Category: I-phone

MyStarbucks is no more. Starbucks rolled out version 2 of its official app today, combining the functions of myStarbucks and Starbucks Card Mobile into a single program.

The new app has a redesigned interface with the company’s new logo. Performance is much faster and having the Starbucks Card capabilities added to the app makes sense since it’s ridiculously easy to pay for your coffee with your iPhone and there’s really no need to have a separate app for this. Mobile payments also were expanded to Starbucks locations in Safeway.

You can now send eGifts, gifting Starbucks credit to a lucky receipent. It’ll go straight to the person’s email or Facebook and a QR scanner was added. It retains the other features from the older app such as customizing and viewing the nutrition stats for your drinks, Starbucks Rewards, a geolocation feature, view available job openings and more

Starbucks is a free download. Starbucks Card Mobile is still a standalone app, but I expect it’ll go away soon.

Starbucks app update perks up coffee customers originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s good news for Cork, Ireland residents looking for work. The Irish Examiner is reporting that Apple intends to create 350 jobs in the city. Apple has reportedly leased the top two floors of a building on Cork’s Half Moon Street (about 25,000 sq ft.), which was completed in 2009.

This won’t be Apple’s first cluster of offices in Ireland or in Cork for that matter. The Irish Examiner notes that Apple has had “a major presence” at Hollyhill on the northside of Cork. Also, the Examiner reports that Apple looked at several locations in Cork before deciding on the Half Moon Street spot.

Local retailers hope that Apple’s staffers in “the striking glazed building” (that even sounds like a space Apple would occupy) will spend their hard-earned dollars at the city’s restaurants, bars, shops and so on.

Good luck to Apple in its new space and to the mom-and-pop shops of Cork. May you have a long and lucrative relationship.

Apple to create 350 jobs in Cork, Ireland originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different.

Moom integrates into the existing Apple UI by providing a pop-up menu when you hover your mouse over the green “maximize” button in the top left-hand corner of your window. Clicking on one of the Moom menu options moves and zooms (mooms) your window to the desired sector of the screen. By default you’ve got horizontal and vertical half-screen configurations as well as full screen. If you want a quarter screen window, you can click and drag on the default Moom buttons to define the desired quarter.

Sending the window to another monitor is as easy as dragging one of the buttons in the desired direction of the monitor. A grid below the buttons allows you to quickly define a new size and position by selecting the squares required. If all your Mooming gets a bit crazy, you can move the window back to its original position with the revert arrow. You can also define custom mooms in the settings, which are then accessible via a drop-down menu from the Moom pop-up or menu bar.

Moom also includes robust support for keyboard shortcuts, including binding of window sizes and positions to individual shortcut keys. Moom takes keyboard usage one stage further with a keyboard control mode in which you can move the window around with the arrow keys, moom a window to any of the half-screen configurations, send it full screen or centered and even send it to the next monitor.

Moom is also able to run as a menu bar icon, a standard OS X program or even “faceless” (hidden).

We’ve covered a few other window management utilities on TUAW, but it’s safe to say Moom is one of the best. For US$4.99 it’s going to be one of the first apps I install on a Mac from here on in. If you’re not convinced, give the free trial a go from the Many Tricks website.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s good news for Cork, Ireland residents looking for work. The Irish Examiner is reporting that Apple intends to create 350 jobs in the city. Apple has reportedly leased the top two floors of a building on Cork’s Half Moon Street (about 25,000 sq ft.), which was completed in 2009.

This won’t be Apple’s first cluster of offices in Ireland or in Cork for that matter. The Irish Examiner notes that Apple has had “a major presence” at Hollyhill on the northside of Cork. Also, the Examiner reports that Apple looked at several locations in Cork before deciding on the Half Moon Street spot.

Local retailers hope that Apple’s staffers in “the striking glazed building” (that even sounds like a space Apple would occupy) will spend their hard-earned dollars at the city’s restaurants, bars, shops and so on.

Good luck to Apple in its new space and to the mom-and-pop shops of Cork. May you have a long and lucrative relationship.

Apple to create 350 jobs in Cork, Ireland originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s good news for Cork, Ireland residents looking for work. The Irish Examiner is reporting that Apple intends to create 350 jobs in the city. Apple has reportedly leased the top two floors of a building on Cork’s Half Moon Street (about 25,000 sq ft.), which was completed in 2009.

This won’t be Apple’s first cluster of offices in Ireland or in Cork for that matter. The Irish Examiner notes that Apple has had “a major presence” at Hollyhill on the northside of Cork. Also, the Examiner reports that Apple looked at several locations in Cork before deciding on the Half Moon Street spot.

Local retailers hope that Apple’s staffers in “the striking glazed building” (that even sounds like a space Apple would occupy) will spend their hard-earned dollars at the city’s restaurants, bars, shops and so on.

Good luck to Apple in its new space and to the mom-and-pop shops of Cork. May you have a long and lucrative relationship.

Apple to create 350 jobs in Cork, Ireland originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different.

Moom integrates into the existing Apple UI by providing a pop-up menu when you hover your mouse over the green “maximize” button in the top left-hand corner of your window. Clicking on one of the Moom menu options moves and zooms (mooms) your window to the desired sector of the screen. By default you’ve got horizontal and vertical half-screen configurations as well as full screen. If you want a quarter screen window, you can click and drag on the default Moom buttons to define the desired quarter.

Sending the window to another monitor is as easy as dragging one of the buttons in the desired direction of the monitor. A grid below the buttons allows you to quickly define a new size and position by selecting the squares required. If all your Mooming gets a bit crazy, you can move the window back to its original position with the revert arrow. You can also define custom mooms in the settings, which are then accessible via a drop-down menu from the Moom pop-up or menu bar.

Moom also includes robust support for keyboard shortcuts, including binding of window sizes and positions to individual shortcut keys. Moom takes keyboard usage one stage further with a keyboard control mode in which you can move the window around with the arrow keys, moom a window to any of the half-screen configurations, send it full screen or centered and even send it to the next monitor.

Moom is also able to run as a menu bar icon, a standard OS X program or even “faceless” (hidden).

We’ve covered a few other window management utilities on TUAW, but it’s safe to say Moom is one of the best. For US$4.99 it’s going to be one of the first apps I install on a Mac from here on in. If you’re not convinced, give the free trial a go from the Many Tricks website.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We knew back in March that Apple had plans to expand and renovate its SoHo store in NYC. Now, we have some more details on the planned changes. According to ifoAppleStore.com, the SoHo store will close in the next three months and will remain closed for an unknown amount of time. It’s an exciting time for Apple fans in NYC as the iconic glass cube outside its Fifth Avenue store is getting a facelift at the same time.

Apple will expand its SoHo store and take over the rear ground floor of the building. This part of the building has been vacant since the U.S. Postal Service left in 2009. The first floor and the new rear section will be renovated, while the upper level and glass staircase will remain untouched. The location is a Heritage structure, but, thankfully, Apple’s changes meet the criteria set by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Apple to close, revamp SoHo Apple store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different.

Moom integrates into the existing Apple UI by providing a pop-up menu when you hover your mouse over the green “maximize” button in the top left-hand corner of your window. Clicking on one of the Moom menu options moves and zooms (mooms) your window to the desired sector of the screen. By default you’ve got horizontal and vertical half-screen configurations as well as full screen. If you want a quarter screen window, you can click and drag on the default Moom buttons to define the desired quarter.

Sending the window to another monitor is as easy as dragging one of the buttons in the desired direction of the monitor. A grid below the buttons allows you to quickly define a new size and position by selecting the squares required. If all your Mooming gets a bit crazy, you can move the window back to its original position with the revert arrow. You can also define custom mooms in the settings, which are then accessible via a drop-down menu from the Moom pop-up or menu bar.

Moom also includes robust support for keyboard shortcuts, including binding of window sizes and positions to individual shortcut keys. Moom takes keyboard usage one stage further with a keyboard control mode in which you can move the window around with the arrow keys, moom a window to any of the half-screen configurations, send it full screen or centered and even send it to the next monitor.

Moom is also able to run as a menu bar icon, a standard OS X program or even “faceless” (hidden).

We’ve covered a few other window management utilities on TUAW, but it’s safe to say Moom is one of the best. For US$4.99 it’s going to be one of the first apps I install on a Mac from here on in. If you’re not convinced, give the free trial a go from the Many Tricks website.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Window managers are numerous on the Mac, with most relying on keyboard shortcuts or edge snapping. Moom is different.

Moom integrates into the existing Apple UI by providing a pop-up menu when you hover your mouse over the green “maximize” button in the top left-hand corner of your window. Clicking on one of the Moom menu options moves and zooms (mooms) your window to the desired sector of the screen. By default you’ve got horizontal and vertical half-screen configurations as well as full screen. If you want a quarter screen window, you can click and drag on the default Moom buttons to define the desired quarter.

Sending the window to another monitor is as easy as dragging one of the buttons in the desired direction of the monitor. A grid below the buttons allows you to quickly define a new size and position by selecting the squares required. If all your Mooming gets a bit crazy, you can move the window back to its original position with the revert arrow. You can also define custom mooms in the settings, which are then accessible via a drop-down menu from the Moom pop-up or menu bar.

Moom also includes robust support for keyboard shortcuts, including binding of window sizes and positions to individual shortcut keys. Moom takes keyboard usage one stage further with a keyboard control mode in which you can move the window around with the arrow keys, moom a window to any of the half-screen configurations, send it full screen or centered and even send it to the next monitor.

Moom is also able to run as a menu bar icon, a standard OS X program or even “faceless” (hidden).

We’ve covered a few other window management utilities on TUAW, but it’s safe to say Moom is one of the best. For US$4.99 it’s going to be one of the first apps I install on a Mac from here on in. If you’re not convinced, give the free trial a go from the Many Tricks website.

Continue reading TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom

TUAW’s Daily Mac App: Moom originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We knew back in March that Apple had plans to expand and renovate its SoHo store in NYC. Now, we have some more details on the planned changes. According to ifoAppleStore.com, the SoHo store will close in the next three months and will remain closed for an unknown amount of time. It’s an exciting time for Apple fans in NYC as the iconic glass cube outside its Fifth Avenue store is getting a facelift at the same time.

Apple will expand its SoHo store and take over the rear ground floor of the building. This part of the building has been vacant since the U.S. Postal Service left in 2009. The first floor and the new rear section will be renovated, while the upper level and glass staircase will remain untouched. The location is a Heritage structure, but, thankfully, Apple’s changes meet the criteria set by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Apple to close, revamp SoHo Apple store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We knew back in March that Apple had plans to expand and renovate its SoHo store in NYC. Now, we have some more details on the planned changes. According to ifoAppleStore.com, the SoHo store will close in the next three months and will remain closed for an unknown amount of time. It’s an exciting time for Apple fans in NYC as the iconic glass cube outside its Fifth Avenue store is getting a facelift at the same time.

Apple will expand its SoHo store and take over the rear ground floor of the building. This part of the building has been vacant since the U.S. Postal Service left in 2009. The first floor and the new rear section will be renovated, while the upper level and glass staircase will remain untouched. The location is a Heritage structure, but, thankfully, Apple’s changes meet the criteria set by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Apple to close, revamp SoHo Apple store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Back when I was in corporate America, an annual tradition was to order new calendars for the desk. I preferred the “day at a glance” type, but many of my fellow wage slaves liked these large desk blotter calendars that displayed a full month. Now there’s a Mac app from WireLoad, Blotter (US$9.99) that turns your iCal events and tasks into the electronic equivalent of the desk blotter calendar.

Blotter

After you purchase Blotter from the Mac App Store, an app icon appears in your Dock. I have enough icons in my Dock, so I usually drag ’em off, and that was the case with Blotter. Not to worry, though — once you’ve launched Blotter, a tiny menu bar icon appears for setting preferences and creating new events and tasks. Blotter can be set to auto-launch at login, and that’s the way it should be.

The main feature of Blotter is the beautiful translucent calendar that appears on your Mac desktop. By default, it shows the current week, but can be set in preferences to show the seven days or only weekday dates. The current date is listed as a large number, with the month, year, and day of the week listed below. There’s also a list of To Do items, as well as a “Right Now” mini-view showing the next four or five hours at a glance. I have my Blotter calendar set to fade out after 60 seconds — a quick click on the menu bar icon brings it back to full intensity.

Blotter isn’t meant to replace iCal. Instead, it is meant to work with iCal so that you don’t need to actually open your calendar to look at it. It’s always there on the desktop for you to see if you need it, much in the manner those desk blotter calendars were on our real desktops in the past, soaking up coffee spills and giving us a look at what was coming up in the next few days or weeks. If you use Google calendars, no problem — as long as you’re subscribing to those calendars in iCal, they’ll show up on Blotter.

The calendar can be set to take up a lot of screen real estate or a smaller area, and in the smaller views it is movable to various locations on your desktop. There’s a “narrow” mode that displays just the date, To Do list, and the Right Now mini-view, but it seems to defeat the purpose of Blotter for me.

On my 27″ iMac I tend to always have a lot of windows open, so they obscure the view of Blotter and also defeat the purpose of the app a bit. However, it’s possible to hide windows temporarily by pressing Command-H repeatedly while in the Finder, and that makes it very easy to hide windows very quickly, glance at the Blotter calendar, and then return to work without taking my hands off of the keyboard.

Within the Blotter preferences, there is a setting for displaying all iCal calendars or just a selected few. One of the few negatives I see with this app is that for some reason, the color of one of my calendars — which is orange in iCal — came over as a sickly olive color in Blotter. The two main calendars (home and work) showed up in their proper colors.

What about adding new events and tasks to the calendar with Blotter? The app would be worthless without this capability, and Blotter makes it as easy as either clicking on the menu bar icon and selecting New Event or New Task, or by setting up a keyboard shortcut. In either case, a small dialog appears for entering in the scheduling information on the fly.

Conclusion

Blotter is a very attractive Mac utility for displaying iCal events and tasks on otherwise unused space on your Mac desktop. I fear, though, that Blotter might be made obsolete by Lion. While testing the next version of Mac OS X, I’ve found it useful to place iCal in full-screen mode. From any screen, it’s available with a gesture and a click; much faster and easier than clicking on my desktop and hitting Command-H until I can see Blotter. Still, the translucent Blotter calendar is much sexier than even the Lion calendar in full-screen. Apple should take some design cues from the Blotter developers for the future.

Don’t just take my opinion about Blotter. I’ve included a video review of the app by friend and frequent TUAW TV Live guest Doc Rock, who was the person who turned me onto this amazing utility.

Blotter for Mac puts iCal on your desktop originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We knew back in March that Apple had plans to expand and renovate its SoHo store in NYC. Now, we have some more details on the planned changes. According to ifoAppleStore.com, the SoHo store will close in the next three months and will remain closed for an unknown amount of time. It’s an exciting time for Apple fans in NYC as the iconic glass cube outside its Fifth Avenue store is getting a facelift at the same time.

Apple will expand its SoHo store and take over the rear ground floor of the building. This part of the building has been vacant since the U.S. Postal Service left in 2009. The first floor and the new rear section will be renovated, while the upper level and glass staircase will remain untouched. The location is a Heritage structure, but, thankfully, Apple’s changes meet the criteria set by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission.

Apple to close, revamp SoHo Apple store originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Back when I was in corporate America, an annual tradition was to order new calendars for the desk. I preferred the “day at a glance” type, but many of my fellow wage slaves liked these large desk blotter calendars that displayed a full month. Now there’s a Mac app from WireLoad, Blotter (US$9.99) that turns your iCal events and tasks into the electronic equivalent of the desk blotter calendar.

Blotter

After you purchase Blotter from the Mac App Store, an app icon appears in your Dock. I have enough icons in my Dock, so I usually drag ’em off, and that was the case with Blotter. Not to worry, though — once you’ve launched Blotter, a tiny menu bar icon appears for setting preferences and creating new events and tasks. Blotter can be set to auto-launch at login, and that’s the way it should be.

The main feature of Blotter is the beautiful translucent calendar that appears on your Mac desktop. By default, it shows the current week, but can be set in preferences to show the seven days or only weekday dates. The current date is listed as a large number, with the month, year, and day of the week listed below. There’s also a list of To Do items, as well as a “Right Now” mini-view showing the next four or five hours at a glance. I have my Blotter calendar set to fade out after 60 seconds — a quick click on the menu bar icon brings it back to full intensity.

Blotter isn’t meant to replace iCal. Instead, it is meant to work with iCal so that you don’t need to actually open your calendar to look at it. It’s always there on the desktop for you to see if you need it, much in the manner those desk blotter calendars were on our real desktops in the past, soaking up coffee spills and giving us a look at what was coming up in the next few days or weeks. If you use Google calendars, no problem — as long as you’re subscribing to those calendars in iCal, they’ll show up on Blotter.

The calendar can be set to take up a lot of screen real estate or a smaller area, and in the smaller views it is movable to various locations on your desktop. There’s a “narrow” mode that displays just the date, To Do list, and the Right Now mini-view, but it seems to defeat the purpose of Blotter for me.

On my 27″ iMac I tend to always have a lot of windows open, so they obscure the view of Blotter and also defeat the purpose of the app a bit. However, it’s possible to hide windows temporarily by pressing Command-H repeatedly while in the Finder, and that makes it very easy to hide windows very quickly, glance at the Blotter calendar, and then return to work without taking my hands off of the keyboard.

Within the Blotter preferences, there is a setting for displaying all iCal calendars or just a selected few. One of the few negatives I see with this app is that for some reason, the color of one of my calendars — which is orange in iCal — came over as a sickly olive color in Blotter. The two main calendars (home and work) showed up in their proper colors.

What about adding new events and tasks to the calendar with Blotter? The app would be worthless without this capability, and Blotter makes it as easy as either clicking on the menu bar icon and selecting New Event or New Task, or by setting up a keyboard shortcut. In either case, a small dialog appears for entering in the scheduling information on the fly.

Conclusion

Blotter is a very attractive Mac utility for displaying iCal events and tasks on otherwise unused space on your Mac desktop. I fear, though, that Blotter might be made obsolete by Lion. While testing the next version of Mac OS X, I’ve found it useful to place iCal in full-screen mode. From any screen, it’s available with a gesture and a click; much faster and easier than clicking on my desktop and hitting Command-H until I can see Blotter. Still, the translucent Blotter calendar is much sexier than even the Lion calendar in full-screen. Apple should take some design cues from the Blotter developers for the future.

Don’t just take my opinion about Blotter. I’ve included a video review of the app by friend and frequent TUAW TV Live guest Doc Rock, who was the person who turned me onto this amazing utility.

Blotter for Mac puts iCal on your desktop originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Back when I was in corporate America, an annual tradition was to order new calendars for the desk. I preferred the “day at a glance” type, but many of my fellow wage slaves liked these large desk blotter calendars that displayed a full month. Now there’s a Mac app from WireLoad, Blotter (US$9.99) that turns your iCal events and tasks into the electronic equivalent of the desk blotter calendar.

Blotter

After you purchase Blotter from the Mac App Store, an app icon appears in your Dock. I have enough icons in my Dock, so I usually drag ’em off, and that was the case with Blotter. Not to worry, though — once you’ve launched Blotter, a tiny menu bar icon appears for setting preferences and creating new events and tasks. Blotter can be set to auto-launch at login, and that’s the way it should be.

The main feature of Blotter is the beautiful translucent calendar that appears on your Mac desktop. By default, it shows the current week, but can be set in preferences to show the seven days or only weekday dates. The current date is listed as a large number, with the month, year, and day of the week listed below. There’s also a list of To Do items, as well as a “Right Now” mini-view showing the next four or five hours at a glance. I have my Blotter calendar set to fade out after 60 seconds — a quick click on the menu bar icon brings it back to full intensity.

Blotter isn’t meant to replace iCal. Instead, it is meant to work with iCal so that you don’t need to actually open your calendar to look at it. It’s always there on the desktop for you to see if you need it, much in the manner those desk blotter calendars were on our real desktops in the past, soaking up coffee spills and giving us a look at what was coming up in the next few days or weeks. If you use Google calendars, no problem — as long as you’re subscribing to those calendars in iCal, they’ll show up on Blotter.

The calendar can be set to take up a lot of screen real estate or a smaller area, and in the smaller views it is movable to various locations on your desktop. There’s a “narrow” mode that displays just the date, To Do list, and the Right Now mini-view, but it seems to defeat the purpose of Blotter for me.

On my 27″ iMac I tend to always have a lot of windows open, so they obscure the view of Blotter and also defeat the purpose of the app a bit. However, it’s possible to hide windows temporarily by pressing Command-H repeatedly while in the Finder, and that makes it very easy to hide windows very quickly, glance at the Blotter calendar, and then return to work without taking my hands off of the keyboard.

Within the Blotter preferences, there is a setting for displaying all iCal calendars or just a selected few. One of the few negatives I see with this app is that for some reason, the color of one of my calendars — which is orange in iCal — came over as a sickly olive color in Blotter. The two main calendars (home and work) showed up in their proper colors.

What about adding new events and tasks to the calendar with Blotter? The app would be worthless without this capability, and Blotter makes it as easy as either clicking on the menu bar icon and selecting New Event or New Task, or by setting up a keyboard shortcut. In either case, a small dialog appears for entering in the scheduling information on the fly.

Conclusion

Blotter is a very attractive Mac utility for displaying iCal events and tasks on otherwise unused space on your Mac desktop. I fear, though, that Blotter might be made obsolete by Lion. While testing the next version of Mac OS X, I’ve found it useful to place iCal in full-screen mode. From any screen, it’s available with a gesture and a click; much faster and easier than clicking on my desktop and hitting Command-H until I can see Blotter. Still, the translucent Blotter calendar is much sexier than even the Lion calendar in full-screen. Apple should take some design cues from the Blotter developers for the future.

Don’t just take my opinion about Blotter. I’ve included a video review of the app by friend and frequent TUAW TV Live guest Doc Rock, who was the person who turned me onto this amazing utility.

Blotter for Mac puts iCal on your desktop originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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