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.)

As we mentioned earlier, the MacHeist Bundle is a great way to get some of the best mac applications. Over the last couple of days, the 10 apps in the bundle have jumped to 14 apps, making this an even sweeter deal. Make sure to check it out, and if you are planning to buy, please use our link to help support the site.

The MacHeist team has done it again! 10 Wonderful Apps for $49 (or as low as $39 if you have done all the heists). This years bundle includes:

1password $29.95
CoverSutra $22.00
Cha-Ching $40.00
iStopMotion $49.00
Awaken $12.95
Speed Download $25.00
AppZapper $12.95
TaskPaper $18.95
CSSEdit $29.95
Snapz Pro X $69.00
Pixelmator $59.00

For a Total Value of $368.75!

Make sure you check it out, and to help support our site, use the link http://iappblog.com/go/macheist.

The MacUpdate Promo bundle has continued for another 9 days, and iWOW 2 was added to bundle, and it will be sent to all past purcahsers of the bundle.

The bundle now includes:

ForkLift

RapidWeaver

Swift Publisher

Marine Aquarium

Xslimmer

MemoryMiner

Yep

SRS iWOW

XMIND 2008 Pro

iStabilize

PulpMotion

Check out the bundle at http://mupromo.com

Apple has just posted a site with tons of iPod Touch and iPhone compatiable web applications. These are iPhone/iPod Touch style sites that allow you to access some of your favourite content right from the iPhone or iPod Touch web browser, formatted for the 3.5″ screen. Some of my favourites are the Big Bang Sudoko App, the Digg App and the Stop Watch App. We would love to hear about your favourites as well, post a comment and tell us about your favourites.

You can check out the mini site at http://www.apple.com/webapps/ or you can check out the WebApps RSS Feed at http://www.apple.com/webapps/feeds/recent.rss

Rating: 5/5

Mars Edit 2.0 is the latest release of Red Sweater Software’s powerful desktop blogging tool. Mars Edit allows you to create, edit and post from a desktop application to many popular blogging platforms including Wordpress, Moveable Type, Blogger, and many others. It is extremely easy to use, you just enter in you blog’s URL, username and password, and its setup. It also directs you to setting up a free Wordpress.com blogging account, or Blogger account if you do not have a blog. It scans through your flickr library and automatticly adds them to your post with the click of a button.

The new version of Mars Edit includes a beautiful new interface that highlights the features, and is also extremely simple and easy to use. There is also integration of Flickr, a photo sharing service, which allows you to upload your photos for free to their site, and showcase them publicly. Mars Edit makes use of this service and allows you to browse and search your photos within the application. There are also tons of tiny tweaks making the application work much better. At just $29.95, the choice is simple, and if you are a past purchaser, then the upgrade is $9.95.

I have enjoyed Mars Edit 2.0 so much that I have made it my primary way to post to both iAppblog and my personal blog.

Price: $29.95

Website: http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/

Rating: 4/5

Syndicating RSS feeds is not typically handled like email. Cyndicate’s main difference from other RSS readers is that it handles storing articles and other RSS item almost exactly like an email client. Say you find an interesting, but long, article on some Mac news item, Cyndicate allows you to not just flag it, but label it with a color and move it to a folder for later reading. This method also makes for a very competent way of archiving your favorite articles over time. Cyndicate’s search feature is very reminiscent of Apple Mail. Reading your RSS feeds offline is another very compelling feature that migrated its way from Apple Mail. In my opinion, the most useful feature in Cyndicate is Smart Folders. Smart Folders can automatically categorize articles, instead of the more time consuming use of Folders. Users of the discontinued app PulpFiction will definitely want to try Cyndicate, as Cyndicate’s feature-set is based on PulpFiction. Cyndicate is nicely thought out; it even does some things differently when the option key is held down.

The extent of work to setup the Filters feature and the fact that it’s hidden in the preferences is one aspect that doesn’t seem well thought out. Many people hate email for a reason. Cyndicate carries over some of the pains of email to RSS reading. The intimidation of an inbox filled with 1000+ articles aside, some people don’t care about saving news for later and having large archives. Because of this, Cyndicate is not for everyone. You have to use the trial edition first to truly see if you prefer this approach.

Version Reviewed: 1.0.1

Price: $29.95

Site: http://cynicalpeak.com/cyndicate/

Rating: 4/5

General Info: While syncing is often a sticky issue, Spanning Sync does it transparently and flawlessly. What Spanning Sync synchronizes is iCal and Google Calendar events. What’s so powerful about Spanning Sync is its bidirectional syncing. Bidirectional syncing means that data created, edited, and deleted on Google Calendar will be synced with iCal, and vice versa. Spanning Sync can sync automatically every 10 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, day, or week (also in addition to, or instead of, manually syncing). You can also chose if calendars are synced, and which opposing calendar they’re synced to. Syncing is entirely transparent except when when Google Calendar changes a certain amount of iCal data (normally 50%). Besides the increased accessibility, Google Calendar adds a more convenient way to add shared or third-party calendars; such as holidays or concerts. Through iCal, Spanning Sync allows you to sync Google Calendar events to your iPod, iPhone, or other mobile device.

In addition to the previously mentioned features, Spanning Sync needs some more. One that I really missed was a way to merge calendars. Say I had two Google calendars of national holidays and religious holidays (no, not Apple), Spanning Sync could then merge them into one iCal calendar called ?¢‚Ǩ?ìHolidays?¢‚Ǩ¬ù. What I feel Spanning Sync is missing most is a way to sync to-dos with Google Calendar. As Google Calendar lacks to-dos, Spanning Sync doesn’t sync them at all. Still, Spanning Sync should take to-dos with a due date from iCal and make them events in Google Calendar (similar to this). One item bothering many potential buyers of Spanning Sync is its cost. Because Spanning Sync is commonly viewed as an application, rather than a service, a yearly fee or one-time, expensive “unlimited license” is commonly seen as overpriced. Exacerbating the situation further is the ridiculously low prominence of the prices and plans available on Spanning Sync’s website. Spanning Sync works great, but could use some more features and better prices (by about $5-15 less).

Retail Prices: $25 per year or $65 unlimited

Site: http://spanningsync.com/

Rating: 4/5

General Info: Pandora is one of those services that you either hate or love. If you love it, PandoraJam might be a useful app for you. PandoraJam provides many features only a Mac app can give you. They include: scrobbling for Last.fm (ironically a Pandora competitor), AirTunes support to play your music on an Apple Airport Express or Extreme, Growl support, updating chat status for songs (for iChat, Adium, and Skype), keyboard shortcuts, and recording. Scrobbling, Growl, AirTunes, keyboard shortcuts and updated chat status all work well. PandoraJam’s AirTunes has a very useful attribute; the volume of the can be different between computer and remote speakers.

Recording is a great way to see if you really like the song, artist, or album; by hearing it again before you buy the songs. The actual recording functionality, like Pandora itself, is hit or miss. Oddly, instead of just downloading the MP3 file, which you can do with Safari, PandoraJam records the song (a la Audio Hijack Pro). Not recording noise from other apps, PandoraJam can then add the song to iTunes, although not to a specified playlist. The recorded songs are in AAC format and can have several different bit-rates. The most prominent problem with recording, and not downloading, is that you need a newer or faster Mac to do this without skipping and generally messed up recordings. Also, PandoraJam consistently got the length of the song off by a few seconds. If you like Pandora, and want the aforementioned features, then try out PandoraJam; just be aware that recording may not work so well.

Note: Users in places other than America and the UK may not be able to use Pandora or this software. For more information on this regrettable situation, go to http://www.savenetradio.org/index.html

Retail Price: $15

Site: http://www.bitcartel.com/pandorajam/PandoraJam.html

We’re giving away five copies of ButtonDesign. Whoever can make the best logo for iAppblog will win a copy and four runner-ups will be drawn. This is your opportunity to help make iAppblog better, and we appreciate it. We will also link back to the winner’s website or email. Who knows? Maybe we’ll secure more apps for the winner, by the time this contest is over.

Rules
-Send your entry in a common picture format, preferably PNG, at a resolution of or greater than 512 pixels by 512 pixels.
-The logo must be square shaped and you must include a 16×16, 64×64, 256×256 and the full version. We would also love it if you could include the PSD (the raw photoshop file), or any other raw, uncompressed version you have.
-Your entries must be sent by Saturday June 23 at 11:59:59 PM EST.
-Send your entries to contest@iappblog.com.
-The winners will be announced during the week of Sunday, the 24th of June.
-Once submitted, iAppblog will have full legal rights on the logo. You must use original images, or images otherwise licensed for this use.
-Up to 3 different submissions per person.
-Both EDIT-XTREEM and Phoenix42 will vote on their favourite.

So.. Start designing and thinking about the iAppblog logo. This is a great way to show your support for iAppblog and win a great app.