LEGO Builder Case for iPhone 5
It's no secret that I love LEGO stuff. I have kits stashed all over the place, with a giant box of the toys in the attic, waiting for my kids to get a little bit older. Belkin's LEGO Builder Case for iPhone 5 isn't the only LEGO-inspired case out there, but it might be my favorite, as it's built with a real,…
PicLab for iPhone
The iOS App Store is replete with great photo editing apps these days, and one of the better-looking ones is PicLab for iPhone. It allows you to add nice typography and lots of different photo effects to your shots, with an interface that looks like it was ripped straight out of Letterpress (in a good way). The app itself is free, but…
Connected Data Transporter
The T&T gang are all fans of Dropbox, but it can be expensive if you need a lot of space, and with PRISM and all sorts of other craziness, in the world, many nerds are looking to something with Dropbox-like features that they can run themselves. Enter Connected Data's Transporter. For $199, you get a 2.5-inch hard drive case that looks like…
Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac
Dragon Dictate is one of the most well-known dictation apps for the Mac, due to its accuracy and extensive feature list. Normally it goes for $200, but the guys over at StackSocial are currently offering it at $100 for the next 6 days (ending July 1st, 2013). This is the dictation app used by people like our friend David Sparks. As he'll…
iBank for Mac and iPad
There's no shortage of financial software out there, but most of the options are ugly, hard to use, or both. Enter iBank. The Mac and iOS app suite that blows something like Quicken Essentials out of the water. The app can connect to almost any bank, credit union or savings institution, making it easy and fast to check up on accounts, plan…
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Permanent – Spreadsheets for iPad
If you spend a lot of time messing around with spreadsheets, you might want to check out Permanent for iPad. It's an easy-on-the-eyes spreadsheet app that's been optimized for touch and supports the XLSX and CSV formats for easy importing/exporting. As you'd expect, you can also write your own equation formulas. Normally this app costs $20, but for today only (June 25th,…
NetNewsWire 4.0 Beta
(Image courtesy of MacStories) NetNewsWire, one of the most popular RSS apps ever made for the Mac, has just opened up a beta version of it's upcoming 4.0 release to the public. The guys at Black Pixel have been working hard behind the scenes for a while now, updating the interface to mesh well with OS X Mountain Lion and incorporating a…
13-inch MacBook Air (Mid-2013)
The 13-inch MacBook Air is the best Mac Apple has for sale. It's cheap, light and powerful, and while the 13-inch screen isn't Retina, it looks great, and leaves lots of room for a great keyboard and trackpad. With Intel's new Haswell chipsets, the mid-2013 model is better than ever. While I'd build one with a larger SSD and 8 GB of…
Sky Guide for iOS
If the 'Night Sky' edition of Field Notes wasn't enough of an astronomy fix for you, I'd recommend checking out Sky Guide for iOS. This thing had been sitting somewhere in my AppShopper wish list for a long time, forgotten, until Ben Brooks wrote about it yesterday. I'm glad he did, because this is such a cool app. The way it works…
Some Awesome App.net Clients
For the uninitiated, App.net is an ad-free, subscription-based service that is being used for not only Twitter-like conversations, but private messaging, file storage, sharing, and more. If that sounds a little scattered, it is, because App.net is more than just a social network — it's a family of APIs that can power all sorts of individual, discrete services, all with a single…
Chatology for Mac
Chatology is a Mac app that allows you to search your Messages and iChat history, rather than relying on the frustratingly poor search features built into each one. Essentially, it's a well-designed front-end for your Mac's chat logs. You can view your entire chat history with anyone on your list, and it lets you easily narrow down to just the images or…
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Field Notes – ‘Night Sky’ Edition
The latest in the Field Notes 'Colors' lineup is the gorgeous Night Sky edition. On the back cover you'll find a set of constellations – including Andromeda, Cassiopeia, Pegasus, Ursa Major/Minor, Draco, Boötes, Cygnus, Lyra, and Aquila – with each cover featuring a different group. These are some of the most attractive Field Notes I've ever seen, but maybe I'm a little…
Lumu Light Meter for iPhone
The Lumu is a light meter built for the iPhone. The small orb plugs in to the headphone hack of the iPhone, giving you detailed information about the light affecting your photograph. The app will allow users not only to measure light, but attach all sorts of metadata to the moment: location, voice recording, notes, pictures, photo parameters more. The Kickstarter project…
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VSCO Cam 2.0
This won't be the first time we've mentioned VSCO Cam – one of the best iPhone photography apps ever made, in my opinion – but I felt that the recent 2.0 update was worth another look. They've completely overhauled the interface, adding new features such as separate focus and exposure rings while shooting, as well as a white balance "lock". They've also…
The Sketchnote Typeface
Longtime readers may remember Mike Rohde's The Sketchnote Handbook, a guide to taking better notes by sketching rather than writing. If you liked the book, you're gonna love The Sketchnote Typeface. Mike created this typeface by scanning actual ink-spread on paper to make it more authentic. Of course, he did it to save himself a lot of work while writing the book…
Apple’s New AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Base Stations (802.11ac)
There were tons of amazing things announced during Apple's WWDC 2013 keynote the other day, but two of those products that are already available for purchase are the new AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule Base Stations. These bad boys are now equipped with 802.11ac WiFi technology, which is said to be up to three times faster than the previous 802.11n. Each one…
Tunebox for iOS
Tunebox is a neat iOS app that acts as an audio player for your Dropbox account. It automatically scans your entire Dropbox folder for any MP3 or MP4/AAC audio files, then organizes them the same way the built-in Music app does: by Artist, Album, and Song. You can save any track for offline playing, or just stream whatever you want as long…