The developers of Birdhouse specifically state that it’s not for looking at your friends Twitter updates. So what does it do?
Well, Birdhouse is a “drafts manager” for your tweets. It’s supposed to be used as a notepad for whenever you get an awesome thought in your head that might go away. Although Birdhouse only does one simple task, it does it very well. Keep on reading to find out why.
Spark, a new application for Mac OS X I had the chance to beta test, was finally released tonight. Here is the official (and cute!) website.
Spark is a very lightweight notes taking / to-do list app, which you could decide to either run in the dock or in the menubar. The interface is very nice and straightforward: you can add tasks, attach notes to them and organize tasks in bigger projects. Another great features is the iCal syncing: everytime a Spark task changes, so it does in iCal. Cool.
Spark is a freeware, it has a clean and well-designed UI and it could become the ultimate solution for those who are looking for a simple, uncluttered to-do manager app for Mac.
As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses) I had the chance to interview Brian Hoff, graphic / web designer and blogger who runs two amazing websites: The Design Cubicle and BrianHoff.net.
This is 10th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
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I never used a mail client other than Mail.app on Mac OS for my IMAP account. Thunderbird is slow and buggy and Postbox feels too much like a Windows app, though it could be nice if just the devs would refine the UI. On the other hand, Mail.app is powerful. From mailboxes to rules and plugins (just to name a few, Letterbox, Mail Act-on and MailTags) Mail gets its job done with a huge set of awesome features, speed and stability. But there’s another market on Mac OS X, that of mail notifiers: they usually sit up in the menubar and provide an easy and minimal to way to instantly check for new mails. Now, what if we merge these two kinds of applications, creating both a minimal, lightweight mail notifier and client?That’s exactly what Notify 2 is.
As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 540 Mac and iPhone apps licenses) I had the chance to interview Everaldo Coelho, a graphic and icon designer from Brazil.
This is 9th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
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As soon as I heard my friend Matthew Rex was working on a Mac application together with Tim Davies (I interviewed both of them on MacStories, here and here) I started wondering how awesome that app could have been. Then, I heard it was called Stacky and it was about a new way of managing Mac OS X stacks. So I seriously got excited and immediately shot a mail to Matthew asking him to answer some questions about Stacky, Stacks and other random stuff of Mac development and his 2009 achievements.
He was kind enough to reply with great responses and some cool hints at what Stacky might look like. Also, remember to follow Stacky and its creators on Twitte: @stackyapp, @matthewrex and @tmdvs.
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Interesting update for Twittelator Pro, which I reviewed a while ago. Here are some of the most important new features:
App has landscape support everywhere;
You can tweet your currently playing song;
Threaded DMs;
Dropdown to refresh tweets (like Tweetie 2);
More efficient image caching;
Find people by their full name;
Many other improvements and fixes.
Surely it’s one of the most complete Twitter clients out there, though the interface is not as elegant and sexy as Tweetie’s one.
Twittelator Pro is available at $4.99 in the App Store.
[This article was written by Raj Ramamurthy. You can check out his personal website here.]
For a long time, Panic’s Coda has been the best, in both functionality and fashion, application for all in one website editing on the Mac.
MacRabbit, a software development company well known for it’s ADA winning CSSEdit, released their competitor to Coda that is putting some heat on the number one: Espresso.
Appropriately named the “Coda killer”, Espresso packs a real punch.
As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I had the chance to interview Micheal Martin, the editor of ProBlogDesign. Michael is a designer and blogger but unlike many designers I’ve recently interviewed he’s using Windows. What came out was a uber-interesting interview, with awesome responses that will give you a good insight into the blogging / designing scene on Windows.
This is the 8th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.
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