The Action Method is a task-management system provided by the company Behance that’s available to use through the web, an iPhone application, and print products. Since more and more people turn to such products to keep track of their tasks and projects, it’s time to take a look at this system as an alternative to other project management software like Basecamp and Active Collab. (disclaimer: As with all PM systems, the Action Method is robust and complex. This review touches on the surface, so check out the free demo to see all it has to offer.)
Too Many Ideas? You Need Some Action Method.
Hyperspaces Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Cocoabots team for giving us these 10 licenses to give away.
Now, here are the winners:
Dodie
Fabrizio Lodi
Rossella
Leoben Conoy
Foobar
Marc Salmon
Sayam Aggarwal
Nikola
Radada
DotSlashSlash
You’ll receive the license straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!
Generate and Manage Strong Passwords with uP@ssw0rdz! for iPhone
If you’re quite into the Mac and iPhone software scene you should probably know that there’s one application that everybody loves when it comes to passwords management: that’s 1Password by Agileweb Solutions. I reviewed 1Password 3 a while ago, and things just haven’t changed as I’m still using 1Password and its database it’s growing bigger and bigger everyday. I guess I just couldn’t work without at this point. 1Password is great because it offers a lot of features packed in a well designed and gorgeous interface, yet doesn’t overwhelm the user with weird commands and submenus. You can automatically save logins, save credit card details in the wallet, store apps licenses and generate passwords.
Now, I’ve stumbled upon this application called uP@ssw0rdz! which, icon and name aside, could really come in handy to those people who don’t need the multiple features of 1Password and just need a simple, dictionary based password generator and manager.
VideoStories: MercuryMover, the Keyboard Enthusiasts Shortcut to Window Management
As a part of our recently launched VideoStories series, here’s a video review of MercuryMover, a neat app that brings keyboard shortcuts to your Mac windows. You should check it out.
Just as you should follow Cody on Twitter.
Enjoy!
MercuryMover from Federico Viticci on Vimeo.
Remember the IKEA Tablet App? They’ve got Guinness World Record Now
Here’s a new video from the same guys who posted a video of a concept of the Tablet running an IKEA app (you can find it here). This time the prototype runs a Guinnes World Record app. Still hard to believe but again, they do believe what they’re showing us it’s real and “confidential”.
Leaked iSlate: Here’s the Video
Following this morning pictures of the rumored Apple upcoming Tablet, here’s a video I found on Youtube a few minutes ago. I still think it’s a fake, but at least the guys seem to really believe in it.
Win a Copy of Snowtape
The Vemedio guys gave me 2 Snowtape licenses to give away to MacStories readers. In case you missed it, be sure to read our Snowtape’s review here.
Entering the contest is simple. All you have to do is:
- Follow me on Twitter (@storiesofmac) and tweet this message: “Win a Copy of Snowtape for Mac on MacStories http://ow.ly/YJe8 @storiesofmac”
and
- Go download the app, then leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win a license. Be sure to include a link to your tweet.
I’ll pick up the winners on Sunday, January 24th.
Good luck!
It Could Be a Mac App: MobileMe, the Real Cloud from Apple.
The Web 2.0 era saw the consolidation of 3 different kinds of website: social websites (which include communication tools like Twitter and bigger networks like Facebook), collaborational websites (Google Docs, Wave) and online backup solutions. Not exactly a “websites”, when people started browsing more and basically doing more stuff with their computers, the need of a virtual, remote yet secure backup solution seemed pretty much obvious. I mentioned many times what I think it’s the best app to effortlessly store up to 2GB of data for free, Dropbox, and I’ve also written a post about 40 creative uses of Dropbox. That post basically talked about many different ways of using Dropbox not only to store simple backups of files and folders, but how you can use it to synchronize applications libraries and, for example, browser bookmarks across multiple Macs. But wouldn’t it be great to have a built-in, Apple -like solution to do that instead of setting up a lot of little tricks and hacks?
As a second post for the “It could be a Mac app” series today I’ll talk about MobileMe: I’ll take a look at the pros and cons of Apple’s web interface for its sync & backup tool, the actual usability of the webapp and why you should even consider of making a Fluid app out of it.
Synotes and Syncopy Winners Announced
Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Syncode team for giving us these 10 promo codes to give away.
Now, here are the winners:
Syncopy:
Christohper Misiano
dapper
pattulus
mangochutney
Mac
Synotes:
Brooke
Beholdthis
leesui
Bastian Kirschner
Gernot
You’ll receive the promo code straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.
Cheers!