MacApper Exclusive: Newber Developer Gives up on App Store
The idea is rather simple: a second business line for your iPhone that can route calls to your phone or to a nearby land line. In reality, Apple seems to not want to touch this application with a proverbial ten foot pole. The ticker on Newber’s website says they’ve waited 144 days for Apple to respond to their submission to the App Store.
Today, Eric Thomas, CEO of Freedom Voice, confided that the company is pulling back support from the App Store after months of no response from Apple. The company will no longer seek iPhone App Store acceptance for now. “I am disappointed,” says Thomas. The company plans to integrate the Newber concept into their new FreedomVOICE IQ product, a hosted PBX phone system that is gaining traction for the company.
BBEdit Review: It Doesn’t Suck
The Mac is usually known as the platform that creative people work on. Whether it’s Web Design, Programming or Design, there are many possibilities for applications you can use. And especially when it comes to text editors, there’s an app everywhere. But, there are really two extreme text editors out there. Today I’m talking about one of them by Bare Bones Software, called BBEdit.
The first thing you will notice about BBEdit is how many menubar items it has. For basic text editing and programming, you probably won’t even use half of these. So, BBEdit can be used in extremely advanced ways, and basic ways. However, if you are just using it for basic tasks, it can be very daunting.
WebnoteHappy Review: A Delicious Bookmarker
As users of the Internet, we come across hundreds of pages a day. Many of these we would like to save, but figure they will just be in the History later. A great service for easily bookmarking pages you would like to remember is Delicious. It allows you to store your bookmarks online with added social capabilities. So, because Delicious is such a great service, Mac developers decided to start making clients. One of these is WebnoteHappy, by Happy Apps.
Although WebnoteHappy integrates with Delicious, it does not require you to use Delicious to store or view your bookmarks. So, you are not required to sign up for anything. You just download and go.
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.
Together Review: Keep Your Files Together
The more files you put on your hard drive, the harder it is to keep track of them. If you organize them well it can be much easier, though. But organization takes time, and sometimes that’s something we just don’t have. There is no way around the time issue, but there is a way to make it easier. Instead of acting on your files as soon as you download them, put them in an inbox and organize them when you have the time. Today I will talk about an app that can help you with this, called Together, by Reinvented Software.
Xyle Scope Review: A Taste of the Real Web
Many of us learn by seeing. That’s how we all learned how to talk and even read. Many programming books do this nowadays: they show you example code, and you can usually understand what is going on. This was the idea Cultured Code had when creating Xyle scope, because this is exactly what it does: it allows you to learn CSS by seeing it.
Versions Review: Subversion for the Rest of Us
If you’ve ever done any work where you needed to share files with others, or track changes easily, you know how hard it is to find good software for it. Most people use something called Subversion, which is a simple way (if you have a good client) to share files and track changes at the same time. You can always just use the Shell command, but it’s not user-friendly and it takes more time to do some things. So SVN (Subversion) clients were created. The most exciting and user-friendly of these has just been released: Versions.
Tree Review: A New Kind of Outliner
Outlining is an important part of any education system, whether you’re a student or a teacher. This explains why there are so many outliners out there. And, for the most part, they look the same; they use indentations to show what hierarchy the item is in. And this system works great. It means you don’t have to learn much before trying a new outliner. Well, today I will tell you about an outliner that works a little bit differently from the rest. It’s called Tree, by Top of Tree.
Wallet 3 Review: Your Digital Wallet
A while back we had an interview with Dustin MacDonald, the owner of Acrylic Apps. We found out about his Mac app called Wallet. Wallet makes keeping track of things like serial numbers and Internet passwords easy. I’m very excited to say that Wallet has just had a massive 3.0 update and they have just released the iPhone Version of Wallet.
Mail Act-On 2.0: Act On Your Mail with Just a Few Keystrokes
A few days ago, we reviewed MailTags, a great app for organizing and sorting Emails in Mail.app. We briefly mentioned Mail Act-On, the companion app to MailTags.
