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WordPress just released their native iPhone app for hosted blogs as well as those on wordpress.com. Setup is simple and so is posting. You can even include pictures from your iPhone as seen below. Very nice.
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iPhone Dev Team Releases Pwnage Tool 2.0
Just happened a few minutes ago. Check it out at http://bit.ly/2JFZIT
Evernote iPhone Application Looks Awesome
After perusing the iTunes App store for a few minutes, I noticed that Evernote is releasing an iPhone client. It looks awesome. Now if only I could use these damn things...
Apple’s App Store is Live…Sort of
As expected, MobileMe is up and ready to go this morning. Maybe not so unexpected, at least at this particular time of the day, is the launch of iTunes 7.7 and the app store. Install and launch iTunes 7.7, search for "AIM" and notice that the AIM application is listed in the search results. Click on apps up in the "bread crumb" bar and voila! Should be an exciting next 48 to 72 hours.
AIR Installation Error
I just tried to install Twhirl on my iMac running 10.5.3 and got this error: "The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author. Has anyone found a way to get around or fix this?
Exchange Server for the Rest of Us?
After Apple's unveiling of MobileMe, touted as Exchange for the rest of us, I started wondering about the possibility of a potentially much more disruptive angle that Apple could take with the service(s). What if Apple included all of the backend bits that power MobileMe into the next or some future version of Mac OS X Server? What if any organization could roll out push email, contact and calendar to their entire workforce for only $999? What if an organization could offer the same kick-ass web-based mail, address book and calendar applications that MobileMe users will have access to? How many small and medium business would drop Windows and Exchange in a heartbeat to switch to OS X Server with these features?
Dropbox Invites
I finally got invited to beta test the very cool Dropbox file synchronization service from the guys over here. I have a few invites remaining (7 I believe.) Leave a comment here and I'll invite until I run out.
Mount Toast Images in Windows with Daemon Tools
Unfortunately, I recently needed to mount a disc image I created in Toast in Windows. After searching the intertrons for an answer, the best answer I could find was, rename the .toast to .iso, mount through daemon tools and pray for the best. One obvious thought that came to mind was, "Has anyone just tried to mount the toast file directly from daemon tools?" I was certain someone had tried and failed, but, to my surprise, it worked perfectly. I have not seen this documented anywhere, but, nevertheless it seems to work.
Leopard Reaction
I was fortunate enough to snag a copy of Leopard on Friday. After a quick (less than 30 minutes if I recall correctly) upgrade I was up and running. My initial thoughts are that this is one bad operating system and by bad I mean really good. Below are just a few of the things that have stuck out to me over the first 24 hours with it.First, boot and shutdown times seem to have halved on my 1.6 Ghz Core2Duo-based Mini. It's very noticeably faster.Almost every application seems to load faster. The Apple apps seem to load a lot faster (read almost instantly) I've heard people say, after every OS X upgrade, that they felt like they had a hardware upgrade. I've never noticed enough improvement in performance in previous upgrades to agree with that sentiment, but Leopard really does feel like a hardware upgrade.The new Mail rocks, especially with my newly IMAP'ed Gmail accounts. The new stationery won't get used by me any time soon, but my wife will be flooding friends' and family's inboxes with HTML mails as soon as she finds out about it. Quite frankly, Apple needs her to find that feature, and features like it, useful more than it does me.Time Machine is very cool and not just because of it's innovative user interface. This feature will save my wife someday and she won't be able to tell enough people about it when it does. Again, not so much useful to me as it is the "average user", but that's a good thing for Apple.System Preferences seem to be much more streamlined. Case in point is the sharing module. Much better grouping of like objects in System Prefs in Leopard.Safari seems to have had its issues ironed out. I've been using the beta of 3 since it's public release and it's always been plenty fast. Now it's plenty fast and stable. I haven't had a chance to use web clippings yet, but I hope to soon. From what I've read, it works just as advertised.Dock stacks work for me more than I thought they would. I especially like it when viewing the Applications folder I keep in my dock.Finder is eleventy billion times better than it's been in previous version of OS X. Network browsing is better and doesn't completely bog down your machine. CoverFlow can come in really handy, especially for designers like me. QuickLook is really nice, too. Those two features alone will save me a ton of time going forward.The thing that's most impressed me is the fact that I have not had a single application fail on me in Leopard. I wish I could have said the same thing after my first experience with Windows XP to Vista upgrade.That's it for now, but I'm sure I'll post more observations as they come. Bottom line is Leopard is definitely worth the price of admission. If you were on the fence about upgrading, get off of it and go the store to pick up your copy.
MoodSwing: Status Updating for Quicksilver
I just saw a post over at TUAW profiling a slick Quicksilver plugin called MoodSwing. Basically, it let's you update your status on Facebook, Twitter, Skype, iChat, Adium and more through Quicksilver. Installation was simple and usage is just as easy. It's definitely worth a look if you use one or more of the aforementioned services. Oh, and if you use a Mac but don't use Quicksilver, you're dead to me.
