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Favorite Tweets of the Week Nov 22-Nov 28, 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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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

First, thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Now, here are the winners:

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Simon

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Justin Stevens

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You’ll receive the U.S. promo code straight in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.

Anyway, stay tuned! Something huge is coming in 20 days.





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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