August has been the lull between July’s Mountain Lion release and September’s inevitable iPhone announcement. But that’s not to say it was a quiet month – it certainly wasn’t. On the news front, we saw Apple and Amazon reacting to Mat Honan’s ‘epic hacking’, the first Mountain Lion update, internal promotions at Apple and of course – the verdict in the Apple v. Samsung trial. August also saw big Pixelmator, Things, Instagram, Drafts and Buzz Contacts app updates amongst a bunch of other updates and new release apps. Finally, in the stories department, we wrote up a bunch of how-to’s and I talked about the rise of third party services and fall of Google in iOS. Be sure to stay tuned this September, it’s going to be a big month.
You can review past ‘Month In Review’ posts here.
- Firemonkeys Announce Real Racing 3, Coming Later This Year
- Apple Removes Native YouTube App From iOS Beta
- Mat Honan: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
- Apple Posts New iPad Advert: “All On iPad”
- Amazon And Apple Take Steps To Fix Security Holes Revealed By Mat Honan’s Hack
- Starbucks Signs Up For Square
- Growl 2.0 SDK Gives Developers Access to Mountain Lion’s Notification Center
- OS X Mountain Lion Updated to 10.8.1
- Jury Finds Mostly Against Samsung, Apple Entitled To Damages Of $1.049 Billion
- Craig Federighi and Dan Riccio Promoted to Senior Vice Presidents
- Session Videos From The One More Thing Conference Now Available For Purchase
- Buying a New iPad or iPhone? Have an Apple Specialist Walk You Through the Latest Features over the Internet.
The Highlights
- Review: The New Day One
- Pixelmator 2.1: Retina Graphics, Mountain Lion Ready, iCloud Support and Great New Features
- Angry Birds Update Adds New “Power-Ups”, 15 New Levels
- It’s Getting Partly Cloudy On Your iPhone
- Instagram 3.0: Maps. New User Profiles. Infinite Scrolling.
- Ecoute Is The Best Music Player For iOS. Period.
- Drafts 2.0: New Fonts, New Look, A Brand New Kind of Sync, And Now On iPad
- Review: Things 2 With Cloud Sync
- Tweet Marker Plus Relaunches As Watermark, Adds Support For App.net
- Buzz Contacts 2.0 Refines Interface, Improves Navigation
Everything Else
- Scratch Review
- Droplings Simplifies Public Sharing With Dropbox
- Weather HD 2 — Yet Another Weather Forecast App?
- I Want A Simple Event-Planning App. Pronto!
- Shuffler.fm Is The Perfect Tool For Genre-Specific Music Discovery
- Flip’s Escape Offers Tons Of Pixel Fun For iOS
- Kindle for iOS Updated To 3.2 with Adjustable Margins
- Apple by CLOG — A Book Review
- Kuvva — Beautiful Art For Your Desktop. Automated.
- The Rise Of Third Party Services And Fall Of Google In iOS
- Sprinkle a Dash of Cocoa in Your AppleScripts
- Plain Text, Macros, Markdown, and Nebulous Notes
- Turn URLs and Webpages Into PDFs In Your Dropbox
- Use Dribbble and Instagram as an Apple TV Screen Saver
- Send Favorite Tweets To OmniFocus’ Inbox
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