Sofa is well known for their incredibly well designed applications. Their beautifully designed apps are often aimed at the more advanced user or specifically marketed for developers. Their subversion app Versions won an Apple Design Award, and their newest app Kaleidoscope continues this trend of amazingly looking, and hugely functional, OS X apps. Read more
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Spring Is The Best Way To Access Formspring
There’s this neat web service called Formspring which lets people ask you questions - and of course allows you to answer them. All you have to do is sign up for an account, or connect using your Facebook profile. In fact, I remember the service being extremely popular amongst my Twitter followers a few months ago. Then I don’t know what happened, but the service slowly disappeared from my radar.
I think that the lack of an official iPhone client surely played its role in making users forget about Formspring, and Spring by Taptivate is here to solve this problem.
Sneak Peek: MarkdownMail by Second Gear, First iPhone App for Markdown Users
Justin Williams over at Second Gear has been releasing some amazing apps and updates recently: Elements for iPhone and iPad, a Dropbox-based note taking application; Today 2.5, a long awaited update to the popular calendar application for OS X which now allows users to select a default calendar for event and task creation.
Kyle Lambert’s Latest iPad Paintings: Rihanna and Beckham [Video]
Remember Kyle Lambert’s impressive Beyoncè iPad finger painting? He’s back with two more creations, both of them equally impressive. For those who missed Kyle’s words a while back:
“My artwork combines traditional painting techniques with cutting edge technology to produce rich, realistic portraits and character based concepts and designs. The iPad expands the possibilities for artists like myself to take digital artwork creation away from the computer and out into the world.”
Check out the videos below. I love this stuff. [via iPadevice]
Somebody Please Buy Me An iBottleopener
Trust me, I’ve seen many iPhone cases and I’ve tried many of them. But this one, this one’s special: it’s a party in your pocket! It’s the ultimate hip case for your iPhone 3G and 3GS (it will available for the iPhone 4 soon), it’s an iBottleopener.
I really don’t know what else to write here. Please, just a take a look at the video below and laugh with me. Thanks TUAW for finding out about this.
Ping: The Woz Approves
I don’t like Ping, but who am I to go against what the Woz says? After Wednesday’s Apple Music Event (where Steve Jobs surprisingly mentioned Wozniak by calling him his “partner in crime”) some journalists met the Woz and asked him a few questions about the stuff Jobs announced on stage. Namely, Apple TV and Apple’s first attempt at social networking - Ping.
Guess What, Twitter for iPad Is Apple’s App of the Week
As if providing a great app that sets new standards on the iPad wasn’t enough, Apple has now decided to feature Twitter in the App Store homepage by choosing it as App of the Week.
What’s interesting is that Apple usually doesn’t feature apps in that section is such a short time (the app was released two days ago), but I guess that they knew about the app and they knew that it would rock. I wouldn’t be surprised if Brichter chose some folks over at the App Review Team as beta testers.
Anyway, great job. Go download the app, it’s free. And now, let’s wait for Tweetie 2 for Mac - again.
10 Beautiful iTunes 10 Replacement Icons
Here’s a follow-up to our post on how to get iTunes 9 look back in the latest 10 version: let’s talk about the icon. I personally don’t hate it (actually I quite like it), but it seems that I may be one of the very few ones. If you go over websites such as Dribbble or MacThemes or DeviantArt, people are going crazy about replacement icons for iTunes 10.
So I’ve rounded up 10 of the best replacements I’ve stumbled upon. I saved them in my Candybar database, and they’ll be here once (and if) I’ll decide to change my iTunes icon. Check them out after the break.
Want iTunes 9 Look Back? There’s A Mod For That.
I haven’t covered OS X graphical mods here on MacStories for a long time, but this one’s good. It didn’t take long: if you hate iTunes 10’s new UI or you simply want the old colorful iTunes back, give a try to Damien Erambert’s iTunes 109.
The download comes with an easy to setup installer package which lets you choose if you want to change the entire application UI or just the sidebar icons. You can also get rid of those odd vertical buttons and change the application icon. I applied the mod on my new iMac, and it worked perfectly. Take a look at the screenshots below, and go download the mod here.