Let your Mac boot in style with BootXChanger, a simple application that allows you to replace the gray apple with something with a bit more pizzazz.
You can choose from a variety of images, including the colored Apple logo, the Happy Mac and more, or make your own if you’re feeling extra adventurous.
Thumber is an interesting Mac application that allows you to take snapshots of a movie at one-second intervals and then stitch them together into one giant image. (The above is from Blackhawk Down.)
The result is a look at a movie in a way that’s never been done before, where you can start to see the pacing, color palate, and other directorial decisions that often get missed when viewing movies at full speed.
There’s something about Macs that just makes the app developers want to bundle, and the latest offering is the Mac Bundle Box (their fourth!), a collection of thirteen apps worth more than $333 that is selling for just $49.
In addition to the great deal they’re offering buyers, they’re also offering to do some good too, with 5% of each sale is going to Charity:Water, an organization that’s helping to build wells for the more than 1.1 billion people who don’t have safe drinking water.
The included applications are Relationship, Code Collector, DrawIt, Espionage, Cover Stream, DEVONnote, QuickScale, Project Calculator, Transcriva, Magnet, Involer, Stuf and Blog Assist, so if you’ve been looking to pick up any one of those, then perhaps now’s the time to pick up all of them and do some good while you’re at it.
Who says Google’s engineers don’t know how to have fun?
For Macworld, David Oster created an application that combines Google Earth, the Monster Milktruck program, and a Wii Balance Board to allow you to ‘surf’ through Google Earth.
Unfortunately, the Earth Surfer app isn’t yet ready for prime time, but Google’s LatLong Blog says that it should be released some time next week, and until then, you can watch this video to see what the fun is all about:
It’s always nice to get a peak behind the scenes of a new application before it hits the market, because you can see some of the decisions that the designers made to get to the final product, and you can imagine what decisions you yourself would have made in their shoes.
Matt Gemmell created Favorites for the iPhone, a ‘Speed-dial with style’ application that lets you dial your contacts by face instead of name, and created a very thorough and lengthy blog post about UI design decisions he made along the way, as well as some of the lessons learned during the development process with regard [...]