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!
Yesterday I reviewed PodTweet, a cool and nice application by Cardboard Software which lets you tweet the song you’re listening to on your iPod Touch or iPhone. It has one and only feature, but it surely gets the job done. Could this process of sharing music on Twitter be better developed? It surely can.
Meet Stage, a recently released iPhone app which combines this social networking music thing with a stunning and delicious user interface.
There’s a lot of buzz going on about the tablet Apple should announce in a matter of a few days. You know, every blog that I know has posted at least an article about it, so I decided to share my thoughts as well.
I believe that the tablet will be announced, and that it won’t be called Apple Tablet, iSlate, Macbook Touch, iPhone XL or whatever fake name you can think of. Now, this is not a post where I discuss specs, nor I will share my thoughts about prices, controlled leaks and other people’s opinion.
I want to focus on apps, and how I believe Apple is going to collaborate with 3rd party developers. Just like if it’s day one again.
When a developer or a designer contacts me on iChat asking me to talk about his upcoming application, it’s usually a good thing. But when the application seems as promising as Walkie Talkie 3000 does, well..that’s great.
Walkie Talkie 3000 is currently being developed by Jonah Grant and designed by my friend Matthew Rex Downham.
Ok, don’t get me wrong: everyone knows that you can take a screenshot of what’s happening on your iPhone by simply holding Power + Home. I wanted to talk about something different: what if you’re a developer / designer or even a blogger, and you want to insert some great iPhone screenshots on your webpage? Yeah, those screens with a standing iPhone showing the application in context, like this one. Ever wondered how you can actually achieve a similar result? I did. And I’ve come up with two easy and nice solutions I wanted to share with you, hoping to help you out with your next project or blog post.
Having your data backed up at a regular schedule is something everyone should seriously consider. Especially if you work with your Mac, you should start thinking about start using Dropbox or SugarSync, two amazing online services that allow you store up to 2 GB of stuff for free. Now, many Mac users use Dropbox to backup and save copies of “stuff that matters” like applications’ libraries or databases. For example, I’ve set up an Automator workflow that together with an iCal event daily backs up my Yojimbo database into a Dropbox folder.
But what about more complex and structured applications, like Mail.app? Mail doesn’t have a simple and linear database structure like Yojimbo does, so backing it up manually could be a little difficult. I reviewed this app called MaBuRe a while ago, but many people told me it wasn’t working for them, and the overall backup time was pretty long, even for not-so-huge mail libraries.
Today I’d like to talk about EmailBackup Pro, the ultimate application for mail backups.
I’ve been testing the private beta of the next Simplenote update for a few weeks, and I really would like to tell you what’s coming in a matter of a few days. But I can’t. Anyway, Mike and Fred from the Simplenote have been so kind to let me reveal some info about the upcoming update, which will bring a lot of new stuff, improvements and fixes. Among these things:
faster scrolling;
faster syncing.
But there’s one thing which will revolutionize the whole Simplenote experience I can’t tell you yet. Trust me, it’s gonna be great. Be sure to follow @simplenoteapp on Twitter to stay updated.
When I purchased my Macbook, I partially did it because I knew Mac OS X was the operating system of choice of many musicians. Many friends of mine kept talking about how GarageBand, Logic and ProTools were so great, stable and useful on Mac OS so, together with many other motivations, I decided to make the big switch. I couldn’t have made a better choice in my entire life, but this is my personal story. The story of every artist and band out there is that Mac OS provides a huge amount of awesome tools and apps to record songs, annotate ideas, store files and manage the whole music experience. There’s no arguing about that.
Now, what if there was a single application that combined all of these things into one, simple, powerful package? Wouldn’t it be amazing to have all your recordings, collaborators, lyrics drafts, podcasts and ideas in one application? It’s not iTunes guys.
Meet Minim 2.
Via Betalogue
“I don’t know exactly when this improvement was introduced. I don’t remember noticing it before today, and I have had crashes in Snow Leopard before, so it cannot have been in Snow Leopard itself, i.e. in Mac OS X 10.6.0. It might have been introduced in Mac OS X 10.6.1 or Mac OS X 10.6.2. I also need to experience a few more crashes in order to confirm that it does indeed happen every time.
Out of curiosity, I just made a slight change in my window setup and then option-clicked on the Finder’s Dock icon and chose “Relaunch,” and the slight change that I had just made was not preserved when the Finder was relaunched. It returned to the previous state, i.e. the state that was correctly preserved when the kernel panic happened.
As far as I can tell, using this “Relaunch” command is the equivalent of force-quitting the Finder, which should mimic what happens in the event of a crash.”
They say sometimes you have to actually notice things to appreciate them. It felt so natural I didn’t even notice it.
