Bills, the great financial utility from Powerybase we reviewed here, has been updated to the 1.1 version which brings many requested features. First, the stats and totals section summarizes bills by date range, currency and categories. Also, the autopay can now be turned off for repeating bills and there’s the possibility to increase the pre-alert range to 30 days. Various fixes include UI and currency bugs.
Go download.
Status boards: new trend of 2010. And after Cultured Code’s one, this is amazing.
If you ever wished to have those neat Unicode characters (like these ⌘ ⇧) in a matter of a few seconds without having to previously save them in a text file, then MacKeys’ website is aimed at you. Created by Mathias Bynens, there are basically to text input fields, you write something like command + option + 5 in the top one and boom, here’s the Unicode version in the bottom one.
Also, you can press the keys on the CSS3-powered keyboard at the end of the page. Oh, and don’t forget that there’s the iPhone version of the website too.
Bookmarked.
Looks sweet.
I’d love you Postbox, if only you dropped that engine.
Guess we were right. Still no confirmation about Steam for Mac though, but at this point I’d say we should only wait a couple of weeks or less.
Reading Apple’s press release about the iPad’s official release date, I haven’t been able to found references to the “iPad-only” App Store, or the place where we’ll find the applications that will run only on the new device.
From the press release:
“The App Store on iPad lets you wirelessly browse, buy and download new apps from the world’s largest app store. iPad includes 12 new innovative apps designed especially for iPad and will run almost all of the more than 150,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®. Developers are already creating exciting new apps designed for iPad that take advantage of its Multi-Touch interface, large screen and high-quality graphics.”
The iBooks app for iPad including Apple’s iBookstore will be available as a free download from the App Store in the US on April 3, with additional countries added later this year.”
My best guess is that, just like Marco Arment wrote some weeks ago, we won’t see iPad native apps on day one and the iPad App Store will open with pre-approved apps by the WWDC in June. We’ll see.
“Apple® today announced that its magical and revolutionary iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi + 3G models. In addition, all models of iPad will be available in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK in late April.
Beginning a week from today, on March 12, US customers can pre-order both Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi + 3G models from Apple’s online store (www.apple.com) or reserve a Wi-Fi model to pick up on Saturday, April 3, at an Apple retail store.”
Rumor has it this is the official date. More as this develops.
UPDATE:
Will Shipley, original author of this tweet, claims that “there are tons of clues in the newest version of Portal.” These are: GlaDOS version 3.11, March 11th being during GDC and Gabe Newell getting the Pioneer award that day. (tweet)
UPDATE #2
After spending some time on the official Steam forums it turns out Valve released a lot of hints pointing towards the 3/11 date and the “Pioneer” awards, including references to the Apollo space program (and hence the Pioneer Plaque ). See some of the forums posts here and here.
Waiting for further proofs.
