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Anyone know where I can download this beautiful iPad wallpaper?

Please comment with link or tweet me if you know where to download this wallpaper. I am loving it.

This is what you called "Stupid Apple, Stupid iOS 4."

Happening - Nearby Events in your Pocket (Reviewed)

I am sure many of you have heard about Yahoo! Inc.  It provides many online services like web mail and  many others. The iPhone application I am reviewing today has to do with one of the services that came from Yahoo! To tell the truth, I have never heard of this service before I heard about this application.

This service from Yahoo is called Upcoming (http://upcoming.yahoo.com/). Yahoo has developed some iPhone application for some of its services like Yahoo! Mesenger, Yahoo! Entertainment and so for users to easily access them on the go  on their iPhones. Sadly, it never developed an iPhone application for its Upcoming service. That's where Happening , an iPhone application developed by Nik Fletcher came in and filled that blank for all of you who use the upcoming service.

Happening for iPhone is sleek and well-designed application that brings you local events from Yahoo's Upcoming service. With Happening installed on your iPhones, you are just one tap away to check nearby events around you. You never again have to open up Safari application on your iPhone and navigate it to the upcoming website. It's just too much steps. Happening made it easy for you and it just look better. You can even view your friends events and RSVP to events from within the Happening application. You are going to love it if you frequently use Yahoo's Upcoming service.

The follow is a full list of what Happening application can do for you. (I just copied them from the application's website).

• Happening finds events near you, and lists them in chronological order so you know what’s really happening.
• Find any event on Upcoming, no matter where in the world it’s going on. Bands to barcamps, it’s all at your fingertips.
• Once you sign in using your Upcoming account, your Friends’ events are there for your perusal.
• Keeping your calendar in check is easy, with a dedicated tab for viewing events you’re interested in.
• RSVP to events using your Upcoming account with the ability to set your attendee status.

 

**Notice that there will be two more features coming soon and they are Twitter sharing and FireEagle location updating.

Overall, Happening for iPhone is a good and solid. It is a must-have if you access or use Upcmong service from Yahoo. However, since the application is heavily relying on Yahoo's Upcoming service to find nearby events data, it would be totally useless to people who don't use Upcoming or just don't care what's happening around them.

**The developer has updated the application to support iOS 4.

**Are you one of these people who needs it or don't? Leave a comment  if you wish.

How to add "Recent Items Dock Stack" to your Leopard or Snow Leopard Dock

Here are the Steps:

1. Open Terminal by going to [~/Applications/Utilities folder].

2. Then, paste in the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'

3. Press return.

4. Now type in the following:

killall Dock

5. Press return again.

6. Dock will be gone for a second and you will see a stack that shows your recent applications after the dock reappeared.

This feature isn't provided by default but it's very useful and I think Apple should add it to Snow Leopard dock with other default stacks.

***Thanks to an article written by Kirk McElhearn that I get to learn this simple command (not simple to me at all) and that I am able to write this up and post it to share on my blog.

[Just drag it off the Dock if you no longer want the stack.]

iPhone App Review - MoneyBook

There are many expense tracking applications on App store. However, I only have my eyes  set for MoneyBook after seeing its screenshots from someone's blog. It has the most beautiful user interface that I can't find in other expense apps. Further more, it is has an incredibly easy to use interface. This is an truely amazing iPhone expense tracking application that I have been waiting for.

MoneyBook gets better and better with new added features and improvement from each updates. As with the latest update, you are able to your budget for each month and you are no long adding your expenses only but also be able to add incomings as well. The developers of MoneyBook seem to have a plan for next big update as well.

Before MoneyBook came out, I used to think iXpensise as  best looking app and easy to use on the same time. However, I have certainly have changed my mind about one.  MoneyBook  is so well-designed and the developers did a great job on how to present the monthly spending to its users visually. it's so gorgeous.

After reading the blog of the developers of Moneybook, I am happy to find out that they have a love for the user interface and love for its icon. They also believed that an attractive icon really matters  and it just attract people's attention. I am totally agree with them. I am a sucker for eye candy apps and I don't look at apps that don't have a pretty icon. MoneyBook is so well-designed and beautifully done. I am so impressed that I couldn't get it out of my head.

Here is a list of Features that MoneyBook CAN DO:

    •    CSV Export
    •    Add incomings
    •    Edit the date of the expense
    •    Full support for editing expenses
    •    Add notes for your transactions
    •    Visually attractive animated statistics
    •    Add recurring monthly expenses

Here is a list of Features that MoneyBook CAN’T DO:

    •    NO sync or backup
    •    NO powerful reporting
    •    NO multiple custom budgets
    •    NO storing photo receipt
    •    NO custom categories

I am sure the developers of MoneyBook will add more features in the future updates. As they said in the “Help” section of the app, they do care about adding new stuff to MoneyBook and they also want to keep a “simple, clean, beautiful and focused” user interface for MoneyBook. I am satisfied with what MoneyBook can do so far but I do wish they can add the iDisk backup and restore feature soon.

Ok, let’s fire up the application and  give you some totoruials on how to do the basics.

The image above is the OVERVIEW screen where you get a glance at your top spending and how much left in your budget.

This second image you see above is where you add your expenses. You will see this by tapping on the "New transaction" from the OVERVIEW screen. Notices that you are able to change date by tapping on the icon under "cancel" button and add notes by tapping on the icon under "Save" button. You then tap on the BLANK area between these two icons to go back.

This is transactions screen. You see all your transactions for current month ONLY. Transactions on each day is taped seperately and you also see a totally spending for each day.

Turn your iPhone into landscape mode while in the Transaction screen to see a breakdown of your monthly expenses in this  beautiful Bar Chart. On the far left are your totally expenses and incomings for current month. This is the Recurring screen where you can add transactions and they will be automaticlly added to your expense every month.

Lastly, this is the History screen where you can acess all your transactions that you have on MoneyBook. You can export them as csv file by tapping on the button on the top right corner. By the way, you will see a beutiful Dotted Line Chart if you turn your iPhone into landscape mode.

If you are looking for a good looking and easy to use iPhone application to track your budget and daily expenses, look no further, MoneyBook is the one you need. This application may not be a powerful one that packed with funtions you are looking for. However, it is a grogeous looking one that not other applications in the same category can come close to.

SECRET: Whether you are viewing transactions in Transactions screen or in History, you can tap on the button on the bottom to quickly scroll down. (This works in MoneyBook ONLY).

iPhone App Review: Articles - The Wikipedia App

Articles - The Wikipedia App is a sleek iPhone application developed by Sophiestication Software. What the application does is that it allows you to access wikipedia website without using Safari on your iPhone or iPod touch. There is also an iPad version available but what I focus here is the Articles for iPhone. You can think of it as wikipedia to go in your pocket.  There are many iPhone applications in App store do the exact same thing like Articles. I can't say if Articles is the best among them all but I have to say that it is one of the most beautiful one among them all.

You will find Articles to be easy to use because it has the same navigational controls like Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch. You will only see a search bar at the top of the screen but no address bar that you see in Safari. It is simply no needed. You will also see the navigational buttons at the bottom  just like you see in Safari.  Type whatever you want to search in the search bar then tap Search on the keyboard. That's it. By the way, you are able to select a language for your search.

Articles is a browser that is dedicated to wikipedia website and I prefer to use it when I just want to go to wikipedia's website. Here are some features of Articles that you may want to know. It supports offline viewing and I think it has the best compare to other applications I know. You are  able to view images offline and tap them to zoom in and tap again to either copy or save the image. You can also rotate your iPhone or iPod Touch  to view articles in landscape mode.  Then there are two buttons in Articles you may find them useful in a way. They are Surprise me button that displays a random articles from wikipedia's website and Nearby button that displays things based on your current location.

Articles has a very nice icon that makes it stands out. However, what made it stands out even more is the decision of making On this day... iPhone application FREE when Articles hits 10,000 downloads in App store. It has made Articles the most noticeable wikipedia iPhone application.

iPhone App Review - Attic ~ Music Controller For Forgotten Albums in Your iTunes Library

Attic is a gorgeous iPhone application that you can't take your hands off it. You will love to use it daily, at least, it is true for me. The UI design of the application reminds me of Jukebox you see in old American Movies. What Attic does is that it automatically indexes your music on your iPhone on startup and display them on beautiful shelf. It doesn't display any Albums but Albums that you haven't been play for quite while based on songs’ metadata. Attic still can't replace the Music application that came with iPhone OS even though I find myself using Apple's Music application less and less each. I just love using Attic with its beautiful jukebox-like UI design, sound effects and fun animation and I can assure that you will have a pleasant time use it as well.

Here is a list of Features that is listed on its website.

Listen
Drag-n-drop albums selected from your iTunes library. In a hurry? Let Attic automatically decide which albums to play using the magic wand.

Mix
Add multiple albums to the rotation to create on-the-fly playlists. Play albums in sequential order, or shuffle album songs.

Enjoy
Kick back. Attic figures out which albums in your library haven't been played lately and updates which albums appear on the shelves.

Using Attic is super easy since you control all on one beautiful interface. There are two buttons on the top and four music control buttons on the bottom of the screen. You tap on the top left button to shuffle and the top right is the "magic wand" button that automatically select and play albums for you. You can swipe the shelf up and down to look through the Albums. You can double tap an Album to show more info about the album or delete it. Attic automatically adds another Album to the shelf if you delete one from the shelf. Finally, you can shake the your iPhone to refresh albums displayed on the shelf.

Playing the music on Attic can super easy or fun, it all depends on how you choose to.

You can tap the "magic wand" button and music will start playing. That's the easy way but isn't fun at all. On the other hands, you can have much more fun by holding your finger over an ablum you like and a vinyl will appear and you drag it to the player at the bottom and release your finger. You will see it being pulled into it and the music will start to play. The playing Album will show a bookmark that display the current playing song title and artist.(Notice that you will see the red light is turned off and a green light is turn on next to the red one). When you are done listening, you can tap on the eject button to eject the vinyl. The screen will be dimmed but no the album that you currently have its vinyl inserted and there is an ejection sign over it. You just simply need to tap on it and you will see the vinyl is ejected from the player. Be the way, the dimming part reminds me the same effect you will see when doing a search in System Preferences on a Mac. VERY VERY NICE.

All being said, Attic is a gorgeous looking music controller iPhone application and it's fun to use. You can click here to go to its website.

HBB - custom login screen on Snow Leopard

this is my custom login screen, how do you like it?