Interesting post over at Cocoia’s blog. It’s true, uninstalling flash precludes you to a lot of content on the current web - so you keep it installed on your computer.
And that’s exactly Adobe’s strongest point in why you shouldn’t uninstall Flash.
Independent Games Festival Mobile Finalists and Honorable Mentions Page Now on iTunes
Available here on iTunes, some good games in there.
Ballmer Praises Apple’s AppStore, “A Very Nice Job”
Seems like the days of the cold war between Microsoft and Apple have come to an end. Or at least, that’s what we should assume reading this article from The Seattle Times which reports that Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, called out the great work Apple has done so far with the App Store during a speeck at the University of Washington’s computer-science building.
Could this be a sign of Apple and Microsoft finalizing the details about Bing coming to the iPhone as default’s search engine? Or is Ballmer just getting older and putting the old contrasts away
I bet on Bing.
Bills 1.1 Hits the App Store, Brings Stats and Fixes
Bills, the great financial utility from Powerybase we reviewed here, has been updated to the 1.1 version which brings many requested features. First, the stats and totals section summarizes bills by date range, currency and categories. Also, the autopay can now be turned off for repeating bills and there’s the possibility to increase the pre-alert range to 30 days. Various fixes include UI and currency bugs.
Go download.
The Panic Status Board
Status boards: new trend of 2010. And after Cultured Code’s one, this is amazing.
Easy Forecasts with The Weather for iPhone. Review and Giveaway.
It’s 9am in the morning here in Viterbo, Italy. It’s sunny outside, I’ve slept 5 good hours, girlfriend is still sleeping but the Espresso machine is already on ready to get rolling for some good black coffee. The day couldn’t have started better than this. Also, inbox is full and the phone doesn’t have too many missed calls. Hell, the world loves me today.
This is how I wake up pretty much everyday. I know, I have a damn good life around me. But you know, there’s something missing from the typical out-of-bed, ready-to-work workflow I described above: checking the actual weather for the day, and the upcoming days. I don’t know why, I’ve always been used to checking the forecast since I was kid; I remember that back then I watched the tv every morning before going to school, but being evolved into the perfect web 2.0 guy, the iPhone does the job quite perfectly now. And so before the making of the coffee (real espresso, not that Starbucks fake shit you americans drink) comes the “let’s check the weather” moment where I sit down, wake up the dog and fire up Outside to see what the temperature is like and what’s gonna happen during the week. Outside is a great and well designed app by Robocats, be sure to read our review if you missed it.
Today I’d like to talk about this new and simple application called “The Weather” which allows you to quickly see what the temperature’s like and get a basic forecast for the week. Also, we’ve got 9 promo codes to give away.
MacKeys Converts Keys to Unicode Characters In Seconds
If you ever wished to have those neat Unicode characters (like these ⌘ ⇧) in a matter of a few seconds without having to previously save them in a text file, then MacKeys’ website is aimed at you. Created by Mathias Bynens, there are basically to text input fields, you write something like command + option + 5 in the top one and boom, here’s the Unicode version in the bottom one.
Also, you can press the keys on the CSS3-powered keyboard at the end of the page. Oh, and don’t forget that there’s the iPhone version of the website too.
Bookmarked.
Cinder, Previously Known as LittleSnapper for iPhone. Ember Client.
LittleSnapper is a very good application, so good that it’s basically always open on my Mac and sitting into the dock. But this is an old story, you can just read our huge review about it if you missed it. What’s important about LS, and thus the reason I had to mention it here, it’s that Realmac Software, the guys behind LittleSnapper, created a social network / image sharing service called Ember (and previously known as QuickSnapper) which integrates with LittleSnapper and lets you share pictures, screenshots and stuff that you find inspiring. You can create collections, fave images, follow and unfollow people to receive updates about what they do on Ember directly in your Dashboard. It’s awesome, and a pro Ember account gives you access to lifetime LittleSnapper upgrades. Be sure to follow me on Ember to stay updated with my pictures stream.
Anyway, we’re not going to talk about LittleSnapper again. Well, actually yes - let me explain the situation. LittleSnapper was available for the iPhone too, and it was a good app in my opinion. Sure it was deeply different from the Mac version (mainly thanks to Apple’s SDK limitations) but overall, it was a damn great utility to take photos / websnaps and upload them to Ember. Eventually Realmac quit the development of LittleSnapper to focus on Mac OS X development and sold the whole LS app to BitBQ, which started working on a full porting of the old application to make it work with Ember.
The app is now out in the AppStore, it’s called Cinder and it’s free for a limited time. I’ve been testing Cinder for a few weeks now, read on to find out if it’s a worth successor to LittleSnapper.