LiveView: on-screen prototyping on your iPhone
This is just freaking cool. LiveView can send a preview of what ever you are working on straight to all the iPhone’s on your LAN. The iPhone appears on your screen so you can position it over what you want to stream 1:1.
I’m sure we will see some innovative extensions come out of this. Although designed for collaboration you could use it to keep an idea on whats happening on your mac when you are away, say for example if you were in a chat application or some work specific program that can’t run on your iPhone.
Mac OS X 10.5 and iPhone OS 2.2 Required
Billings
Fast, efficient and beautiful invoice creation. If you read any freelance blogs there is no doubt you have heard of it. We cannot find any alternatives on other platforms that do the job quite as well.
Coda: Grow beautiful code
This is one of the apps that has switched the most web developers from Windows to Mac. Created to streamline your entire web process it achieves it in style.
EventBox: Social networking in a box
A smart way to organise your Twitter, Facebook, Google, Flickr, Digg profiles to name a few, also supports RSS content. $15.00 while in beta.
Scrivener: The biggest software advance since the word processor.
If you do any freelance writing or need to compile a hefty research report than this will be right up your alley. A 30 day free trial is available so away you go get scriving! (yeah that’s not really a word).
Delicious Library
Although not very practical for sheer OMFG look at this this app takes the cake. One of the coolest features though is to keep track of who borrowed your stuff by drag and dropping into your address book.
Think
Designed to help you block out all those social networking apps and distractions, it can’t block out your girlfriend (yet) but other than that its got all the moves to help you focus on the task at hand.
MacSaber: I can’t believe you thought this was just for iPhone
Free for all your duelling fun. It comes with one instruction do not get carried away and drop your $2000.00 PowerBook.
Cha-Ching
Track your spending with Cha-Ching for Mac and iPhone. Free for Mac and $2.99 for the iPhone companion.
iLife ‘09
This sells Macs period. Whether its the parent who could never work out how photo editing worked on a PC or the kid who wants the simple Mac way this is the killer app.
July 17th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Fantastic collection of apps! I use most of them myself, although the liveview app is definitely something I am going to mess around with!