Bohemian Coding is well known for pushing beautiful pixels and releasing great software, both for Mac and iOS. Fontcase is one of the best font management tools for the desktop. Review app, which Raj reviewed here, is turning out to be one of the most useful for designers and developers. Sketchpad was one of the first vector drawing apps to come out on the iPad months ago, and it’s still doing great in the charts. Pieter Omvlee, Bohemian Coding designer and dev, knows how to make great apps. Read more
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Sneak Peek: Sketch, Vector Drawing App by Bohemian Coding
Want iTunes 9 Look Back? There’s A Mod For That.
I haven’t covered OS X graphical mods here on MacStories for a long time, but this one’s good. It didn’t take long: if you hate iTunes 10’s new UI or you simply want the old colorful iTunes back, give a try to Damien Erambert’s iTunes 109.
The download comes with an easy to setup installer package which lets you choose if you want to change the entire application UI or just the sidebar icons. You can also get rid of those odd vertical buttons and change the application icon. I applied the mod on my new iMac, and it worked perfectly. Take a look at the screenshots below, and go download the mod here.
Courier App: Share Files To Your Favorite Services. Reviewed.
In the past I reviewed many applications for Mac to upload and share files on the internet. Applications such as Droplr, Cloud or Fileshuttle allow you to quickly select files (or URLs) on your desktop and upload them to remote servers (in Fileshuttle’s case, even your own server) to share a short link with your friends or colleagues later. Those are handy apps that help you saving a lot of time when you need to upload any kind of file. Cloud App is very popular among Mac users, and it’s been running on my Mac for a quite a while, too.
But Courier is different. It’s not an application that lets you quickly upload files to third-party services, it’s a great-looking tool that allows you to send files to popular services you’re already subscribed to like Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook and Flickr. It looks beautiful, it works great. It’s the new application from Realmac Software.
Here’s my review.
OS X Releases Of The Day: Billings Pro, Today 2.5
Today, the app from Secondgear Software I reviewed a while ago here, has been updated to version 2.5. The latest version introduces much better support for event and task creation: you can now set a default calendar for all your new events as well as create daily, weekly, mothly or yearly recurring events.
iPliz for Mac Controls your Files via Email
It’s always best to have a backup plan. It’s one of those days; you woke up on the wrong side of the bed, you’re late for class, and in the process of scrambling to hike the mile across campus, you forgot to save a copy of your report to your netbook. Just imagine for a minute how bad this actually is: you forget to save a file in Dropbox, stuff your thumb drive into your backpack, or even email yourself a copy of that fifty five page college thesis all at the same time. That report amounts to 50% of your grade, and you can’t return to your dorm out without being late to only the most important session of the semester. So what do you do?
Most people would panic, but being the Mac savvy connoisseur that you are, you pull out that fancy netbook of yours and email yourself with the name of your report. In seconds, you’re sending commands between your email client and your Mac that allow you to find the file, upload it to your current machine, and print it out in the nick of time. iPliz is a niche application for users who don’t employ the best backup strategies, but the ability to email your Mac for files is just cool.
Courier: Great New Mac App from Realmac Coming Soon
Courier is an awesome new app from Realmac Software (which I’m lucky enough to have already tested) set to come out on OS X “in about a week”. Or at least that’s what the teaser website says.
I can’t really say what the app does yet, but as you can see in the video (embedded below, together with the final icon) support for websites like Youtube, Vimeo and Flickr will be part of the application. All I can say is that Courier is great, and will probably turn out to be one of the best apps released on Mac this year.
Check out the video below, follow @courierapp for exclusive news and stay tuned for a review on MacStories as soon as the app will be available.
Stay: Train Your Windows
If you are anything like me, than at any given time you’ve got 30 windows open and at least 17 apps running at once.
The only thing that keeps me from going completely insane is my second 21” screen I have plugged into my Macbook Pro (15” screen) ninety percent of the time. Now, the extra real estate is awesome when I have all 30 windows open and organized among my spaces the way I like. It becomes cumbersome, however, when I unplug my laptop from the screen to go downstairs. My 30 windows become 30 huge billboards all trying to compete for my attention. Read more
Apple Releases 2010-005 Security Update For Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
A few minues ago Apple issued a new security update for Mac OS X 10.6 and 10.5, aimed at fixing PDF vulnerabilities (the same of iOS?), network interceptions and PHP vulnerabilities.
Check out the full changelog after the break. Security update is available now in Software Update.
Unboxing The New Hexacore Mac Pro
MacRumors collected a set of unboxing pictures of the new Mac Pro from Japan’s Recruit. The pictures show the new SSD drive, ATI Radeon 5870 and the new Hexacore Xeon CPUs.