Thanks everyone who entered the Occasions giveaway.We also want to thank the Hand Carved Code developers for the promo codes they offered to MacStories readers.
Occasions Winners Announced
Developer Recreates Toy Story iAd for iPhone
Remember when Steve showed off iAd for the first time? The cool Toy Story 3 iAd demo with the rotating menu and movie characters? We do, and s0 does developer Ted Littledale, who wanted to see if it’s actually so easy to create an iAd.
Well, probably not, because as he wrote in his blog post he had to go through some documentation from the Webkit team and play around with functions and finger swipe events to get the thing working. Also, he used pictures of his dog in the “ad”, which you can test on the iPhone here.
We’ve embedded the demo video after the break. Cool stuff.
Goalbook, A Place to Jot your Goals. Review & Giveaway!
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.
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.