Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPhone , iPod touch , iDevice Apps , iTunes , Mac Software , Apple Software , Features , How-To , Originals Want to share an app with a family member without paying for another download? Apple allows you to do that simply and legally, as long as both computers are on the same network. This gets around the rather silly restriction of allowing an iPhone/iPod touch to only sync apps with one computer. Home Sharing is an iTunes feature that Apple doesn’t make a lot of noise about, which is odd because it makes it simple to sync and transfer purchases between computers on the same network. Movies, TV shows, music, and yes, even apps can easily—and legally—be swapped between up to five computers, so if you’re in the living room and suddenly realize the song you want to hear is in the bedroom, or if you want to share an app with a family member who’s iPhone is synched to another computer, Home Sharing is the answer. First, you need two computers on the same network with iTunes open. Then, if it’s not already active, go to Advanced > Turn on Home Sharing in the menu bar.

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Shares of DVR-manufacturer TiVo jumped about 5% yesterday after rumors swirled that the company’s next tech revision might get included on the next Apple TV. It’s a pretty silly rumor. Apple has made it clear time and time again that they want to own the core technology of their devices. Unless Apple sees fit to buy

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Section: iPhone / iPod touch / iPad , iPad , iDevice Apps , Reviews Sam & Max – The Devil’s Playhouse begins with this line: "In all the universe, the only power beyond the mind’s comprehension is the power to comprehend the power of the mind." Get used to that kind of thing, because that’s pretty much what The Devil’s Playhouse is all about. Yes, there are puzzles and adventure, but even those just seem to serve the game’s sense of humor. And that’s fine, because the jokes are sharp enough to carry you through the five episodes that will comprise the series. Sam and Max are a crime-fighting duo. Sam’s the six-foot talking dog. Max is the manic rabbit. This unusual pair is facing off against the evil alien gorilla General Skunk’ape (skoon-kah-pay). Their story is told with excellent voice acting, although the presentation itself is quite jumpy. Along with frequent framerate issues (Telltale suggests you power down your iPad and turn it back on to clear the system before playing) and long load times, the dialogue often feels disconnected—as if each line was recorded separately then pieced together later. This occasionally throws off the timing of a good joke, but is otherwise harmless. The graphics are pretty good throughout.

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Reporting a bug for a third-party iPhone is easy to do via the App Store app on my iPhone, but where do I go when there’s a bug or conflict with the first-party apps from Apple? How do we let Apple know that something is wonky? By all appearances, Apple does want to hear about issues like these, especially when it comes to iPhone-software wonkiness. The company keeps feedback forms for all its products online. The form for iPhone is at apple.com/feedback/iphone.html , and you can complain about hardware or software. It’s not particularly iPhone-friendly if you’re headed there on Mobile Safari (what’s up with that, Apple?), but you can notify Apple of problems with the hardware or software. Submitting a bug report from the iPhone–not the most iPhone-friendly page. In fact, we just submitted a ticket asking why we can’t take that silly Stocks app off our iPhone altogether.

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Think you already know all the new iPhone 4G will do?  A tip-o-the-hat to Cult of Mac reader Mario Baluci, who wrote to tell us about this short rendering of the upcoming iPhone (or what it may look like) that he created as a promo for his Make Coffee iPhone app.  Silly, but the video

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Prior to the launch of the iPad bloggers started thinking about how convenient the slate might be for sharing information. Some even believed the iPad would make such an impact on the process that it would change blogging for the better . While it’s certainly true the iPad makes interacting with the web easy, and something that can be done almost anytime, it’s still not clear how useful it can be for the actual process of blogging. The fog is clearing, however, and some bloggers are using the iPad to handle most of the blogging process . I would never want to use the iPad as my only blogging tool, but I admit I am finding it far more useful for the task than I thought it would be. With some careful thought and best practices, blogging can indeed be done on the iPad. I would never recommend bloggers to dump whatever computer they are using for blogging — that would be silly.

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Filed under: Gaming , Software , Odds and ends , Other Events , Apple , Developer Last month at Macworld, Telltale Games announced that they’ll be releasing their games day-and-date on both Mac and PC at the same time. Last week at GDC 2010, they announced a brand new season of Sam and Max, and also the news that, on April 15th, the first episode of The Devil’s Playhouse will be available on both Mac and PC (as well as the PSN, if you’re into that sort of thing). I got a chance to see the game at GDC, and while the version I saw was running on the Playstation 3, I can promise you that they said we’d get Sam and Max, and that’s exactly what we’re getting. Like the other games in the series (which aren’t on the Mac quite yet, but are coming soon ), The Devil’s Playhouse (the first episode is called “The Penal Zone”) is a cartoony point-and-click adventure game featuring the legendary Freelance Police duo. We played through an initial sequence that had the two going up against the evil General Skunkape and his spaceship, armed only with Max’s ability to travel through phonelines, some silly putty that will let him change into a potted plant (or a bazooka), and the help of an alien brain in a jar. Just like the rest of the series, Sam and Max features item-based puzzles with plenty of absurdity and humor. Continue reading GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . GDC 2010: Hands-on with Sam and Max: The Devil’s Playhouse originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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Entertain and educate the most important members of your household with this family-friendly guide to the best Mac software, websites, and iPhone apps for kids. And don’t miss our step-by-step instructions for setting up parental controls on your Mac. Let’s play!   When they’re little, kids want to be just like you–pretending to drive the car, borrowing your shoes for dress-up, and yes, pulling up a booster seat to unwind with the family Mac after a hard day in the sandbox. As fun as some Mac staples are regardless of age (Photo Booth, anyone?), your kids deserve some special software just for them–to help them master basic computer skills, stretch their creative imaginations, reinforce educational concepts, and of course, just have a grand old time no matter how young they are. With that in mind, we test-drove 29 Mac and iPhone apps and 12 activity-packed websites just for kids. Some wound up being a little too dumbed down–on the verge of becoming, well, dumb–and our reviews separate the wheat from that chaff for you. Grab the mouse; it’s time to play!   Computer Skills   KidsMouse   KidsMouse teaches basic mouse skills with 18 learning games like ABC Puzzle, Color Ball, and Shape Puzzle. Each is operated using only the mouse or trackpad, and the brightly colored, charmingly illustrated graphics will delight little ones. Some of the games test your child’s sequencing (letters and numbers), shape recognition, and memory, while others just entertain–a bitmap paint program, for example, lets them draw colorful shapes. Really little kids might need prompting from Mom or Dad–ours had fun driving from our lap. We just wished KidsMouse would lock out keyboard input because those keys sure get banged on. Click matching shapes to hear a sound

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Kidding Around – The Best Software and Websites for Kids

What are you going to do on your Mac today? The usual–emailing, updating your enemies list, removing the geotag data from all the photos of your secret underground lair? That all sounds pleasant enough, but to really flex your world-domination muscles, we found two turn-based strategy games that ape the classic gameplay of Risk. So whaddya say, after lunch we try to conquer the world?   Lux Delux   Hyperaddictive Lux Delux is different every time thanks to its staggering number of maps. The game starts you off with 10 built-in maps, then its Plugin Manager provides another 600-plus others for download–and more are coming out every day. Most of the maps are made by developers using Sillysoft’s Java-based SDK, but Lux Delux also has a built-in map editor so you can roll your own with no coding required. It’s hard to imagine ever getting bored. This keyboard-shaped map is a good example of the creativity in Lux Delux’s map selection. In each game, you can battle up to five opponents drawn from any mix of players using the same Mac, network players, and computer-controlled players.

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Filed under: Apple , Developer , iPhone , iPod touch , iPad Universal apps. They’re the solution for delivering your iPhone OS application to both the iPhone and the iPad and having it run natively on each without silly make-do’s like pixel doubling. It’s a way to ensure that your app “fits” each platform, providing art and interfaces that match the target screen. Or, as Apple puts it, “Developers can now start planning for universal applications, allowing them to take full advantage of the technologies found on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch with a single binary.” Right now, I’ve got a bug up my sleeve about the whole issue. I’m not convinced that it’s the right solution for a lot of apps. Just because you *can* merge an iPhone app with an iPad app, and sell one product, you shouldn’t — unless the functionality is significantly the same for both platforms. Continue reading Should you be building universal apps for App Store? Should you be building universal apps for App Store? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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