Editing Video On Your iPhone? There’s Even An App For That.

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“ReelDirector can’t do everything, mainly due to limits imposed by Apple’s iPhone SDK. The biggest among them is the inability to use your iPod music for background sound. The best workaround so far is to record your music through the iPhone’s microphone.

While ReelDirector is probably best compared to iMovie rather than Final Cut Pro, the ability to edit quick videos and share them with loved ones without ever touching a computer is still quite remarkable.”


Quite remarkable, but still limited. Seriously Apple, what’s the problem with background music?

TimeTracker Winners Announced

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Extract Addresses and Send Multilple Messages with Mail-Grab

Apple’s Mail is a great piece of software: sure, it has some minor flaws and compatibility issues, but overall there’s no mail client better than Mail.app on Mac OS X. I’ve tried many, like Postbox and Thunderbird, but I couldn’t just get the right feeling while using them. There are only two additional applications I use everyday for mail management: Mailplane for my Gmail accounts and Notify as quick menubar notifier.

Guess what, I think I’ve just discovered another great addition to Mail: Mail-Grab.

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App Rejections

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“There are now approximately 100,000 iPhone applications available on the App Store. Apple has a secret, undocumented, unquestionable, semi-random process for deciding which applications to “allow” onto the deck.

This site aims to document and share all known examples of what is actually rejected”

Great website about a very common problem.


Squish: Here Comes The Best URL Shortener for Mac

Seems like I just can’t enough of desktop URLs shorteners: Andy wrote an Applescript for that (hem) and I reviewed Shrinker, a simple app that handles the whole process of shortening urls with various online services like bit.ly and tr.im. So, I was re-organising my bookmarks today (you know, minimalism) and I stumbled upon this neat application which was lying there in my toolbar: Squish.

And I was like: “Omg”.

Find out why.

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50+ Beautifully Designed Mac Apps Icons for Your Inspiration

“Aqua offers a photo-illustrative icon style—it approaches the realism of photography but uses the features of illustrations to convey a lot of information in a small space. Icons can be represented in 512 x 512 pixels to allow ample room for detail. Anti-aliasing makes curves and nonrectilinear lines possible. Alpha channels and translucency allow for complex shading and dimensionality. All of these qualities allow you to create lush, vibrant icons that capture the user’s attention.”

That’s what Apple says in the Human Interface Guidelines document about icons. Icons are a great way to convey information about the application you’re using and give you some eye-candy at the same time. In this roundup I’ve collected 50+ of the most beautiful, well-designed icons of 3rd party apps for Mac OS X. Do you know more? Feel free to share them in the comments.

Enjoy! ;)

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