There’s been a lot of buzz around Apple’s new products: as soon as the Apple Store went down today, rumors began spreading around the web about new iMacs, new MacBooks and a new Mighty Mouse.
Finally, we have the confirmation.
Apple Unveils New iMacs, Magic Mouse, Redesigned MacBook and a Faster Mac Mini. My Thoughts.
Insipiration: 60 Awesome Mac Apps Websites
Usually, a great Mac app has always an outstanding design. This happens beacuse the Mac platform is highly focused on providing a better user experience than other OSes and a good design is very important to acheive this. But, if you’re an app developer, you have to tell users that your app is great in the first place. And the first place is the application’s website.
Here I’ve collected 60 awesome Mac apps websites for your inspiration. If you know more, I’d love to hear about that in the comments.
Enjoy! ;)
Giveaway: Win 10 Copies of Measures for iPhone [UPDATED]
So, you thought that giveaways ended with the #macfestival?
You were wrong.
Today, thanks to Neuwert Media I’m very pleased to announce that MacStories is giving away 10 promo codes of Measures for iPhone (which I previously reviewed here). Measures is an excellent units converter application with many features and a cool interface.
Details after the jump!
Resources Roundup: 25 Links to the Best AppleScripts Tutorials and Examples
If you’re an “advanced” Mac user, it’s very likely that you daily use AppleScrips to speed up your workflow. If you haven’t ever heard of AppleScripts, this post is for you.
AppleScript is the language of automation: you can let the script perform boring tasks in your place and forget about it. Put simply: you find yourself searching terms on Wikipedia everyday by manually opening each time en.wikipedia.org? There’s an AppleScript for that. You’d like to mark as read all your Mail.app messages? There’s an AppleScript for that.
The problem is, you need to actually know the AppleScript language to write a script.
Here, I’ve collected the best link that the web offers about this topic with examples and tutorials.
Enjoy! :)
Waveboard Brings Google Wave to Your Mac Desktop
I was reading my morning feeds when I stumbled upon this new application: Waveboard.
As the name suggests, Waveboard is a Google Wave desktop client for Mac, still in beta.
Roundup: 7 Delicious Mac Apps to Manage Your Bookmarks
I’m a heavy user of Delicious.com: I think it’s the best way to store online all my bookmarks. Also, the tagging system works good (except for some problems we should see fixed very soon: yes batch removing, I’m looking at you) and provides an excellent to sort out hundreds of saved web pages. Then, the interface is cute and so web 2.0.
But, as MacStories readers, you know that I love to find applications which allow me to use my favourite online services from the desktop.
Here, I’ve collected 7 Delicious desktop clients / utilities for Mac.
Enjoy! ;)
#macfestival Single Licenses Winners Announced: 2nd Part
Here we are guys, the final names of the winners.
I would really like to thank you for the support and patience you showed to me, organizing this Festival has been a great experience. But next year, things will be even bigger.
Thank you!
Orbit Brings Exposè and Spaces to the iPhone. Review.
If there one thing I love about my Mac (beside the OS) that’s without doubt Exposè. It allows me to easily switch between all my open apps and, if combined with another great feature such as Spaces, it just becomes a killer app for your workflow.
Now, I always dreamt to have such a feature on my iPhone but - strangely - Apple never built it. And here comes Steve Troughton Smith with Orbit.
30 Web Apps You Should Turn into Mac Apps with Fluid
We’re surrounded by web apps. That’s a given. Since the beginning of the web 2.0 era, we started collecting logins, passwords, subscriptions..I mean, who on earth hasn’t ever heard of Gmail? My dad (yeah, I always choose him as my example) has a Gmail account.
But, there’s a problem: have you realized how much visual space do all these web apps steal from your browser window? I tell you: a lot. Mail + Facebook + Google Reader + Digg + Last.fm (pretty popular services almost everyone uses) are 5 open tabs in your browser. And if you have an horizontal tabs layout, you know that five tabs are too much.
But remember, we are Mac users, couldn’t there be a solution? Sure!
If you daily use a lot of web apps, Fluid.app will make your lives easier. With Fluid you can create SSB, Site Specific Browsers.
Put simply, you can turn a webapp into a desktop application that will run into your dock.