Web Remote arrived at the Mac App Store
Web Remote, the app to control YouTube videos and music on Grooveshark.com with your Apple Remote, arrived at the Mac App Store today.
This new version comes with a completely redesigned on-screen menu for browsing related videos and navigating your playlists.
Click on the image below for a large scale preview:
Web Remote still supports the three websites: youtube.com, grooveshark.com, and audiobox.fm.
Head over to the Mac App Store for more details.
Shelf Design Contest Winners
Drum-roll please! It has been a very close call. The winning design of the DesktopShelves Shelf Design Contest with a one-vote lead is the Apple Fan Mug design.
Congratulations to Sérgio Alves from Portugal. He wins the main price, an iPod shuffle (he already took a snapshot of it).
On an excellent and very close second place came in the design Woodwork by Raphael from Germany. Raphael submitted a total of 4 beautiful designs.
Because of the final decision being so close and for submitting so many great designs I spontaneously decided to award a second price for Raphael. He wins a 25 EUR iTunes gift card.
Congratulations to both of you and a BIG thank you for everybody who participated!
You can see and download all designs in the design gallery.
Shelf Design Contest and a New DesktopShelves Release
If you know your way around an image editor such as Pixelmator, Photoshop, or Gimp here's a challenge for you:
Design a shelf for DesktopShelves and submit it to the Shelf Design Contest for a chance to win an iPod shuffle (best design) or one of 10 free licenses for DesktopShelves (random drawing).
Submissions are accepted until Sunday, Oct. 23rd. BIG Thank you! to iconpaper.org for helping organizate the contest.
What's new in DesktopShelves version 1.4?
This version comes withe top three requested features:
- Adjustable shelf sizes
- Adjustable space between shelf items
- Sortable shelves
- Bonus: drag and drop between shelves
A few people had reported problems where DesktopShelves once in a while would stop responding ("beach ball syndrome"). This should be fixed now, too.
Below are a few impressions of the new features.
How to update DesktopShelves
- Mac App Store users: launch the App Store and check the toolbar under "Updates".
- If you downloaded DesktopShelves from the website: click on the DesktopShelves icon in the menubar (or bring up the shelf context menu) and select Check for Updates...
If you do not have the app installed, you can download DesktopShelves here.
Sortable shelves
Adjustable space between shelf items
Adjustable shelf sizes
New TaskBadges version: access your todo lists from the menubar
"Towards more usefulness" is the theme for TaskBadges v0.3 beta (download link). With this version you can now access your todo lists right from the new menubar icon:
TaskBadges also got a fancy On/Off switch so you'll always know when your task list icons are being updated. Also, if you activate TaskBadges it will launch automatically when you log in to your Mac.
Last but not least, at the bottom of the main window you will find a small notification area that occasionally shows updates from the blog or news about other Kitestack apps (such as the awesome DesktopShelves).
The DesktopShelves 1.3.4 Beta is out!
The number one feature request for DesktopShelves was adjustable shelf sizes. This version of DesktopShelves brings you exactly that along the with second most requested feature: sortable shelves.
While we're at it, how about drag and drop between shelves and adjustable space between shelf items? You got it. Those are the four major changes in the new version, but there's actually quite a lot that has changed deep inside the application to make it work better.
A few people had reported problems where DesktopShelves once in a while would stop responding ("beach ball syndrome"). This should be fixed now, too.
If you'd like to try out the new features, you can download the beta below. Please let me know if the smaller sizes work for you (especially if you use a MacBook Air).
One thing: after you've downloaded the beta, make sure you move the old version of DesktopShelves to the Trash before you launch the new version. Otherwise you may end up with two "Open as Shelf" Finder menu entries.
Here a few impressions of the new features in action.
Sortable shelves
Adjustable space between shelf items
Adjustable shelf sizes