Apple Updates iWork.com, Adds Social and iPhone Features

iWork.com, the beta service from Apple that integrates with iWork desktop and allows you to retrieve your documents on the web, has just received an update, which adds a number of interesting features. First, Apple has finally enabled support for public links for documents, thus enabling to share your work wherever you want. As far as we can tell, the viewers of public links won’t see document comments and notes.

Also, the iWork.com webpage has been redesigned for mobile access (webapp) with the iPhone and iPad. After a few initial tests with the new look, I guess there’s some Pastrykit going on with the webapp.

Seems like Apple is finally giving iWork the consideration it deserves and, with the iPad coming out in a few weeks, I’m pretty sure we’ll see even more.

MacUpdate Promo Spring Bundle 2010 Launches

It’s time for another MacUpdate Promo bundle and, as usual, it’s pretty good. At the price of $49.99 you can buy 11 Mac apps, and if you add $3.99 you can also download and activate MacUpdate Desktop for 6 months.

Here’s the full list of the apps:

Parallels 5

Hyperspaces

Foreversave

Websnapper

Hydra

SpellCatcher X

Timeline 3D

Back In Time

MacDVDRipper Pro

MacScan.

There are some apps I wouldn’t buy anyway, but Hyperspaces and Parallels alone make this bundle seriously worth to consider. The promo ends in two weeks, and first 10.000 buyers also get DVDRemaster Pro for free.

Snow Stack - Webkit Only Photo Gallery Made with CSS 3D Visual Effects

Developed by Satine.org months ago, if you still haven’t tried Snow Stack you should head over the demo webpage right now. Snow Stack is a photo gallery, similar to Cooliris, that displays photos as a “wall” that you can navigate. Cool thing is, everything happens thanks to Webkit’s CSS 3D capabilities, you can use your keyboard to browse and zoom photos (spacebar zooms just like Quicklook) and overall, it’s beautiful.

Of course, Firefox and Opera are not supported.

Keeping Omnifocus and Basecamp in Sync with Spootnik. 20% Discount for MacStories Readers!

If you have a team to manage, I bet you’re using 37signals’ Basecamp to keep everything under strict control yet enabling every single component of your team access the app and keep you updated about his tasks. Yeah, that’s exactly the greatest selling point of Basecamp, and the reason why thousands of people around the world use it on a daily basis. MacStories is no exception to that.

But on the other hand, I guess you also have a GTD application sitting in your dock, just because you find the GTD method comfortable and suitable to your needs. You’ve gotten used to it, and migrating everything to Basecamp just wouldn’t feel right. Maybe you even created a few team projects inside it, and now you’re unsure whether they should go into Basecamp as well?

Now, if you use both Basecamp and Omnifocus, there’s a solution. There’s a web service for that, and it’s called Spootnik.

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Apple Doesn’t Want Kaspersky In the App Store

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“Speaking exclusively to PC Pro, the CEO of Kaspersky Lab claimed Apple has repeatedly refused to deliver the software development kit (SDK) necessary to design security software for the phone.

“We have been in contact for two years with Apple to develop our anti-theft software, [but] still we do not have permission,” said Kaspersky.”

Even without actually seeing the app? That’s interesting.

Lights - Beautiful Mac OS X Mod

PrekeshC Deviantart user has released Lights, a graphical mod for Mac OS X which acts on the default traffic lights, making them..simply beautiful. I don’t have a good relationship with Mac OS’ normal traffic lights, so I went for it and applied the theme using Themepark. It just needs a logout to be set and running. So, from now on you’ll see them in every screenshot on MacStories, making my desktop setup sexier and lickable.

You know where to download them.

[Disclaimer: as always, be sure to backup the ArtFile and SArtFile files. If you’re new to modding, Google is your friend. Last, the theme is Snow Leopard only. A Leopard compatible version will be released soon.]