Writing for MacStories, I often send a lot of .zip and photo heavy e-mail attachments to others. Unfortunately, there really isn’t a better way to privately send data (okay, Dropbox), but for those looking to increase their attachment prowess, I’d say it’s time to quit dickin’ around in Gmail and get with the program.
The Filemailer program.
There this game I’ve been playing with during the past weekend that I think you should download right now. I don’t usually play that many games on my iPhone, as I mostly use it as a “productive” device for the stuff I have to do my MacStories like mails, tasks, projects and so on. But, since Canabalt came out some months ago I started buying these simple yet addictive games that are usually packed in weird pixellated graphics.
Anyway, this game I discovered is called Polyhedra, and it’s very simple. All you have to do is to fill a percentage of the screen with geometric shapes. To draw shapes, you have to tap and hold your finger on the screen: the longer you hold, the bigger the shape. So where’s the difficulty? First, you can create a limited number of shapes (the number changes for each level). Then, there are enemies (bouncing little balls) that will destroy the shape you’re creating if they touch you. Sounds weird, but it works.
The game is all about physics (for enemies and shapes) and gravity, as you can rotate the iPhone in an direction to move the shapes around. Graphics are colorful and fluid, soundtrack is awesome, there are many options to play with.
At $0.99 in the App Store, you should go buy this little gem and become addicted like me. One of the best games I’ve ever played on my iPhone.
See you on the leaderboard.
Address Book support;
iCal;
Drag to dock;
Safari to Postbox links;
iPhoto integration;
Dictionary Lookup
Still based on Mozilla’s engine though. An important update anyway, you might want to give it another spin. I did.
According to Wikipedia a new Twitter client for iPhone is released everyday. The average price point is between $0.99 and $1.99, but there are some exception where the Twitter client beast goes out of control and price itself at $2.99. Amongst the most famous Twitter apps for iPhone we should mention Tweetie, Twitterrific, Echofon, Twitbird, Twittelator and Birdfeed.
Then there are free Twitter apps, those apps that usually come with poor feature sets, ugly UIs and screwed up animations.
Today I’ll take a look at Twizzle, an application by Sahil Lavingia (One Week App) that is free and, actually, pretty good.
Snow Leopard’s Finder is great and fast, but sometimes it just hangs. At least for me, and though I’ve got a Macbook Pro with 4GB Ram, it happens that it should be restarted or “refreshed”.
Luckily I’ve found out these two buttons that, once dragged to your Finder toolbar, will let you refresh & restart. I’ve tested them, they work perfectly.
Go download.
This is quite new for MacStories. I know that many of you guys have an iPhone, and I know that many of you have a jailbroken iPhone. There are many reasons to consider jailbreaking an iPhone, like multitasking, Cydia Store apps and graphical customizations.
For this reason, I thought it would have been nice to start giving away stuff for jailbroken devices. Today we start with a “premium” Winterboard theme you can find in Cydia at $0.99 and it’s called Doux.
Entering is simple. First, be sure that you have a jailbroken device and you know how to manually put a theme via SSH (using Cyberduck, perhaps)
Then:
Leave a comment here, telling us the theme you’re currently using. Winners will be announced on Wednesday, Feb. 10th.
Good luck!
“If you really truly feel that you need to update, this version creates a custom 3.1.3 IPSW for you to restore to on your iPhone 2G, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS with early bootrom, iPod touch 1G, and iPod touch 2G with early bootrom. “
Jailbreakers, you know what to do.
Thanks everyone for the comments on the Awaken giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Embraceware for the 5 promo codes they gave to MacStories.
Here are the names of the winners:
Mattia Canfora;
Cathy C;
Abe Jellinek;
gab;
Weston Gallagher
You’ll receive the code in your inbox tomorrow.
Cheers!
I thought I was done with feeds readers for iPhone. I switched from Netnewswire to Byline, from Byline to Newsstand, from Newsstand to Reeder, and I’m currently using Silvio Rizzi’s elegant and minimal app as my only one RSS reader. So, I thought I was done with this kind of apps, as Reeder was (still is) the best and aggregator I’ve tried so far. Then, an icon showed up on Ember app’s image stream: it was wooden, with a newspaper delivering a..rss icon. It was beautiful, and the title was “Newsprint”.
I started searching for this new app, I was later invited to the beta testing and here I am now, giving you a sneak preview of this new RSS app for iPhone.
