Being a student, I often travel with my laptop between home and campus. At school, there’s a lot of things I need to do, but I often forget to do. For example, I need to mute my machine (it would be embarassing if suddenly a notification from Twitterrific suddenly sounded in the middle of class), disable bluetooth, and close Mail. Locations, a basic application from Codehackers, solves this problem by doing all of this for you. If you’ve ever used MarcoPolo (which isn’t fully Snow Leopard compatible), you’ll be right at home with this app.
Locations, From Network Aware to Settings Applied
RapidID Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the RapidID giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Visial Soft developers for the licenses they gave to MacStories.
Here are the winners:
Felipe Navarro V.
Abe Jellinek
Clemens Bauer
Benjamin Metzler
Xendo
Fabrizio Lodi
David Lampe
You’ll receive the license in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!
Early Preview of Zen Bound for iPad
Looks sweet.
Kohive: Online Collaboration Tool, File Storage App, Virtual Desktop.
We’ve been reviewing a lot of web applications on MacStories during these last weeks, and not because we haven’t been able to find new “native” apps both for Mac and iPhone - because we believe today’s webapps have a lot to teach to desktop applications. Also, many of us use websites as desktop applications running inside an instance of Fluid.app: I have 3 Fluid apps sitting in my dock at the time of writing this post.
We usually focus on applications that could empower our productivity workflows with new tools, new ways of doing the old stuff, possibly standard compliant. Just take a look at Zootool, HipChat, Nirvana: they’re all great pieces of software that, no matter they’re written in Cocoa or not can run on our Macs just fine - and they’re useful.
The webapp Cody and I are going to talk about today is something you haven’t seen before anywhere else. It’s a sort of online storage / virtual desktop /collaboration app that presents a nice interface and runs very smoothly. An online place for you, your family and your co-workers that could seriously become one of your 2010 new favorite apps.
Enter Kohive.
Apple’s H264, x264 and Screenflow
Screenflow users, this is must-try.
Latest Postbox Beta Adds Things and Omnifocus Support
I’d love you Postbox, if only you dropped that engine.
Who Doesn’t with Dunnit! Review and Giveaway.
Many people have problems with getting things done. Task managers can only do so much, because despite jotting down the dozen or so tasks that need to be taken care of for the weekend, it’s ultimately up to the end user to fulfill those promises. More often than not, GTD apps are not the cure all - because things like “cleaning the garage” or “putting clothes away” often have no incentive. Unless the reward is a wad of cash, many of us (especially as Americans) find it easier to procrastinate than keep up on our daily duties.
For those with the task manager blues, you might have already heard about this little dandy of an application called Dunnit!.
Portal 2 Confirmed by Valve, Due in 2010
Guess we were right. Still no confirmation about Steam for Mac though, but at this point I’d say we should only wait a couple of weeks or less.
Photobag Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Photobag giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Paperbag developers for the licenses they gave to MacStories.
Here are the winners:
Sofia Fontes
Mhaddy
Brian Elliott
Gasport
Christohper Misiano
Alex H
Mason
Michael
iMaddin
Jason
You’ll receive the license in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!