In today’s day and age, hard disk space is not as much a scarce resource as it used to be just a few years ago. But with more space comes more responsibility as well. Keeping your data and files organized has become a very difficult and exhausting task. Especially if you are in need of copying and moving a lot of files, unintentional duplicates of documents can be a real mess. Of all the solutions available today to stop this burden of having useless data covering precious space on your HD, Gemini from MacPaw is the newest, and in my…
Author: Lukas Hermann
It’s the week of music controllers, I guess. Just a few days ago, I wrote about Simplify — a fast, easy, Ecoute-like app with minimal controls for the music you are listening to using a small, vinyl-style window. Today, I bring you Skip Tunes — same features, but with a totally different approach. Like Simplify, you can select between iTunes, Rdio and Spotify as your default music player to control. But with this app, the action happens right in the menubar. After launching, Skip Tunes displays the playback controlling functions of play/pause and forward at the very top of your…
Recording audio can get pretty overwhelming these days. The market is already filled with highly complex apps that offer many features normal users don’t really need. There are apps like Audio Hijack Pro or Logic that are targeted towards the professional sound producers. But there is also the need for simple, fast and easy sound recording apps which nevertheless possess professional features — just think of QuickTime and you know what I mean. The built-in way of recording audio in Lion is way too simple, since it can’t select apps as audio inputs and beyond that it does not wow…
We all love music, don’t we? But not that many people love their iTunes app, wouldn’t you agree? The app has become cluttered with every release as Apple continues to shove more features into it. This has resulted in many alternative solutions being offered, both to control and organize your music without fiddling with the iTunes interface. Accomplishing this with some sexy interfaces and nicely pushed pixels would be heaven for music lovers. Especially, controller apps like Ecoute have to have a stunning UI to stay competitive against the overwhelming functionality of iTunes and other competitors. Simplify, an app designed…
Just one month ago, the very first Mac client for this hot photo thing called Instagram arrived. Instadesk features a lot of functionality and a very good integration of the service. But it definitely lacks in design. For all you pixel lovers, Mobelux (a Richmond-based developer/designer team) is now offering Carousel. It is the virtual shelf for you to explore what all those instagram addicts had uploaded. And while making all the important features like following users, integrated Mac shortcuts and saving photos locally possible, it looks damn hot at the same time. So for all the instagram users out…
I am a music addict. And everytime I hear of a new release by one of my countless favorite bands I think “What? It is out for about two months now, why did I not know that?!” The problem is that there aren’t any music news resources that cater to your personal tastes — iTunes’s new releases panel shows you either the Beatles or John Mayer. Nomis, developed by the German developer duo Taprockets is a fresh approach to keep you updated with the works of your favourite artists. In a very hot, Attic-like interface design, Nomis syncs artist information…