Snow Leopard latest update, 10.6.2 is available for download through software update.
Here’s the full changelog:
Manage Flickr from Your Mac Desktop with Flickery. Review and Giveaway!
There are many applications both on Mas and iPhone which let you manage your Flickr account without accessing the web interface. Because you know, I don’t like Flickr web app so much: sure, it’s better than Facebook and Twitter, but compared to any good Mac application, it doesn’t make it. But I think this is common problem to many webapps out there.
Anyway, I’ve been wondering for months whether there was a Mac app to entirely manage my Flickr account from my desktop. Then, I met Flickery.
In this article I will outline the great features Flickery has, and how it could become one of your favorite Mac apps.
And guess what, we even got 5 copies to give away.
7 Great Ways to Discover New Mac Applications
Everyone is always looking for new, better applications. I think that’s a given. At least, every Mac / Pc / Whatever passionate I’ve met in my life was always open to suggestions regarding new, noteworthy applications.
Now, that of discovering and testing new Mac apps is a hard subject. I mean, since Apple opened up the AppStore, many things have changed: people are most likely to be given new apps (you know, the AppStore, Genius, “People also bought”) rather than spend 4 hours looking for some new solutions. Then, there’s the “indie” software problem: sometimes an indipedent developer can’t do big advertising campaigns, for this reason his app will remain unknown and only the “elitè” will use it. By elitè I mean nerds.
Anyway, I think there’s still a few number of users / nerds / call them how you want it who actually spend hours looking for the next big thing. Or there wouldn’t be indie Mac apps anymore.
Which are the best places to find new stuff? Keep on reading guys.
Discover and Track iPhone Apps with App Popular
As you can guess, I’m an heavy user of the AppStore: I love to discover new released apps, read the changelog of every app that gets an update, share apps with my friends. But, the AppStore is not perfect: many bloggers wrote about the problems the Store has but the biggest, in my opinion, lies in the core itself: discover new apps is difficult.
With more than 100.000 apps available and the new rules Apple rolled out last week, it’s become impossible to find fresh and interesting apps. Seems like only top grossing apps get to the front page.
Anyway, I think a solution to this has just been released. And it’s called App Popular.
Favourite Tweets of the Week Nov 1-Nov 7, 2009
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!
Idea Organizer Giveaway Winners
Here are the names of the winners of a promo code of Idea Organizer for iPhone. Remember that you’ll need a U.S. iTunes account to redeem the code.
Thank you!
Griffin Lacek
Clemsounette
Roxanna
Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos
Apple Changes The Way It Handles AppStore Updates, Freaks Out Developers
Previously when a developer updates an application, the updated app used to show up in the main category page in iTunes. This meant better visibility to the updated application which resulted in good spike in sales whenever an update is rolled out. These spikes in sales during the updates was the key motivation for developers to keep pushing out updates and to keep improving the apps.
With this new ‘upgrade’, newly updated applications don’t show up in iTunes category page. This means, when a developer updates an application, the update will be pushed directly to existing users and that’s pretty much it. There is no way for new users to know about those newly added features/improvements. Apple killed the key motivation for developers to improve apps, which I think is a BIG mistake.
Hey, Apple!
This.Is.A.Huge.Mistake.
Interview: James Hoover - Creator of Bean
I’ve heard artists say that you can’t wait for the magic to happen, you have to sit at your desk in your office and make it happen. So I sat there looking at my clamshell iBook’s screen for about two weeks, trying to rid myself of the torpor. I was using Microsoft’s Office X at the time, which was very old school. At the bottom of your document window in Word you had this row of winkie blinkies with cryptic labels like REC, TRK, EXT, and OVR. I thought, “What are those things? Does anybody know?” People where complaining then about the endless rows of tiny icons you had to deal with in Word. Dozens and dozens of them. Back then, there was almost no other option for a Mac word processor. Microsoft had crushed all of its competition.
Interesting interview to the developer of Bean, a nice word processor for Mac OS X.