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”.
Remember the IKEA Tablet App? They’ve got Guinness World Record Now
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:
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First Leaked Images of the Apple Tablet
“We have received more photographs from a source claiming that they are of the glass that will be used for Apple’s as-yet unannounced tablet. This time, however, we get a little scale in the image, and that scale shows the glass to be large enough for a 10” device.”
Fake? Yes. I don’t believe there will be a home button at all.
I wonder who’s this MacObserver trustable source.
Schoolhouse, the Mac App for College Students. Reviewed.
The Mac platform is blessed with tons of excellent productivity tools, outliners, and task managers. Despite this, the majority of these apps have been founded on the GTD philosophy, and while that’s not necessarily a bad thing, I’ve always wanted a separate application for managing tasks that specifically relate to school. You could certainly do this in an application like Things or The Hit List, but it can get quite messy since you’d have to create tags for classes, then you have to manage assignments alongside your business stuffs, and you just get bogged down in everything rather than the schoolwork you want to focus on.
Enter Schoolhouse, an application dedicated to providing you with the management tools needed to stay on task and get those assignments turned in on time. It also features an incredibly smart grading tool that can calculate weighted and unweighted grades, which is an amazing time saver compared to doing it by hand on the Ti-83.
Keep on reading to find out what makes this app one of my favorites.
iPhone OS 4.0 Features Leaked
Seems like the features of the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 were revealed to BGR.
“There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone)
“A few new ways” to run applications in the background — multitasking.
Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven’t had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.
The update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will “put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers” more than any other phone to date. Everyone is “really excited.”
The last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.”
True or not, we should expect some big changes from the new firmware.
Some Things for Mac, Some Things for iPhone. Reviewed.
There’s an interesting paradox floating around the Mac OS X scene: there are a lot of interesting apps to manage tasks and make your to-do workflow easier, but most of these apps are difficult to manage. What a nice situation: getting things done with an application that requires 2 minutes just to set up a new task. And trust me: it’s full of apps like these out there. Now, the situation isn’t that tragic fortunately: it’s also true that there are many excellent apps, both for Mac and yes, the iPhone.
Today I’d like to talk about what’s in my opinion the best to-do management and task organizer app currently available for Mac and iPhone: Things. I’ll explain how I’ve set it up in order to manage MacStories’ activities and scheduled tasks and how I made it work as a team project management app as well.