Steve Jobs said that 95% of applications are approved in the App Store within 7 days, and the 5% is made of crashy apps, apps that don’t work as advertised and developers who keep using private APIs in their software. Then, there are developers who submit working apps and don’t get a single word from Apple for months. It’s a limbo, a quite undocumented zone which Apple hasn’t clarified, yet it exists and, according to many devs, it’s the worst place you can find yourself in. What’s going on with Reeder for iPad, for instance?
Appsfire Removes iPhone App After 2 Months Wait
iDraw for iPad, Your Illustrator for iPad
The iPad has practically exploded with lots of great drawing applications. We can sketch, we can illustrate, and we can paint our expressions across a glass canvas. iDraw for iPad gives you some well rounded functionality for sketchers and illustrators alike. Featuring the pencil, bezier pen, shapes, layers, gradients, and text tools, iDraw makes it easy to anyone to reveal their inner photoshop.
Ruler for iPad Measures Anything You Want. Anything.
There are two kind of applications in the App Store: those that help you accomplish tasks for your digital life, and those that help you in the real world. Think about twitter clients and apps to remember the World Cup schedule. Don’t get me started on Twitter clients.
As for the “real world” apps, we could go on talking about them for hours. I swear I saw apps to help women remember their period. There are apps that comes with entire databases of international recipes.
Now, we have a Ruler.
Cyberduck 3.5 with Google Docs Support
Our friends over at TidBITS have the skinny on the newest iteration of Cyberduck, a fan favorite FTP client among many die-hard Mac users. Complementing their slew of Amazon S3 Support, Rackspace Cloud Files, and usual FTP/SFTP capabilities, users will be able to upload files to be converted into the Google Docs format – if they’re images, you’ll get optical character recognition similar to Evernote. Check out the change logs for all the newest updates, and download your below.
[Cyberduck 3.5 – 19.5MB] Cyberduck download.
Win a copy of Taskly for iPhone!
So you’re bound to get one of them new fancy iPhones right? Well you’re gonna need to load it up with some great software. A good task manager I really like is Taskly, which we reviewed not too long ago, and the developer has given us five copies to giveaway to our beloved readers. Oh joy!
Giveaway
We’re the productive type; getting things done is on our agenda this afternoon. And as we wind down, we’d like to give away some software. Leave a comment below telling us why you think Taskly is right for you (after checking out our review of course), and be sure to tell all of your friends on Twitter. With your comment, make sure you link back to your Tweet stating:
“Win a copy of Taskly for the iPhone! http://mcstr.net/9ZIgtC”
The contest ends Saturday, June 12th. Remember, tweet & comment for your chance to win! Good luck!
Office 2011 for Mac Will Be 32-bit Only
When Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac ships later this year, you won’t be able to run it at 64-bit. It will be a 32-bit only app, quite unusual nowadays on Mac OS X.
Why? Because they’ve focused on making the Windows and Mac compatible with each other so much that they don’t have time left to do the transition.
Sleep Blaster, The Smart Alarm for your iPhone
Alarms suck. Every morning you wake up to the buzzer of some obnoxious machine whose sole purpose is to irritate you out of your dreams. You might say a few expletives before rolling over your girlfriend, stepping on the cat, or tripping over a pair of old tennis shoes before you can finally turn that stupid thing off. But what if your Alarm was your iPhone, and what if it could listen to your demeaning request? Sleep Blaster for the iPhone is an intelligent Alarm that will shut the $&^! up when you yell at it.
Loren Brichter: “Tweetie for Mac Is Not Gonna Die”
Since when Twitter acquired Loren Brichter’s Atebits, lots of rumors have been spreading around about a) Loren dropping the development of Tweetie for Mac, b) Loren planning to keep working on the Mac version and c) Loren enjoying his truckload of bucks and nothing more.
Actually, the situation is a little bit more complicated than that.