Ping iPhone cradle can lower your handicap, but you're still on your own with the gophers (video)

Finally, a reason to use your cellphone on the course that won't earn you icy stares around the old clubhouse. Golfing accessory manufacture Ping this week announced an iPhone / iPod touch cradle that clips onto your putter, using the company's iPing app to quantify your putting handicap number. The system measures your stroke type, impact angle, and tempo, comparing them against your friends and some pre-entered golfing pros. Al Czervik would be proud. The app itself is free, but the

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JVC Kaboom adds a guitar input, dares you to get the band back together

New audio input capabilities are nothing new for JVC, but soon you'll be able to show off your guitar chops alongside whatever bands you choose to idolize -- so long as you're kosher with rocking a boombox atop your left shoulder, of course. The company has announced that the 2011 offering from its Kaboom line will showcase a guitar / microphone input (1/4-inch) with mixing capabilities to allow for gigs to be played from anywhere you darn well please. The RV-NB70 will have all the key

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FunChat Combines Text, Chat, Pranks, Virtual Goods, And Social Gaming All In One Free App

FunMobility, the makers of FunMail, a picture-messaging app that organically pairs your texts with appropriate (and fun) images, FunTones, a large collection of funny ringtones, and FunMe, a suite of tools for consumers to create, share, and post their own user-generated content, is clearly striving for a particular brand message. I think it has something to do with “fun”.
Today, FunMobility introduces a new app to its menagerie of fun, called FunChat, which blends chat,

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Apple Back to School promotion starts June 16 with a $100 gift card

Apple's annual Back to School promotion begins June 16 and runs until September 20. There are a few things different with this year's promotion compared to years past. First, the promotion is starting about two weeks, on average, later than in earlier years. Secondly -- and most notably -- this year's promotion will not include a free iPod with any Mac purchased. Instead, buyers will receive a $ 100 gift card that is good in the Mac App Store, iTunes Store, App Store or the

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Pinger’s TextFree Surges On Android: User Growth Now Matches iPhone

Pinger’s TextFree, the app that lets users send and receive free text messages and phone calls using real phone numbers, has a new best friend: the big green Android robot.
We’ve been tracking TextFree’s staggering growth for some time now — CEO Greg Woock says that TextFree users now exchange 1.5 billion messages and 45 million voice minutes each month, making it one of the top 10 carriers in the US. And that usage has led to some big opportunities for advertising: he

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Apple updates support page with more "tap-friendly" layout

Apple's support web page has been re-designed with several large, easily-clicked and tapped areas, less text and a more product-centerd focus. Here's a brief look at what's new.

The most obvious change is the page's layout. The text-heavy sidebars are gone from the main page, as is the "All Products..." drop-down menu. Now, a horizontal row of products dominates the top of the page. Support pages for the Mac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes and "other products" are a tap away.

Additionally,

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Shazam adds LyricPlay, lets you act like you knew the words to that song all along

Remember the song that was playing at the bar last night that you just had to know the name of? You busted out the iPhone and fired up Shazam to tag that sucker, and now that you've got it in your collection, so you can forever relive that magical first time you heard it. But whatever happened to immediate gratification? And since when was it possible to enjoy a song without fumbling through the lyrics? This morning's upgrade to the popular music tagging app has your back -- the premium

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TigerText Disposes Of ‘Sender’s Remorse’ With New Privacy And Control Features For SMS

TigerText, a company that adds a bevy of privacy settings and controls to SMS, is today launching a new app for iOS that aims to preserve the social nature of group messaging while giving the sender complete control over their messages both in group and one-to-one conversations. A prized feature of TigerText’s service has been the fact that it allows a sender to recall a message they’ve sent at any time. Bad for TextsFromLastNight. Now, with its new iOS app, users can create and

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Ask TUAW: shuffle by album and AirPlay from iOS, plus lots of iCloud questions

Welcome to Ask TUAW, our weekly (mostly) question-and-answer column. This week we're again hitting a ton of questions about iCloud and iOS 5.

By the way, we can never have too many questions. You can't have a Q&A column without the Q, so please go to the comments of this post and ask away. Believe it or not, we've had a little bit of a drought of questions, so now's your chance to get them answered! If you prefer, instead of asking questions in the comments, you can also email your

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Apple: Samsung is harassing us with its iPhone 5 and iPad 3 request

Apple is not happy with Samsung's latest legal request to view prototype versions of the iPad 3 and the iPhone 5. The Cupertino company recently filed a response in which it called Samsung "the copyist" and claimed the Korean company is trying to harass it with these unreasonable demands.

This latest volley is one of many between the two tech companies. Apple filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against Samsung accusing the Korean company of copying its iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

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Unlocked iPhone FAQ, including AT&T plan info (updated)

Updated with information about AT&T plans.

As we posted earlier, Apple is selling an unlocked version of the iPhone in the US starting at US$ 649. To help clarify questions about this development, we've put together this little FAQ. We'll explain what the unlocked iPhone means to you as a customer and how you'll be able to use it both at home and abroad.

This TUAW unlocked iPhone FAQ is a work in progress. You can help us out by correcting any errors you see. Just leave a comment or

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Thinking Outside The Browser Box: Why Should Apple Play By Current Internet Rules?

Earlier today, I was reading Joshua Topolsky’s editorial on This is my next about Apple’s “mistake” in turning their back on the Web and I kept stopping. I disagreed with basically everything.
First of all, his entire argument is based on what I believe to be a fallacy: that Apple is going to completely turn their back on Web support for iCloud. I have reasons to believe this is not the case, as I stated last week, and reiterated today. Others have since chimed in with

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SugarSync adds mobile device management, lets you push digital delights directly to iOS (video)

Apple's iOS is great at displaying content already on a device, but transferring documents from your computer to your iPhone or iPad has traditionally been a tedious, inefficient process. SugarSync's new mobile device management sets out to help change that, allowing you to send files directly to your smartphone or tablet using a simple web interface. After selecting a connected device from the sidebar, you can click to upload content, booting it directly to your handheld. A push notification

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What To Do When A Tech Giant Decides To Eat Your Lunch

Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at his Startup Blog, BothSidesoftheTable.
WWDC. The annual Apple event where no real hints about what products they plan to release are floated in the public domain in advance. No private head nods are given to small startup companies to help them prepare. We’re in a market where 800-pound gorillas throw their weight around and the rest of the market

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Bill Gates' kids 'aren't deprived,' they have Zunes

Bill Gates doesn't give too many interviews, but the Daily Mail's Caroline Graham sure managed to get a lot out of him during their recent sitdown. Gates spent much of the time discussing his global health foundation, which, according to him, has become "full-time work for the rest of my life." And, while he acknowledged that he's still involved with Microsoft on a "part-time" basis, he reaffirmed that he has no desire to return to the throne. Does this mean he's finally ready to lift his

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Sky Go consolidates live TV streaming on UK PCs and iOS devices next month

Over in the UK, Sky TV is streamlining its efforts to serve up TV channels away from the TV by launching the new Sky Go service July 6th. It combines and replaces the existing online Sky Player and Sky Mobile TV services into one offering that's free for subscribers, and in August will open up to those who don't have Sky TV service for between £15-£40 per month. The new package also means changes for Sky Player on the Xbox 360 (which has its own changes in store) and Fetch TV,

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Marco Tempest's magic show uses iPods to deceive and delight

Marco Tempest calls himself a "technoillusionist" -- he combines magic tricks with the technological artistry (and occasionally the black-turtlenecked panache) of Steve Jobs. We last saw him hacking through an augmented reality illusion; this time he's using three iPods to enable his trickery, as he offers a video essay on deception, lies, and magic. It's sort of like his take on F For Fake, with more touchscreens: see him call out liars, declare himself an honest magician, and lift a

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Ask Engadget: best (non-gaming) wireless headphones?

We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from reader Conception, who has a pretty hilarious story to tell. If you're looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.


"What is the best wireless headphones on the market (non-gaming headset -- no need for microphone) for the cheapest dollar while listening to music / TV around

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Roger Ebert's Great Movies app hits iOS devices, pulls you from your Netflix-recommended slump

Struggling to decide on a few movies to watch this weekend? Then you can always peruse the solid suggestions offered by Roger Ebert's ongoing Great Movies series, which is now available in convenient app form for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (though not optimized for iPad, unfortunately). In addition to over 300 reviews from Ace in the Hole to Yojimbo, the app offers stills and fully searchable details for each film in the series, plus links to add a movie to your Netflix queue or buy

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Bria extends VoIP phone client to iPad

If you've been looking around for a solid VoIP/SIP client for the iPad or iPhone, consider CounterPath's Bria.

For all the excitement around VoIP on the iPhone and iPod touch (including high profile apps like Skype, Vonage TalkFree for Facebook and Line2), relatively few developers have gone after the corporate side of the voice mix. With so many large enterprises using Asterisk-based PBX replacements for VoIP telephony, a solid SIP client for iPhone and iPad seems like a natural

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iPhone 101: Using Voice Control

While we wait for iOS 5 to deliver cool new features, here's a look at Voice Control, a feature introduced with the iPhone 3GS model. There are three types of Voice Control commands: phone, music and other. Here's how to use each.

Launching Voice Control

Of course, you can't use Voice Control until you get it running. You can either hold the Home Button down for about two seconds, or do the same with the middle button on your supplied Apple earbuds. You'll hear a beep and the iPhone's

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redsn0w tethered jailbreak available for iOS 5 Beta 1

The iPhone dev released a new version of redsn0w that jailbreaks iOS 5 beta. The release is meant for developers to test their jailbroken apps with Apple's latest mobile operating system. The dev team warns people that this jailbreak will not bypass iOS 5 beta activation. You still need a developers account and a registered UDID to activate iOS 5 on your handset. The jailbreak is tethered only and compatible with the iPod touch 3G/4G, iPad 1, iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 (GSM/CDMA).redsn0w

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Numbers on the iPhone: A quick look

Apple has yet to come out with a new version of iWork for the Mac, but they've been hard at work on the iOS edition of the productivity suite. The recent release of iWork on the iPhone and iPod touch included all three members of the iWork family in a diminutive format -- Keynote for presentations, Pages for word processing and page layout, and Numbers for creating and updating spreadsheets and charts. I took a quick look at Numbers ($ 9.99, universal app) on the iPhone just to see how

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Developers see potential, pitfalls with iOS 5

Posted on by Joel Mathis, Macworld.com


When App Cubby’s David Barnard witnessed the unveiling of iOS 5 this week at the Worldwide Developers Conference, his first thought was to marvel at all the “shiny new toys.”


The second thought was a bit more sobering: Did it make sense to go back and revamp his older iOS apps to incorporate the new technologies, which include revamped notifications and messaging? Or would it be better to apply those “toys” to new projects?
“That’s

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2011 Apple Design Award winners announced

The 2011 Apple Design Award winners have been announced at WWDC. Although the Mac got left off the radar last year, in 2011 Apple's chosen to recognize greatness in all of its platforms. Winners get a MacBook Air, iPad 2, iPod touch, and a snazzy trophy. They also get heaps of free coverage from sites like us, which means all of these apps can likely look forward to massive upticks in sales over the next week.

The winners are below. For apps we've covered before at TUAW, we've got links to

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The Best Overlooked Numbers And Subtle Features From WWDC 2011

In case you weren’t following our WWDC keynote coverage live earlier today, you missed — well, a lot. The event — which ran about two hours — was packed with information. Thousands of articles have already been written covering some of the bigger numbers and features. So I thought I’d highlight some of the smaller (or quickly mentioned) things you may have missed from the keynote.
Warning: if you’re all Apple’d out, you will absolutely hate this post. (So just

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Apple's iOS 5: all the details

Scott Forstall has just taken the WWDC 2011 stage and details about the changes and improvements in iOS 5 are flowing thick and fast. Keep one tab in your browser locked to this post as we update it with all the new features, and throw another one open for our liveblog where you'll get to see and read the very latest as it happens.

We've now put together the full list of highlights from the WWDC presentation, which you'll find after the break. iOS 5 will be made available this fall, with

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What Mac owners need to know after today's WWDC announcements

With Mac OS X Lion coming in July and the free iCloud service coming in the fall, owning a Mac is about to get a whole lot more exciting. Today's WWDC keynote was full of announcements about the new services Lion and iCloud will offer, and whether you're a Mac newbie or an old hand, it's worth looking at a condensed list of what this means for the future of the Mac.

Mac OS X Lion

1. Lion will be available in July, and it only costs US$ 29.99 for all your devices. Quite a few people

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What Twitter iOS 5 Integration Will Look Like [Screenshots]

Up on the Apple website right now are stunning screencaps of Twitter’s iOS 5 integration, which we broke the first signs of last week. Fun fact: That @GilbertsoLANO account shown in the Apple official screenshots is the same one we flagged as a Twitter photos test account, even though the twimg.com/status_photos/ Twimg test link has now been cleaned up to pic.twitter.com.
Available in the fall, Twitter for iOS 5 will use Twitter Auth (it’s still not clear whether its O or X) to

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iOS 5 previewed at WWDC, arriving this Fall (Updated)

Apple introduced iOS 5 at WWDC and kicked off the new release with over 200 new features. The keynote presented ten of the best features and here they are:

1. Notifications: Yay, no more interruptions from a giant box on your screen. iOS Notifications will appear at the top of your screen like Android. You can slide your finger across the notification and you will go directly to the message, email or app that generated the alert. You can also click on the "X" button to clear all the

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Apple unveils iTunes Match for $25 per year

Apple introduced its iTunes in the Cloud solution which lets you archive your iTunes music purchases in the cloud and share it among devices. What happens when you have a song that you ripped and did not but from iTunes?

Thanks to the new iTunes Match service, you can scan and match the songs on your computer. If a match in iTunes is found, the cloud service will automatically add it to your library. If iTunes cannot find a match, you can upload the song manually. All songs are upgraded

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Watch Out Facebook Connect, Apple Pushes Twitter Sign-Ins In iOS 5

Apple just announced a fairly in-depth ‘Twitterification’ of the newest version of its mobile OS, iOS 5 (which we reported last week to be taking place). As Apple says during the WWDC keynote today, there are 1 billion Tweets per week now and we want to make it even easier for all our customers to use Twitter in our iOS products.
Now Apple provides a single sign-on for Twitter use on the phone, and with any app you download, it will just ask you for Twitter credential permission.

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TUAW predictions for WWDC 2011

With Steve Jobs' WWDC 2011 keynote just a few hours away, we already know a lot more about the content of this year's WWDC keynote than in years past. But, it's always fun to dust off the old crystal ball and see what WWDC will bring us this week. Without further ado, here's what some of our TUAW bloggers predict today will bring:

Mike Rose


End-of-life for the classic iPod

A new Time Capsule with cloud storage tied in

One more thing: A new MacBook Air


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Ten One Design's iPad joysticks set to have a mini Fling with your smartphone

Need more stuff to attach to your smartphone? Good news: Ten One Design managed to shrink down those stick-on iPad joysticks we played with back at CES, bringing the Fling's screen-cluttering gaming action to the iPhone, iPod touch, and Android devices. The new Fling Mini monopolizes a good deal of its designated phone's display real estate -- and then some -- pushing its way well into the bezel of many handsets. You can pre-order the suction cup controllers now at $ 24.95 for a pack of two

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OMG/JK: iCloud, gWallet, and tPhotos

Hey!
We're back for a new episode
of OMG/JK after a brief hiatus after TechCrunch and stuff.
I'm Jason Kinkaid.
And I'm MG Seigler.
First thing we're gonna talk about
this week is what's coming
up next week, which is WWDC, Apple's big developer conference.
I know you're very excited because there are some big developments coming up, right?
There are from the software Other

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Opinion: Steve Jobs's greatest keynote hits

by Brad Reed, Network World
Editor's Note: The following article is reprinted from Network World.
There’s nothing like a Steve Jobs keynote address to get the tech world buzzing.

Jobs, a rare breed of tech CEO who also doubles as a compelling public speaker, has used his keynote platforms to introduce his company’s most important products for years now. Over the past decade alone, so-called “Stevenotes” have brought us the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad, which respectively

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Windows 8 Is Gorgeous, But Is It More Than Just A Shell? (Video)

Yesterday, Microsoft showed off Windows 8 for the first time, and it’s gorgeous (check it out in the video above). It’s also the biggest change to the look and feel of Windows since Windows 95.
Windows 8 is all designed around a touch interface, with tiles replacing icons and swiping replacing drag-’n-drop. Instead of a Start button that pops up at the lower lefthand corner of your screen, you are greeted with a grid of tiles as the new Start screen. The tiles also

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Push.IO Buys Mobile App Framework TapLynx From NewsGator

Push IO, a startup that offers a cloud-based mobile feature platform for developers has announced the acquisition of mobile app framework TapLynx from NewsGator. TapLynx will be re-released by Push IO this month with a series of new features. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
TapLynx, which was developed by NewsGator, allows users with limited coding knowledge to easily develop iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch Apps. Beyond just developing and publishing these apps, TapLynx allows

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Apple finally going after ipods.com domain

In October 2001 Apple introduced the now iconic iPod, and since almost the same time Apple has owned the ipod.com domain name. But in April of 2002, someone registered the plural of the ipod as a domain -- ipods.com. For some reason or another Apple chose then not to go after the owners of the domain even though Apple typically shows no mercy when it comes to its trademarks appearing in domain names.

However, as TechCrunch notes, Apple has suddenly moved to claim the ipods.com domain

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Report indicates iOS users stick with platform due to 'lock-in effect'

Citing a report from research2guidance, GigaOM notes that Apple's market share of app downloads reversed the backward slide that began in 2009 and recently increased by 2 percent. This is a far cry from the doom n' gloom predictions many pundits have been espousing for Apple's platform, and it shows that Google's Android Marketplace still has a long way to go before unseating Apple's App Store.

The report speculates that a "lock-in effect" is partially responsible for users sticking with

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Prototypes makes iPhone mockups a breeze

This is a cool one, at least for iPhone app designers. Prototypes is a Mac app that lets you take those handcrafted mockups of iPhone screens and turn them into a clickable demo you can share with any iPhone or iPod touch user.

Prototypes takes just about any image format, including straight Photoshop PSD files. Once you drag them into your project, adding hotspots is as easy as clicking and dragging. Create a hotspot and then drag the link to whatever page should be loaded when it's

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Norton launches its Online Family To Go app for iOS devices

Norton announced today that it's launching a mobile companion to its Online Family parental control software. The Online Family To Go app lets parents view their kids' online activities, including their web browsing history, search history and chat logs. Parents can also manage their "House Rules" directly from this iOS device and change each child's settings for web browsing, time limits, chat logging and personal information sharing. The app will be available for free from the App

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