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The state of AppFlow, January 2012

Daniel Groves — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:40:05 +0000

It’s been a while since either myself or Luke has posted anything, and for that I apologise. The issue lies in what we both do daily. We’re both student, Luke is a final year 6th-form student, so as you can imagine he is pretty busy. Myself, I’m studying Web Applications Development at Plymouth University. As with [...]

Giveaway: MusicTube for Mac

Daniel Groves — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:00:58 +0000

A few weeks ago we reviewed MusicTube for Mac, the application that is aimed at streaming music straight from YouTube in a playlist or album based format. Today we have three licence’s available for giveaway, read on for more. In order to enter the competition all you need to do is follow us on Twitter, [...]

Giveaway: 100,000 copies of MacX DVD Ripper!

Daniel Groves — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:02:43 +0000

Contract killer: zombies

Kieron — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:52:05 +0000

Contract Killer: Zombies is an FPS styled zombie shooter for iOS devices and is thoroughly entertaining. You get a large selection of weapons to choose from including pistols, shotguns, machine and sub machine guns, grenade launchers and best of all, mini guns. Now if you have played an FPS game on an iOS device you [...]

Unexploited Music: Streaming from YouTube with MusicTube

Daniel Groves — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:00:24 +0000

We all do it. A new song from your favourite artists comes out, or a friend suggests a new band to you, so what do you do? You stick the name in YouTube and listen to it free online before deciding if you want to buy the song. MusicTube is a new application which allows [...]

iOS 5 Hands On Review

Kieron — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:31:24 +0000

With the latest release of iOS5, apple bring more great features with it including iMessage, the new notification centre, reminder and news stand and many more additions and updated versions of currently used apps from previous iOS versions. Also there is the addition of pc free, which free’s your iOS device from your pc giving [...]

Wunderlist: The end of Premium GTD Applications?

Daniel Groves — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:00:28 +0000

There was a time when there was only one GTD (Getting Things Done) application to consider. Thing, from Cultured Code. Over time the competition has increased greatly to the point where you can pay over £50 for a relatively simple application thats synchronises to your mobile so you always know what you need to get [...]

Taking Full-Screen Apps System-wide in Lion

Daniel Groves — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:00:19 +0000

Since Apple released their latest version of Mac OSX, OS 10.7 Lion, we have had full-screen support introduced into many apps, but not everything. Lots of applications are still lagging behind and missing support for this basic feature. This is a small issue that Maximizer has set-out to resolve. It’s pretty easy to set-up and takes just [...]

Win a copy of Arq for Mac

Daniel Groves — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:23:26 +0000

It has been a while since we have done a giveaway on AppFlow. Today we giving away a copy of Arq, the Amazon S3 backup utility I looked at last week. To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is tell your friends about the giveaway, simply use the buttons [...]

Why I’m Ditching Things

Luke Barnes — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:18:35 +0000

Simply put: Because there are better, cheaper things out there! Getting things done (which seems to have adopted itself the sexy acronym of ‘GTD’ for the 21st century) is certainly not a new concept. Even through out my scientific study, I find papers detailing methods by which one can focus the brain’s attention onto one [...]

Keeping your data safe – Are you doing enough?

Daniel Groves — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:00:34 +0000

Time Machine is a great backup utility that comes on your Mac, but is it really doing enough to keep your data safe? Think about it. Your data is always at risk and their is nothing you can do about that, try as you might. The best you can do is to try and minimise [...]

Goodbye, Steve.

Daniel Groves — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:51:26 +0000

It was about 8:00 this morning as I was eating my breakfast, preparing for another normal day of lectures at university when I realised that not all was quite right. I opened “Twitter for Mac”, and noticed an unusual amount of activity for that time in the morning. Strange. Then I read the tweet at [...]

Spring Cleaning with Daisy Disk

Luke Barnes — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:32:52 +0000

It’s a bit late for ‘spring cleaning’, but there’s never a bad time to give your hard drive a good clear out. If your anything like me, your Mac’s hard drive is full of useless files from potential projects, old work that’s already been archived and copies of copies of music that you actually use [...]

Omnibar: Making Safari perfect?

Daniel Groves — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 18:51:54 +0000

The perfect recipe for the perfect browser has a very fine line between necessary features, and bloating features. If you go too fear into the feature side then nobody wants your browser as it becomes bloated and slow, but not enough features and everybody just ignores the browser. So, what makes the perfect browser, well [...]

Quick Tip: Creating ISO files with Disk Utility

Daniel Groves — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 08:00:50 +0000

There are many situations where it could be useful to turn something on your Mac into an ISO file. An ISO is a digital disk image, and are normally burnt to a CD after downloading off a website. Sometime though you need to be able to create a disk image, weather it be to make [...]

Using Traditional Scrolling in OS X Lion

Daniel Groves — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:50:25 +0000

If you’ve been using computers for as long as I have the new style of scrolling in OS X 10.7 (Lion) is far from, in Apple’s words, “natural”. This is easy to change back to the previously used system which was in fact, natural. In order to do this simply open up System Preferences (in [...]

Whats new in Alfred App?

Daniel Groves — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:19:16 +0000

Alfred is one of the most popular quick-launch applications around for OS X today, having replaced Quicksilver for many after the developer stopped maintaining it. Luke first reviewed Alfred over a year ago, concluding it was the best quick-launch utility available at the time. Ever since this first encounter we have both been huge fans [...]

How to use iPhoto with RAW files

Daniel Groves — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:00:16 +0000

Many SLR cameras offer the option to shoot photo’s in RAW. This option records the raw data for the images, rather than compressing it into a format such as a JPG. Shooting in RAW ensures that you get the best quality imagery our of your SLR, it’s a known fact if you let your camera [...]

How to Customise your Screenshot Settings on OSX

Daniel Groves — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:00:14 +0000

Screenshots on OS X do not have any default customisation settings, at least, not in the form of a preferences pane. In order to change anything, and I mean anything at all, about them you need to venture into one of the most feared areas of OS X, the Terminal. I always say this when [...]

Billings Winner

Daniel Groves — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:30:04 +0000

On sunday at 12:00 our contest to win a single Billings licence ended. In the last few hours the heat on the contest increased, but we stuck to out original deadline to end the contest none-the-less. The winner was shortly after the finish selected out of a hat, and the number four came up as [...]