Imagine the entire Internet as your screen saver. That’s WebSaver, a SandwichLab utility designed to bring you the best of the Internet right to your dormant Mac computer. If you’ve ever wanted The Numa Numa Guy as your desktop background, we’ll here’s your chance. Just don’t let the Star Wars Kid know.
WebSaver, A Universal Web Display
Animated Lyrics, Stunning HTML5 Music Visualizer
Animated Lyrics is a html5 based music visualizer from Svg-Wow.org that was demonstrated at the SVG Open 2009 conference, and it’s beautiful.
Using features like web fonts, scripted animations, text on path and HTML 5 “<audio>” and “<foreignObject>” tags, it displays the lyrics of a song playing in the background (and previously chosen with a nice transparent menu) together with effects and various animations.
I couldn’t help but think how this could seriously improve the experience of enjoying music on the internet. But sadly, still a demo.
Notable Quotes Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the Notable Quotes giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Hand Carved Code developers for the promo codes they gave to MacStories.
Here are the winners:
Mads
Wei
Benjamin Metzler
Adam
You’ll receive the promo code in your inbox in a matter of a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week.
In the meantime, you can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet.
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition Coming to the iPhone This Summer
“Lucas Arts revealed the games to kick off their annual Game Developers Conference party, bringing Tim Schaefer and Ron Gilbert, the originals creators of the game, to the front of the room for the announcement.The special edition includes new high-def graphics, a re-mastered musical score, full voiceover, and an in-depth hint system.”
Apple Tops in Computer Tech Support
App Store SEO: The Impact of iTunes Web Preview
“iTunes preview pages rank well in Google search results because they are very search engine friendly for app names. The URL, page title, meta description, meta keywords, and the H1 tag are all loaded with the app name. These pages also have lots of incoming links from every blog entry, review, and so on that uses the iTunes link. I suspect that the Playboy app comes in at #7 because of all the recent news and opinion articles that link to the app as an example of a big publisher that escaped the iTunes sexy app purge.
It is interesting to note that the iTunes preview page uses the “nofollow” attribute for links to the app’s homepage, so the PageRank of the preview page does not convey any benefit to the developer’s site .”
Developers, take note.
Apple Needs to Move the iPad and App Store Out of iTunes
With the iPad coming out in a few weeks, I guess many of you guys are doing some huge spring cleaning at your iTunes installation to cut down the garbage and assure that when the new kid will be in town, everything will be settled for a warm and polished welcome. You’d better do so, but I think this is all wrong.
The Weather Giveaway Winners Announced
Thanks everyone who entered the The Weather giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the ClinkApps developers for the promo codes they gave to MacStories.
Here are the winners:
JR007
iona64
Ammon Casey
Brian R
Zara
Cindy
Nate
Tony Martinez
k3mf0u
You’ll receive the promo code in your inbox in a matter of a few hours. Stay tuned for other giveaways coming this week.
In the meantime, you can follow the official MacStories Twitter account as @macstoriesnet .
Autodesk Maya 2011 Goes 64-bit on Mac OS X
Also: redesigned user interface, improved Maya composite and skinning workflow.