So you think jailbreaking your iPhone is a bad thing. Shawn Blanc tells you why you should.
Jailbreak
Itsy: A New, Minimal Twitter Client for Mac. Better Than Tweetie?
If you’ve ever been wondering which Twitter client you could have used if Loren didn’t come up with his amazing app Tweetie, I think we have the answer now. It’s called Itsy, it was unknown until some days ago when someone talked about it on - guess what - Twitter and it could be your new favorite Twitter client for Mac OS X.
iSlate Specs Leaked
Source: PhoneArena
I believe the only thing that actually exists is the Clouded Leopard.
Reportage Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the WhereCloud team for giving us these 5 promo codes for the giveaway.
Now, here are the winners:
dapper
Rossella
Henry Yue
Dennis
leesui
You’ll receive the U.S. promo code straight in your inbox in a matter of a few minutes.
Cheers!
Favorite Tweets of the Week Dec 28 - Jan 3
I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.
To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.
You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.
Enjoy!
Snappy Gets the 2.0 Update
Snappy, the Cydia-only tweak I previously mentioned in this article, has just been updated to 2.0. This new version improves the overall stability of the app and adds many new features like:
- Video Recording;
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Default Video Recording on Tap;
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MMS;
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Geotagging;
Available at $1.99 via the BigBoss repository, I highly recommend this.
Crafting Subtle & Realistic User Interfaces
“The underlying secret to beautiful user interface design is realism: making 2D objects on your screen appear to sit in 3D space with volume, surface properties and undulations that might appear in real life. These faux 3D objects have highlights and shadows just like objects on your desk might have, and they have textures that emulate real objects from glass to sandpaper and everything in between. Designing beautiful user interfaces has more to do with the why than the how.”
For everyone who’s interested in User Interface design, this is a great post. Go read it now.
Win a Copy of Notify!
Notify is a great mail notifier / client for Mac OS X that sits in the menubar waiting for new messages to arrive. It supports Gmail and Google Apps, Rackspace Mail, MobileMe and generic IMAP.
As I wrote in my review: “Notify 2 is one of the best application of this late 2009, allowing you to keep track of your mail accounts and manage your mail messages from the menubar, which is just great. The interface is clever and well designed, the animations smooth and,overall, the application is stable. But the coolest thing is that now I can finally keep Mail.app closed, leave Notify running and open Mail.app only if really needed. This – is just great.“.
Vibealicious gave me 5 licenses to give away to MacStories readers. This is a last 2009 gift for you guys, from MacStories, Kyle Van Essen (developer) Joel (developer) and Sir Matthew Rex Downham (Graphic Designer and Media Dude). Details after the jump!
Mac VideoStories: How To Extract an Application’s Icon and Convert It to .png
Today I’m very happy to announce a new series of posts on MacStories, called “Mac VideoStories”. The VideoStories will feature video tutorials about every tweak, hack or how-to you should know about your Mac. From beginners stuff to advanced tricks, both long and brief videos, I’ll try to cover every possible thing that will come in my mind.
Let’s start with the first screencast, a tutorial that shows how you can easily extract an application’s icon and convert it to a universal .png file.
Enjoy!