Clever miniMail Plugin For Mail.app Re-Released

HawkWings Link

“miniMail 2.0 retains all the goodness of the original–the ability to minimize Mail.app’s interface like you can in iTunes–but adds more features and flexibility.

The minimised interface is elegant and efficient, as you would expect from the developer of MailTags.

It is also fully integrated with Mail Act-on, allowing you to use the same keystrokes to file messages away quickly.”

Seems very interesting, though I’d like to see how it compares to Herald (which is compatible with 10.6.2, don’t worry).

Manage Flickr from Your Mac Desktop with Flickery. Review and Giveaway!

There are many applications both on Mas and iPhone which let you manage your Flickr account without accessing the web interface. Because you know, I don’t like Flickr web app so much: sure, it’s better than Facebook and Twitter, but compared to any good Mac application, it doesn’t make it. But I think this is common problem to many webapps out there.

Anyway, I’ve been wondering for months whether there was a Mac app to entirely manage my Flickr account from my desktop. Then, I met Flickery.

In this article I will outline the great features Flickery has, and how it could become one of your favorite Mac apps.

And guess what, we even got 5 copies to give away.

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7 Great Ways to Discover New Mac Applications

Everyone is always looking for new, better applications. I think that’s a given. At least, every Mac / Pc / Whatever passionate I’ve met in my life was always open to suggestions regarding new, noteworthy applications.

Now, that of discovering and testing new Mac apps is a hard subject. I mean, since Apple opened up the AppStore, many things have changed: people are most likely to be given new apps (you know, the AppStore, Genius, “People also bought”) rather than spend 4 hours looking for some new solutions. Then, there’s the “indie” software problem: sometimes an indipedent developer can’t do big advertising campaigns, for this reason his app will remain unknown and only the “elitè” will use it. By elitè I mean nerds.

Anyway, I think there’s still a few number of users / nerds / call them how you want it who actually spend hours looking for the next big thing. Or there wouldn’t be indie Mac apps anymore.

Which are the best places to find new stuff? Keep on reading guys.

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Discover and Track iPhone Apps with App Popular

As you can guess, I’m an heavy user of the AppStore: I love to discover new released apps, read the changelog of every app that gets an update, share apps with my friends. But, the AppStore is not perfect: many bloggers wrote about the problems the Store has but the biggest, in my opinion, lies in the core itself: discover new apps is difficult.

With more than 100.000 apps available and the new rules Apple rolled out last week, it’s become impossible to find fresh and interesting apps. Seems like only top grossing apps get to the front page.

Anyway, I think a solution to this has just been released. And it’s called App Popular.

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Favourite Tweets of the Week Nov 1-Nov 7, 2009

I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.

To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.

You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.

Enjoy!

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