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, 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:
Default Video Recording on Tap;
MMS;
Geotagging;
Available at $1.99 via the BigBoss repository, I highly recommend this.
“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.
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!
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!
“According to 148Apps’ App Store metrics, not only the delay is slowly reducing, but it reached a new low this November. Having an app approved in November took only 4 days on average and that is with 376 apps per day being submitted.”
I guess Apple has read some blogs this year.
If you’ve been wondering why I chose to redesign MacStories a few months ago, that’s because I wanted my blog to look (of course) better but most of all, I wanted it to look like my real desk. A pencil, papers all around, a mouse, some coffee. I should have added even more coffee maybe, but still. Anyway, I stumbled upon this little nice application called “My Desk”, which basically puts a virtual wooden desk on your iPhone, with the addition of some features like Twitter and to-do management. Is it really good?
Find out after the jump.
Nice script.
Reportage is an awesome and unique Twitter client for iPhone which takes a brand new approach to mobile tweeting. As I wrote in my review back in November “Reportage rather than give you a list of unread Twitter updates, lets you “listen” to your Twitter followers as if they were radio stations” and “It’s different from any Twitter client you’ve tried, has a stunning UI (that kind of UI I wish Tweetie 2 will have someday) and it’s smooth”.
The application has just been updated to the long awaited 1.5 version, which brings many new interesting stuff: built-in browser, Instapaper support, old style / new style retweets, geolocation and many refinements and bug fixes. Also, it’s priced $1.99 now!
WhereCloud gave me 5 promo codes to giveaway to celebrate the 1.5 update. Details after the jump!
