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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
Think about your iPad, and tell me what’s the thing you do most with it. I bet that of all activities, reading with the iPad would be the most popular answer. So much has been said about the tablet being able to revolutionize the print industry and old media (e.g. Newspapers that still have to figure out a way to monetize their online presence), but let’s face it: revolutions don’t happen in two months. It’s a constant and daily evolution, led by Steve Jobs, the App Store and developers.
Third party applications is where it’s at. Creative devs coming up with innovative solutions that show how a new device such as the iPad can indeed reshape the industry. We’re waiting for a second wave of great iPad apps to come along, and those apps will do even better than the ones we’ve seen in these two months.
With Apple blocking AdMob, Google’s recent acquisition, AdMob CEO Omar Hamoui feels it’s necessary to comment on their ticket of non-admission. Acknowledging that, “Apple proposed new developer terms on Monday that, if enforced as written, would prohibit app developers from using AdMob and Google’s advertising solutions on the iPhone,” Omar finds Apple’s new terms highly distasteful. All I have to say is get over it buddy; companies don’t have to use AdMob to deliver the goods when iAds are always available. And Jobs has already made clear that some incredible businesses are already on board. So what’s your point?
