“CoGe is a free, open-source, semi-modular Quartz Composer powered VJ Application for Mac OSX with a solid, minimalistic look and feel. It’s an unconventional application, because has not built-in media handle feauters or effects. With the excellent Quartz Composer support, you can build your own media handlers, effects, mixer and automatization modules.”
Quiet Read Goes Pro, Adds Instapaper and Read It Later Support
Quiet Read, the application from Bambooapps that lets you quickly save links for later by simply dragging them onto a menubar icon, has been updated and now comes in both a free and Pro version.
Harmony, HTML5 Procedural Drawing Tool
Harmony is an HTML5-based online tool that lets you draw on a white canvas using different brushes. It’s nothing more than an experiment but it’s great nevertheless. It supports a very basic multiply blending effect (as seen in Photoshop) and the developer says it’s very first attempt to reproduce the functionalities of a drawing application after playing with the <canvas> element for some weeks.
Also, it works best on Webkit as Firefox and Opera don’t support context.globalCompositeOperation = ‘darker’. You can save images to .png format.
An experiment, but after seeing Sketchpad weeks ago, we can’t deny that the future of webapps is very bright and promising.
GroceryList Winners Announced
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MyPhoneDesktop Winners Announced
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MobileRSS Pro Winners Announced
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RapidID Winners Announced
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Felipe Navarro V.
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Early Preview of Zen Bound for iPad
Looks sweet.
Kohive: Online Collaboration Tool, File Storage App, Virtual Desktop.
We’ve been reviewing a lot of web applications on MacStories during these last weeks, and not because we haven’t been able to find new “native” apps both for Mac and iPhone - because we believe today’s webapps have a lot to teach to desktop applications. Also, many of us use websites as desktop applications running inside an instance of Fluid.app: I have 3 Fluid apps sitting in my dock at the time of writing this post.
We usually focus on applications that could empower our productivity workflows with new tools, new ways of doing the old stuff, possibly standard compliant. Just take a look at Zootool, HipChat, Nirvana: they’re all great pieces of software that, no matter they’re written in Cocoa or not can run on our Macs just fine - and they’re useful.
The webapp Cody and I are going to talk about today is something you haven’t seen before anywhere else. It’s a sort of online storage / virtual desktop /collaboration app that presents a nice interface and runs very smoothly. An online place for you, your family and your co-workers that could seriously become one of your 2010 new favorite apps.
Enter Kohive.