Seems like Michael can’t get anything wrong. I mean, I’m in love with Outside (read my review, then go spend 3 bucks guys. Seriously.) and I’ve just found out that Michael and the other Robocat guys have uploaded a cool video of Outside’s “behind the scenes”.

This is the original post, but I’m embedding the video below. It gives an awesome and interesting insight into what actually goes into developing and launching an iPhone app, watching it going live and see the money coming.

As for coffee, I’ll go to Copenhagen someday and bring the guys some good Italian espresso. I’ll trash the Nescafè thing myself, I promise.

Launching Outside from Michael Flarup on Vimeo.

It’s not a secret that finding the right applications for you in the crowded App Store is sometimes very, very hard. Maybe it’s because of the inner structure of the App Store (top grossing apps are more likely to show up in the charts), maybe it’s because of Apple’s policy and sometimes it’s due to a lack of marketing creativity from the developers themselves but the fact is - a small percentage of users really find what they’re exactly looking for. And so came Apple related blogs like MacStories to do the job of talking about less known apps worth a look. Now, even if a blog like MacStories  mentions 10 new apps a week, it’s still impossible to actually mention every single app that gets published or updated. The App Store is huge, there are thousands of developers and the App Store should be updated to a more organized structure. This is the real problem at the end of the day.

So what? Could there be a better way to discover applications you’d like to have? Like, recommendations? Sure there is. Let me talk about AppSaurus.

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First part of what’s gonna be a great series from TUAW, based on the suggestions people made about OS 4.0.

The most requested features are:

• New Lockscreen, with “a brief overview of all the new data we’ve received” instead of notification boxes;

• New Homescreen, with location-aware capabilities and Exposè

• Universal Documents folder

• Disk mode

I’m totally up for them. But there’s one thing missing, I’d love to have better iTunes integration. iTunes should become an application to completely manage your iPhone on your desktop, not just a sync tool. Again, I want iTunes 10.

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 yesterday and I asked my followers to send me their first page of their iPhone springboard, including the #sharethe1st hashtag.

I received a lot of mentions including pictures of your iPhones, both jailbroken and not, showcasing some cool configurations and apps I didn’t even know.

So I decided to put something together and here’s a post which collects the pictures you sent me, with a link to the author’s profile and website. I’d like this to become something usual with you guys so feel free to @reply me on Twitter with a screenshot of your 1st Springboard page. Please also include the #sharethe1st hashtag.

Enjoy!

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Yesterday I reviewed PodTweet, a cool and nice application by Cardboard Software which lets you tweet the song you’re listening to on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It has one and only feature, but it surely gets the job done. Could this process of sharing music on Twitter be better developed? It surely can.

Meet Stage, a recently released iPhone app which combines this social networking music thing with a stunning and delicious user interface.

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When a developer or a designer contacts me on iChat asking me to talk about his upcoming application, it’s usually a good thing. But when the application seems as promising as Walkie Talkie 3000 does, well..that’s great.

Walkie Talkie 3000 is currently being developed by Jonah Grant and designed by my friend Matthew Rex Downham.

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The simple, single-purpose app is the iPhone at its most handy: even better when there’s competition between apps to do “that one task I need”. What we’re looking for today is the app that can track how much petrol my car uses, how much it cost, and then how far I managed to drive on that fill up. I’m looking for something that’s quick and simple to use, looks and feels like an iPhone app should, and if it can draw me a graph, even better.

Regardless of whether you’re a hypermiling windows-up A/C off kind of driver or not, it’s good to keep track of your fuel use - is your awesome new route to work costing you more, or less; and IS your car running worse than 6 months ago? With 30 seconds of data collection each time you fill up, you’ll know.

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When I first looked at this app I thought it was nothing more than a cute artsy application. But when I actually opened it up, I discovered that it’s actually quite a cute little alarm clock.

Here comes Melatonin.

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