Thursday, August 16, 2007

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  • First Look: Pixelmator private beta arrives

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    The day is finally here. After an introductory video back in May and a more in-depth teaser earlier this month, the Pixelmator crew have begun sending out the private beta downloads and I just took it for a spin, creating the image in this post. It is indeed a sexy app - the UI is a gorgeous translucent black, and it really does offer a lot of functionality and innovation aimed squarely at Adobe Photoshop or, perhaps more appropriately, Photoshop Elements. While Pixelmator is still very much a beta and too buggy for shop or casual work, I am able to play with most of the promised features, including snapping pics from an iSight, the iPhoto browser and all the powerful color and manipulation tools.

    Thankfully, Saulius and the Pixelmator crew gave me permission to write up some initial thoughts with screenshots, so check out a preliminary Pixelmator gallery I've put together of some handy features and clever details, and read on for more of my first impressions of this highly anticipated image editor.

    Gallery: Pixelmator First Look

    Various filtersNew layer from iSightiPhoto browserScaling an imageVarious palettes

    Continue reading First Look: Pixelmator private beta arrives

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  • iPhone Coding: Working with the Navigation Bar

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    The iPhone Navigation Bar offers a simple way to add button-based navigation to your iPhone applications. Defined in UIKit/UINavigationBar.h, this class allows you to add one or two buttons to the kind of blue iPhone-looking bar shown here. Use these buttons to move between program screens or to add direct functionality to your application.

    Continue reading iPhone Coding: Working with the Navigation Bar

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  • Poll: What iPhone apps are you waiting for?

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    David recently posted about some clever iPhone dream apps. As the ranks of existing iPhone applications continues to grow to include games and utilities, what applications are still missing? What iPhone apps do you want to see developers concentrate their efforts on? Native IM or IRC? Trip accounting? GTD management? Let us know in this poll and in the comments.
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  • Netvibes unveils optimized iPhone portal

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    Netvibes is one of the largest players in the web2 portal game, allowing users to add all sorts of content and communication widgets to customizable pages, acting as a dashboard for your online realm. You can add widgets to watch RSS feeds, email from lots of services like Gmail and .Mac, weather, search engines, podcasts that can play in the page, calendars and a massive world of user-generated stuff that can extend Netvibes' portal in just about any direction you would want. For a while now, Netvibes has offered a mobile version of their portal at m.netvibes.com for regular phones, but now they have an iPhone-specific portal at m.nv1.netvibes.com (I know, I think they could've made it a prettier URL too). It offers complete access to all your tabs with that increasingly popular iPhone-like UI, and each tab lists the widgets it contains in a single column view, optimizing space and legibility. Even complex widgets like that Facebook widget the company recently introduced work fine, and the Twitter widget counts the characters I type in real time.

    Since my NetNewsWire feed list now tops 330, I've been looking for an easier way to stay on top of a few of my favorite feeds in a simple UI when on the go with my iPhone. I still think the .Mac Reader is a good solution, but having all those feeds along with handy todo and social widgets in a slick UI is even cooler. This Netvibes iPhone page just landed near the top of my must-use mobile bookmarks.
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  • TUAW talkcast tonight 9:30 ET: Bring out your tech questions

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    We're back live tonight at 9:30 pm ET with our latest talkcast, featuring your humble host + Chris Ullrich and David Chartier discussing this week's most popular TUAW stories and answering your Mac, iPod and iPhone questions. You can join us by text chat or call-in through the Talkshoe client; if you can't be there live, leave a comment to this post with your questions or topics and we'll try to cover them during the show.

    After the half-hour is done, we'll throw the phones open for an all-phones aftershow chat, so stick around. Next week I'll be lurking during the talkcast and David will be picking up the hosting reins, so be nice to him please!
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  • Netflix talks 'Instant Viewing' for Mac

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    There are a few companies who, through their products and services, have earned a special place in my heart. Apple is one (obviously), as well as Amazon, New Balance, Nintendo, and Netflix. Netflix, in case you haven't heard of them, makes money via a subscription model. You pay a monthly fee and that gives you access to their monstrous DVD catalog. Pick a DVD and they'll mail it out to you in a nifty envelope that also serves as a the return envelope.

    Alright, so now we all know what Netflix is, why the heck am I blogging about it on TUAW? You might recall that Netflix has recently started streaming movies for members via their website. This feature is called 'Watch Now,' and appears on any movie that has been digitized for streaming. Sadly, this very cool feature is only available for PC users. The dev responsible for this feature posted about why Mac users are left out of all the fun.

    It basically comes down to the fact that there is no movie studio approved way to wrap these streams in DRM, so the movie studios won't let it happen on the Mac. FairPlay is mentioned, but as we know Apple isn't licensing that. Luckily, the solution might be coming from an unlikely source: Microsoft. Silverlight, Mircosoft's answer to Flash, uses Microsoft's DRM which the studios do approve of. Silverlight is still in beta (for both Macs and PCs) but it does look very promising (and on my Intel Mac it was pretty peppy).

    Thanks, Mike.
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  • Multisite and iWebSites for iWeb now supports '08 version

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    For most users, iWeb keeps things simple by creating and managing a single, all-encompassing site file stored in your home directory. The downside for anyone who would like to create more than one site with iWeb, however, is that the app doesn't offer any easy way to do so; users have to drill into ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ and either manually move or delete the single site file in that folder, or pick up an app like Multisite for iWeb or iWebSites. Both of these apps allow you to easily create independent iWeb site files that can be published to different local folders and subsequently uploaded with external FTP apps to anywhere you chose.

    Fortunately, both apps have just been updated to work with the new iWeb '08, though note that iWebSites is at a 2.2 alpha stage, as the developer isn't positive all the kinks have been worked out yet. While I haven't used either of these apps, a quick perusal of their features sets reveals that iWebSites has a unique trick up its sleeve: it can merge two different iWeb site files into one, though it apparently can take a while. Anyone have experience with these apps?

    Multisite for iWeb is available from Clarkwood Software for $19.95 with a demo available, while iWebSites is offered as donationware from Cocoadrillo Software.
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  • Appleworks dies. Long live iWork

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    ComputerWorld UK reports that AppleWorks has been retired by Apple after 23 years. AppleWorks, aka ClarisWorks né StyleWare provided a complete, low-cost office suite for Macintosh computers all the way into the PowerPC era. I wrote my dissertation in the program and until a couple of years ago I still used it to create our family holiday cards. I was surprised by the news as I had assumed the program had been put to rest years ago, buried along-side Hypercard. Instead, it took the release of Apple Numbers to finally kill the old workhorse. iWork '08 imports AppleWorks documents including spreadsheets, presentations and word processing files.
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  • iPhone app requests - this time with screenshots

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    Everyone and their mother has requests for iPhone apps - heck, I had eight of them. But not everyone goes the extra mile like Phillip Ryu has to create detailed screenshots of how their apps should look (Update: Phill contacted me to clear up that Josh Pyles created the screenshots in collaboration). In addition to the screenshots, most of Phill's requests in 5 iPhone Apps I'd Like To See From Apple are also unique from similar posts I've seen across the blogosphere - he's asking for things like an Archive.org/Ebook reader, the iTunes Store for iPhone (of course, but a nice mockup nonetheless), a sketching app (Skitch for iPhone anyone?), a VoIP app and iMovie for iPhone that could offer basic editing and sharing with .Mac, YouTube and Mail. It's an interesting list of requests with pretty pictures that do a great job of mocking up the apps with the iPhone's new UI paradigms in full force. No tiny menus or tool palettes here; just large buttons, lists with large text and toolbars lining the bottom of each app. Here's hoping that the signs pointing towards true iPhone app development arriving with Leopard in October are more than empty speculation.
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  • iTunes: Free Thursday

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    Welcome to this week's edition of iTunes freebies. This week we feature a new collection of free singles and videos from around the world. Here's what's new today.

    US Music

    US: You Picked Me by A Fine Frenzy
    Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Single of the Week. This track from A Fine Frenzy (Seattle's Alison Sudol) starts with such a flurry of windswept instrumental buildup that you'll think you've stepped into an Emily Bronté novel. It's a strong entry for the young singer who's crafted an otherwise very cinematic track with "You Picked Me." It's romantic and loaded with strings and yet not schmaltzy in any way. Her voice flutters and coos and will likely make your heart melt in about five different places.

    US: Promesa de Amor by Jeremías
    Each week, we find a track from an artist or a band who's on the cusp of success and bring it to you, for free, as our Canción de la Semana. "Promesa De Amor" is a track taken from Jeremias' newest album, Un Dia Mas En El Gran Circo. The album is a kaleidoscopic mixture of colorful '60s-style pop songs and more traditional pop material. Promesa De Amor is a soulful, uptempo track driven by some funky guitar and organ work, as well as Jeremias' own indefatigable spirit.

    US: Road to Recovery by Midnight Juggernauts
    Our Discovery Download puts the focus on a different genre each week, offering up a free track we think is worth your attention. Australia's Midnight Juggernauts make epic electronic music, as seems to be the theme of the releases on French label Institubes. Imagine David Bowie piloting a spaceship stolen from Daft Punk's home planet while Giorgio Moroder works second-in-command in charge of synth explorations. Take a listen to "Road to Recovery" and you'll see what we mean.

    Continue reading iTunes: Free Thursday

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