MacHeist nanoBundle 2, Twitterific Giveaway
Macheist has released nanoBundle 2 containing popular applications widely used by mac user. Using this chance, I’d like to share with everyone these application by buying a bundle. To do that, I need you to tell me whether you are interested with the applications in this bundle.
So, when are you going to hold the giveaway?
Simply mention @sayzlim in any of your tweets that show which application you like and why. I’ll purchase the bundle and hold a giveaway once this tweet hits 144. So get your friend to tweet too.
Eg. Give me CoverScout because my library is a mess @sayzlim
Wait! Where is the Twitterrific giveaway you promised?
Twitterrific was the license from the previous bonus bundle from MacHeist. Because I don’t use it. I think it’s better for you who is the regular user to get this license. To become eligible to Twitterrific giveaway, follow @sayzlim and show your love to twitterrific by tweet this :
@sayzlim I heart @twitterrific
What is included in this nanoBundle 2?
In case you don’t know what is included in the bundle, I’ll tell you some of the applications I like.
RipIt - Effortless DVD importing
It seems like forever since you were manually popping a CD into a player to listen to music. So why are you still doing this for your DVDs? RipIt makes it virtually effortless to import your DVDs to your Mac… simply pop in a disc and it does all the work for you, automatically.
With RipIt, you have the choice to “rip” a DVD so that you have an exact duplicate of the original. Or if you wish to save space, you can use its handy compress feature. And you can easily store your videos so that they’ll work on your Apple TV or iPhone.
CoverScout - Rediscover your music
We humans are very visual animals. When we’re browsing for music in iTunes, our eyes are drawn to the beautiful, colorful cover art. But if an album is missing cover art, then we’re very likely to gloss over it. Take a quick look in your collection for the albums with missing cover art… when’s the last time you’ve played most of them? The answer’s likely “not very recently”. This will all end when you have CoverScout.
You can let CoverScout do all the work of finding and applying the covers to your albums completely automatically. Or if you prefer more control, CoverScout lets you take as much control as you want with a variety of image editing functions. You can even use your iSight to take snapshots of your actual CDs.
After a single use, you’ll have a feeling of “completeness” once all your albums finally have cover art.
Tales of Monkey Island - Humor, romance, & piratey swashbuckling in an all new epic saga!
Tales of Monkey Island is a five-episode adventure game saga featuring mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood and his motley crew. The game pulls the legendary franchise thundering and plundering into the modern era with an epic storyline conceived by some of the same team that dreamed up the original LucasArts games.
Reset Profile Image in Tweetie
Tweetie, a simple and elegant Twitter application, is liked by many mac enthusiast from the desktop apps to iPhone apps. It is no wonder why Tweetie is popular because of its user interface which won the leading Apple Design Awards for iPhone. Of course, there is also some minor problem which the developer hasn’t fixed yet.
Have you ever changed your Twitter profile image and realize that Tweetie doesn’t cache and change your profile image accordingly? There is a chance the problem is caused by the slow caching system on Twitter server. But if your profile picture doesn’t change after 1-2 days. Then the problem lies with the Tweetie caching system.
To reset your Tweetie profile image cache, delete the cache image folder “com.atebits.tweetie.profile-images” in :
User > Home > Library > com.atebits.tweetie.profile-images
and reopen your Tweetie. That’ll solve the problem.
Follow me on Twitter @sayzlim . And this is another detailed Tweetie Tips and Tricks Guide.
iPad - Buy or Not?
With the announcement of Apple - iPad, many Apple fans are either disappointed or excited by it. Me as one of the Apple fans doesn’t really take much interest in iPad. While the price is considered as cheap for Apple products, it may gouge out my wallet to purchase one.
I’ve been very active on Twitter lately and have seen several response why they want or don’t want to buy iPad. Some of them really make sense. This won’t be an in-depth review. It is only my personal insight about this iPad.
It can only run one application
Many people complain how bad this iPad is for not being able to run multiple applications. While I’m not really bothered by it because it is a feature (in my case). It’s better to focus on one thing in one time rather than playing around without a certain goal. Sure, it is pleasant to chat while listening to music. But for once in a while, try to listen to a song with your mind focused.
Remember to only do one thing at one time, let’s keep it minimal.
Preview, Presentation, and Portable
Won’t it be nice to be able to do presentation to your client by carrying this 9.7 inch tablet to meet your client and do eye to tablet presentation? Unlike using laptop, you can easily just flip it around to show your client your portfolio or presentation slide. Browsing and viewing photo won’t be just self-excitement again. Don’t forget that while you’re traveling, it is very troublesome to take out your laptop just to browse website to kill times.
Not for savvy user
iPad doesn’t work with the refined Mac OS X, instead it use the iPhone alike OS to run the applications. For some savvy user, the lack of ability to customize like most of the normal OS X is insufficient. Truthfully, the iPad is created to target the audience who is incapable to perform our daily hobbies like installing, downloading, syncing application across platform.
Conclusion
Apple has taken another approach that no one are foreseeing. Manufacturer always try to make a super-computer or mobile-phone with countless of *trash ability. My thought on this iPad is a nice and simple device for user who do simple task daily. If you don’t need laptop and only requires a simple device to manage your to-do task, browsing experience, grocery list, etc. iPad can be a suitable choice. So let’s not frown over the lack of multi-tasking in iPad.
