May 2010
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The iPhone has its official Twitter client now
A month ago Twitter acquired Loren Brichter’s company Atebits, which is responsible for Tweetie, probably the most famous Twitter client on the iPhone. Twitter wanted to create an own application on every device, and now after Android and Blackberry, the iPhone finally has its official Twitter app.
I have always been a huge Tweetie fanboy. I used it for months and encouraged others to do...
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Skating on the iPhone
As I am a huge fan of skateboarding and games regarding that sport I also enjoy playing those games on my mobile phones, especially on my iPhone.
After Gameloft and Activision, EA also throws it’s major skateboarding game into the rink. I played all three of them and have my own opinions about all of them.
The first one was Skater Nation by Gameloft. It was quite cheap, did a good job...
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Portal on Mac
As you might have heard, yesterday Steam was released for Mac OS X. Now that it’s officially here, Mac users can also play some great games. The first one you’ll probably play will be Portal, as it’s currently free to download and as it’s Valve’s only game currently available for the Mac.
Playing Portal on my Mac doesn’t feel special at all. The keyboard is...
Loremify - Taking Lorem Ipsum a step further
Loremify is a nifty little tool to create some sample text for your website mockup. It’s a dashboard widget so it’s Mac-only.
You can easily create a paragraph, a header or a list. All options are available as plain text as well as HTML. When you’re done selecting the amount of characters you want by hovering over the widget you just click and all the code is immediately...
Steam for Mac
Being a huge fan of games like Half Life or Portal I was really looking forward to having Steam available on my Mac. When the news about Steam officially coming to the Mac was published first, I discovered the new UI beta on my PC. I hoped Valve might do something really nice on the Mac, but now that I have it, I’m a bit disappointed. The UI doesn’t feel anything like changed for the...
April 2010
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Tweetie 2.1.2 released - Let's play a game
When I saw that there was an update to my preffered Twitter client Tweetie, I was hoping to see the update to make Tweetie the official iPhone App.
It was not really what I expected. Just two points were updated, and only one of them was actually interesting. All that was written in the update’s description was ‘Suprise’, which really made me curious.
I browsed trough the...
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WatchWell, we’re kinda doomed.
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Playing around with the Terminal
Apple’s Mac OS X Terminal is actually thought to do some serious stuff, but as a normal user you can also just play around with it a little.
Make your Mac speak
That’s a very easy yet a quite funny thing to show your friends. To make your Mac say ‘hello’ you just enter this:
say hello
You can enter whatever you want. It won’t sound perfect, but as I said before,...
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Transmit 4 - FTP just got better
FTP is something you can’t actually improve, that’s right, but once again, Panic took the challenge to make the world better and they really beat that challenge with huge success.
Transmit 4 gives you a two panel window, automatic syncing, Quick Look, Cover Flow, a built-in editor, and over 40 other new features. No matter if you are a pro at using FTP or just beginning, Transmit 4...
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Essential Mac Apps - Cloud
Thanks to Twitter, URL shortening has become a huge business. On the web it’s not really much of a deal anymore, but wouldn’t it be nice, to just press one single key combination, and then have your shortened URL ready? I think it would, and thanks to Cloud this dream has become reality.
Cloud uses a global hotkey, which I have set to ⌥-C, and then does the rest of the job all by...
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Essential Mac Apps - Alfred
Alfred is a very useful tool to quickly search the internet or launch your applications.
You can assign your own keyboard shortcut, which I have set to ⌥-Space, to bring up the application’s main window. Currently there are two different skins, a light one, where grey is the main color, and a dark one, where black is the dominating color. The main window is built by a search field, the...
March 2010
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