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For most office-bound people, checking their calendar is one of the biggest chores of the electronic world. On the Mac we've got many great options for managing calendars, including iCal, but what about a fast way to check your schedule from your desktop? That's where CalendarBar comes in.
This little gem of a Mac app sits in your menu bar, ready to tell you what's coming up at a moment's notice. Click the icon and a menu showing all your up-and-coming appointments and important dates drops down for easy viewing. CalendarBar will integrate with iCal, meaning you can view any calendar you can sync with it.
Even if you're not an iCal user, CalendarBar can connect with Google Calendar and even Facebook for events and birthday integration. Clicking an entry will launch the appropriate application and take you to that specific event. In iCal's case, it'll launch and bring up the properties for the event. For things such as a birthday reminder from Facebook, CalendarBar will launch your default browser and show you the person or event of interest.
Tasks from iCal are also displayed, with the ability to limit them to a set time period and clear them right from CalendarBar. Reminders can be sent via Growl. The menu bar icon can show you the current date or display the number of calendar entries. The drop-down menu also has extensive customization options, with the font, style, width and dates all adjustable.
If you're someone who has all their dates, meetings, birthdays and reminders plugged into an electronic calendar, and you need fast at-a-glance access, then CalendarBar is an absolute no-brainer. It's small, simple, slick and fast for US$4.99.
TUAW's Daily Mac App: CalendarBar originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 02 May 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Blurb is best known for self-publishing books, but a new iPhone app expands the company's scope to mobile storytelling. Blurb Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch allows you to take photos, video and audio from the iPhone, including from apps such as Instagram, Hipstamatic and Photoshop Express, and turn them into a visual book that can be shared via email, Twitter or Facebook.
Blurb is a free download and allows you to have up to eight images, a 30-second audio clip per image and a 10-second video clip per story with seven themes to choose from. An in-app purchase of US$1.99 will net you up to 15 photos, a 2-minute audio clip per image and three video clips up to 30 seconds each per story along with an additional eight themes.
The app itself is easy to use, and it's very stable. After creating the slideshow, you can upload it to Blurb's site for sharing. A very nice feature is that you can make changes to the slideshow; the app will update it to the same location on Blurb's site for you, so you do not have to change any shared URLs. There are a few minor drawbacks, mainly that the text size for captions is much too big and obscures a good bit of the image when posted online.
Check out this test slideshow from a recent trip to New York City to see the app in action.
Blurb app creates multimedia stories on iPhone originally appeared on TUAW on Sun, 01 May 2011 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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At just $0.99 in the US App Store, Zarik HD provides a great little software title for puzzle lovers. The concept couldn't be easier: you move dice into square outlines, each turn removing a pip from the front face.
The devil is, however, in the details. You have to get each die into a square using exactly the right number of moves. How you do so can take seconds, minutes, or hours to figure out. You won't win if your die is in the right place but with pips remaining.
With lots of clever add-ons including impenetrable blocks, pip-bonus power-ups, dice that can't be pushed by other dice, teleporting dice, and more, each level of this game offers a stand-alone challenge that will amuse anyone who likes these kinds of brain-teasing games.
The graphics are simple but very well done for the most part. That isn't to say I didn't have some issues.
I didn't like that on some levels the dice size seemed to shrink to accommodate more items on-screen. I was also not very fond of the undo button being on the bottom left, away from where most people have their primary hand in position. I also wish the settings were not linked to a "pause" button but had their own icon, because it just doesn't seem logical to me to combine them that way. Those are all fairly minor quibbles, however.
If you like thoughtful puzzles without obvious solutions, then Zarik is loaded to the gills with hours of fun. If you have a low frustration tolerance, you'll probably do best looking elsewhere for your iPad entertainment because these challenges can be fairly diabolical. I enjoyed working through the first forty-odd levels and am looking forward to playing more.
App Review: Zarik HD for iPad offers challenging puzzles, engaging design originally appeared on TUAW on Mon, 02 May 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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IK Multimedi/ have posted their iRig Recorder app ($5) for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store, bringing quality recordings up to 16-bit 44.1kHz, allowing field recorders, podcasters and other audio professionals to create pro-quality vocal recordings that can then be transferred to computers for further work via e-mail, Wi-Fi, FTP or iTunes File Sharing. The app itself features a set of basic editing tools and effects to enhance the recordings, and organizes them by date or geographic location.... Source: http://feeds.macnn.com/click.phdo?i=c6ce4814ce18370cb9afb0f312406f7d
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