Facebook iPhoto Plugin

I don’t know about you guys, but I usually hate social networks like myspace or xanga, but facebook is an exception. It’s well designed and a great way to keep in touch with friends. A big part of facebook are pictures; everyone who uses facebook can easily tell you that facebook is loaded with pictures from vacations or times out with friends.

Speaking from personal experience, whenever I would have to upload pictures to facebook, I would have to choose them in iPhoto, dump them onto my desktop and then proceed to upload them via facebooks built in Java uploader, which is not a fun experience.

Project Grow Awareness

I’m sure many of you have noticed MacApper’s custom blog design, and many have asked about the “Project Grow” banner at the bottom of the site – in this post, we’ll explain a little more about the design. The amount of questions and click-throughs have been quite high according to our friend Teddy Hwang.

I’m here to tell you guys what it’s all about. Project Grow is a concept our friend Teddy Hwang has come up with to help him on his way to becoming a freelance web designer. Teddy has been a great asset to MacApper and we couldn’t have done it without him. He’s been a great asset to the team here and the amount of time and work he’s put into the site astounds us, and is much appreciated.

Mac Gamer’s Savior: Connect 360

We all love our Macs, but it’s hard disagree with the fact that PCs are just better at gaming. My Powerbook isn’t exactly going to run Doom 3 at 60fps, so I have to resort to console gaming.

I use the Xbox 360 (yes, a Microsoft product!), due to its great selection of games, online experience, and media capabilities. It’s capable of streaming music, photos, and movies from a PC. That’s where us Mac users get let down; Microsoft has it set up so only Media Center PCs work with it.

Disco Giveaway Contest: Winners Announced!

Once again, I’d like to thank everyone who participated by commenting, each comment gives this blog a little more personality. Each winner will receive a copy of the disc burning app ‘Disco’, which version 1.0 has just been released.

Anyway, the winners for the other day’s contest are:

• Dustin Lyons
• Ecin Krispie
• Errorik

Thanks again to everyone. To the winners, expect your prizes soon.

Awaken Giveaway: Winners!

As promised, here are the five winners from our contest to win one of five copies of Jerry Brace’s alarm clock app, Awaken.

Here they are:

• Jeremy
• WPH
• fcodc
• Jeremy S
• Horst Gutmann

Thanks to everyone who entered. To the 5 winners, your prize is on the way.

Looking To Become A Blogger? Write For MacApper

Are you interested in apple news and software? Always have to be up to date on the latest and greatest? Do you know your ABC’s? If you answered yes to any of these questions then it sounds like you’d be a great addition to the MacApper team.

MacApper is currently looking for bloggers for part-time positions, so you write when you want to. No limit to how many posts you write, it’s cool if you want to write a post a week or 3 posts a day. There is also no age limit here, if you’re 13 or 31, age doesn’t matter to us, if you can write, that’s all we care about.

Red Snapper: Page Grab Utility With Bite

Red Snapper is a small plugin for the Safari web browser that allows you quickly export the current webpage into tons of different formats (BMP, EXR, GIF, JP2, JPEG, PDF, PICT, PNG, PSD, SGI, TGA, TIFF).

It adds a cute Red Snapper icon to the left of your address bar which when clicked allows you to choose which file format to export to and where to save it. Unlike the PDF option in the print settings of Safari this will save a full rendering of the webpage, not just a cut down print version. This makes it ideal for presentations, client mock-ups etc.

Skype 2.5 For Mac Goes Gold

Well you heard it, Skype 2.5 for Mac is officially out of beta and better than ever with some great new features. Skype has become extremely popular among the tech-savvy out there and is a great service, the best part being that it’s free.

Some of the new features include the ability to send SMS messages (for a fee of course), have automatic birthday notifications sent to your friends, and conduct free 10 person conference calls. You can also get 640×480 video chats, with a little tweaking of course.