By making all developers of iPhone Applications required to use Xcode to create their apps, which is a mac only application, iPhone Developers are forced to use a mac as their development platform. The other hidden benefit of having these developers on the mac platform is the creation of mac apps, and since the iPhone Apps run on Cocoa, the developers already know the best coding language for mac.

The result? Tons of iPhone Apps, tons of mac sales and tons of mac apps, all in the next few months.

Now I am not saying that loosing a couple developers from the Windows development market is going to kill Microsoft, and nor will it affect the quality of app for Windows, but it will get the developers thinking about the iPhone platform, which, like it or not for them, is very similar to that of the mac.

So what does this mean for Mac users? Well I can’t say for sure, but it seems to mean that there will be more developers, meaning more apps, which creates more competition, which will probably make these developers strive for higher standards, and this is where Snow Leopard comes in.

So as iPhone Apps begin to sell, and get ton of attention for Apple, Snow Leopard comes along, giving another reason for these overwhelming numbers of iPhone Developers to start developing for mac.

What does this mean in the long run though? Quite frankly, I am not sure, I believe it means there will be more iPhone Apps, more Mac Apps and more devlopers in the community, but what does it mean for the end user? I guess we will just have to wait and see.

What do you think? Smartest Thing Apple Has Ever Done? I think so. Post a comment and let me know what you think.

MacRumors member dennisalio has created an excellent video. It’s taken him three months to create and I say it’s totally worth it. Here’s a quote from his thread:

I’m a VERY frequent lurker I guess, filmmaker and huge Mac fan.

I just shot a music video that takes place on the Mac OSX desktop. It’s really cool… It uses the Mac OSX template as a canvas. Watch it and you’ll see what I mean. Please link it up if you’re a Mac fan!!! =) I promise you won’t be disappointed (because I wasted 3 months of my life making it hahaha)

It’s really fantastic, he should submit it to Apple. For those who haven’t seen it yet here it is.

Good work Dennis!

Dennis’s Mac Video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8

Update: Seems there are a few problems with Youtube on our end, just have to link it.

(Just a note, as an active member on MacRumors, I saw this before it hit anywhere.)

I have just posted a full Final Cut Studio 2 Review on my blog. You can check it out at
http://edit.xtreem.iappblog.com/2007/11/07/lights-camera-action-final-cut-studio-2-review/
and if you like it you can digg it at
http://digg.com/apple/Lights_Camera_Actionh_Final_Cut_Studio_2_Review.

For video editors on the mac, there are a few options. Those doing home videos usually stick with iMovie, Apple’s editing program included with iLife. But those that want to do more advance things, or even want to become professional usually turn to Apple’s Final Cut Studio. Apple released the second version of Final Cut Studio in mid April this year. It includes 6 main applications, Final Cut Pro 6, Motion 3, SoundTrack Pro 2, Color, Compressor 3 and DVD Studio Pro 4. This is the first major release to support the Intel Processors, a .1 release was made available as a crossgrade, but it was not a full release. There have been tons of upgrades to all of the applications.

In this review I am going to cover all 6 of the applications included in Final Cut Studio 2.

I have officially extended the week of Leopard into this week, and I would like to anounce another giveaway.

This giveaway will be for 5 licenses of Comic Life Deluxe Household Edition. It is a great app for making cool comics with photos of friends and family. To enter, post a comment telling us your favourite part of the new finder in Leopard. The five winners will receive the Household Edition of Comic Life Deluxe .

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, tell us what you most like about the new finder. This giveaway ends this Friday with the others.

Rating: 4.5/5

I’ve tried several implementations of virtual desktops on multiple platforms. While Spaces is not the slickest looking, it doesn’t utilize superfluous effects over usability. Spaces also is also vastly better than other virtual desktop solutions because it’s supported and included in more machines.

Spaces has some key features that make it truly great. One, Spaces is tightly integrated with Exposé. Activating All Windows will show only the windows in the current space. Additionally, if all spaces are shown in a bird’s eye view, it will show all windows in all spaces. The second major feature of Spaces is application binding, called “Application Assignments.� The crux of virtual desktops is having certain application windows appearing in specific spaces automatically, and this is what Application Assignments does. These automatic assignments take away most of the work of moving windows to specific spaces. The last major feature of Spaces is the one most virtual desktop implementations lack: a bird’s eye view of all spaces. This view not only allows you to see which window is where, but also move windows effortlessly between spaces.

Spaces has some other convenient ways of moving windows to other spaces. You can drag windows to the edge of the screen nearest the other space. For example, to move a Safari window to the space to the left of it, drag it to the left edge and hold it there for a few seconds. Spaces shows a nice bezel-like window which displays which space you just switched to. Spaces also has numerous ways of switching to other spaces: keyboard shortcuts, a menu bar item, a Dock icon, and more.

Spaces is not without its problems though. Individual spaces can only have a non-descriptive number for a name, rather than a name like Communications or Web Browsing. Spaces also has a minor bug where windows appear in the wrong space. I’ve encountered this only once in about a week of owning Leopard. It happened when I activated iCal’s preference window and it appeared in the space above the current one.

Virtual desktops are great for organizing a large quantity of windows —therefore providing a less distracting interface. Despite some minor deficiencies, Spaces is simply the best implementation of virtual desktops I’ve ever used.

Price: included with Leopard, $129 or £85

Site: http://www.apple.com/

Make sure too digg this article as well! http://digg.com/apple/Review_of_Spaces_on_iAppblog/

As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From this Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.

This giveaway will be for 5 licenses of a secret application that I am working on. It has not yet been released, but when it is, the winners will each get a license emailed to them. To enter, post a comment telling us if you waited in line for leopard, how long the wait was if you did, and if you didn’t, why, and if you regret it. The five winners will receive one license of my application once it comes out each.

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, post about your expirence waiting in line for leopard, or not waiting.

As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.

This giveaway will be for 1 licenses of CSSEdit, an app for designing and coding CSS in a graphic environment. To enter, tell us how you like the new Safari, as this is an app for making web related projects, we want to know about Safari.The more exciting, the better. Tell us why you do not like this feature, how it will effect your workflow, or anything else interesting about Safari 3. The one winner will receive a license of CSSEdit.

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, start thinking up your least favorite feature, commenting will being Friday at 6PM EST.

EDIT: We are asking for your least favourite feature of Safai.

As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From this Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.

This giveaway will be for 5 licenses of MacDust, an app cleaning out your macs cookies, caches and history in one stop. To enter, post a comment telling us about your least favorite new feature of leopard, and you have over 300 to choose from. The more exciting, the better. Tell us why you do not like this feature, how it will effect your workflow, or anything else interesting about this feature. The five winners will receive one license of MacDust each.

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
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We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, start thinking up your least favorite feature, commenting will being Friday at 6PM EST.

As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From this Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.

This giveaway will be for 3 licenses of TextExpander 2.0, an app for saving tons of keystrokes by using abbreaviations. We did a review of the older version a while back, and it scored 4.5/5. To enter, post a comment telling us about our favorite new feature of leopard, and you have over 300 to choose from. The more exciting, the better. Tell us what you plan to use this for, how it will effect your workflow, or anything else interesting about this feature. The three winners will receive one license of TextExpander each.

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, start thinking up your favorite feature, commenting will being Friday at 6PM EST.

As we count down the hours till Apple officially releases Mac OS Leopard 10.5, there will be many giveaways and contests. This will last for the first week of leopard being out. From this Friday, October 26th at 6 PM EST till next Friday, we will host the “Week of Leopard”.

This giveaway will be for 3 licenses of iShowU, a great screen-capturing application for mac. We did a review of it earlier, and it scored an impressive 4.5/5. To enter, post a comment telling us about our favorite new feature of leopard, and you have over 300 to choose from. The more exciting, the better. Tell us what you plan to use this for, how it will effect your workflow, or anything else interesting about this feature. The three winners will receive one license of iShowU each.

Make sure to include your valid email address in the email address field of the comments.

Rules:
1 entry per person
iAppblog has the right to disqualify anyone, for any reason
We can change the rules at any time, before, after or during the contest
We can change the prize at any time, before, after or during the contest

If you agree to all these rules, start thinking up your favorite feature, commenting will being Friday at 6PM EST.