[tweetmeme] There’s a bunch of sites out there advertising christmas wallpapers, but a large part of them are geared toward the PC crowd—random pictures of snow, 4:3 aspect ratio, and sharp vector artwork. If you’re planning to dress up your Mac, here’s a limited but tasty selection of wallpapers that’ll fit right into your holiday mood. Flarup Designed by Michael Flarup of PixelResort, this cozy candy coated artwork will definitely blend in with all that snow outside [Disclaimer: I don’t have any snow outside to actually test my claims]. Michael was also kind enough to create a stunning timelapse video…
Author: Milind Alvares
[tweetmeme] Foobi is a diet tracker. With elegance and polish unlike any other. The guys at Tapplox have designed a dark, candy coated user interface, and best of all, it’s an app you will find really useful in your everyday life. To quote Brandon’s review on SA: Open up Foobi, and you’re greeted with a slider filled with categories of foods. But instead of trying to count calories, which is ultimately pointless, it helps you keep track of how many servings you had for each category. All these categories can be renamed and their daily serving allowance adjusted. If you…
[tweetmeme] Some of you might use Genius, some might use plain old shuffle, or some might use some complex playlist generation software like Tangerine. Whatever be your preference, you must check out Moodagent, a slick little iPhone app with jazzy graphics. After a rather long initial sync with their cloud database, the moodagent client is ready to create playlists. You simply slide the mood icons up and down, and it creates a playlist. If you want you can start with a seed track and moodagent will take over. You can then save playlists and come back to them later. The…
[tweetmeme] Very few apps manage to deviate from user interface standards and still manage to look so good. Movies Now by Kodu features the most visibly gorgeous tab-bar, that pretty much defines this app. But they didn’t stop there. Everything from the controls, to the background, to the way the thumbnails are laid out is ultimate perfection. Their latest pixel goodness is in the form of a pop up that allows you to add a movie to your wishlist. What is it? Movies Now, as the name suggests, is all about what’s currently playing in a theatre near you. It…
[tweetmeme] The characteristic user interfaces in the Apple community start off with the icon. It shows the attention to detail a production has gone through, to make the product as comfortable for the end user as possible. The icon is the first thing the user see’s of an app, practically judging the app by what it represents. We’ve had our greats in the icon department on the Mac, but now with the app store’s boom, there’s a whole lot of new opportunities created for designers looking to be a part of the Apple revolution. Marcelo Marfil is one such designer…
[tweetmeme] For lovers of minimalism and simplicity in design, here’s TeuxDeux, an ultra clean task list manager right in your browser. The single view gives you 7 days of the week—passed days in grey, today in red, and future days in black—along with a section at the bottom for unplanned tasks. It’s pretty much like a notebook on your screen really. You’re not bound by nitty gritty details like time or priority. As simple as the view may look, it’s actually fully Ajax powered, so you can check off items, drag them between dates, and add new items just by…