Chess Pro for the iPhone
Chess is arguably the most popular board game in the entire world. Its appeal spans cultures, genders and ages. It comes as no surprise, then, to learn that iPhone developers have been releasing chess games for the platform since the App Store debuted last July. Chess Pro is the latest entry in an already crowded iPhone chess library. So, is Chess Pro worth your time or should you continue your search for an iPhone chess game elsewhere?
Read more...Site Misconfiguration Leads to Unaccessible Site
Yesterday, a little error crept into our site configuration, which lead to a password prompt when someone tried to access the site. We have corrected it this morning and offer our deepest apologies if you have problems reading the site yesterday. We hope everything is working again. If you still have problems with the site let us know via the contact form or shoot me an e-mail at: a (dot) kucera (at) babylondreams (dot) de
Read more...iVolume
Recently I cleaned up our household's iTunes library. I merged two, more or less, similar libraries, cleaned out duplicates, assigned cover art, checked the tags and I used a little tool called iVolume to level out the volume of my entire library. Now I am able to listen to random tracks without constantly adjusting the volume just because the individual levels of the tracks are way off.
Read more...Frenzic for your iPhone
Editor's Note: Yes, you see right. We are also doing iPhone applications now. Thanks to our new writer Brendan Wilhide. This is the first of many iPhone reviews yet to come. I hope you enjoy them. If you want us to review a specific application, please let us know via the contact form.
Puzzle games and the iPhone are an almost perfect match. Puzzle games offer a quick distraction with fun, simple gameplay and iPhone owners love to kill time with a quick gaming session while waiting in line at the bank or riding in a car on a long trip. Yet despite the proliferation of puzzle games for the iPhone, it's becoming more and more difficult to tell the good games from the average ones.
Frenzic is a fast and frantic puzzle game for the iPhone. The game takes only moments to learn how to play and the game boasts some surprising features. Is Frenzic just another puzzle game or is it something more?
Read more...MacJournal
Mariner Software's MacJournal is designed for writers, bloggers and diarists. It's a program with a simple focus: to make writing easy. Designer Dan Schimpf has released five versions of MacJournal since 2001 and won the coveted Apple Design Award for Best Student Product in 2002.
MacJournal is regularly touted as world's most popular journaling software for the Macintosh and it seems to be the most used. What gives?
Read more...New Commenting System — Disqus
Just a quick heads up everybody. I am not very happy with the current commenting system, JS-Kit and I will try to implement a new system over the weekend called Disqus. Commenting might be flakey during the next few days, but the general site content should not suffer. Everything is supposed to be back to normal on Monday. Please bear with me.
I will leave the JS-Kit code in the old posts, so the comments will still work for now. At a later date I will probably merge those older comments with the posts and disable commenting on them.
Read more...Formulate Pro — Filling Things Out
Today I wanted to talk about a little program that you might not need to use very often, but when you need it it is worth its weight in gold. Did you ever have to fill out forms? Most of the time they come as PDF, but sometimes it is just a plain image. There are a few tools out there that allow you to fill out forms. Some of them cost a bit like PDFpen, PDFClerk or PDF Studio. Other really are costly, like Adobe's Acrobat. But for people like you and me, that occasionally need to fill out a form these are not really reasonable. Formulate Pro to the rescue! It does a lot of what the pricier tools do, but for free. In fact, it is even open source.
Read more...Macworld 2009 Keynote
As you might know, at the moment there is this little conference called Macworld Expo. Lots of new things are announced there, among others iLife'09, iWork'09 and a new 17" MacBook Pro.
To learn more about these new announcements watch the Keynote by Phil Schiller, Apple's Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. It is 1,5 hours long and shows off the new features of these applications. some of them a very cool.
Read more...AppCleaner — Un-Installer for the Masses
Sorry for being a bit behind schedule. Unfortunately, I have been caught by a cold and it won't let me go. Anyways… todays review will be a short one as well, simply because the application is pretty simple to use. I am talking about AppCleaner by FreeMacSoft a small very effective tool to un-install Mac OS X applications. "Un-install applications?", you ask? But isn't the way to un-install on a Mac to simply delete the program? Unfortunately, that is not true.
Read more...Happy New Year 2009
Hello dear readers. We hope you had a very nice New Year's Eve and wish you all the best for 2009.
We will take up regular business next week with two articles per week as before. Look forward to lots of nice application reviews and more giveaways.
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