice. Want Skype, iTunes and QuickTime sources all to end up in Peak or GarageBand? WTA has your back. You can check out several demo movies at Ambrosia's site or download the 13MB demo.
I've experimented with several combinations of recording software and application audio capture tools (Soundflower, Übercaster, Call Recorder, Audacity and AHP among them) and I've yet to find the perfect setup that allows me to combine live audio chat from Skype with music or sound effects played in QuickTime or iTunes, all audible to the remote call participants while being recorded cleanly and latency-free on my end; Übercaster comes awfully close, but the current 1.5.5 version still has issues with Skype dropouts. I'm looking forward to giving WTA a test run to see if it can meet the challenge.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Apple to add iPhone notes syncing to Mail.app?
Filed under: iPod Family, Rumors, iPhone
A loyal reader recently sent in a tip asking us had we seen a dialog in Mail.app. The dialog in question is produced when creating a new note and pressing command + b. You would expect it to be a shortcut for bold, but no ... it brings up the above dialog.
The dialog specifies that by converting the note to Rich Text, devices such as the iPhone will not be able to edit it. Could this be a sign that notes syncing between iPhone and Mail.app could be coming in the not so distant future? We can only hope so.
Thanks for the tip, Shayan!
Update: As some have mentioned in the comments, iPhone notes syncing was an expected, but not released feature of iPhone 2.0.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Happy Birthday, iMac
Filed under: iMac, Apple, Apple History
Yes, it's time once again to say "Happy Birthday" to our old friend, iMac. Hard to believe the iMac has been around for 10 years today. Apple transitioned the "consumer device," as Steve called it at its introduction, into something more of an icon of computer design. Above is a commercial for the iMac G3 which shipped in Lime, Grape, Blueberry, Tangerine, and Strawberry and featured the song "She's a Rainbow" by the Rolling Stones.
The specs for the original iMac were nothing to laugh about then, but it's certainly laughable now. The G3 iMac sported a 15" CRT monitor (resolution of 1024x768), 4 GB hard drive, 233 MHz PPC G3 (750), 32 MB of RAM (expandable up to 128, whoa!), 56 Kbps modem, 24x tray-loading CD-ROM drive, Mac OS 8.1 (or 8.5 on later models). This monster weighed in at 40 pounds!
The original design followed the iMac until 2003, when Apple retired the design for the "goose-neck" iMac G4 (although as Evan reminds us in the comments, the 'gumdrop' form factor lived on in the education-market model eMac). In 2004, Apple created the iconic design of the iMac G5, which is the same major design style they use for the iMac today.
On an iPhone/iPod touch? Click here to see the video.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - iTunes pays tribute to Isaac Hayes
Filed under: iTS
Chef: "You've got to hold the [iPhone] like you would hold your lover. Gently, yet firmly."
Legendary entertainer Isaac Hayes has passed on, but iTunes remembers him with this tribute page that highlights his amazing music career. Of course for many of us, it wasn't just his musical legacy but his beloved TV performances that endeared him to our memories. RIP, Isaac.
Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsПереслать - Back to School: Academic software
Filed under: Software, Education, Deals
TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for tips on saving money on software.
At the start of every school year, students, teachers and parents have a seemingly-endless list of "to-buy" items. It gets expensive, and software is often the last place people want to plunk down money. Fortunately, the world of academic software discounts can easily save students (and their parents) and teachers enormous sums of money.
Academic software is exactly the same as the "regular" software, but the box says "Academic License" and the price can be significantly, noticeably less. How much less? Well, in the case of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium 3.3, the academic version goes for $594.95 (you can save an additional $200 if you buy the package with a new Mac at the Apple Higher Education Store), and the full version clocks in at a whopping $1799US. $600 vs. $1800 is a pretty big difference, especially for students.
Depending on the software title, you might have to be a college student or faculty member to take advantage of some of the best discounts, but more and more publishers are opening up the discounts to K-12 students and teachers.
Please note: While academic discounts are available in other countries, this guide is primarily aimed at US and Canadian students. All prices are in USD.
I've been buying academic software since I was in high school, and here are some of the tips/best practices I've picked up over the years ...
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