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Category: Apps
Glide launches Kickstarter project⇢
The Glide team:
Building an app yourself is hard work. Normally you need a lot of technical skills that most people don’t have. Glide makes it easy to create beautiful apps that look professional right from the start.
You simply put text, images and movies into folders, and Glide will build the app for you. When you change the content, the app updates automatically.
We have created a number of award winning apps using Glide, but we believe that everyone should be able to afford their own app. This Kickstarter is our way of making this happen.
The best mind mapping app⇢
Over on The Sweet Setup, Mike Schmitz breaks down some mind map apps to pick the best: MindNode.
Highball⇢
Highball is a new iPhone app from my friends over at Studio Neat. Here’s how Dan describes it:
When you stumble upon something tasty, the inclination is to share it. There were many paths we could have gone down in regards to sharing, but we took the simple one, with a twist. When you share a recipe, the app generates an image of a “recipe card,” which is super easy to share on Twitter or iMessage or email or whatever. The image is 16x9, orientated in portrait, so it is designed to look great on mobile.
Our favorite OS X launcher⇢
Joe Caiati, writing for The Sweet Setup:
We wouldn’t consider the OS X app launcher space a crowded one, but there are enough options out there that could make oneself think twice about clicking the download button. After numerous keystrokes and much reflective deliberation, we think that Alfred is the favorite launcher for Mac OS X.
Blink: Better Affiliate Links⇢
Making affiliate links for App Store apps is a pain, but Blink makes it fast and easy on iOS. With a nice set of URL schemes, this is going to be part of my mobile writing workflow from now on.
Microsoft launches Office 2016 for Mac preview⇢
I can feel many of you rolling your eyes already, but Office plays a central role if you have to live in a cross-platform world, as I do.
I haven’t played with this yet, but from Microsoft’s site, it looks like a welcome update to the applications so many people rely on everyday.
On the iPhone, pasta and cancer⇢
Federico Viticci:
I’ve been struggling to get back in shape after chemo.
Since being diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma (Stage IV) in late 2011, my life changed. Beyond the psychological and emotional consequences of how cancer affected me, my family, and my relationships, it is undeniable and abundantly clear that cancer took its toll on me from a physical perspective.
Last year, I decided to regain control of my body, my life habits, and my health. I started tracking everything I could about my activities, my exercise routine, the food I ate, and the time I spent working with my iPad instead of walking, sleeping, or enjoying time with my family. Since then, I’ve made a decision to not let cancer and its consequences define me any longer.
Top Hat⇢
A new app from my friends at Supertop:
Top Hat lives in the Yosemite menu bar and shows up-to-date daily sales figures for your apps. Revenue from In-App Purchases is aggregated to give you a single total for each app. Weekly figures can be inspected by holding ⌥ as you click the Top Hat icon.
This little one-off usually often come to iOS first, but the Mac menu bar is a great place for things like this. It really looks great.
Dropbox for iOS now runs faster and jumps higher⇢
Federico Viticci:
Version 3.7 of Dropbox, available now on the App Store, adds an action extension that lets you copy any file that can be shared with iOS’ native share menu directly to your Dropbox account. The extension is fairly basic: you can save to your root Dropbox folder and navigate sub-folders; when uploading, a modal dialog will show a progress bar, which will be automatically dismissed when the upload is done.
A look at Photos.app⇢
The Verge got a hands-on look with the upcoming Photos app for OS X, which replaces iPhoto and Aperture and uses iCloud for (optional) online storage.
This clearly isn’t a replacement for Aperture, but it looks a lot simpler and easier to use than iPhoto.
The new app will ship with 10.10.3
Realmac announces blogging platform⇢
The talented RealMac team is turning their OS X Markdown app into a blogging platform:
Typed.com is a blogging service for writers, journalists, artists, storytellers, and for anyone with something to say. It’s the online writing platform that we’ve been wanting to create and use for years.
Online services come and go, but we want to make something that stands the test of time. We want Typed.com to be around for decades to come, and with your help we can make this happen. We can build a blogging platform that’s sustainable and enjoyable to use.