Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Vibealicious team for giving us these 5 licenses to give away.
Now, here are the winners:
Ned Falconer
iMaddin
Kévin
Rich Cousins
Jimi
You’ll receive the license straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!
Seems like the Syncode guys are working really hard these days. After the release of Syncopy, the application that allows you to share your Mac clipboard on multiple Macs and iPhone which I reviewed here, they’ve just announced their new application called Synotes.
From the official page:
“Synotes is a simple yet powerful note taking and management solution for iPhone and iPod touch and the web. Synotes uniquely provides users with simple yet stylish user interface created to be unique yet intelligent.
Synotes consists of an iPhone application and a web application, both in sync through smart cloud technologies we call ‘Smart Sync’. Both applications feature beautiful interfaces that are sophisticated yet subtle, but also contain powerful features to create a user friendly experience.”
And here are two screenshots of the upcoming iPhone app (currently awaiting approval by Apple) and the web app I’m testing:
From what we can see now, the interface is cool and the iPhone application seems promising. The web app is smooth and powered by great animations.
I’ll be sure to check it out when it’s released.
“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”
…And still so many things to improve and fix. I hope the Tablet will help.
Many people buy a Mac computer and think they would never have to do some maintenance, like they used to on Windows. This is partially wrong. Sure, there are no viruses / trojans / malwares but you have to clean up some stuff and free up some space from your hard drive as time goes by. Caches, log and language files, the infamous universal binaries: this stuff is using a lot of your drive’s space.
Today I’ll talk about what’s in my opinion one of the best (or maybe, the best) maintenance app for Mac OS X, CleanMyMac.
[..]The article as it appears now has been rewritten from when it first appeared earlier. I know this because I read both versions, and a simple Google search turns up a number of sentences and phrases that are no longer in the story, but are being quoted by multiple other sites and blogs. It’s not uncommon for blogs to write something quickly if there is a breaking story, and then flesh it out and perhaps even alter it a bit later, but again, this is the WSJ, and not their blog — this presumably is an article that will run in the paper tomorrow morning. Still, they had one version, and then changed it.
So, Apple is paying journalists to talk about the Tablet.
Sounds like a plan to save the publishing industry.
Some people call it comeback, other resurrection, some poets often say “like a phoenix who rises from its own ashes”. Call it whatever you like, but when it’s about Mac and iPhone applications I prefer to call it “hard development and learning from your mistakes”. We recently saw Read It Later coming out with an amazing 2.0 version knocking out Marco Arment’s Instapaper iPhone app, now it’s the turn of AppZapper, the famous app uninstaller which has finally reached the long-awaited 2.0 update and it’s here to stay on the throne of application uninstallers. But there’s so much more about it that we can’t keep on calling it “an uninstaller”.
I’ll call it an “applications manager”.
Sometimes developing and releasing a new application it’s just about good timing. You can’t be sure if your app will succeed and become a blockbuster because you can’t tell if time will be your friend, or your opponent. Most of all, you don’t know if your enemies will get in your way with something similar to what you’re developing at the same time. So yeah, sometimes it’s just about timing. But sometimes - most of the times, actually - having a really good application ready to be launched is what really matters. “Good applications always get noticed”, someone once said. Maybe he was right, maybe he was just too optimistic.
But what happens in the middle? What if you just launched a good application but timing was not so good? Even worse, what if your app gets noticed by less people than you expected?
Hell, let me talk about Syncopy.
Last week, we reviewed Concentrate, an application to help you focus on particular tasks by managing your entire workspace; for example, it will launch Pixelmator, change your iChat status to “Busy: Working!”, and block out Tweetie and YouTube so you can finish designing that icon for your client. It’s a great system for keeping you on task - but at the same time, it’s like a digital Mother Superior watching you over your shoulder with a yardstick. What if you’d just like a little help focusing on one application with the freedom to use other applications at will?
Let’s think about your options.
