As soon as iOS 4.1 comes out this week (as announced by Steve Jobs at last week’s Apple music event) iPhone 3G users should feel safe to upgrade. In case you don’t know, iOS 4 for iPhone 3G wasn’t exactly “perfect”: to cut short, it was slow. I tried an iPhone 3G running the magical iOS 4: it was barely usable. Even a stupid task like unlocking the phone took a few seconds more than usual, not to mention springboard navigation and Safari. Everything was slow and slow-motion - at a point you couldn’t believe Apple shipped such a thing. Read more
iPhone 3G Users, Upgrade to iOS 4.1 [Video]
BaseApp: Basecamp Notifications for Mac, Done Right
If you’re a Basecamp user, I guess you’re annoyed by its email notification system. Every time someone does something in the account, like edit a writeboard, a new email pops up in your Inbox. And even with a Priority Inbox, there’s not really anything you can do about that: you’ll get the email. With teams, it gets worse. If you have more than 5 projects and 20 people on a single account, just think about the consequences. Hundreds of emails per day. No way, there must be a better way.
Now we can say there’s a better way to stay updated with Basecamp. Thanks to BaseApp, you’ll be able to get every single update directly on your Mac desktop, without the clutter. For serious Basecamp users, BaseApp is a must-have. Read more
Competition? Apple Spent 1 Million Dollars on Google Ads In June
Perhaps this will sound perfectly normal to some of you, but I find quite interesting that Apple keeps on spending money on Google’s adverrtising platform every month. According to a document leaked by AdAge, Apple spent almost 1 million dollars on Google ads in June - together with many big brands which spent a lot more millions. Read more
The Ultimate iOS Pie Chart
At least, that’s what asymco claims. We knew that there were 59.6 million iPhones and 3.2 million iPads through June; at the music event last Wednesday, Apple announced that 120 million iOS devices were sold to date. So asymco assumed that Apple sold 8 million iPhones and 4 million iPads during July and August, and they came up with a 45.2 million iPod Touches sold to date estimate. That’s 37.7% of total units. Read more
Cyberduck 3.6 Released with Google Storage Support
Cyberduck is a great FTP client I use every day to upload files to Rackspace Cloud Files (actually, it’s one of the few OS X apps that support Cloud Files) and access my iPhone and iPad file system (jailbreak is required). It’s a full-featured application to upload files to the internet, which just got a lot of better and is about to be used by a lot more users.
There’s a Windows version in the works, that’s true, and a beta is launching later this month. You can read the details here and also take a look at the first screenshots; for what it’s worth, the Windows UI looks pretty clean. Down to our Mac business, the new version introduces support for Google Storage (go sign up here), a refined dashboard interface with awesome new icons, support for S3 Bucket versioning and new Google Docs features.
Check out the full press after the break. Read more
Barcelona “La Maquinista” Apple Store Opening [Video]
Every Apple Store is an event. People waiting in queue for the whole night, discussing the latest Mac tips or Apple rumors together, Apple employees bringing them coffee and water to help them having a great experience. Even in queue. I would say, that is magical.
The good f0lks over at Bloc d’Apple en Català shot a great video of the latest Apple Store opening: La Maquinista in Barcelona, Spain.
Terminology Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered our Terminology for iPhone and iPad giveaway. We also want to thank the Agile Tortoise developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers. Read more
50 Homescreen.me Invites Up for Grabs
Homescreen.me is an invite-only great new service launched by the iXyr guys (the same folks behind Smoking Apples and Beautiful Pixels) which allows you to share your iOS homescreen.
Just take a screenshot, upload it (you can upload both via browser and email) and the service will automatically create a beautiful device-specific template. Take a look at my profile to get the hang of it. Read more
A Sliding QWERTY Keyboard for the iPhone 4
Just in case you were thinking about ditching your iPhone 4 for a brand new HTC with a physical keyboard and Android - hold on! You can get a sliding QWERTY thing on your magical iPhone 4, too.