The long and short of the app is that it is a minimalist text edit tool that eliminates all windows, menus, etc with an ambient background and music (all of which can be changed or turned off if you so choose). I, for one, am the chief among all those that get distracted by the internet, my fun Mac apps, twitter, the book of faces, and other stuff I want but can’t afford. I’ve downloaded the application and it suites my needs.
Important FYI
The Beta v.2 is out and it allows auto-save (every 3 minutes) and word count. God knows how important these two things are for people. One more thing, it allows you to save your text document in Ommwriter format or a text file. ‘Nough said, right? You love it already! K great, go download it here.
Background Info
Ommwriter came to my attention when it popped up in my twitter stream courtesy of Brent Spore of iboughtamac.com and I find it to be absolutely amazing. It’s a free Mac-ONLY program (sorry PC owners, but keep hope alive) that was developed by Herraiz Soto & Co, a digital creative agency, based in Barcelona, Spain.
So I have been trying to figure out how to get photos from my iPhone to this blog without using MobileMe, or physically syncing photos with my mac then uploading to here. Thanks to DropBox’s new iPhone app, the problem is solved. I can now take photos with my iPhone and drop them in my dropbox account. When I get back to my computer my photos that I’ve taken and dropped in my account are sitting on my hard drive ready for me to just upload directly into my blog post. I love it!!! I love this company and their team rocks!
Now, as for MobileMe, let me say that I love Apple, if you couldn’t already tell. But Steve let me give some tough love by saying…MobileMe is busted! I hate it and it doesn’t do me a world of good outside of syncing my contacts, calendar and email–which is the only feature I appreciate. Oh and of course the iPhone tracking feature recently added. Outside of those things, I dislike it and I don’t think it’s worth $100 bucks a year. I got my official email notice in my inbox two days ago to renew my MobileMe account and felt depressed. Fix MobileMe. From my Apple-licious heart to yours.
So there is this new fun online application called fakewhale.com where you can trick your friends and send a fake or bogus tweet to your twitter friends.
Here’s one of my favorites below and be sure to check it out at the link above.
Check out this augmented reality application that’s been developed in Japan. Basically, aim your iPhone camera at anything–mainly in a store, then get attacked by security, in America at least…it happened to me–and your iPhone will begin to pull live data and product info about what you’re aiming at. Read more…
As for the attack by security, I’m exaggerating. But it is true that store managers and security will speak up and say something if they see you constantly aiming your camera of any kind at products in a store. So stupid!
David Prager and the Revision3 team have bravely jumped into the Mobile Phone apps world with a mission to help make sense out of all the millions of apps that are out there for your iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Palm Pre, etc.
It’s quick, concise, compares and contrasts apps of the same purpose with pros and cons to boot! I think it’s very timely and I’ve enjoyed the first episode so far, which you can view below now.
UPDATE
Singular was a bust for me. It took hours to see any progress that it might be making, causing me to quit the program and trash it. That’s what I get for recommending something I didn’t try out first. So yeah…blah!
Disk Inventory X
Have you gotten to that ever annoying point on your Mac where you’ve just run out space on your hard drive and you’re thinking, “What is taking up so much room?” Well, that’s where I was until I remembered a handy application I used about a year or so ago called Disk Inventory X. It isn’t new or anything, but I hope blogging about it helps someone because I love it!
This Mac application gives graphically color-coded blocks whose sizes are relative to each file’s size. I just freed up approximately 25 gigabytes on my MacBook Pro and thought I’d share this valuable info for anyone wanting to free their Mac from the tyranny of unnecessary data.
Singular
Furthermore, I also did a little Googling for an application that locates duplicate files, and I discovered Singular. It spots duplicate files, saves one copy, then deletes the duplicates. I currently don’t have a testimonial to give about it as it’s still working on my Mac. But when it’s all done I’ll update this post on it’s effectiveness. In the meantime, here is a screen-shot of it’s features.
So be sure to click the links for these two amazing apps and let me know how it worked for you. Also, if you know of any similar applications for Mac please share in the comments thread. Thanks in advance!
