Buzz Contacts for iPhone offers fast access to contacts
Buzz Contacts from Savvy Apps (US$0.99) is a fast way to reach contacts from your iPhone. Organize them into groups for one-tap access to phone calls, text messages, email or FaceTime sessions. The UI is about as clean and tidy as one can get and conv...
What’s keeping Mountain Lion off of some 64-bit Macs? Ars investigates
The system requirements for the OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) developer preview released last week indicated that quite a few "modern," 64-bit capable Macs would not be able to upgrade to the new OS. How...
Hiss Pipes Growl Alerts To Mountain Lion Notification Center
If you went ahead and loaded the developer preview of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion onto your Mac, you likely already played around with the new Notification Center. Until you got bored and fired up...Acorn Is A Fine Image Editor For Everyone [50 Mac Essentials #46]
Acorn describes itself as “an image editor for humans”, and that sums it up in a nutshell. What you get inside Acorn are pretty much all the image editing features you’re ever going to need, for a fraction of the price of some of...Counterfeit Pokemon apps sneak into App Store
Each app in the iOS App Store must go through Apple's notorious approval process. Previously known for its heavy ban hammer, Apple is now earning a reputation for being lax and letting a myriad of cloned and counterfeit apps into the App Store. Accor...
Study: iPads improve Kindergarten literacy scores
Apple is pushing for iPad use in education, and several schools have taken up the charge. Now, a study of kindergarteners in Auburn, Maine has shown that students who use iPads score better in every literacy test than those who don't. The study focus...
Apple counts down to 25 billion App Store downloads
More than 24 billion apps have been downloaded from the App Store, and Apple has rolled out a giveaway for whoever is lucky enough to claim the 25 billionth download. Like previous giveaways, there's a pretty sweet pot up for grabs: a US$10,000 App S...
Rogue Amoeba on creating the look of Piezo
Christa Mrgan has published an interesting post at Rogue Amoeba about developing the look and feel of that company's Piezo recording software. Rogue Amoeba is known for simple, intelligent designs. It's fascinating to see how the company works from b...
WinZip for iOS: No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you
During the nine years I spent in Windows Hell[TM] at IBM, WinZip was on every machine I used. The app performs a function similar to OS X's compress capability, letting shove a group of files into a single compassed file or unpack a zipped file or fol...
