Get Exclusive Access to Thoughts Beta and Get the Preorder Bundle for Free

I’ve already talked about Thoughts app and the preorder bundle which will let you download 3 Mac apps for free if you preorder Thoughts now. I’ve just received an interesting mail from the developer, who told me you guys can get the chance to access the private beta and download the bundle for free if you apply as a translator for Thoughts.

Here are the conditions:

The following languages are needed:

Spanish (Español)

Swedish

Bokmal (norwegian)

Chinese (traditional prefered)

Dutch

Portuguese

Danish

Czech

Hungarian

Slovak

Greek

Finish

Ukranian

Catalan

Estonian

Arabic

Turkish

And:

Translating would be about 1 to 2 hours;

No development skills needed ( just editing files with Textedit)

Native speakers prefered

Deadline would be about the 5th January.

If you’re interested, just drop an email to dietmar[at]greenandslimy.com.

Read It Later Restyled Finally Available

After the release of Read It Later’s major update for iPhone (read my review if you missed it), the web interface went under a huge restyling too. Now the RiL platform shares the same interface between the web reading list, the iPhone app and the famous Firefox addon.

But what about the Mac? Is there an official Read It Later client for our desktops? The answer is no. But, there’s this Josh Nichols guy, who put together a userscript called “Read It Later Restyled” that brings the awesomeness of the newest update to a Fluid app near you. Just create a SSB with Fluid, download the userscript and place it into yourname/Library/Application Support/Fluid/Read It Later/Userscripts.

Read It Later Restyled

Read It Later Restyled

The result is gorgeous, and you can also download some custom icons from Josh Nichols’ website. Can’t wait to see what Instapaper Restyled creator will come up with.

Interview with Gi-Lo, Developer of iPhone Tweaks from Cydia.

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event, I had the chance to interview Gi-Lo, a developer of iPhone tweaks available in Cydia. He’s the creator of SnowCover, FiveIRows and many other stuff. Be sure to follow @EyeDevs on Twitter to stay update about what Gi-Lo and his upcoming team have in store for 2010.

This is 15th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.

Enjoy!

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jitouch 2 Released

Interesting update for jitouch (read my article if you missed it) which has reached the 2.0 version.This update brings even more gestures for web browsers,a better preference pane, more customizable actions.

You can download jitouch here.

Socialite: A Cocktail Made With Social Networks

More than a year ago, a small company called The Cosmic Machine put their first app, EventBox, in public beta. EventBox was a great app in many ways: it was a nice Twitter client and had a slew of other great services. As time passed, the developer, who was amazingly responsive, added new features, like photo upload, identi.ca, OneRiot, and Digg (which had been removed earlier). There was, however, one major problem: EventBox could only let you use one Twitter account.

The developer began to target this issue and decided that since it was such a large rewrite, he would fix some other limitations with the app as well. He rewrote the majority of the app and decided to release this second beta as MultiBox for the time being. MultiBox lacked some of the basic features such as the Unread and Flagged folders, but brought amazing stability and user interface improvements as well as multiple Twitter accounts and a bunch of other new additions.

Multibox was impressive; so much so it apparently attracted the attention of the famous Realmac Software, developers of LittleSnapper and RapidWeaver. Realmac decided to buy out EventBox and give it a new name: Socialite. The following is a review of this new app, albeit with a slight bit of longing for the old EventBox.

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WideMail for Snow Leopard Public Beta Available

This is the news many Mac users were waiting for. WideMail, the popular plugin which brings full-screen capabilities to Mail.app, is finally available as a public beta for Snow Leopard. I’ve been using Letterbox for a while now (since I needed full-screen mode but WM wasn’t available) and I’m quite satisfied with it. However, after a few tests I must admit this WM update seems really interesting and has more features than Letterbox.

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