When I’m sitting on the couch or lying in bed, fussing around with a keyboard and mouse can be a pain. Certainly you might have the talents to manage such contraptions on your cushions, but I don’t have the patience for it. Fortunately, I don’t need to have the patience for it, since the great folks over at Edovia have decided they were sick of it too. With their release of TouchPad, they’ve integrated three peripherals - your Apple Wireless Keyboard, your Magic Mouse, and your Apple Remote, into a single iPhone app.
TouchPad, The Magical Wireless Trackpad
Flickit Pro: The New King of Flickr Clients for iPhone. Review and Giveaway.
if you’ve been reading my tweets lately, you should know that I’ve moved back to using Realmac’s LittleSnapper as my image library organizer application. I’ve also written a huge review about it, be sure to read it if you missed it. To sum up, I basically needed an app that could help me in a) collecting my whole image library, made of desktop screenshots, website snapshots and apps screengrabs, and b) sharing it across multiple social networks. LittleSnapper supports Ember app and Flickr, but I initially decided to use Ember as my social website of choice: I purchased a Pro account, started uploading stuff, gained a bunch of followers - I’m totally happy with it. Still I was missing something. Ember is no doubt one of the websites I visit more during the day, but it’s not a great place for photographers. As I wrote in my LS review “Ember was built with Mac and iPhone users in mind”, meaning that you’ll find tons of Apple related stuff there. I mean, take a look at my profile: it pretty much sums up the whole essence of Ember. And if you consider that Ember is developed by Realmac Software, that’s perfectly reasonable.
Now, I’m not a photographer, but I’m quite into discovering beautiful shots and adding them to my favorites. Also, I sometimes take random pics with my iPhone and edit them with that amazing app called TiltShift Generator (you should check it out, seriously). So I thought, what’s better than Flickr for that? There’s nothing better than Flickr when it comes to having a large community of passionate photographers that share their shots. I made the decision in 3 days: I deleted my old account, opened a new one with a nice vanity url, uploaded my whole Ember collection (just to be sure people who don’t use Ember could enjoy it as well), started following some people I know, purchased a Pro account. I don’t want limitations of any sort for the stuff I like. Then, I realized the one thing missing from this almost bullet proof setup was an iPhone app. But I already knew which app was the best one around.
It’s called Flickit Pro, and it’s gonna make you enjoy using Flickr from your iPhone once more. With feeling.
Coversutra: You Should Love Your Music.
CoverSutra has been around for a long time. Over it’s several revisions, it’s seen some new features, and a whole lot of bug fixes. With all the revisions it’s gone through, it’s got to be one of the least-buggy applications I have ever used.
Find out why.
Too Much Hype: First Real Pictures of the iSlate
This happens when the situation gets out of control. Begeek has just posted a few photos of what they call “the iSlate”. Dude trying to phone with that thing aside, I expect the final, official tablet to be like that. It’s a clear fake, but I have to say it’s nice nonetheless.
But anyway, I seriously laughed. Enjoy.
Tablet Has Two Dock Connectors, Aluminum Backplate, Optional Wireless Plan
“The tablet with have two dock connectors, one on the bottom edge, the other on the side for charging/docking in both portrait and landscape mode.”
The situation is getting out of control. Tomorrow someone will say the tablet will ship with some fingers included in the package.
Billings: The Only Boss a Freelancer Would Ever Need.
It’s not a secret that many web designers and developers out there are on a Mac platform. Especially in 2009, it seems like many professionals and freelancers have switched from Windows to Mac OS X in order to have better performances, security and, most of all, more time to do stuff. They wanted to save time, they wanted to avoid those virus and malware crappy things Windows has - for this reason many people did the “big” switch and bought a Mac. You can’t blame them: with tools such as Coda, Textmate, Textexpander and the famous Pixelmator, they had every good reason to switch to a Mac computer. Now, besides web development and graphic applications, what about the software that can help managing the financial and invoicing aspect of a freelancing job?
Today I’d like to talk about Billings from Marketcircle, an award winning app for Mac and iPhone which is gonna be your one step solution for anything freelancing related.
Too Many Ideas? You Need Some Action Method.
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.)
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.