GPush Review: Bringing Gmail Notification to the iPhone
E-mail addiction is a hard habit to shake. I get more than a hundred emails every day. We’re not talking spam here — we’re talking legitimate e-mails that demand my attention. My inbox is so full, it has it’s own inbox. Given the circumstances, it’s fairly easy to see how I’ve become a compulsive email checker. Watching TV. Writing. Sitting at a red light. No matter what the activity, I couldn’t go more than five minutes without checking my inbox. …and then there was GPush.
Simplenote Review: No-Nonsense Notes
The market for iPhone note taking apps is huge. While Apple provides a Notes app, it is very basic and only syncs with notes in Mail.app. The de facto third party note taking app for the iPhone/Mac is Evernote which includes syncing between your iPhone, desktop, and the web. Evernote, however, has many more features than most people need from a note taking app. All the extra features of Evernote can cause it to run slowly on older iPhone/iPod Touch platforms. Simplenote solves this problem as a fast, clean, and no-nonsense note taking app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Bevy Review: A Powerful Application Launcher
If you are like me, you probably have a ton of applications that you use, but you also don’t want to have then all on your dock. Bevy, by bergdesign, is an application launcher that will show you all of your applications in one simple window.
When you first launch Bevy you will want to add a few folders. Just click the gear icon in the top left and select folders. Here you will tell Bevy where to search for applications, and Bevy will display you applications in different sections for each folder. This will let you easily keep things organized. You can also exclude some items that you don’t ever need.
Opinion: The Tao of the Desktop
People can do all sorts of different things to their desktops. Some are cluttered, some are sparse, there are pictures, designs, photos—pretty much anything you can think of is, at the moment, on someone’s computer background. For the sake of productivity, many people stress the fact that your desktop should be clean—not filled with files that aren’t used—but that probably doesn’t work for everyone. How can you discover your perfect desktop?
5 (Free) iPhone Apps Every Parent Should Have
One of the best things we can do as tech-saavy parents is get our kids acclimated early to the wonders of a digital life. I’m not saying kids can’t be kids, but I think it’s pretty darned cool that my 4 year old is the only kid in her class who knows how to work an iPod Touch or bring up web-based games in Safari. At the end of the day, growing up around technology could really give kids a leg up when they get out into the real world. And so, with that in mind, MacApper is proud to suggest five free apps that every parent should share with their kids.
SOHO Notes Review: Organize Everything!
Anyone whose ever used a computer to take notes knows how frustrating it can be to have hundreds of Word documents or TextEdit files. You want something quick, but with enough flexibility to link in other files like PDFs and websites. Then inevitably you go to look for notes a week later, you can’t remember where you put them on your drive, and so the treasure hunt begins. Well note-takers, the treasure hunt has ended.
Shopper Review: Digital Shopping List for Your iPhone
Shopper is a shopping item/list management application for the iPhone. Made by midcentury software, Shopper is a well thought out and user friendly application. The user interface is clean and intuitive allowing for easy navigation and management while shopping.
Minimalist Word Processor Showdown: WriteRoom vs. JDarkRoom
Few things can impact a blogger as negatively as their own workspace. Even with the best of intentions, writing an article in one tab of your browser and fact checking in another can lead to a few quick emails, a twitter update, checking out Facebook — the next thing you know you’ve been reading articles on digg for an hour. Our productivity tools often lead us to being anything but productive. This was a trap I found myself falling into more and more as they days went on. Then I discovered the secret world of minimalist word processing.
Schoolhouse Review: The App Every Student Should Have
If you’re a student: you need Schoolhouse. You’ll never miss another assignment again. Schoolhouse is the assignment planner you’ve always dreamed of. Separate your subjects, organize your studies, track your grades, and keep digital notes all from one easy-to-use app. You can find our review of a previous version of Schoolhouse here.
Summarize: A Great Hidden OS X Feature
There have been many times when the PDF document I am reading is just way too long and I have wished that I could just have a “cliffs-notes” version of it. It took me a while to find, but there is actually a wonderful feature hidden inside Mac OS X that allows this to happen by quickly summarizing documents you are reading. The feature is simply called “Summarize“, but it is pretty deeply hidden in the menu bar.
