TapnScrap – Scrapbooking on your iPhone
Mac News Online is happy to announce that TapnScrap a Scrapbooking App for the iPhone, iPod Touch and soon the iPad has been released into the App Store. If you enjoy making scrapbooks, and you have an iPhone I highly reccomend you download TapnScrap [iTunes Link].
8 Ways the iPad Changes Things
1. Change which devices we use to do what. Checking my email can now be done from my lap, using only my fingers. I think certain everyday functions like email, reading news, watching videos will become – something we can do on the computer but prefer to do on an iPad or Slate.
2. It will evolve quickly to fix problems that had no solution until now. I think the iPad will be a goto platform for the Military, Education, and Medical industries. Why? Because they trust Apple, and with good reason. A lot of people predicted the iPhone would be a failure, it wasn’t.
3. It’s setting the tone for wireless carriers in America. By getting ATT to allow contractless 3G data access it paves the way for Apple to demand the same thing for the next iPhone.
4. 140,000 possibilities already exist. iPad can run every app from the app store natively. Some Apps within the app store are definitely better suited to the large iPad Screen, and some aren’t. But the ability to run every app on day 1, is a very smart decision by Apple, Akin to the universal binary solution – while Apple transitioned from PowerPC to Intel chips. It’s a seamless bridge to the future.
5. The magic is in the SDK. Developers will jump on the new user interface elements for the iPad allowing them to create even cooler apps than are possible for the iPhone. There will be a lot of iPad only Apps! In order to make the iPad a true success Apple will have to get all the iPhone developers on board in a big way. Steve Forstall said as much when he said “There will be a new GoldRush in the app store”.
6. Large multi touch screen means simpler content creation. In a time when cheap ubiquitous cameras has allowed youtube stars to be born. I think the iPad will allow people who want to create new types of media to do so very easily.
7. When the hardware catches up, Apple will be a leader in tablet UI interface design. By hardware catching up I am referring to color e-ink solutions like Pixel Qi becoming better and less expensive.
8. It’s only the first release. Apple has a consistent product release cycle, debuting newer, better, faster products on schedule. I expect that within 3 years, you’ll see an iPad for $349 that makes this version of the iPad look silly.
What happened to MNO?
Dear Readers,
What Happened
Why this blog hasn’t been updated in almost a year.
As it’s primary contributor, Nick Pulido, has recently launched an iPhone App company called Tappix, and subsequently launched it’s first App, iAura. iAura has sold hundreds of copies so far, and has only been in the App Store since June.
As many of you know starting a company takes much of your time, and effort, leaving the projects before it too often neglected.
We’re Back
Moving forward we will posting the same mac related content that you could find here before, but we will also be adding a weekly iPhone App review, as well as various other iPhone related news. I know some people in the Mac community think that the news is already too saturated with iPhone stories. We promise not to bombard you with every app related story, or iPhone rumor. Rather we will aspire to be a quality source for interesting Apple, Mac and iPhone related content. We hope you enjoy the new content we will be bringing you, and welcome any and all feedback.
Search Your Bookmarks from Your Menu Bar
All Bookmarks is a free download that lets you easily search your bookmarks from the menu bar. It includes support for all the major browsers and is available via the link below.
MacFuse: Making Mac OS NTFS Literate
Problem:
I need to copy or save a file(s) from my trusty Apple machine to an NTFS formatted drive. Unfortunately, Mac OS only supports read from an NTFS drive.
Since I work with a lot of Microsoft products and Windows computers at work, I run into this kind of problem more often than I’d like to. In the past, I’ve developed intricate, roundabout ways of working past this issue – transferring to a Windows machine over FTP, using Boot Camp, or just convincing myself it’s not an important enough file transfer.
Recently, I found MacFuse, a mechanism based on FUSE (File-system in USErspace) for Linux. MacFuse allows the user to mount a number of different file systems (NTFS, ftpfs, sshfs) and write to them natively from Mac OS.
To set this up on your machine, first download MacFuse. It can be found at the Google project page. Second, get the NTFS read/write driver, NTFS-3G.
Install MacFuse. Then install NTFS-3G. Restart your computer (as recommended by the install client) and mount your NTFS drive. Drag a file from your Macintosh partition to the NTFS drive. Wow. That was sexy.
Enjoy.
PhotoBook and the Socially Networked Mac
PhotoBook
PhotoBook is a Facebook photo browser for Mac. It makes it easy and fun to manage, share, and view your friends’ Facebook photos in one intuitive interface. This app has a very iPhoto feel to it, and makes browsing photos from Facebook a joy, you can also easily add selected photos to your iPhoto library! It runs super fast in Leopard and has some pretty slick GUI tricks. Did I mention it was completely free?
Check out PhotoBook and more at our Socially Networked Mac Page !
