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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.
This is interesting.There are numerous references to new features coming up in a later version of iPhone OS including image capture input devices as well as “wildcat”. We are yet unsure to what wildcat actually is. However there are several references throughout the beta 3.2 OS.
Here are some new API methods and preference list keys that mention wildcat:
”+(id)[SBDeviceLockKeypadWildcat keypadImage]” “[[UIDevice currentDevice] isWildcat];”
“SBDeviceLockViewWithKeyboardWildcat”
After our sources investigated properly they found that there are very strong hints about a cellphone device with sms and mms running the iPad OS.
Is this the “wildcat”?
Should I say it’s beautiful?
“You’re not gonna read for 10 hours!”
While I first passed it off as a gimmick, My Living Desktop is one of those applications that you just have to see for yourself before passing judgement. It’s interesting to note that while it doesn’t promise to increase your productivity (or really anything for that matter), those looking to transport themselves to another world during work or play might find this application of great use.
“The screen size is a huge difference. Try browsing the Web on the iPhone. Works well but you have to keep zooming in and out. You’ll need to zoom on the iPad, but not as much — you’ll see a lot more of the page which will make a big difference to the browsing experience. Same thing with photos, and videos, and pretty much everything else. While the iPhone is mainly a phone that does more, the iPad is a fully functional information consumption device. The fact that it uses the iPhone’s OS is also irrelevant because the OS in question is suited perfectly for what the product is intended to do. Instead of looking at the iPad as a big iPod Touch, you should look at it in isolation and ask: is this a good tablet device? The answer is: yes.”
