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Dear Aunt TUAW,

Ah, the problems of modern romance. Since I broke up with “her” (and yes, I know you were saying she wasn’t right for me) getting rid of all the remants of the relationship has not been easy, especially “her” digital footprint.

She loved her music. So she would bring her iPod to my house and sync it… Continue reading

Reuters reports that China Mobile is talking with Apple about selling the iPhone. China Mobile is the world’s largest telecom carrier by subscribers. It claimed over 600 million users at the end of September, 2011 and, interestingly, 10 million… Continue reading

Republique is an upcoming iOS title that’s made a lot of noise by getting funded on Kickstarter recently, to the tune of half a million dollars, but I’ve had one nagging question about it: How exactly are they going to distribute the app to all of their backers? The most obvious solution would be to put a password… Continue reading

If there’s one thing about iPhoto for iPad and iPhone that I’ve never been too happy with, it’s that the apps aren’t exactly self-explanatory and Apple doesn’t provide much in terms of an… Continue reading

The TUAW TV Live chat room regulars are a rowdy bunch. Whether it’s urikelman, drallgood, harumph, benroethig, docrock, lvreefkpr, macmommy, verso, ericasadun or any of a constantly changing group of participants who is… Continue reading

The Loop spotted a new book over at Amazon called “Who Was Steve Jobs?” that appears to be a children’s book, of all things. It’s part of a series of books designed to tell kids about famous historical figures and why they’re so admired or well-known.

Looking inside the book shows that it talks about Steve’s life and… Continue reading

Flipboard is the “social magazine” for iPad and iPhone that lets users browse their favorite social network sites, feeds and more in a beautiful, magazine-like interface. Version 1.9 was released this week and… Continue reading

Just a reminder that our live streaming video show, TUAW TV Live, will be polluting the Interwebz at 5 PM EDT today. Although we have some rumors to talk about, most of today’s… Continue reading

iBooks Author is an amazing tool for laying out and publishing ebooks to iTunes. Unfortunately, the application creates books that are only readable on iPads. You trade off fantastic page design (via Apple’s proprietary .iBooks format) for a much smaller potential reading audience.

When you want readers to be able to peruse your book on… Continue reading

Love them or hate them, those new Siri ads starring Zooey Deschanel and Samuel L. Jackson are apparently effective, says a YouGov BrandIndex report. As noted by Fortune’s Apple 2.0 blog, the celebrity Siri ads are creating buzz among 18-34 year old questioned in the survey.

In just a few weeks, the buzz score for the… Continue reading