This week, you got a chance to read up on the company and the applications that make Fuel Collective a pleasure to do business with if you have a Mac. They produce a video converter called Permute, and tools for developers and designers such as Snippet, Swatch, and PunchClock. On top of all that, they have a great Library manager called Contents which we reviewed yesterday. But now it’s the end of the week, and we’ve run out of applications to review. Still, we feel things need to end with a bang. So why not giveaway everything? Read more
Fuel Collective Friday Finale - Win Everything
Why You Shouldn’t Read The “Why You Shouldn’t Buy An iPad” Posts (Now)
Some people just don’t get it.
Gina Trapani (founding editor of Lifehacker) has posted a new entry on Fastcompany’ blog called “Why You Shouldn’t Buy an iPad (Yet)”, giving us some arguable points about why we should skip the current iPad generation (let’s simply call it iPad 1st gen) and wait for better, less buggy, cheaper device next year.
I’ve never understood this way of thinking, and never will.
Dragon Dictation Now Optimized for iPad
Dragon Dictation, the popular (and great) text to speech utility for iPhone, has just been updated to an iPad compatible (universal) version. The iPad version obviously takes advantage of the new screen, but it’s basically a raw port of the iPhone one. Available for free here, check out the screenshots after the break.
iBooks App Now Available, “Winnie the Pooh” Built In
Available for free here, it’s a 18MB download. As we previously heard, Winnie the Pooh iBook is built in in. We’ve embedded the cover below, as seen from the application’s Resources.
Apple Launches “App of the Week” in the App Store
As if all the iPad apps weren’t enough today, Apple has just launched a new section in the App Store called “App of the Week”. Nice. I guess an app that gets featured there would benefit of a terrific visibility.
Now, about the organization of iPhone and iPad apps…
Browse the App Store from Google Chrome
With this extension, you can access the App Store directly within Google Chrome. Interesting.
Find My iPad Comes to MobileMe
“Find My iPad has the same features as Find My iPhone, including playing the little sonar sound effect with an onscreen message (in case your iPad falls behind the couch or something). Find My iPad also includes the same Remote Wipe feature as Find My iPhone – so if your iPad is irretrievably lost, you can remotely vaporize all the data on it, thus ensuring that thieves don’t get access to your contacts, credit card info, or embarrassing lolcat pictures in addition to your iPad”
Cloud App Goes Public, Reviewed.
We’re always looking for new apps. We’re always looking forward to that new app which should revolutionize the way we work. Apply this statement to file sharing (a way too crowded market on Mac OS X) and you’ll see thousands of people eagerly talking about Droplr, Tinygrab, whatever. There are at least 20 similar file sharing apps that I know, and while some of them are really good pieces of software, most of them are crap, period.
I think it’s impossible to review Cloud app by Linebreak without mentioning the fact that these guys managed to build a tremendous hype around their first mainstream application: back when Cloud was nothing but an icon, I remember everyone was talking about this new app which had a great looking icon and was every Mac user’s wet dream. Nice, we all started following the Twitter account. Cloud was then released as ultra-closed beta, and a few designers had the chance to put their hands on it and tease us on Twitter about how awesome it was. Again, we bookmarked a Twitter search for the terms “Cloud Mac”. Last, Linebreak opened even more spots for the beta, and we reviewed an early version of Cloud. It impressed us. It was easy to use, fast, useful, customizable, definitely Mac-like. But still, it wasn’t finished. Hell no, it needed more work, more refinements, more features, new servers - whatever it takes to be the champion.
To stand out from the crowd of file sharing apps.
Now, Cloud has finally gone public. And it’s way better than before.
Contents, The Library Unearthed. Review and Giveaway!
So folks, we’ve almost run out of applications to review from Fuel Collective, but we got one more to review before coming to a close. Last by not least is Contents, which makes navigating your Mac’s Library folders a breeze. Being something that a lot of users don’t understand, Contents allows users to navigate this dark alley by illuminating the path with its ingenious drop down menu-based system, easy search functions, preferences cleaner, installation utilities, and backup tools. It’s powerful because finally, you can manage everything you’ve always wanted to without the Finder. Read more