July, 2009Archive for

Path Finder

Path Finder is an award-wining file browser and management application for Mac OS X. If you wanted Finder to do feature X or feature Y, Path Finder may be what you've been looking for. Path Finder is an application that leverages what you already know about working with your files. It takes the Finder's great interface and adds lots of powerful features and interface innovations to help anyone be more productive on Mac OS X. This application is $39.95, and can be downloaded here (dire...

FlowChat

FlowChat is an advanced IRC Client for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It has lots of great features that enables you to have the best time on IRC, almost like if you were at your computer. You can do a lot of things other iPhone IRC clients can do, but this one lets you upload and share photos and screenshots fairly easily. It also has a beautiful growl-like message alerts that alert you of a highlight or a private message. Here are some features that stand out to other clients: -scroll up ...

Concentrate 1.0 review

Concentrate helps you work and study more productively by eliminating all of your annoying distractions. what you can do: - Quit Apps: Close distracting apps like Mail, your twitter client, etc. - Launch Applications: Select which applications the activity requires and hides all others - Block Websites: Set which websites to deny access to. Distracting sites like twitter, facebook, youtube, etc. can be blocked. - Open Websites: Select which websites this activity uses and have them l...

Toobz- iPhone App Review

Hey, this time around the block I'll be reviewing an app called Toobz. Toobz is a challenging, fast-paced game that brings together quick reactions, planning, and a little bit of luck. The objective of the game is to make a water system out of "toobz", starting for a randomly placed starting point, for the water to flow through without being spilled. The pipe system is constructed on a 5x6 board where you place the shown piece by clicking on a square on the board. After the designated time has...

Real Racing for iPhone

Real Racing for the iPhone is a cool racing application that is available for $9.99. Yes, its 100% worth it for the $10. Its received lots of awards for its amazing graphics. Also, people have given the app tremendous ratings. 30 people give it 5 stars, while 3 people gave it 1 star and most 1 star reviews were price complaints. Here is what you can do/what is offered: - 48 cars in 4 different car classes, about 11-12(if I counted right) unique tracks, 5 game modes - 3 divisions to play t...

Twitter Client 101

Yes, We've written about Twitter before on MacSlice, but we'd like to bring it back up again. Twitter has a been an excellent source of information for millions of people around the globe. Allowing growing conversations & knowledge to be shared is a fantastic thing that can be excellently achieved over Twitter. You can follow us on Twitter too! We usually tweet about new posts & about our site statistics. This brings me to the main part of this post, Twitter Clients. We've reviewed ma...

First look at QuickPost

QuickPost is an application that lets you blog right from your desktop and then post it right to twitter. It supports all popular Blogging services. You can write advanced entries with formatted text, images, videos and maps without knowing HTML in the visual editor. It's almost as if you were writing in Pages or Microsoft word, but its more efficiant and easier to post directly. No need to copy/paste anything. *requires Mac OS X 10.5.6 or better* Flaws: For now, I've only found two flaws:...

iTwitter review

I recently was talking to a friend on aim who told me about this new twitter app called iTwitter. Since I've been having some sort with pretty much all of my twitter clients for my iPhone. So I decided to try it out. First thoughts: When I open the app I get prompted for my location, so it can tell twitter just where I am tweeting from. Then it gives you options whether or not you would Like Push Notifications. Once I saw this I got really excited, but I am yet to get a PNS message from the a...

Linkinus 2.0 Review

I’ve been using the Beta Version of Linkinus for about 2 weeks now, and I am finally happy to say that the official Release of Linkinus 2.0 is out. This new version is a huge upgrade from the previous 1.3 version. Here are the list of NEW features in the 2.0 version. Built in networks: With over 330 built-in networks, setting up your favorite connections is as easy as it gets. Dimming: Inactive chats in the current group have a darker overlay. Never again will you send a message to the wro...

iPhone App Of The Week 6/6-6/13

Today’s iPhone app of the week is.. Blowfish. Blowfish is a cool(and free) iPhone application that its objective is to fill 67% of the screen with fish. For every level, there will be 1 more sea urchin added. For example, if you are on level 5, there will be 5 sea urchins. When you blow up the fish, if the sea urchin comes and hits you, that fish will pop and you will lose a life. Here are rules/objectives of the game: -You can only blow 10 fish in one round (after that you’re done) -You ca...