Mailplane Contest Winners

Thanks for all the comments to the Mailplane giveaway!

It was difficult, but I’ve chosen three comments:

  • D3V4
  • David Lee
  • Jake

Congratulations, you should find the coupon code for a single Mailplane license in your inbox ;)
A big thank you goes out to Mailplane for sponsoring the contest.

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Roundup: 15 App Store Sales Tracking Apps, Utilities and Services

The AppStore changed Digital Delivery world: while the AppStore is a great service to consumers (daily releases, updates) it represents a huge source of revenue as well for small/big  developers.

So, let’s focus on developers: how can they organize their iTunes Connect sales reports? Is there a software which helps tracking app sales? Sure, more than one indeed.

In this roundup I’ve collected 15 of the best softwares to manage iTunes Connect data. If you know more, I’d love to hear about it in the comments.

Enjoy!

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Testing things

Luc Vandal:

You see, we independent developers rarely get any positive feedback. A lot of it is composed of bad reviews (that are actually support or feature requests) with the occasional pat on the back. I’m also a consumer and, like most of you, I rarely take the time to write a review for apps I use daily. I’m also guilty of leaving bad reviews that may not have been deserved or didn’t bother to contact the developer first. With over one million apps on the App Store, it’s getting harder and harder to have your app stand out in such a crowded market.

This is a good idea. Most people don’t know how positive ratings and reviews can help in the App Store. The fact that users tend to publicly point out the things they don’t like rather than describe the ones they enjoy doesn’t help either. If apps make your personal life or work even just a little better every day, consider using 10 minutes of your time to rate them on the App Store. If you have more detailed feedback or feature requests, send an email to the developers directly. I know what I’m doing tonight. So good.

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Win a Copy of Mailplane

MacStories 1st Giveaway Contest:

Thanks to Ruben Bakker from Mailplaneapp.com, I’m giving away three coupon codes of
Mailplane, the tool that “brings Gmail to your Mac Desktop” and allows you to access Gmail directly from your dock. They are worth $24.95 each,a single user license.

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 Released

Apple has just released 10.5.7 update for Leopard, available through Software Update.

Among many fixes, DFU iPhone compatibility issues have been fixed and it works fine now. A new build of Safari 3 is available as well, together with iPhone 3.0 notes sync.


Launch Mac Applications with Firefox: Quickfire

A little update  to talk about a recently released mac-only extension for mozilla’s browser: Quickfire.

Quickfire can launch any application directly from Firefox : simply start typing the first letters in the address bar to get the results from / Applications folder, press Enter and start the application.

QuickFire Mac Firefox Extension

QuickFire Mac Firefox Extension

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Firefox Bookmarks: How Do You Use Them?

I took inspiration from a post on Planet Ubiquity (http://tinyurl.com/9tten8) to discuss a very important issue of our browsers: bookmarks.
Surely you all know what they are, you can call them Favorites, but in the end they are always bookmarks.

As Dicarlo asked ,do we still need bookmarks? Or are they an unnecessary thing of the past, when the Web was still “new“?
Well, I think he‘s right: bookmarks are too Web 1.0.

At least as we have known them until today.
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