If you do a lot of writing with your Mac, you might be interested in CapSee. CapSee is a lightweight utility that presents a bezel on screen everytime you activate the caps lock. Just like Mac OS X does with volume or brightness.
It’s free, it works great.
“Mozilla has released a second developer preview of Firefox 4.0 which contains a piece of the Electrolysis project. Dubbed “Out-of-Process Plugins,” the new feature will ensure that plugins don’t bring down the entire browser. When a plugin, such as Flash, crashes, the user’s session will stay intact, leaving the plugin to be dealt with on it its own. Firefox will terminate the problematic plugin and then restart it automatically.”
“Plainview is a web browser with a difference. It’s a full screen browser, lacking any bells and whistles at all except just the one: no chrome, if you’ll forgive the pun.
So all you get is web content from floor to ceiling. Everything else gets hidden away, including your Dock and your Menu Bar.”
Using the Help menu once again.
I think the quest for the perfect iPhone RSS reader will never end, mostly because it’s not clear what people exactly want from that kind of application. Some people say they just want a simple app that could notify them of new items, some want tons of features, some don’t even know what they want but still they write blog posts about the subject. In the past we’ve covered apps such as Reeder and Newsprint, but today we’d like to take a look at MobileRSS Pro from NibiruTech.
I must admit I never really considered this app before, maybe because of the UI or just because of the not-so-appealing name, but it turns out MobileRSS Pro is a pretty good application with a clean design, surely worth a mention. Also, 8 promo codes up for grabs.
“Buzzie appears to share a lot of design cues with the popular iPhone app Tweetie. It also does pretty much everything you would expect: You can view posts from your Google Buzz followers, create public and private Buzz posts, and add new followers from within the app. Buzzie can also show you Buzz conversations near your location.
For a first release, the application is fast and polished — though it lacks any truly distinguishing features from Google’s web interface. Heavy Buzz users will find it easier to use than the online interface, but I’m not sure if casual users will see enough benefit to justify paying for the app.”
$1.99 in the App Store.
Attachments, I hate them. Still, most of the times I have to deal with them as it’s only way (for many people) to quickly receive files.And most of times, I forget to include attachments.
Thanks to Sebastian de With (@Cocoia) I’ve just found out this neat plugin for Apple’s Mail that warns you everytime you mention an attachment in the body of a message but you didn’t attach it. From the website:
“When you send a message, it checks if there’s an attachment. If there isn’t, and it looks like you’ve referred to an attachment in the body of your mail (by using a word like attach, attaching, attachment, etc), it gives you a warning. Most of the time, you should never notice that this plugin is running.”
And it works great. Invisible, useful, free. Must have.
My iPhone contacts are pretty much messed up. I don’t know why, maybe I did something wrong while syncing with Mac OS’ Address Book, probably it’s just that I need to pay more attention when I add new contacts. But anyway, I’ve got these duplicate contacts, wrong names and numbers, missing photos.
Some days ago I was emailed this neat application for review, and after some “real life” testing I’m sure I’ll keep this on my iPhone. It’s called RapidID, it’s a fast and great-looking contact “manager” for iPhone and we’ve got some copies to give away.
And Gruber nails it:
“Think of this model as like IMAP for iTunes content — it would also allow multiple devices (computer, iPhone, iPad) to remain in sync over the air, rather than the current model where devices need to be tethered via USB to your computer in order to sync. I think this would be fantastic. As it stands now, iTunes customers are responsible for the data integrity of their purchases.”
But then again, let’s look at the whole picture and assume Apple plans to integrate iTunes with the cloud even for mobile devices (and considering Apple’s policy regarding consistency between different experiences, I don’t see why they shouldn’t do so.),bringing over the air syncing for apps and music streaming. Basically, iTunes. There’s this big elephant in the room once again, AT&T. How are they going to deal with that? Perhaps they’re simply procrastinating the cloud waiting for AT&T to fix their networks? The easiest solution would be to offer the cloud service under wifi only, but that would be a huge limitation. And considering that they wanted the iPad to have a 3G connection (even if many people swear they’ll buy the wifi only version) available at launch, I don’t think we’re gonna see a half sized, desktop-only cloud service. It’s the full thing or nothing.
But what if Apple is thinking about syncing user’s data and preferences over the cloud, and not the files themselves?
