The Week in Review: news and features you don't want to miss
Last week was a busy one with your favorite TUAW writers posting some excellent How-To guides, commentary and other informative news articles. Here's a quick roundup of our recent feature worthy posts you may have missed:
News
- Apple files motion to dismiss iPod antitrust lawsuit after plaintiffs' stories called into question
- White House photographer uses iPhone 6 to catch people off-guard
- Spotify promotion offers users 3 month premium subscription for just $0.99/month
- Eddy Cue testifies: Apple once contemplated licensing its Fairplay DRM to competitors
- Lawyer: Apple secretly deleted rival's music files from consumer iPods
- Wozniak: Apple's famed garage start is only a myth
- iPhone 6 Plus accounted for 41% of Q4 U.S. "phablet" sales in one month
- Google's Chromecast trumps Apple TV in streaming for 2014
- Old Steve Jobs emails resurface as part of iPod antitrust lawsuit
- LA Unified School District under investigation for bungled iPad program
- Apple's ban hammer on Notification widgets now targeting popular note-taking app Drafts
- Russian lawmaker thinks the iPhone is stealing state secrets
- 7-year-old boy cleverly thwarts Apple's iPhone security measures
- iPod antitrust lawsuit set to kick off tomorrow
Features
- Slices of Apple episode 12: The 105% solution
- Mel's 2014 holiday gift ideas
- Steve's 2014 holiday gift ideas
- Rumor Roundup: Crescentgate-gate
- The character of what we buy on Black Friday/Cyber Monday is changing
- Typed brings a touch of Zen to a minimalist Markdown editor
- Touch ID for your Mac ... sorta
- Rumor Roundup: 'iPad Air Plus'
TUAW will be back next week with another round of handy features and breaking news, so be sure to drop by to see what's new and what's useful.