Pixelmator: $12 On Amazon
Amazing deal today at Amazon’s Gold Box: Pixelmator, popular image editor for OS X, is available at $11.99. That’s 80% off the regular price. Less than 60 minutes left, so be quick. You can’t miss this.
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Star Wars Dashboard Weather Widget→
Star Wars Dashboard Weather Widget
If only the Mac OS X Dashboard weather widget could tell us the weather in distant galaxies far, far away from famous science fiction movies… wouldn’t that be nice? If you enjoy Star Wars, you’ll probably enjoy these images from Cristian Kit Paul, a graphic designer who also must be a Mac user and Star Wars fan.
Totally useless, totally awesome for any Star Wars fan out there. Check out the original post from the creator here.
Why The Mac Keeps Growing→
Why The Mac Keeps Growing
Horace Dediu on what changed in the PC market in the late 90’s and early 00’s:
In stepped the MacBook with good enough (and improving) office productivity. With excellent appeal along the dimensions of performance consumers demand most of all. It was priced higher than other laptops but the price points were affordable and, inflation-adjusted, lower than they’d ever been. It should not be a surprise that Apple was one of the first vendors to see its portables line become bigger than its desktop lines. The market evolved to the point where what Apple had was what the buyers needed.
Another disruption is going on right now, and we’ll see its deep cut in the market in a matter of a few years: it’s called iPad.
John Carmack on RAGE, Technical Limitations, Design Choices→
John Carmack on RAGE, Technical Limitations, Design Choices
John openly admits that they’re still experimenting with the App Store. So far Rage has been very successful in the few days it has been out, but they’re still waiting to see the long-term results of a shorter, lower-priced game. He explained that it’s still a point of discussion at Id as to whether the next games are going to be bigger and higher priced, or smaller and lower priced like RAGE.
If this is just an experiment, both from a pricing and technical standpoint, then I wonder what we’ll be able to play on a 3.5-inch screen in 2 years. The iOS gaming scene couldn’t be more promising.
In case you missed the whole story: Rage HD is available at $1.99 in the App Store, and it’s mind-blowing.
Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components→
Foxconn Denies Selling White iPhone Components
If you look at MacStories’ sidebar, you can see there’s a banner with a white iPhone 4. He’s from the kid (Fei Lam) who runs WhiteiPhone4Now.com, the same kid who has been making the rounds of the internet this week with rumors of Apple going after him with a private investigator to find out how he managed to get the components. Lam apparently told the press he got the components from Foxconn itself, but now Hon Hai (Foxconn’s parent company) is denying any Foxconn worker ever sold white iPhone parts.
Foxconn Technology Group employees didn’t sell white iPhone casings and other parts as reported by media including the Apple Daily, its flagship Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. said in a statement to the Taiwan Stock Exchange today.
Now, I don’t know what are the legal implications behind this whole story, mostly because it seems like Lam also managed to raise some good bucks out of his “conversion kits”. But I do know one thing: he’s just a kid.
Get 50% Off Assassin’s Creed 2 for Mac [Deals]→
Get 50% Off Assassin’s Creed 2 for Mac
Assassin’s Creed 2 is the follow-up to the title that became the fastest-selling new IP in video game history. The highly anticipated title features a new hero, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, a young Italian noble, and a new era, the Renaissance.
Another great deal from MUPromo. Only 150 left, so be quick. And make sure to check the system requirements.
The Safari Icon Set→
The Safari Icon Set
Something that started out as a doodle on my iPad grew into a cascade of late nights studying compass concepts and exchanging ideas with designers and good-folk alike. Sometimes you just stumble upon a fun notion and you gotta run with it, in this case it was as simple as the idea of why the Safari icon always had to depict that one type of Compass.
Impressive work by Michael Flarup.
Get 40% Off App Tamer for Mac→
Get 40% Off App Tamer for Mac
App Tamer tames applications that are chewing up excessive CPU time and battery life on your Mac. Its unique “AutoStop” feature will stop an application when you switch away from it, and then automatically restart it when you click back to it.
This is a neat app to free up CPU and save battery life I highly recommend. I use it on a daily basis on my iMac, and at $8.97 it’s a great deal. Promo ends in 10 hours.
Verizon CEO on Apple, LTE And The iPhone→
Verizon CEO on Apple, LTE And The iPhone
The Wall Street Journal:
Mr. Seidenberg said his embrace of LTE has drawn the interest of Apple Inc., and helped Verizon get the iPad. But he didn’t comment on when Verizon might get the iPhone. “If the iPhone comes to us, it’s because Apple thinks it’s time,” he said. “Our interests are beginning to come together more but they have to take steps to align their technology with ours.
Meaning: it’s not up to us, we want the iPhone. I know the folks at Cupertino are testing a Verizon-compatible device, but we’ve been told to wait.