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Iconic Design

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I thought it would be interesting to hear the voice of Mac designers and developers about the steps that go into desigining and developing an application for Mac OS X. Or an application’s icon.

This is a guest post by Anthony Piraino, designer at the Iconfactory.

Have a good read.

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Designing Fontcase

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 300 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I thought it would be nice to hear the voice of Mac developers about the steps that go into desigining and developing an application for Mac OS X.

This is the first guest post by Pieter Omvlee, developer of Fontcase. Fontcase is a beautiful font manager that enables the users to manage a font library with elegance. Read my review if you missed it.

Enjoy!

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Designing a Tablet Newspaper Application

This is one of the most interesting “I would make the Apple Tablet like this” post I’ve recently stumbled upon. Kyle Baxter from TightWind shares his thoughts about what he would like to see most in the tablet: newspapers. But instead of just converting the current newspapers layouts to the tablet screen, Kyle designed two mockups which show a revamped interface for the NYT, made of a top toolbar for easy navigation and a very few UI elements. I personally don’t think the Apple Tablet will be exclusively focused on saving the press industry, I believe there will be a built-in News.app, which will actually save both the press and RSS industry.

And if there’ll be a News app, I’d like to see a similar interface.

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An Interview With the HootSuite Team

It’s the big news of the week, HootSuite launched its official iPhone client, available in the App Store here. I’m still testing the application, but I had the chance to chat with the Hootsuite team, just after the application went live.

Enjoy!

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Why Apple Succeeds, And Always Will

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A long an interesting read from Betanews. Here’s an excerpt:

“Apple is David to Microsoft Goliath – and other ones, too. Goliath plays by one set of rules. David choses to change the rules, which favor his strengths rather than those of Goliath.

David Thinking is most provocative and surprising when Goliath acts like David. After all, David sometimes becomes Goliath; Apple is a giant in music with iPod and iTunes Music Store. But David turned Goliath also risks making mistakes that would allow another upstart advantage. Today, Apple is both David and Goliath, depending on market.”