You probably already know that I like very much writing about cool modifications for Mac and iPhone. I usually find them on Ember, Iconpaper and MacThemes, three websites you should definitely check out if you’re into graphical customizations like me.
Today’s mod is called Inset (link to MacThemes post, link to author’s website) and it will install an alternate style for your dock (when in 2D), dock menus (right click on dock icons), exposè highlight, Stacks and Adium Contact List.
Mac users are lucky. We get all kinds of toys to play with if we ever want to take screenshots, with Littlesnapper and Skitch coming to mind as the two most prominent apps available. Techsmith, the same guys who make Camtasia Studio, felt that there was room for one more. And I must admit it’s really pretty (I’m a sucker for eye-candy).
I use VLC as my media player of choice on my Mac. Although Quicktime is a great app which provides a good dose of eye candy as well, VLC is compatible with almost every format out of the box - without the need of installing any additional plugin.
It’s simple, it’s straightforward and it becomes beautiful if you apply the Blackpearl mod. But today I’d like to talk about the new kid on the block of media players for Mac, MPlayer.
Now it’s definitely a must have. Go download.
Nik Fletcher nails it in his latest blog post:
“Yes, it’s an entirely prescriptive way of computing - one that the hackers, tinkerers and geeks will find alien and protest about its lack of openness. But here’s the thing: for the people who the iPad is aimed at it really doesn’t matter that this experience is prescriptive - and the more you look at the decisions Apple seem to have made in building the software on the device, the more you realise that the iPad is perhaps the first high-technology product ready for - and entirely aimed at - a mainstream audience right from the get-go.”
Thanks everyone for the comments on the Rocketbox review & giveaway. Also, I’d like to thank Matt Ronge of Central Atomics for the 10 licenses he gave to MacStories.
Here are the names of the winners:
Tony Martinez
Nguyen
Toon
Xendo
Rico Gasser
Jono
Tim Steinbach
Fabio
Miša
Shadowchaser
You’ll receive the license in your inbox in a few hours. Also, don’t get forget that we have a Touchpad giveaway up and running.
Cheers!
Remember Itsy? The new, minimal Twitter client we reviewed a while ago here? I still think that Itsy it’s a very promising application, the best among all those Twitter clients that are rising for Mac (again) after Tweetie easily ascended the throne. The design of Itsy is nice, but it could be better.
Thank God this guy, katsu3477, created these two stunning themes for Itsy.
The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.307.1. here’s the changelog:
Improved plugin stability;
Cocoa NPAPI plugins will now get:
NPCocoaEventMouseDragged and
NPCocoaEventFlagsChanged events
Fix crash that sometimes happened when dragging tabs;
Fix %cpu in task manager;
Give the cookies manager a search field;
Make copying of big images more robust;
Improve task manager resizing behavior;
Known Issue: Crash when deleting cookies
We’ve got another big news guys. Following our previous post about iPhone OS suggesting support for camera tethering and Wildcat references, our source reported that OS 3.2 beta contains references about video conferencing.
We don’t know too much about it now, but we can prove it with two images we received - two camera icons.
Clearly they’re very similar to the icons we can see on iChat on Mac OS X. Could this confirm the presence of a camera in the final version of the iPad? Or maybe Apple was forced to remove it right before the event, pretty much like they did with the iPod Touch? We’ll keep you posted about it.
