5 Apps For Staying Productive at School
If you’re a college student heading back to class after winter break, in the middle of a trimester, or even preparing to go back sometime in the future check out 5 killer apps that can help you make the most of your academic endeavors.
5 Great Ideas for iPhone Wallpaper
Everyone loves their iPhone. Whether you’ve gotten one for Christmas, have had one since launch, or are just sporting an iPod Touch, Apple’s pocket portable has quickly become a part of your digital identity. And yet there are so few ways to let your personality shine through to passers-by. Sure ringtones say a lot about who you are, but what about the wallpaper you choose? As soon as you hand someone your iPhone to check out, it’s the first thing they see. Make it count.
If you’re having trouble coming up with an idea for a unique image for stand-by time, look no further as we dream up 5 fresh ideas for iPhone wallpaper. And be sure to check out our comments for even more ideas from our readers!
Documents To Go Review: Create, Edit and Sync Microsoft Word and Excel Docs
Commuting allows me to get a ton of work done, however, I’m always trying to figure out inventive ways to save my work. Most often I write my articles, homework or other documents to myself in an email, copy and paste in when I get back to my computer and then turn it into a full-fledged document. This always presents problems though because it’s never formatted properly, the font always needs to be changed and I have no way of changing the paragraph alignment or spacing. There are apps for everything else, I’ve always said, so shouldn’t there be a Microsoft application? Well, DataViz, Inc. has created one that I find fits my needs quite well. It’s called Documents To Go and costs $9.99.
Notify 2 Review: A New Email Notifier for your Mac
There are a lot of simple email notifiers available for Mac OS X. Most of them just sit in your menubar, and display the number of new messages you have. But now with Notify 2 Pro, from Vibealicious, you have the ability to read and even compose emails. All in your menubar.
One of Notify’s big features is the ability to have multiple accounts. You can set up Gmail, MobileMe and Rackspace accounts, or just use your own IMAP settings for any other mail account. Notify just sits in your menubar, and has a small envelope icon that lights up blue when you have new messages. When you click this, the main window for Notify pops up displaying a list of your new emails. There are also tabs on the top, so you can switch accounts.
Pastebot Review: A Powerful iPhone Clipboard Utility
Just this week Tapbots released their third app, Pastebot. Pastebot is an extremely powerful clipboard utility. You can save many items to your clipboard, sort them into folders, copy them to your iPhone’s clipboard, edit images and much more. All with this single application.
Airlock Review: Magically Lock your Mac with your iPhone
Wouldn’t it be nice if you never had to type in your password, but your Mac was still locked up so people couldn’t access it? That’s just what Airlock, from The M.H.A. is for. Airlock is a new Mac application that locks your computer when you walk away from it, and unlocks it when you come back. It does this by scanning for nearby bluetooth devices, and it unlocks your Mac when it detects your iPhone (or iPod Touch) in range.
News: Big Fish Games improves Mac-friendliness, offers $2.99 sale
Fans of casual games can hardly go a week without seeing what new gems Big Fish Games has to offer. Indeed, it’s “new game every day” system and $6.99 price structure have made it one of the internet’s leading providers of casual gaming.
And while Big Fish Games has always catered to both PC and Mac audiences, Mac games — as is often the case — have always felt like an afterthought. Today Big Fish Games sought to rectify that and has launched it’s own separate Mac gaming portal at http://www.bigfishgames.com/mac.html.
ScreenFlow 2.0: The Best Screen Recorder Gets Better
Ever since ScreenFlow came out there just hasn’t been a better application for making screencasts. ScreenFlow allows you to quickly create high quality screencasts. Just recently, Telestream updated ScreenFlow to version 2.0. If you want to check out our video review of ScreenFlow 1.0, look at Michael Mistretta’s great post here. In this article I’ll be covering most of the new features in version 2.0.
How-To: Use Facebook to Assign Address Book Photos
In theory, the idea of having a photo assigned to each Address Book entry is both smart and simple. Make sure you remember the right face with the right name. It’s incredibly handy if you also have an iPod Touch or iPhone. However, dragging and dropping hundreds (if not thousands) of photos onto names in your Mac Address Book? Tedious and ineffective.
In today’s MacApper How-To, we’re going to show you a little app to bridge the divide between Facebook and your Apple Address Book.
1) Head on over to the Apple.com downloads section, and grab a handy little app called AddressBookSync.
Upcoming iPhone Games to Watch
The AppStore is known for a lot of things, but easy navigation isn’t one of them. With tens of thousands of games on the service, knowing when a real gem comes out can be more of a challenge than it should be. Big games may get featured on the What’s Hot or What’s New pages, and they may sit at the top of the sale numbers for a few weeks, but unless you’re actively checking to see what’s new on a regular basis it’s almost inevitable you’re going to miss a golden gaming experience.
Today we’re taking a look at 5 upcoming game worth keeping an eye out for. Why miss out on the big names if we can give you the heads up before they happen?
