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- Greatascent: Highrise meets Address Book in web and desktop 2.0 harmony
Filed under: Software, Features, Productivity, Internet Tools
Web 2.0 is great and all, but I bought a Mac to utilize the power of Mac OS X and its software. While working in a browser certainly has its advantages, I believe that the sweet spot of getting work done shouldn't force the user into choosing between two appealing environments. The sweet spot of which I am speaking, of course, is integration and sync - the much sought-after, hard-to-find features that some companies offer with their products, while others at least leave the door open for enterprising 3rd parties to pick up the slack. Fortunately, one of the 'others' I speak of is 37signals with Highrise, their popular web-baesd contact and correspondence app, and the enterprising 3rd party in this case is Simon Menke, developer of Greatascent. This is one of the hands-down coolest plug-ins I've seen in a while that unites web 2.0 with what I like to call desktop 2.0 - the place where desktop apps can interact and sync with online services.
Greatascent, currently in a private beta, is a plug-in for Address Book (and soon other parts of Mac OS X) that serves as a middle man between the contacts on your Mac and those in Highrise. In its early beta state, Greatascent can pull down the contacts you're already working with in Highrise, but its real appeal is allowing you to drag and drop contacts from Address Book onto a new group that is added (pictured) to instantly sync them up to Highrise. Once synchronized, however, another gem of working in Highrise is brought to the desktop: from Address Book's File menu, you can select a Highrise contact and create a new Highrise note or task that is then synched up to the service. Read on after the jump for some screenshots and details of just how cool this plug-in can get.Continue reading Greatascent: Highrise meets Address Book in web and desktop 2.0 harmony
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/greatascent-highrise-meets-address-book-in-web-and-desktop-2-0/#comments - PhotoNotes, Stickies for your digital pictures
Filed under: Software
PhotoNotes is a $15 application that takes one feature of Flickr and puts it at your fingertips in OS X. As you might be aware, you can annotate photos on Flickr, Yahoo's photo sharing website, in order to identify people in the picture or just add a note. PhotoNotes allows you to do this without leaving your Mac. Simply import photos into PhotoNotes (iPhoto integration would be nice) and you're ready to add notes like a madperson. PhotoNotes pulls contacts from your Address Book, so if you want to identify someone and they are in your Address Book it is just a matter of pointing and clicking. If you want to add a random text note, or identify someone not in your Address Book, PhotoNotes has you covered.
Once you're done covering your pics with notes you can export the results to a webpage (see an example at the bottom of the product page) to share with the world.Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/photonotes-stickies-for-your-digital-pictures/#comments - Forget iPhones and iPods, the Mac is where it is at
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, Apple
We've been a little loopy about the iPhone around these parts, it is true. However, that tends to happen with any new product Apple releases, I mean we are sort of expected to exhibit a little more than passing interest in what the good folks in Cupertino are up to. That being said Fortune's Brent Schlender has penned a very good article about the great bugaboo of the Mac Web: market-share.
Schlender contends, and I agree, that while Apple's market-share is in single digits Apple is still sitting pretty. Every quarter more and more people are snapping up Macs (the iPhone/iPod halo effect perhaps?) which is very good for Apple's bottom line. Apple has fairly high margins on Macs, and even a slight up tick in market-share translates to lots and lots of dough for everyone's favorite fruit company (this is what I call the 'BMW theory of computer success').
Despite the fact that Apple dropped 'computer' from its name, the Mac is still a pillar of its success. The other two are some phone and a music player of all things!
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/forget-iphones-and-ipods-the-mac-is-where-it-is-at/#comments - Aspyr porting Neverwinter Nights 2
Filed under: Gaming, Multimedia, Software
Aspyr, maker of many Mac game ports, has confirmed they're working on a port of Neverwinter Nights 2 for the Mac. The game features straight-up D&D action in the Forgotten Realms setting, and while not quite as critically acclaimed as Neverwinter Nights (that one was made by Bioware, after all), it did grab a pretty respectable rating of 82 over on Metacritic.
There is one problem-- the toolset that players can use to create their own content which came with the PC version won't actually be ported to Mac (more evidence that we're getting leftovers). Those of us who buy NWN2 on the Mac will still be able to play that created content, and join up to all the persistent world servers players have put together (and some of that stuff is pretty cool). No release date yet, but we'll keep you posted.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/aspyr-porting-neverwinter-nights-2/#comments - Widget Watch: WidgetWizard turns RSS into widgets
Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Freeware, Internet Tools, Widget Watch
Disappointed that one of your favorite sites hasn't broken out a widget for their RSS feed yet? Worry not, WidgetWizard's got you covered. Just fill out a quick little form, and the RSS feed of your choice is available in widget form.
Sure, it's not actually that hard to do, and the upcoming release of Dashcode with Leopard will make it even easier. But if all you want is to see an RSS feed on your Dashboard without all the fuss and muss of actually coding it, WidgetWizard is where it's at.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/widget-watch-widgetwizard-turns-rss-into-widgets/#comments - David Pogue on Macro programs
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends
NY Times tech columnist David Pogue has done it again. I'll admit that more than once I've wondered about David after watching one of his whimsical video reports for the Times, but then he offers up a gem like the one in his latest column and I realize why he is a powerful tech columnist and I'm a lowly blogger.
Pogue takes a look at several Macro programs for both Mac and PC (a Macro program is one that allows you to assign certain actions to corresponding key strokes. Launch an app with a push of a button, have a script fire off, things of that nature). He takes Keyboard Maestro, iKey, and QuicKeys for a spin on the Mac side. They all fare well, but QuicKeys is the one the gets the highest marks, and the one that spawned the tip which has me believing in Pogue all over again. QuicKeys allows you to remap the tilde key (pictured to the right) to any button you would like. David uses it as a left hand delete button so he doesn't have to move his hand off the mouse whilst editing. Brilliant.
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http://www.tuaw.com/2007/08/23/david-pogue-on-macro-programs/#comments - TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway Day Nine: iPod Shuffle
Filed under: TUAW Business
You didn't think we'd have a giveaway and forget about our little buddy iPod shuffle, did you? Today's prize is just that: an iPod shuffle in the color of your choice. Oh, and another Ambrosia pack, of course. As you may already know, the shuffle is perfect for working out, and it's sturdiness will serve you well if you happen to fall down (for reasons unknown).
To enter, leave a comment on this post between 5AM and 11:59PM EST on August 23. Validate the comment for it to qualify, and only one per person please. Full rules on our TUAW Back-to-School Giveaway page. Good luck and thanks for reading!Permalink | Email this | CommentsКомментарии к сообщению:
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