One of the few things I’ve been missing when I switched from Mac to PC was a really good text editor. I have tried a bunch of the Mac apps, but I haven’t found any one that I have liked more than Ultra Edit. So, today I’m very happy that I read over at TUAW that Ultra Edit is available in a Mac version. It’s $79.95 and available here:
This is a bit off topic, but since I really like this site I’ll do this little post for them. For today only you can get any font from ComicBookFonts.com for only $20.11. Their fonts are very good and some of the fonts are usually priced at $395, so if you need a nice comic book font, today is the day.
I’m using a vanilla iPhone & iPad without any jailbreak but I’m a bit jealous on some of the nice apps available for jailbreaked iPhones like the MyWi and My3G. Here’s a nice list of the Top 10 Jailbreak apps compiled by Sayam over at CultofMac.com.
Top 10 Jailbreak Apps And Tweaks For 2011 [cultofmac.com]
Broken Sword Director’s Cut is currently free for download in the App Store. It’s not my cup of tea regarding games, but it has got nice ratings:
“…this is a must-play game: a latter day blockbuster in a director’s cut form”. The Independent online (5/5)
“An extraordinary example of how to properly remake a classic”. Pocket Gamer (9/10)
So if you got some 600MB to spare on your iPad, go get it!
Broken Sword [iTunes.apple.com]
There’s a shame that there isn’t an official Facebook iPad out yet and other software companies are trying to benefit from that fact. Facepad from Loytr is a free app that is commercialized by showing ads in the bottom of the app.
However it’s really not worth a download. It’s a bit buggy (crashes every now and then), uses a very tiny and blurry font and really doesn’t offer you anything that justifies a download – even though it’s free.
I actually prefer surfing to Facebook through Safari than using this app.
Verdict: Not worth a download.
iTunes link [iTunes.apple.com]
I wish you all a Happy New Year! Check out this cool mashup clip featuring Steve Jobs pitching the iPad for the Dragons’ Den.
If I had to delete all my iPad games but one, the one I’d keep would be ‘Fieldrunners’ from Subatomic Studios. I’ve spent so many hours with it and still enjoy it – but I’ve been longing for some new maps for ages. Now you can get 3 brand new maps for the game, and also, a very cool multiplayer mode. Read about what’s new inside:
Tomorrow iPad will finally be launched in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Many Apple lovers have of course already bought one from abroad (there’s approximately 40 000 iPads already in Sweden according to the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet) but now it’s possible to buy an official iPad. The actual launch will take place in about 20 minutes (30 Nov, 00:00, GMT +1) and some stores have open during the night to start deliver the goods. I guess Apple isn’t to happy about this launch since some of the sites started publishing the information about the upcoming iPad way too early, like MediaMarkt.se.
Today MacBundlePro unveiled 4 out 6 applications that will be featured in the upcoming NanoBundle 2. The four applications that were unveiled today was AirRadar2, MacHider, TranslateIt, and InPaint. More info inside.
Gameloft has a special Thanksgiving sale on a bunch of their top iPad / iPhone games including Settlers 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Brothers in Arms 2: Global Front, NFL 2011 and more. They are only $0.99 until tomorrow. Most of them are in the App Store toplist, so just fire it up and go nuts.