In North Carolina, my respective radio station is 106.5 The End (link might contain NSFW content). And while I don’t know too many people who still listen to their local radio stations, I’m a huge fan, thus the shameless plug (and the window sticker). Occasionally they’ll have a block party weekend, where they’ll play two or three songs by the same artist in a row, and it’s a format I really love. But now when I travel, I can have a block party weekend wherever I go with Tripmix.
Tripmix, Music Blocks made Easy
Sorted, Beautiful To-do App for iPad
So I decided to stick with Things from Cultured Code as my GTD iPad app of choice. In the long run, I think Things is going to be the best I can have on all the devices I’m running it on (iPad, Mac, iPhone) and as soon as Cultured Code will introduce support for OTA sync, it will be just perfect. Read my review of Things for iPad here.
But what about those of you who bought an iPad, want to be productive on it but can’t really stand the whole GTD method? Well I’m afraid to tell you that there aren’t many alternatives right now into the App Store. Whether you want a simple checklist app or just another note taking software that you can use as todo solution, really - the choice is limited. You have to give a spin to this app though: Sorted by Savage Interactive.
Adding HTML5 Video to iBooks
It turns out that it’s pretty simple to add media to your .epub iBooks, and by “pretty simple” I mean the HTML5 <video> tag.
Things Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for entering our huge giveaway of Things for Mac, iPad and iPhone. A big special thanks goes also to Cultured Code, who offered these tree licenses of Things to MacStories readers.
Here are the lucky winners:
Mac: Zac Harmany
iPad: Abraham Vegh
iPhone: Dan Palmer
Congratulations folks, you’ll receive your copy of Things soon. Until the next giveaway, take care!
Cappuccino gets NativeHost Component, Brings Web Applications to Desktop
Exciting times are ahead for Cappuccino, so I’m sure you already know about NativeHost. Wait, you don’t? Oh good, I have a story then. If you’ve never heard of Cappuccino, it’s an open-source application framework that utilizes web technologies, and is flavored with things like Apple’s Cocoa framework for example. But instead of specifically targeting the web, the folks working on Atlas (which itself is a Cappuccino application) found a way to distribute to the desktop environment with minimal work. NativeHost allows Cappuccino applications to, ya know, run natively as a desktop application. Cooked right in to both the Cappuccino build tools and the Atlas IDE, you’re welcomed to give it a try and read through all the “whys” and “hows” over at Cappaccino’s blog.
iBookstore Could Face Legal Hurdles in the UK
The iPad is coming out in the UK in two weeks and publishers are worried that Apple’s iBookstore model may be illegal. The Bookseller reports that various publishers are wondering whether what Apple did in the US for iBooks could work in the same way in the UK, considering the market differences and different laws.
Historic Apple Prototypes
People love when a big company such as Apple lose something as important as a next generation iPhone prototype. It’s the feeling of taking a look at something that shouldn’t be seen yet that make people love this stuff, and that’s the same reason why Gizmodo had millions of hits back in those Redwood days. People love to take a look at leaked products.
It’s not like Apple hadn’t lost anything before they lost the 4G prototype. Call them “controlled leaks” or just “leaks”, Apple’s labs are always working on new “gadgets” - 80% of which we’ll never see as actual consumer products. Macrumors has put together a brief gallery of “historic prototypes”, stuff that never officially left Cupertino’s secret caveau’s and that some brave people dared to post on Flickr. You can find the original post here.
Take a look at the pictures after the break. And the Mac tablet was so awesome.