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Dring - Beautiful Ringtone Creation and More for iPhone
Ringtone creation on the iPhone is still new to the App Store; there are several out but only a few that have a great UI and functionality. Wake Apps’ Dring arrived last week and does it look beautiful and work wonderfully.
Dring has a finely tuned, gorgeous retina display UI that lets you customize and create your own ringtones right from your iPhone with sliders, toggle switches and buttons that look real. I can almost feel the textures under my fingertips and they lay perfectly on top of on a wood grain background. Every little detail looks absolutely great, even the spinning tape recorder wheels that come up after hitting record look authentic to a time of analog that’s long lost. Julien Martin is the magic man behind the UI of Dring, I saw some dribbble shots of Dring months ago was drooling then. Read more
#MacStoriesDeals - Monday
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Au Naturale iPhone Dock
The Enchanted Woods iPhone Dock from Anthropologie is “a fun nature-meets-technology way to stand and display your iPod or iPhone.” It’s very popular but has a very high price (for what it is). Chris Gardner over at ManMade decided to make his own because at nearly $100, it’s lot to pay for something that didn’t have “speakers, a clock, or even a way to plug it into the wall.” Because it’s 100% wood and doesn’t require electricity he made a DIY instructional guide.
Garder’s version is good, if not better. As long as you have easy access to some timber and some power tools, why not make one yourself instead of forking out $100? Then you can cross ‘making something with your own hands’ off your Man Stuff To-Do list.
[via Crave]
#MacStoriesDeals - Friday
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‘Whatever Your Resolution’ - A Holiday Wishes Video from Adobe
The Adobe XD design team in San Francisco made a stop-motion film for the holidays. “Wishing You A Happy New Year, Whatever Your Resolution” - what a fun play on words. A few Apple products (among others) were used (product IDs after the break).
Kids at Palo Alto Apple Store Get Free Musical iPad Lesson
Kids filled up the Palo Alto Apple retail store the other night to get some music lessons from Ge Wang, the Smule Co-Founder and Stanford Music Professor. Smule makes Magic Fiddle, among other musical iOS apps for the iPad, and it was used to teach the kids. Read more
Apple’s Rechargeable Batteries Not So Magical?
CrunchGear is reporting that Apple’s premium rechargeable batteries, which are Sanyo Eneloops wrapped in an Apple shell, are no better than their competitors - possibly making them too expensive. Read more
AT&T Changing iPhone 4 Eligibility Dates?
Well this only fuels the hot coals in the Verizon iPhone fire. I have had my iPhone 3GS since June of 2009 and my upgrade eligibility is not up until mid-February, 2011. I know because I check, often. It’s always been that … until today. I just got an email not 30 minutes ago from AT&T and is said that I am now eligible to upgrade to the new Apple iPhone 4. Why 2 months early? Could this indeed mean Verizon could be showing off their iPhone after Christmas? The email is pushing me to get it NAO. Could they be trying to lock people into another 2 year contact before some other carrier gets their hands on Apple’s iPhone? We’ll see soon enough.
