“During Apple’s 90 minute unveiling of the iPad this week, a lot of new multi-touch interactions were shown off. But they went by fast. So as a service to digital product designers everywhere, we took the time to extract 8 minutes of new user interface demos from the iPad keynote. Now you can quickly just catch the UI in action on Apple’s new native iPad and iWork applications.”
Interesting video showing off many new gestures and interactions of the iPad. /via @DavidKaneda
Science has always been a sore subject for me. Maybe it was because I bombed chemistry class in senior high, or struggled with physics in college, but I could never wrap my head around the complexities of the world around me. That is at least until an iPhone app showed me just how awesome science could be. And while it’s not your LHC atom crushing awesome, it’s your accessible easy to do yet you never thought of kind of awesome.
If you’re ever interested in learning how to turn water into ice instantly with a touch of nothing but your finger, this is the app for you.
“Historically, closed platforms are typically limited in terms of scale and are confined to niche markets. Apple has built is business out of carving its own niche, which means that while Apple could see success with devices like the iPad, other players are unlikely to be able to replicate its result simply by copying”
Sure they won’t copy the iPad, but we should expect an explosion of tablet devices. Just look at what the iPhone did.
I don’t know why, but there’s something wrong about Mac OS X and archives. As you may know Mac OS comes with an application called Archive Utility installed by default, and it’s pretty good when it comes to opening simple .zip archives. Problem is, Archive Utility totally sucks when the file isn’t encoded in zip or it’s a password protected archive. And if you consider that most of the files I download are encrypted .zip’s and .rar archives, you realize that I have a problem. So I decided to try something else. I installed the popular Unarchiver, good for .rar files, but unable to join split archives. I was about to give up.
Fast forward to this morning, my friend Dietmar from Green & Slimy sends a tweet about an app he’s been working on and that’s in beta: it’s called Rucksack. I open the link, I see a sexy website saying “the new iArchiver” and “…the new way to handle archives”. I download the .zip file. I unarchive it with Archive Utility. For the last time.
Great post over at Cocoia blog, where Sebastiaan has asked some questions to Mike Matas, former Delicious Library UI designer and worker at Apple. You’ve go to read this.
“My favorite designs are the ones that don’t just solve a problem, but also engage you on an emotional level—where you take away more from it than just the end result of its function.”
Thanks everyone for the comments on the Touchpad giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Edovia for the 3 promo codes they gave to MacStories.
Here are the names of the winners:
Sidney Kochman
Abe Jellinek
jay
You’ll receive the code in your inbox in a few hours.
Cheers!
Yesterday I wrote this post about MPlayer OS X Extended and many people in the comments and on Twitter told me I was wrong, that there was another alternative to VLC, and it wasn’t the app I talked about. It’s always a great thing when you guys suggest me new apps to try and write about.
The app is called Movist, is hosted (again) on Google Code and it’s media player for Mac OS X based on Quicktime and FFMpeg.
Iconlicious.com, the joint venture of the graphic designers Marcelo Marfil and Emanuel Sà (I interviewed both, here and here), is finally online and public.
As you can read in the About page of the website “Iconlicious has worked in the past years with companies such as AppZapper, Bohemian Coding, Droplr, Embraceware, Phantom Fish, Sophiestication, Taptivate and Vemedio”, developers of the most beautiful apps I’ve ever reviewed on MacStories.
Iconlicious features some amazing freebies ready to download, a sneak preview of an upcoming app by BohemianCoding (which is gonna be great) and a giveaway of software to celebrate the official launch. Just head over the giveaway page and follow the rules.
Congratulations Iconlicious, we’re looking forward to your future works.
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