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Reflection.app: AirPlay Mirroring to your Mac
I’m not sure I need it,but it feels pretty damn cool nonetheless. I currently use a product called AirServer to send AirPlay audio and video to my Mac, but this actually mirrors the entire display of your iOS device onto your Mac.
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The tools I use: Mac
I’d love to have something meaty and heady to write about today, but I’ve got nothing. So, because some folks have asked for it, and because Kenny did it, how about a simple list of the tools I use on my Mac everyday and couldn’t live without? I consider myself a bit of a software minimalist—I don’t use a lot of the geeky tools many web pros do. I try to only have what I think I really need. Note that this only includes native Mac software, not web apps I use regularly. Here goes:
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Wil Shipley: Success, and Farming vs. Mining
Really, really great piece on the two main route people take when writing software (especially web software) these days
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Word Lens
Astonishingly impressive piece of iOS software that translates text in the real world on the fly, using the iPhone camera. For example, point your phone at a street sign, and see the sign in a different language — in real time. This is the first piece of “augmented reality” software that didn’t feel cheesy to me. Amazing. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” right?
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@behoff’s tools and services for 2010
Brian writes up some tools and services he’s been using this year — I need to check several of these out.
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Mark Boulton: Back To Reading Feeds
Mark’s experience of NetNewsWire for iPad getting him back into habit of easing RSS/Atom feeds perfectly parallels mine. I hadn’t read feeds ia year or so, and now I’m back to doing it every day, from the comfort of my couch.
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Fraser Speirs: Back In
I think Fraser nails it, here.
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Web Dev App Reviews from the Pros – Part 1, Mac
Fuel Your Apps asked me, and several other web pros including Dan Rubin and Tim Van Damme, what apps we code in on OS X.
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mxcl’s homebrew
Interesting-looking alternative to MacPorts and Fink.
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New York Nearest Subway Augmented Reality App for iPhone 3GS from acrossair
Ladies and gentlemen, your future has arrived. Please mind the gap as you board.
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http://iphun.tv/
iPhone game reviews with the awesome @seanbonner.
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Fever° Red hot. Well read.
Fever is The Wolf’s new feed-reader-with-a-twist. As I have with previous Shaun Inman joints, I’ve been giving Fever a beta trial run for quite some time, and I’ve seen it’s evolution from concept to implementation. It’s a really fascinating product, and one that kind of makes you wonder “why hasn’t anyone else thought of this?” The “twist,” here, is that it smarty analyses your feeds’ content, and lets what’s hot “bubble up,” helping to consume more feeds in less time than ever before. As with all of Shaun’s work, the interface is stunningly beautiful and all of the details work like a charm. It’s really, really well-done. As an aside, Shaun has really perfected the sale of this type of app — his purchase/registration/install/upgrade process is as simple as seamless as it gets for self-hosted software. Love it.
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The EveryBlock iPhone app
The EveryBlock iPhone app has been released, and it’s pretty damn sweet. Joseph, Wilson, and the rest of the team did a real bang-up job, here. Love it.
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understudy
An in-progress plugin for Front Row that adds Hulu and Netflix streaming support. I’ve recently moved to a tiny studio condo with no TV and no cable, so I’m in the process of trying to set up a good iMac-based TV solution. Once I get it all figured out, it’ll probably be worth a blog post about my experiences.
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A look at Foursquare and Gowalla
Two highly-anticipated, location-based, IRL-style “games” for iPhone were launched at South By Southwest Interactive this year, and I thought I’d take a few moments to report on my experiences with each one.
First up is Foursquare, a sequel of sorts to the popular Dodgeball mobile tool, which was purchased by Google a few years ago and then killed very recently. The second new iPhone game is Gowalla, and it comes from my good friends at Alamofire. The two have a lot in common, but as you might expect, it’s their differences that are interesting. Let’s get into it…
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Foursquare, Hot New Phone App, Is Dodgeball on Steroids
Foursquare is a new location-based game from Dodgeball creator Dennis Crowley. Sounds like a lot of fun. I’m really anxious to try both this and Gowalla. Location-based, real-life games like this sound like a ton of fun to me.
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Brightkite: Sneak Peek At Our iPhone App at Brightkite
Took them long enough, but I gotta say: it looks damn sweet. The place snapping is killer.
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Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4
Wonderfully useful feature. Want.
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iPhone Developer NDA Dropped
Apple:
> We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
Sweet. I’m hoping this results in a slew of how-to blog posts and the like.
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Espresso: Upcoming text editor for Mac
I’m skeptical of the idea that any app will really be able to compete with TextMate, but this does look quite sexy. I’ll be watching.
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Tools We Use: Textmate
Kenny has a nice post over the Blue Flavor blog detailing a bunch of reasons why TextMate rocks our socks off. I sort of hate to admit it as someone who identifies as a designer moreso than a coder, but TextMate is probably the single most-used and most important piece of software on my Mac. I use it for everything.
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Panic’s Steven Frank on the App Store
Steven has a great piece on how the iTunes App Store is simultaneously the best mobile application distribution platform ever and downright scary for developers who want to make their stuff available from it.
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aTV Flash
A very interesting-looking product that adds a ton of codec support and some other features to your AppleTV. I’m a little scared to try it, but it looks awesome. Very tempting…
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Digital Web: Photoshop vs Fireworks
Nathan Smith gets input from several buddies of mine, including Anton Peck, Jared Christensen, Patrick Haney, and Jenna Marino, on their preference for either Fireworks or Photoshop. The comments are definitely an interesting read, so I encourage you to check it out. I think it’s important to keep some perspective, though: the only people who really care whether you use Fireworks or Photoshop are other designers. Clients couldn’t care less. Debating the pros and cons can be fun for us design nerds, but ultimately it doesn’t really matter what you use — keep that in mind.
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iPhone native Apps - the great leap backwards?
John Allsop wonders aloud whether or not most iPhone native apps should be web apps, instead. Although I don’t really share John’s lack of enthusiasm for native iPhone apps in general, I definitely think he has a point. Many of the best apps on the iPhone are simply interfaces to web content. Many of them don’t offer any real advantages over a similar web app. Developers would be wise to still consider the web app direction as a possibility, unless they specifically need to access native functionality such as the camera or location data — web apps are more compatible, more distributable, and arguably easier to develop.
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Where is the Native Brightkite iPhone App?
The Brightkite team says their native iPhone app will be out by the end of the month. Great news, because so far, I’m not very impressed with Loopt or Whrrl. Brightkite’s iPhone web version defeats both by a long, long longshot.
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How to Get the iPhone 2.0 Upgrade Right Now
Ever since I tweeted that I have installed iPhone 2.0 and downloaded apps from the app store, I’ve gotten countless IM’s, DM’s, and e-mails asking me how. It’s been all over the Internet all morning, so it’s no secret, but Wired has now published a comprehensive, step-by-step guide that is probably the simplest to follow that I’ve seen. So, get on it.
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Cornerstone: GUI SVN Client
Another Mac SVN client. This one, at a glance, looks more interesting than Versions, to me.
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Qik Video Streaming Finally Comes to iPhone
Qik, which is totally rad, is now on iPhone. It looks like it’s just a demo of an unofficial app for jailbroken iPhone, but it’s probably safe to assume a more “legit” version will be coming soon. Awesome.
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Preview of Versions SVN Client
I had been excitedly awaiting Versions for a long time, until I gave up and declared it vaporware. Now, it looks like it may be for real. This preview is very enticing. Want.
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A Phone, an iPod, an Internet Communicator, and a Full-Featured Task Manager!
It’s great to hear that Cultured Code is working on an iPhone task management application — assuming Apple doesn’t do one themselves, this will no doubt be the single most-wanted type of application from third parites. Competition will be stiff, I’m sure. But, we know from Things that Cultured Code is able to do these things well. They have a great sense of UI design, and make things that are very Mac-like. However, like Things, if it doesn’t integrate with OS X’s system-wide to-do service, I’m going to have to consider it useless. I want to love Things, but I just can’t, in its current state. I hope the iPhone version doesn’t have the same limitation.
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Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
Two words: Hell. Yes.
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Cabel Sasser: Coda Confidential
I’ve had this one in my “to watch later” pile for several weeks, and I finally got around to it last night. Cabel’s one of the more entertaining speakers I’ve ever head the pleasure of seeing in person, and this talk about the development of Coda certainly lives up to that. He’s insightful, funny, and interesting. Check it out. In my opinion, Panic is still synonymous with great Mac software — even as I was never the target market for Coda and Expan drive has largely made Transmit unnecessary for me.
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Apple releases Safari 3.1
The new Safari build includes several items of interest to cutting-edge web designers and developers: CSS animations, HTML 5 audio and video elements, and downloadable fonts.
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ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview
For those of us who didn’t make it to the ElisLabs sessions at SXSW.
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Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit
Chris Wilson and his team at Microsoft release a “readiness toolkit,” for IE 8, which includes (among other things), a beta of the application and a new debugging tool long the lines of Firebug. Nice.
As of today, the Web Standards movement is over. We won.
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Daring Fireball: ExpanDrive
As much trouble as I’ve had with sshfs being slow as balls, I think I’m going to splure for this $29 app, which Gruber gives a glorius review.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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