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Category: Apps
Poster Acquired by Automattic ⇢
Tom Witkin:
I’m elated to share that I, along with Poster, will be joining Automattic. I’ll be working with the mobile team where I’ll be both designing and coding.
I missed this news when it was announced, but am excited at the possibilities here. I use Poster frequently to post to 512, and hope its excellence will spread across the WordPress platform.
Office for iPhone Released ⇢
It is US-only, iPhone-only, requires an Office 365 subscription, and is pretty rough around the edges. Sounds like a winner.
Whisper 1.0.1 Released ⇢
The new version of the App.net-based messaging app has some excellent release notes.
Dropbox Beta Aims at iPhoto ⇢
Nathan Ingraham at The Verge:
A new beta for the Dropbox desktop sync software was just released and one of the included new features is the ability to import photos straight from your iPhoto library. The software is smart enough to make folders out of your albums and events, so your photos will be just as organized in Dropbox as they are on in iPhoto.
Well, that would make moving to Dropbox from iPhoto easier for most users.
Byword 2.0 Released ⇢
Byword — my favorite Markdown-ready text editor for iOS and OS X — received a huge update today.
In addition to better Dropbox syncing (yay, offline!) and a tweaked UI on iOS, Byword 2.0 brings a huge feature: publishing.
Enabled by a $4.99 in-app purchase, Byword can now publish WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger and Scriptogram blogs and Evernote notebooks.
The WordPress support is the most helpful to me, as 512 runs on it. Currently, custom fields can’t be saved for re-use. I created a TextExpander snippet to drop linked_list_url= in place for now, but the developers say that better support for this sort of thing is coming in a future build. While I didn’t ask about in beta — I’m a terrible beta user — caching of categories and tags would be helpful as well.
Feedly Looks Forward ⇢
With the death of Google Reader just a few weeks away, the people behind Feedly are hard at work.
In addition to updating their web app, they’re working on something that made me smile:
We have been working behind the curtains with the developers of Reeder, Press, Nextgen Reader, Newsify and gReader as design partners for our Normandy project. Today we are excited to announce that you will be able to access your feedly from all these apps before Google Reader retires and that the access to feedly API will be free. More details soon.
RIP, Camino ⇢
Two things:
- I used the crap out of Camino in college. Safari wasn’t very good in the 10.2 and 10.3 days.
- I didn’t know it was still around.
Instacast Mac 1.0 Available ⇢
Martin Hering:
After a few weeks of beta testing, we’re very happy to announce that Instacast for Mac v1.0 is now available to download and purchase! We’d like to thank everyone who has participated in the beta as well all those who generously contributed to Instacast for Mac’s localization through Twitter.
Usually $19.99, it’s on sale for $14.99 through the end of the month.
Evernote Adds Reminders ⇢
Andrew Sinkov at Evernote:
For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to announce a new part of Evernote that will keep you on track every step of the way. Reminders are here. Our three most requested features rolled into one small package:
- In-app and email Alarms
- Quick note based to-do lists
- Pinning notes to the top of your note list
While this system isn’t nearly as powerful as something like OmniFocus, I think a lot of Evernote users are pretty happy this morning.
On OmniPresence ⇢
The new service from OmniGroup allows for easy, cloud-based file sharing between iOS and OS X versions of the company’s apps. You can sign up or host it yourself.
Apple Pulls Bang with Friends ⇢
I’m surprised it took this long, actually.