So, a random google search showed that The Incident is available, fully cracked and unlocked, from a pirate website that asks its visitors for donations to keep cracking iOS games. Finding this just a bit too funny, I visited their IRC channel.
After this exchange, a moderator listed off the usual excuses in reply and accused me of “suing little kids” and “ruining my own app.” I hope at least someone in the channel thought about the actual real people behind the apps they care about so much that they crack them, frequent a website that cracks them, and furthermore spend Saturday afternoon chatting about it.
What really enrages me, is that this person is asking for donations.
No-Brainer: 51% off of Pixelmator
The excellent picture editor Pixelmator is on sale at MacUpdate until Monday morning.
It usually costs $59,- but you can get it for $29,- for the next two days.
Having wanted the application for quite some time now, I immediately nabbed it.
Daring Fireball: What's Next for Nokia?
Brilliant write-up; there’s not much more anyone could add to this.
I’ve had to go back to using my old Nokia E51 while waiting for my iPhone 4 and the experience has been gruelling.
It wasn’t the hardware — I quite like the design and the build — but the lack of apps, the crummy software and the awful UI.
Elements is shaping up nicely
Justin Williams pushed out Elements 1.1b1 to testers yesterday.
I’m extremely impressed by what he has managed to get into this revision of the app.
A lot of useful stuff will be coming in the next release, including on-device file renaming and file deletion, as well as minor design changes.
Alarms by Media Atelier
This is one impressive little piece of software.
Nicely designed and implemented, was more useful and versatile than alarm and timer applications for the Mac’s Dashboard.
It’s currently in public beta, but I can’t wait for it to go v1.0, so I can throw money at the developers.
A short take on Second Gear’s Elements
Late yesterday evening I found out about Second Gear’s latest software release on The Loop. The application is called Elements and is a text editor with Dropbox synchronisation.
Having been quite happy with the system I use for note taking right now,
— Simplenote (iPhone) + Simplenote cloud sync + Notational Velocity (Mac) —
I still liked the prospect of having one less service in my workflow, without sacrificing efficiency.
After having used Elements throughout the day, I have to say that I really like the app: It strats-up quickly, the interface looks nice and nicely customisable to fit my needs.
This 1.0 release it’s still a bit flaky — I’ve encountered a bug that crashes the app when you scroll to the bottom of the list— and for me (YMMV) it’s missing a few key functions to make it as useful as Simplenote:
- On-device-renaming — it’s coming in version 1.1
- (Full text) Search on the iPhone/iPad
- The ability to sort the file list by creation date or name. Though to be fair, Simplenote doesn’t have this ability either.
Nevertheless, Elements has already replaced Simplenote on my iPhone 4.
If you want to, you can check out the quick guide I wrote, explaining how to synchronise notes between Notational Velocity and Elements.
Setting up Notational Velocity to sync with Elements
A couple of steps are necessary to make Notational Velocity play nice with Second Gear’s text editor for the iPhone and iPad:
- Install Elements on the iPhone/iPad and log into your Dropbox account; the application will add a folder called Elements to your Dropbox.
- Disable Synchronisation with Simplenote, if you have been using it.
- Tell Notational Velocity to store your notes as ’Plain Text Files’
- Navigate to the Folder Notational Velocity stores your notes, it’s located at ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Data by default.
- Copy all the notes from this folder to the Elements folder in your Dropbox.
- Tell Notational Velocity to read your notes from the Elements folder in your Dropbox.
Done. Now you can either re-enable Simplenote synchronisation, should you want to have this service as a backup, or delete you notes from the Simplenote servers, which is what I’ve done.
Bloatware, now on your Android device
This is great: Unwanted, non-removable bloatware on factory new Android devices. It’s like Windows 98 all over again.
I think Apple should just get the old ‘Get a Mac’ ad out of the archives, and overlay the words ‘PC’ with ‘Android’ and ‘Mac’ with ‘iPhone’.
If you don’t know which ad I’m talking about, here it is:
keep track of newly released extensions for Safari
Extensions for Safari are cropping up all over the internet. Jonas Wisser set up a Tumblr blog to keep track of them.
You should check out the blog, there are already a few very handy extensions available for download.
Ignorance is bliss. Adobe edition.
John Paczkowski conducted an interview with Adobe’s co-chairman Chuck Geschke, in which the latter demonstrated an incredible capacity for cluelessness.
The link above leads to John Gruber’s comments on a few of the more extreme examples of said cluelessness. Sweet, sweet reason…
My favourite weather app Outside has been updated to version 1.1!
A x.1 update might not sound like much, but it is the first major update for the application:
It now supports multiple locations, sports a weather overview and received some nice little tweaks — everything you’d expect from dedicated indie developers.
