Following my Read it Later review a few days ago, I wanted to know who was behind this amazing idea. Nate Weiner from Idea Shower, was kind enough to share some thoughts with MacStories.
Here’s our interview.
An interview with Read it Later Developer Nate Weiner
Read it Later for iPhone. Reviewed.
It’s not a secret that there’s so much interesting stuff on the web that you just can’t read it in one afternoon. Or in a whole day. Tutorials, reviews, previews, there’s a lot of pages I would like to read just as I discover them..but I can’t.
And that’s the main concept behind Read it Later: save your pages for future reading sessions keeping them easily accessible too. So, with just one click on the “Read it Later” button, you’ll be able to check that page again whenever / wherever you’d like. Here’s my review of Read it Later Pro for iPhone.
Flux 2: Web Design Rebooted. Reviewed.
If you have a Mac and you’re a web designer / blogger, it’s very likely that you’ve heard of RapidWeaver: it’s one of the most famous WYSIWYG editor around, it has a lot of features and a great support by RealMac Software. While many Mac users still use Apple’s iWeb and just feel comfortable with it, RapidWeaver’s slowly becoming popular, thanks to its simplicity and great UI.
Anyway, I would like to share my thoughts about Flux, a great alternative to RapidWeaver which I found in my “late night Mac apps discovering” sessions.
Here’s my review.
25 Best Bookmarklets for Firefox, Safari and Opera
Bookmarklets are small javascript scripts that can be saved as in a normal bookmark, you just have to drag & drop them in the bookmarks toolbar, either if you use Safari, Firefox or Opera.
Here’s a list of top 25 bookmarklets I found really,really useful.
Just drag them to your toolbar to start using them!
Daylite: the ultimate Mac app for your productivity
The first time I tried Daylite.app for Mac it seemed too complex to me: I thought that it was surely very useful for teams of 20-30 people and more, but to me, a single blogger without any sort of team, it was just too stuff in one single window. Then, one of my Twitter followers said ”What? You don’t use Daylite? Go try it!” and I decided that it should get another chance.
It was worth of it.
Daylite is a business productivity manager designed to help you manage you business, either if you are a single or a team. It has got features like Projects, Calendars, Tasks, Notes and Contacts: basically, everything you would ever need to organize your business “the Mac way”.
Stainless browser: want Google Chrome on Mac?
Google Chrome, what a great browser. Fast, simple, sleek interface: you could say it’s a Mac app. Unfortunately, Google Chrome is available only on Windows and we should be able to get the Mac version this fall.
But there’s still a chance to have Google Chrome run under Leopard, and it’s not Chromium. Have you ever heard of Stainless?
How To: Replace your Leopard default login background
Have you ever wanted to replace your default login background image?
If yes, here’s the solution: you can either do it manually, via apps or with terminal commands.
The New iPhone: 20+ Mockups and Concepts
There’s a lot of speculating around the upcoming iPhone, due to be officially announced at the WWDC in a few days.
Many people created during these last months a lot of mockups about the “3 Gen iPhone”, let’s see them together:
Get Rid of Context Menu: Drag & DropZones Brings Gestures to Firefox
There’s no doubt that gestures-based navigation is a great feature: instead of right-clicks and context menus you can simply move around your mouse/fingers to perform actions.
Thanks to Apple’s multi-touch trackpad and some nice Firefox add-ons, gestures are slowly becoming mainstream: amongst many of those Firefox add-ons I want to talk about Drag & DropZones.