Now with a Powerful Launcher for Your Mac
Thoughts, the awesome Mac application aimed at journalists, storywriters, bloggers and creative people we reviewed while it was in private beta, has finally gone public and ready to be downloaded.
For those who missed our article, Thoughts is a complete information assistant which allow you to create rich documents containing notes, links, pictures, tables and lists - in a beautiful interface. You should really check it out and see it by yourself.
Go download.
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I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.
To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.
You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.
Enjoy!
I am always curious about how people effectively manage their Macs or iPhones. As a matter of fact, I’m always looking for suggestions, idea..inspiration. To satisfy my curiosity, I made a quick poll on Twitter and I asked my followers to send me their first page of their iPhone springboard, including the #sharethe1st hashtag.
So, feel free to @reply me on Twitter with a screenshot of your 1st Springboard page. Please also include the #sharethe1st hashtag. The pics you send me will make it into a post, together with a link to your Twitter profile and website. Even you’ve already sent me a screenshot but you made some changes, you can send me the new one.
Enjoy!
Some weeks ago I asked on Twitter whether there was a nice way to quickly create a new text documents in Finder, much like you can do on Windows. Jonas Wisser, one of my followers and blogger over at Malum Elegans, created an Applescript app for that purpose called “New Text File Here” which you can drag into the Finder’s toolbar and creates a .txt file in the folder you’re in. The script got picked by Download Squad and Lifehacker.
I just received a reply by Jonas, regarding a “new, much cleaner version” of the script. Let’s call it “New Text File Here 2”. From the blog post:
“This version asks you for a filename (instead of creating new.txt) and subsequently opens it in your default .txt-handling application (the old version didn’t).”
It’s simply the best and most intuitive solution I’ve tried so far. Go download.
Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank Patrick for giving us these 9 promo codes to give away.
Now, here are the winners:
MarcoMoby
Matt Hojo
Guido Marucci Blas
Tyago Neres
Carlomaru
Abraham Vegh
Daylen
Pechpech
Dan Williams
You’ll receive the promo code straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!
Everyday I save a lot of stuff from my internet life: links, pictures, videos..all my digital life usually goes into some applications I use as “buckets” where I throw all these digital media. They’re Yojimbo, LittleSnapper and the recently released web application ZooTool. Having a complete organizer application is usually a good practice, especially if that app supports tags, smart collections and a quite usual folder structure. Now, what about organizing the stuff from my “real” life? I’m talking about CDs, DVDs, gadgets, videogames and so on. Some well sorted room shelves can actually do the job but we’re Mac people - we need an app for that.
And here comes Delicious Library, the perfect tool for organizing, managing and even giving some eye-candy to your stuff. Your real stuff.
Interesting post over at Apple-Bits, discussing the upcoming Tablet running iPhone apps in a dashboard-like interface. From the post:
“iPhone apps are small and easily digestible. Sure some of the apps (like games) can be quite large in terms of file size, but for the most part all of the apps on the iPhone provide many basic functions that could easily turn your current dashboard into a super dashboard. Not only would they be tucked out of the way, hidden from view, you could call them up and use them anytime you wish without having to take your iPhone out of your breast pocket. And unlike running an iPhone app on a MacBook or an iMac, and iSlate would allow you to carry over the same touch functions you’re used to on the iPhone.”
Sure the idea sounds cool, but yeah - sounds. How would you manage apps that have integration with iPhone OS core applications, like Mail? Just the first question I can think of. Sounds cool, but it’s not gonna happen.
What’s your take?
The Syncode guys gave me 10 promo codes to give away to MacStories readers. There are 5 codes of Syncopy and 5 codes of Synotes up for grabs. Be sure to read our Syncopy and Synotes reviews (here and here) if you missed them.
Entering the contest is simple. All you have to do is:
and
I’ll pick up the winners on Wednesday, January 20th.
Good luck!
