Boy, I sure am a dreamer. While I probably won’t live on that billion dollar yacht afloat over a man made martini ocean smack dab in the middle of Russia, there’s always the chance right? Probably not, but I might be able to sing in my own local band one day or form an ultra elite team of hackers that protect the world from evil doers like Federico. So for those rather minute goals (and perhaps even bigger ones), I can store my dreams and aspirations in the eye-popping iPhone and iPod touch application, Goalbook.
Goalbook, A Place to Jot your Goals. Review & Giveaway!
Weather Station Pro Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Weather Station Pro giveaway.We also want to thank the Toopia developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.
Here are the winners:
Klein Maetschke
Thomly
Shane Hollifield
KaL MichaeL
Sofia Fontes
Technogasms
Todd Johnson
Day
Eugene Gordin
Chad
You’ll receive the promo codes in your inbox in a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week. You can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet or Federico as @viticci
Google: Turn-by-Turn Navigation Not Coming To The iPhone
Bad new, folks. Bad news. Yesterday MacUser reported that Google was thinking about porting its Android turn-by-turn navigation software to the iPhone (more than thinking, actually), but it turns out that PC World has talked with a Google spokesperson and they haven’t mentioned the iPhone. They’re not thinking about the iPhone at all.
iStat Menus 3: Beautiful Stats For Your Mac
I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, and one could argue that maybe it’s time for me to consider an upgrade to a new model. Maybe with some SSD and new processor goodness. I think that my machine is still a great one though, with its 4GB of RAM and a pretty capable hard disk: it’s been able to do so many things for me in these two years that I don’t see it being replaced anytime soon, actually. But, I think that’s a given that I should keep an eye on its internal stats: you know, stuff like the battery health, CPU usage over time and memory consumption.
I’ve always done that with the iStat Pro dashboard widget from Bjango (former iSlayer), but last night I decided to upgrade to iStat Menus 3. Here’s why you should do the same.
Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.2 Available
Apple has released Digital Camera Raw Compatibility Update 3.2, available in Software Update.
Steve Jobs: “Life Is Fragile”
Every day we think about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple. But every single day we forget that Steve Jobs is just a man, who goes through the difficulties and misfortunes of life, just like us. And we also know that he had to face pretty bad difficulties in his life - like a liver disease, which forced him to get a liver transplant last year.
BusinessInsider reports an email from Steve Jobs in response to James, a guy from Cupertino who lost his girlfriend last year due to a melanoma that quickly spread to her liver. He shot an email to Steve just to say thanks for his interest in this cause and, surprisingly enough, Steve replied.
This is not an email about business, it’s about life. It’s about the human side of Steve, the one we forget about every single day. Maybe this is not as interesting as the latest iPhone market share in Japan, but we think that sometimes stories are more important than numbers. Check it out after the break.
Want to Capture Everything and Anything? Voila!
The Mac draws a lot of attention from bloggers who love to create and share content. Great tools like Skitch, Little Snapper, SnapIt, Camtasia Studio, and Screenflow enable us to capture content as it appears on the screen, edit it, format it, and ship it across the Interwebs effortlessly. Separately, these tools are awesome in their own rights. Together, it’s possible to have a super app. Voila (version 3.0) for the Mac takes a little of everything from these mastered tools, and brings them together into a one stop shop that should hopefully attend to all your needs. How do we feel about it? Read past the break to find out.
Chaos Rings Headed to the iPad
Square Enix’ Chaos Rings has turned out to be a huge hit in the App Store: after all the positive reviews and users’ feedback, Chaos Rings (which, for those who don’t know, it’s a typical japanese RPG) is now the top grossing app in nine countries, and the devs confirmed it’s also headed to the iPad as “Chaos Rings HD”.
iPhone in Japan: 72% of Smartphone Market
Good news for Apple: Businessweek reports that the shipments of the iPhone to Japan have more than doubled in the past year, taking 72% of the smartphone market.
“Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008, climbed to 1.69 million units in the year ended March 31, Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd. said in a report yesterday. That raised the total to 2.3 million, Hideaki Yokota, an analyst at the research firm, said by telephone today.
The iPhone helped smartphone sales more than double last fiscal year in Japan as shipments of regular mobile phones shrank, according to the report. Smartphone shipments will probably exceed 3 million units in the 12 months started April 1, even as the overall market is forecast to contract for a third year, it said.”
I’d be curious to see some stats for Italy though. Very good numbers, anyway.