Sharing websites is the staple of online communication, but we haven’t really figured out how to appropriately share links in person. Somebody overseas can be bothered with a Twitter link or quick email, but if you’re trying to share a video with a group of people (say at work), you ultimately end up with three terribly smelly people crowding around your computer, complaining about the monitor viewing angle and whatnot. So it’s time to further solve our ability to spread the latest offices memes with the SendTab extension for Safari.
SendTab for Safari Shares Websites Between Browsers
OS X Releases Of The Day: Billings Pro, Today 2.5
Today, the app from Secondgear Software I reviewed a while ago here, has been updated to version 2.5. The latest version introduces much better support for event and task creation: you can now set a default calendar for all your new events as well as create daily, weekly, mothly or yearly recurring events.
The iPad Orchestra [Video]
MacStories Live: Apple 2010 Music Event
It’s that time of the year again. Apple is holding its annual music event on Wednesday, September 1 where Steve Jobs will announce new iPod Touches (with Retina Display, FaceTime capabilities?), new iPod Nanos and, probably, a new Apple TV together with the rumored iTunes in the cloud.
So many rumors are floating around on the internet, and we’ll be here liveblogging the event and discussing news & rumors with you. If you followed MacStories’ live events before, you know what to expect. We’ll be pulling news off the best sources around and comment them live with you. We can’t wait.
All you have to do is bookmark this page or come back on September 1st at 9.30 PT (12.30 ET). Check your timezone. If you sign up through the chat box below you’ll also be notified with an email before the event kicks off.
See you on September 1st!
Crapptastic Aggregates The Best of The Worst in the App Store
I’m a firm believer that there must be something wrong with many developers who publish apps in the App Store. Creepy artworks and soundtracks, scary screenshots in the App Store page, insanely horrifying user interfaces.
Crapptastic is here to help you find the best of the worst in the App Store, in case you ever wanted to do that. Founded by @Digeratii (Josh Hellferich, also owner of popular website iPad Apps That Don’t Suck) Crapptastic “celebrates the hilarity that is the iTunes App Store”, and in a good way: while those screenshots piss me off when I see them in iTunes, Crapptastic somehow manages to make me laugh everytime.
I mean, Listen to the pig? Seriously?
A Closer Look at Yerba Buena Center Getting Ready for Sept. 1 [Pics]
Apple is getting ready to announce new iPods on Wednesday, but rumor has it we’ll also new a brand new iTV, iTunes in the cloud, iOS 4 for iPad, new iLife. So many rumors for a music event. Stay tuned for the live coverage event we’re setting up here on MacStories, as usual.
Terminology Ph Brings A Proper Dictionary to the iPhone
I have Terminology for iPad sitting on my homescreen, and it’s been there for weeks now. Like Cody wrote in his review of the iPad version, Terminology is an app for the English language - one that makes it easy to lookup for words and get instant and accurate definitions. Now, there’s an iPhone version, too.
The iPhone 4 Solar Charger
I haven’t had any problems with the iPhone 4 battery so far (I managed to make it last 38 hours once), but in case you were wondering if there was a way to use solar power to get more battery life - well, here it is.
The Frostfire Mooncharge Hybrid Solar Battery Case For iPhone 4 gives your device 5 extra minutes of calling or 50 minutes of stand-by mode with 20 minutes of direct sunlight, but if you charge the battery inside the case via USB you get 5 additional hours of calling. So, not really powerful when it comes to solar charging - not unless you leave the phone in direct sunlight for a couple of hours.
Synchronicity Lets You Use Your iPhone Even While It’s Syncing
Here’s a huge one, jailbreakers: Synchronicity is a new tweak that has just been released in Cydia which lets you use your iPhone while it’s syncing with iTunes via USB.