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It happens almost everyday to me: I have the fridge full of many different food but I just don’t know what to cook for lunch. Should I cook some pasta with those beans or just a quick salad? Fortunately, my girlfriens has always some great ideas, but now I can say that there’s an app for that. Yes, Cookmate, which was finally accepted by Apple yesterday, lets you easily decide what to cook - with style.
And we also have a bunch of promo codes to give away.
Paul Westerberg, lead singer of The Replacements, used to sing “And everybody wants to be special here..They call your name out loud and clear.Here comes a regular, am I the only one here today?” in that mid-80s song, Here Comes a Regular. I believe this song pretty much describes the situation of to-do and notes taking applications available in the App Store: everybody wants to be special, yet a very few developers clearly admit that they have just “regular” apps. I mean, there are kinda 2000 notes / todo apps out there, and everybody says their app is the “most complete manager whatever bla bla bla”.
Sure.
But this is a different story. I had to write this review many months ago, but for one reason or another I never found the time to sit down and write it. I’m talking about AwesomeNote, of the most popular productivity apps of the App Store, which has been updated to 2.5 version,update that truly makes it the best GTD and note taking application ever made for the iPhone.
Find out why.
“In benchmark tests run by Computerworld, Apple’s Safari browser claimed the top spot over Firefox, Opera, and Chrome. Google released a beta build of Chrome to the public on Tuesday.
The results showed that Safari slightly edged out Chrome, was nearly twice as fast as Firefox, and over ten times faster than Opera.
Computerworld’s method of testing used the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark suite. The test was run three times for each browser in OS X 10.6 and the numbers were averaged.
According to November numbers by Net Applications, Internet Explorer commands 63.62 percent of the total browser market, followed by Firefox with 24.72, Safari with 4.36 percent, 3.93 percent for Chrome, and 2.31 percent for Opera.”
Ok, you’re fast Safari. But will you ever stop beachballing every 10 minutes or so?
Free in the AppStore (iTunes Link) is basically a mobile, full featured version of imdb.com.
Which is a good thing.
HootSuite has just announced the release of HootSuite for iPhone, which should be available tomorrow in the AppStore. They also posted a video of HootSuite mobile in action and, truth be told, I’m really impressed so far. They included most everything the web service has, like statistics and Twitter lists. But there’s so much more inside this application, watch the video below.
Now, I think HootSuite could become the perfect companion to Tweetie 2 on my iPhone. If you have a blog, or you manage your brand, be sure to check out this HootSuite thing.
Expect a detailed review as soon as it’s available.
A long an interesting read from Betanews. Here’s an excerpt:
“Apple is David to Microsoft Goliath – and other ones, too. Goliath plays by one set of rules. David choses to change the rules, which favor his strengths rather than those of Goliath.
David Thinking is most provocative and surprising when Goliath acts like David. After all, David sometimes becomes Goliath; Apple is a giant in music with iPod and iTunes Music Store. But David turned Goliath also risks making mistakes that would allow another upstart advantage. Today, Apple is both David and Goliath, depending on market.”
It doesn’t happen everyday to review original and creative applications like AirLock. Moreover, it’s very unusual to find an application that installs itself as a preference pane but works together with your iPhone though it doesn’t exactly require an additional iPhone app.
What am I talking about? It’s called AirLock, and I think you’re gonna love this.
If you’re a freelancer, it’s very likely that you need to keep track of your finances. You have to track expenses, choose a budget every month, check where does your income come from or where and how you spend more money.
Today I’d like to talk about MoneyBook, an iPhone application by NoIdentity which does all of this with a stunning user interface.
Here’s a great utility for all you Mac users out there who use Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird. MaBuRe (ok, let’s not talk about the name..or the icon) is a lightweight, free app for Mac which can backup and restore your mails in a single click.
The main (and only) window is a HUD panel which lets you backup and restore your Mail / Thunderbird database. The messages will be archived in a .zip file in your desktop.
The developer said on MacThemes forum it will soon implement the possibility to schedule backups for the next release.
Nice app!
