The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Instapaper for iOS gets improved text-to-speech, Evernote sharing, and more Posted: 18 Oct 2014 01:00 PM PDT Instapaper has built a loyal following by being one of the best article grabbers available, with healthy options for free and premium users. Depending on your tolerance for robot voices Instapaper's text-to-speech feature can be a game changer in...

Another Apple event, still no new black MacBook Posted: 18 Oct 2014 11:00 AM PDT I want a black MacBook, you want a black MacBook, we all want black MacBooks, so where is our black MacBook? We got a lot of cool things at yesterday's special event, including an über iMac, a more powerful yet less expensive Mac mini, and of...

Caturday: Douglas is very possessive of his Apple products Posted: 18 Oct 2014 07:00 AM PDT You can't blame a cat for hogging all of the computer equipment in a house. After all, you probably pay more attention to the electronics than you do to your cat (or at least the cat will think so...), so he's going to try to do his best to grab all...

Sixty Vocab: unfathomably slow way to learn a new language Posted: 18 Oct 2014 05:30 AM PDT Sixty Vocab is a tool for learning foreign languages that incorporates a mixture of study sessions and games to help train your brain. Its purpose is not to learn the entire language, but rather just the most common vocabulary words so it's easy to...

LetterPop gets an "A" for awesome Posted: 17 Oct 2014 03:30 PM PDT In LetterPop players compete against other players in turn-based matches to create the longest words from a random assortment of 15 letters. There are three rounds lasting 90 seconds each, that players compete to get the highest score from before the...