Arq Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Arq giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Haystack Software for the 10 licenses he gave to MacStories.

Here are the names of the winners:

Justin

Keir

CannonGod

Shadowchaser

Pattulus

Fabio

Bruna

Mark Hewitt

SuperGlide

jaryre

You’ll receive the theme in your inbox in a few hours.

Cheers!





Ghostly, Mood Music Monotony

I’m a big fan of things like Last.FM, thesixtyone, and other services that can turn me to new music or help me get into (or out of) certain moods. Ghostly Discovery is a free application that allows me to get into the mood of things. Or at least tries to. On one hand it’s an application that I really want to love. On the other, it’s hard not to look past some obvious pitfalls.

Let’s take a look shall we?

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Pixelmator 1.5.1 Is Now Available, 1.6 “Nucleus” In the Works

Pixelmator has been updated to 1.5.1. Here’s the changelog:

- Brush Collections;

- Fit Images and Crop Images Automator Actions;

- Move to Applications dialog;

- A tiny Dock menu;

- The ability to change the background color of the work area;

- Many more tiny improvements and important bug fixes

From the same blog post:

“The entire Pixelmator Team is getting to work on Pixelmator 1.6 Nucleus, and it is going very well.”


TaskMate: Minimal, Simple, Uncluttered To-Do List

You hate Things, you can’t stand The Hit List, you don’t want to use a web based application. You want minimalism in your GTD app. Or maybe, you just want a simple to-do list application, because that’s how you get things done.

TaskMate by Ryan Conway is a straightforward Mac app that lets you enter tasks, delete them and mark them as complete. Nothing more, just checkboxes.

TaskMate Mac

TaskMate Mac

When Apple will bundle a Tasks.app with Mac OS X I’m sure it will be something like this.

Also, it’s free.



When the PC is a Toaster

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“Lots of the criticism around the iPad mimics the same criticism that Apple faced with the introduction of Macintosh. Macintosh was the first computer of the era to not ship with a programming language. For the enthusiast of the time, it was a huge issue. For the consumers, the inclusion of MacWrite and MacPaint was far more valuable and useful.”