It used to hold true that I’d occasionally coordinate my nefarious plans for world domination inside of the iPad’s very own Notes application. I don’t like using Simplenote (as many will tell me to do) for such radical means, which is its own whitespace dedicated for short bursts of random prose. The only solace I could find was with MacJournal, though for a while, it only existed on OS X. And MacJournal is appealing not as a blogging solution, but as a database solution for maintaing multiple journals with optional encryption and password protection. When I can avoid it, I don’t like maintaining multiple files in the Finder.
TellMeLater Review - iPhone Reminder Utility
TellMeLater is an extremely useful utility for the iPhone to remind you of those routine things that always slip your mind but that you don’t want cluttering your to do app. Not only it’s an extremely simple app to use it also looks beautiful on the Retina Display.
EXCLUSIVE: Concierge, Scout, iQueue, and You. iPhone Based Check-ins Confirmed.
Sunday night and early Monday morning we learned that Apple has been planning to provide Apple Store employees and customers with a way to wirelessly check-in to retail stores. At a recent week long conference in Los Angeles, Apple Store managers were flown in and treated to the initial location based concept. We now have physical evidence, and more details on the specifics of the new concierge services.
AirProjector - iPhone Presentation Tool
A few months ago Cody reviewed AirSketch: an iPad sketchpad that allows you to easily share your doodles over a local network to anyone with a HTML compatible browser. Also from qrayon we now have its other half: AirProjector, an iPhone app that acts as a simplified wireless projector.
Typo Base HD for iPad
If you’re a designer that occasionally gets a hard-on for accentuated rounded curves in the letter G, or an iOS developer eyeballs deep in PDF documents detailing the available fonts on the iPad, get yourself a copy of Typo Base HD.
EXCLUSIVE: There’s An App for Apple Store Check-ins Coming Your Way
Apple has wanted to put a location aware app on your phone for a while now. Specifically, Apple envisions a future where your phone integrates into various retail stores and commercial establishments (such as libraries) through temporary, location based applications. A source close with MacStories has informed us that we could begin seeing some of this technology arriving as early as next week in Apple’s own retail stores.
Meow Meow Happy Fight HD Review & Giveaway!
Japan has seen its fair share of crazed destruction through a never ending slew of anime porn and giant robots, but just when you thought lolcats couldn’t get any crazier than tackling Godzilla in the nether regions, Happy Cat appoints a legion of ramen noodles and rice balls to tear down Tokyo alongside zombie children and teen pop-star superheroes. If an invisible issue of glamour girl chasing you down the street with a barrage of homing missiles isn’t enough to get the blood pumping, fist boxing an overly ripe squid while dodging phaser lasers from a secondhand R2-D2 might do the trick. Or everything will just blow up in smoke, as usual.
Zune could Befriend iPod in Possible Mac Matrimony (Update: Windows Phone Sync Confirmed)
Microsoft was never able to hang with the cool kids even after they released a rather sublime MP3 player you might now as the Zune. In its three iterations from a brown rubber brick to sexy brushed metal beast, wanting Mac owners could never tap into Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace (which offers a pretty good subscription service) through their Xbox inspired Zune software, or enjoy the startling good looks of the Zune’s eerily minimal (and sometimes purposefully illegible) interface.
Now with the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft may finally be willing to reach out to Macintosh owners interested in experiencing Redmond’s take on social media, communication, and of course music and video. Engadget reports this evening that the Zune software (and of course all the Zuney hardware that goes with it) may be ported to OS X thanks to a tip from a UK Microsoft Marketing guru (and Microsoft does have gurus you know) by the name of Oded Ran. In an exclusive #WP7 announcement on Twitter, the promise of being able to use “Zune” on our Macs to sync with all of the upcoming phones was made, though the announcement was deleted shortly after.
Battle Royale of the iPad Dropbox Editors
In the previous months, lots of apps have creeped onto the iPad’s App Store that focus on doing one thing really well: writing text and saving your files out to Dropbox. These applications are essentially the same, differing in nuance features such as visual file management and editor customization. Though these applications are rather simple, some of them aren’t exactly wallet friendly – five dollars is a lot to ask for a simple text editor. So the question remains, “Which Dropbox editor is the best for me?” In the pursuit of text friendly shenanigans, we’ve rounded up five Dropbox editors and tossed them into the ring to duke it out for the MacStories crown.