MobileMe Gallery App for iPhone. See You Next Time, Apple.

I’ve been using MobileMe for some weeks now and I’m really satisfied with it. I can receive and sync mails, keep a backup of my important files, use a dedicated disk space, store my photos in the beautiful MobileMe galleries. Indeed, let me focus on these ones: in case you don’t know, I’ve created some open galleries where you can submit screenshots of your desktops, of beautiful Mac apps and cool iPhone apps interfaces. The galleries are currently online here, feel free to submit anything you think it’s noteworthy.

Anyway, you should probably know that Apple released a MobileMe Gallery iPhone application, which enables you to browse your gallery on the go. I haven’t found any good post about it, so I decided to write down my impressions so far.

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FontExplorer X Pro 2.5

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“Linotype has released a major update to its professional font management tool FontExplorer Pro. The user interface has been updated and streamlined, a new wide-screen mode enables the user to set the Preview area off to the right, a new transparency mode can be used to overlay and preview fonts in a working document, and printing is now enabled. Also, users can now tag their fonts for easier organization.”

An Unproductive Piece About Simplenote

My dear readers, the perfect notes app doesn’t exist. What? You’re surprised? Come on guys, it’s a matter of fact that perfection isn’t part of this world, and as long as we can think about making something good, we’ll only be able to make something great. That’s the human nature. This concept applies to every kind of human creation: art, food, software. So what are we talking about anyway? We just strive to use / create something great, in the best way that’s possible. Back to notes, perfection doesn’t exist there either, greatness does. Well, let’s say that among 3000 notes app available in the App Store, maybe 10 of them are great. Do the math, you get the hang of how life works. But greatness alone isn’t enough: you should add a good dose of personality and usefulness to the mix. A system can be great and admirable, but it couldn’t work for someone. Summing up: I need a great notes app, it has to adapt to my personality and it should be useful. Can you believe I found all of this in Simplenote?

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Snoozing to Awaken. Review and Giveaway.

With the market saturated by dozens of iPhone and iPod docks, no doubt do we at least have one in our homes that sport some form of alarm function. For those that utilize this tool, traveling becomes an issue when we can’t take our iPhone alarm clocks with us. The guys over at Embraceware understand that iPhone affectionados appreciate the simple comfort of waking up to their favorite morning power song, so they’ve taken their top notch Mac utility and made it mini.

Awaken for the iPhone is the dream app for those in need of a portable night stand that can kick some cool tunes.

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Contribute to shutup.css on Github

Shutup, the custom stylesheet from Steven Frank that automatically hides the comments section of many popular websites, is now hosted on Github. You can contribute to it by adding features or a bug fix. Thanks to Maximilian Schoening (@mschoening) from Bylinebreak and Steven (@stevenf).

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It Could Be a Mac App: LiveStats 2, A Real-Time Look at Your Visitors

Once upon a time, there was a group of guys somewhere near London that believed website analytics could have been so much more. They could have been different, focused on users. Then, it came the day that belief took shape and they crafted LiveStats, the one and only live traffic monitoring web application. And I mean “one and only”, because anything else was just nothing compared to LiveStats. The guys were called GoSquared, and maybe they didn’t realize they created a “king” back then.

LiveStats was a great tool, I’ve been using it since it first release, and it provided a great way to monitor your incoming traffic in real time. But hey, why am I talking like this? “Was”, “provided”? Because the GoSquared team has just released the 2.0 version of LiveStats, and many things have changed. LiveStats has just got a lot better.

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Apple Rolls Out iTunes Web Previews for the App Store

A few months after the iTunes Store got web previews, Apple finally decided to implement the feature for the App Store too. The layout of the page is clean and very similar to the App Store’s one, but you can’t obviously buy an app from there. Also, Apple removed the “customers also bought” form the bottom of the page.  It was about time, anyway.

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App Store Web

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