Oh, Chinese computer manufacturers. You’ll never grow tired of releasing weird Apple product clones, won’t you? These products are clearly bad rip-offs of Ive’s creations, yet some people are still buying them. It’s a mad, mad world. Read more
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Meet The Chinese MacBook Air 11-inch Clone
Courier 1.1 Adds MobileMe Support, Plays Nice With Large Uploads
Courier is the latest Mac app by the guys over at Realmac Software which we reviewed 2 months ago here. Through a highly custom and beautiful interface, it allows you to upload files to a variety of online services such as Flickr, Facebook, Ember, Vimeo and Youtube. The first version of the app also allowed you to send files to your FTP server and Amazon S3. All is achieved via “envelopes”, packages the app sends to your selected sources.
Courier 1.1, released today, adds the much requested MobileMe support and improves reliability with large uploads – which could take longer than usual on the older version. In spite of the added functionality, the app is still intuitive and easy to use.
Courier is available at $19.95 on Realmac’s website, with a free trial available as well. We look forward to seeing Courier in the Mac App Store.
Audition for Mac Public Beta Now Available
Five months ago we saw a first video of Adobe Audition for OS X. Today, Adobe released the first public beta for the software, which is based on a new architecture capable of editing both single files and multi-track mixes.
The OS X version of Audition offers a new engine with improved performances, and seems to be geared towards the broadcast and audio post-production market.
From the official beta page:
Adobe Audition for Mac offers:
- Fast start-up, high performance multi-threaded processing, and parallel workflows
- Powerful audio editing and multitrack mixing views
- Superior noise reduction capabilities
- Native 5.1 Surround support and multi-channel effects, plus other new effects
- Optimized audio post-production workflows
You can go download Audition for Mac beta here. [hat tip to The Loop]
Color Snatcher: Simple Safari Extension To Grab Colors Off Webpages
This one’s a Safari extension designers and developers alike are going to like a lot: with just two clicks, Color Snatcher for Safari allows you to grab colors off any webpage and copy it to your clipboard from a dialogue box that will appear on screen.
The extension, due to Apple’s restrictions, can’t automatically copy a color’s HEX or RGB code to the clipboard – you’ll have to manually copy it from a secondary tiny window. The extension, however, delivers on what the developer promised: a simple tool to grab pixel colors. That’s it.
Color Snatcher is, of course, free and the developer is already working on a better way to copy color codes. Very nice. Go download it.
Itsy Twitter Client for Mac Adds Custom Themes, Gesture Navigation
We have covered Itsy, a minimal Twitter client for Mac by mowglii, quite a few times in the past. What’s great about Itsy is that it’s simple and focused, taking the clutter way to let you concentrate on what really matters: the tweets.
The old 1.x version was falling under the weight of Twitter incompatibilities and different APIs – it needed a major update.
Last week developer mowglii released the long-awaited 2.0 version of the app, which adds support for custom themes (you can select them in the Preferences), tweet deletion, support for three-finger swipe gesture to navigate (Snow Leopard-only) and lots of bug fixes and overall improvements. Itsy was indeed very popular thanks to its community of designers and users who came up with stunning mods of the original interface. Now theming is officially supported in the app. Great news.
Itsy is free. You should give it a try.
The iMac G4 Lamp
Unfortunately, the following item has already been sold on Etsy– at the price of $125. And it’s no surprise, considering that it’s a desk lamp made out of recycled parts of an old iMac G4, the iMac that made history.
Perhaps Steve and Jony bought it. I wanted one, but I think I’m just going to wait for the Mac Pro closet. [via Giz]
ADC: Safari Extension To Search On Apple Developer Website
If you’re an iOS or Mac developer, you must have noticed that searching for framework keywords, reference documentations and guides on Google isn’t exactly the best experience you can get. Wouldn’t it be great to have everything always under control a few keystrokes away?
This extension, ADC for Safari (and Firefox), puts an additional “developer bar” in your browser with shortcuts iOS and Mac OS reference libraries, a search bar and a link back to the ADC home.
It’s unobtrusive and will save you lot of time going back to the developer’s website and / or searching for stuff. Go download it.
Mac App Store Name Squatting? More Like A Bug In Apple’s System
Yesterday we reported many Mac developers lamented over the impossibility to register their Mac applications in iTunes Connect and submit them to the Mac App Store for Apple’s approval. Apparently, the problem lied in already registered bundle identifiers – the actual names of the apps.
We reported Tod Ditchendorf, developer of the popular Fluid for Mac, was unable to register the app, just like Realmac Software with Little Snapper and RapidWeaver or Isaiah Carew with Kiwi. That lead use to think name squatters were already targeting the Mac App Store.
MacBook Air: As Thick As The Lid Of The Old PowerBook G4
If there’s a photo that can sum up the old “times change” saying, that’s this one. Patrick McCarron shot a photo with his iPhone 4, realizing how the new MacBook Air is, indeed, just as thick as the lid of an old 12-inch PowerBook G4. Just the lid.
Times change. But thinking of a computer as thick as the lid of the MacBook Air 10 years from now kind of scares me.
