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As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event ,I had the chance to interview Chris Coyier, editor of Css-Tricks, an awesome and popular web design community.
This is 12th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
Enjoy!
Snowtape is an internet radio player for the Mac, a one-of-a-kind app that looks good as it blasts your tunes. Sporting a slick, dark, interface, Snowtape is like an iTunes for your iRadio, helping you browse through thousands of stations and even import your own.
Currently available for OS X 10.5 with an iPhone companion (not reviewed here) on the App Store, Snowtape is the place for internet radio.
So, it’s finally over. The #appstree, the event I launched last week and which included over 500 licenses of Mac and iPhone apps has come to an end. I’d like to thank everyone who supported me during this event and the whole organization process: my Twitter followers, the readers who commented, the TechCrunch guys, the designers and developers who agreed to be interviewed or write a guest post.
Thank you.
Now, this is the post with the names of the winners. The list is pretty long, so I suggest you to Cmd + F on the page and search for the username you used in the comment. Some names come with a number next to them, that’s the number of the comment. As for the licenses, they’ll be sent during next week and the first week of January: there’s Christmas, the New Year Eve, so it’s impossible for me and the devs to send them right now. But don’t worry, you’ll receive the licenses straight into your inbox. Also, iPhone promo codes will be sent out first, as they’re very likely to expire. Last, I’m very glad to say that I’ve still got many interviews to publish, be sure to check them out.
The list is after the jump. And again, thank you!
As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event ,I had the chance to interview John O’Nolan, graphic / web designer and blogger who runs an amazing blog: john.onolan.org.
This is 11th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
Enjoy!
I quite fancy the native Weather.app for iPhone: it’ simple and intuitive, providing some basic info about the weather and forecasts. And obviously, there are hundreds of clones out in the App Store: some apps are useful and “professional”, other are just pieces of shit thrown together into an .app bundle. That’s the truth.
Today I’d like to talk about an app that has made it to the first page of my homescreen in a matter of 5 minutes and which has changed the way I “look at the weather” on my iPhone: Outside.
It’s almost Christmas and everyone’s rushing to buy last-minute gifts for relatives and friends. If you ask, I bought all the gifts I wanted in one afternoon because I’m lazy and I didn’t want to waste my precious time but thing is, there this app which really helped me out during the whole process of choosing stuff for my friends and telling my mom what I wanted for Christmas. Yeah, I’ve been a good guy and my mom’s great, if you ask.
Anyway, let’s move on and talk about the neat app Gift Box is.
There’s this great feature of Windows 7 everyone was talking about 2 months ago, which enables you to easily resize your windows by simply dragging them into specific “zones” of your screen: drag it to the left / right and the window is automatically resized to fill half the screen, drag it to the top to make it full screen. Sounds pretty cool, actually. Now, what if some less known developers make an app that emulates this resize thing..on Mac OS?
Here comes Cinch.
The developers of Birdhouse specifically state that it’s not for looking at your friends Twitter updates. So what does it do?
Well, Birdhouse is a “drafts manager” for your tweets. It’s supposed to be used as a notepad for whenever you get an awesome thought in your head that might go away. Although Birdhouse only does one simple task, it does it very well. Keep on reading to find out why.
Spark, a new application for Mac OS X I had the chance to beta test, was finally released tonight. Here is the official (and cute!) website.
Spark is a very lightweight notes taking / to-do list app, which you could decide to either run in the dock or in the menubar. The interface is very nice and straightforward: you can add tasks, attach notes to them and organize tasks in bigger projects. Another great features is the iCal syncing: everytime a Spark task changes, so it does in iCal. Cool.
Spark is a freeware, it has a clean and well-designed UI and it could become the ultimate solution for those who are looking for a simple, uncluttered to-do manager app for Mac.
