Not all of us know CSS. Some do, and many do not. What a lot of people do know, however, is how to write documents that reference CSS files.
MacRabbit’a CSSEdit is a fantastic editing tool for CSS gurus to the least savvy of the lot.
Styling the Web with CSSEdit
Win a Copy of Synotes and Syncopy
The Syncode guys gave me 10 promo codes to give away to MacStories readers. There are 5 codes of Syncopy and 5 codes of Synotes up for grabs. Be sure to read our Syncopy and Synotes reviews (here and here) if you missed them.
Entering the contest is simple. All you have to do is:
- Follow me on Twitter (@storiesofmac) and tweet this message: “Win a Copy of Synotes and Syncopy for iPhone on MacStories http://ow.ly/WQJ2 @storiesofmac”
and
- Leave a comment here with the link to your tweet.
I’ll pick up the winners on Wednesday, January 20th.
Good luck!
Yet Another Tablet OS Leaked Video
Or should I say “yet another fake video”? I wonder why these videos are always bad quality.
I do hope the widget rumor was fake. Apple just won’t do something like this. But the question is: let’s say Apple really came out with this idea of iPhone OS apps as widgets plus native tablet apps. Would you use them?
Synotes: Beautiful Notes App for iPhone
I really don’t know how many note taking applications are available for iPhone. I guess Steve doesn’t know either. But let me guess..
A lot.
Seems like together with Twitter clients and feeds readers, that of notes apps is a profitable market, or I couldn’t find an explanation for these thousands of similar apps floating around in the App Store. But you know what, amongst ugly and bad developed applications usually lie the awesome gems I review on MacStories. Speaking of note taking apps, John Gruber was the first to talk about Simplenote, and everyone started loving this app, which consists of an iPhone client and a web service. Simplenote is powerful, and the recent update made it am outstanding piece of software - built with power users in mind.
Today I’d like to talk about an application that has a similar purpose but takes a slightly different approach, focusing less on the pro features and more on the user interface. We’re gonna take some Synotes.
It Could Be a Mac App: Zootool, the iTunes for the Web.
I daily look for new Mac and iPhone applications I can write about and promote on MacStories. I’m subscribed to hundreds of blogs, post on many forums, browse Emberapp and read tweets so that I can keep up with the newest releases in the development scene. But sometimes, and this seems to happen very often recently, it’s not a Mac or iPhone app I want to write about, but it’s a web application.
Web applications are great. And useful. And powerful. Sometimes they’re not as polished as native Cocoa software, sometimes they’re not even fast and stable. On the other hand, sometimes they’re amazingly feature rich, gorgeous and blazing fast apps. “This could be a Mac app”, I say when I stumble upon a webapp like that. And that’s why I decided to start this new series on MacStories.
“It could be a Mac app” will feature beautiful web applications that yeah - they are as powerful, sexy and yet simple as a Mac app should always be. You can either run it in your browser or make it a Fluid app, it doesn’t matter. The first app I’d like to talk about is Zootool, a young startup from Germany, which in my opinion will revolutionize the way we collect data and information on the web.
Linkinus: All IRC Clients Should Be Like This.
Apple Confirms Tablet Existence with Cease and Desist Letter to Gawker
Showcase Your iPhone First Page: #sharethe1st [Jan 14th]
I am always curious about how people effectively manage their Macs or iPhones. As a matter of fact, I’m always looking for suggestions, idea..inspiration. To satisfy my curiosity, I made a quick poll on Twitter and I asked my followers to send me their first page of their iPhone springboard, including the #sharethe1st hashtag.
So, feel free to @reply me on Twitter with a screenshot of your 1st Springboard page. Please also include the #sharethe1st hashtag. The pics you send me will make it into a post, together with a link to your Twitter profile and website. Even you’ve already sent me a screenshot but you made some changes, you can send me the new one.
Enjoy!
A Day’s Sales For Haiti
“In the spirit of OneFingerDiscount and MacSanta, I’d like to aggregate all of the participating companies onto a single site that customers can go to, see the products being offered and make their purchasing decision. You would handle the sales of your product on your store and at the end of the day donate the sales to your charity of choice.”
Now you understand why the Mac community is so great. Looking forward to January 20th.