Tiki Towers Review: Structural Engineering with Monkeys
Puzzle games that put you in the seat of a structural engineer were all the rage in 2008. It started with the PSN’s Elefunk and found something akin to perfection in the sublime World of Goo. It was only a matter of time until we saw such a game, seemingly so perfect for the iPhone, make it’s way to the AppStore. RealArcade stepped up to the plate late last year and released Tiki Towers, a game of bamboo buildings and monkey mayhem.
Touchgrind Review: Skate with Your Fingers
Skateboarding has been a very popular sport, and a lot of people play skateboarding video games like Tony Hawk and Skate. Illusion Labs has successfully created a skateboarding game for the iPhone by going in a different direction. They decided to create a game that is like a fingerboard: Touchgrind.
Syncopation Review: Keep Your Music in Sync
If you own multiple Macs you have probably run into the following problem: how do you keep multiple iTunes libraries in sync? iTunes does not have the capability of syncing libraries across different computers, so one must turn to a third party app to do this. Sonzea’s Syncopation is the solution to this frustrating problem… or is it?
The Hit List Preview: Get Your Tasks Done
Today in the Mac applications world their are dozens of applications to help you keep track of your to-dos and get things done. I have tried several of these apps, but I don’t believe any of them work as well or feel as good as Potion Factory’s The Hit List Beta.
Mémoires Review: Quick and Easy Journaling
It’s the beginning of the new year, so it is time for new year’s resolutions. Many people want to eat healthier, work harder, start projects, etc. One resolution that could help us all, though, is journaling. It can help you get your mind onto paper easily, without anyone else having to see. And if you just want a simple journal for your Mac, Mémoires can be your best friend.
Mémoires is really just a journal, nothing more. If you are looking for something that also includes tags, blogging abilities, and even more features, you may want to look at MacJournal or Journler. But, those two are also $15 more, so you might not want to look into them if you just want journaling.
Tweetie Review: Multi-Account Management for Twitter
It’s possible that Twitter is the killer app for the iPhone. Or maybe the iPhone is the killer platform for Twitter. Either way, the two go hand-in-hand — I don’t know any iPhone owners that aren’t Twitter addicts. It’s no surprise, then, that there are so many Twitter apps in the App Store. One that’s gained a lot of popularity recently is Tweetie, from atebits LLC.
Since buying my iPhone, I’ve used Twitterrific almost exclusively. While reviewing Tweetie, I couldn’t help but compare the two. Both are excellent apps, but written for different Twitter users.
TextSoap Review: Scrub Down Dirty Text
Sometimes people don’t care enough about the text in their documents. Then, when you have to clean it up, you have to do the same task many times, like converting double spaces to single spaces, or changing case. It is very tedious, which is exactly why some developers have created software to do these tasks. One of the more notable ones is Unmarked Software‘s TextSoap.
TaskPaper 2 Review: Simple Task Management with Style
There are dozens of task management apps and todo list managers available for the Mac which range from simple list-style apps to full-blown project management tools. Nowadays, most of them more or less follow the Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. While TaskPaper supports some GTD-like features, it doesn’t fit into any category very easily, it just tries to be a tool for managing projects and tasks as efficiently as possible, while staying out of your way. And it does that in a very unique way.
Preview: iWork ’09, A Quick Look
As nearly every reader of this site probably knows, Apple has released the next iteration of it’s productivity suite, iWork. With this iteration, Apple has added some polish as well as some brand new features. If you are unfamiliar with iWork, it is made up of 3 applications: Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
Pages, the word processor of the bunch, gained features such as full screen, outline view, as well as more templates. Apple has also made it easier for it’s scientific crowd to add in equations from MathType and bibliographies from Endnote. The developers also noticed that many users were taking graphs and tables from Numbers and placing them into documents, so they streamlined the process and now the entire iWork suite of apps work very well together.
MacWorld ’09: iPhone Nano and iWork ’09 Leaked
UPDATE: The iPhone Nano screenshot is fake (see comments).
The Apple website has leaked the announcement of iWork ’09 and the iPhone Nano. iWork ’09 appeared in the “Top Downloads” section of Apple’s website and evidence of the iPhone Nano appeared in the fine print at the bottom of the iPhone page.
