Following my previous post about the future of Firefox, (you can find it here) I made this mockup/sketch, hope to be clear enough.
It’s the same mockup Pascal Finette covered in his blog (here) and which I’ve submitted to Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: Summer 09 (where you can find my presentation video as well)
Have you tried Wolfram Alpha? Do you think it’s absolutely amazing, but you want to search without going to the website everytime?
Here’s a small tip to search Wolfram Alpha without having to open http://www.wolframalpha.com/ nor going to Firefox search bar:
create a Ubiquity command.
For those who don’t know what Mozilla Ubiquity is, see my article here.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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There is no doubt that much of the beauty of Mac OS X lies in its simplicity: to install an app just drag it into a folder, move it to trash to uninstall it ,keep it in dock to quickly launch it.
Three simple processes that Windows users are still dreaming of.
But what happens when you have several applications on your Mac but do not want to keep all in the dock?
You need a “launcher”, a small app that could be easily and that can afford to run any application in less than 2 seconds.
We therefore talk about QuickSilver.
