Flowboard For Mac
Flowboard is presentation software that started its life on iOS, as an excellent tool for building compelling presentations on the iPad. That same sensibility informs the Macintosh version of the app, which came out mid-July. Flowboard presentations are almost like interactive apps: navigation elements, links to documents, videos, image galleries and more. It'a a remimagining of how presentations work — a very different take on the idea that PowerPoint or Keynote. The presentations can be viewed on any platform by anyone. If you're already familiar with Flowboard on iOS, the Mac version incorporates some new features like shape creation tools, a full color wheel and opacity control, rich text support, Vimeo videos, very exact positioning and sizing tools, and a full array of Mac keyboard commands.
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$9.99 - Xscope 4. OK, Xscope 4 actually came out late in June, but I'm including it anyway because it's really cool. If you work with on-screen graphics and layouts, Xscope is a terrific tool for measuring, inspecting and testing your designs. You can compare your layout with how it will look on various screens using different templates, display guides, use rulers and more. Xscope 4 adds new text tools with search, text deciphering, reformatting and conversions; also new are overlay tools to help you check elements on your page, grides with breakpoints to simplify responsive web design and more.
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$49.99 - Capo 3.1. Capo is a musician's tool to help learn how to play the songs you love. Listen to anything in your iTunes library.
Capo can slow it down without affecting its pitch, so you can practice along to learn the track. It will automatically generate tablature for you, displays chord shapes in various tunings, lets you loop regions and more. The 3.1 release, which came out in July, sports two important new features: Chord Intelligence, which now automatically detects chords when you open a song, and iCloud sync. Why is iCloud sync important? Because it works with the equally awesome (and brand new) Capo Touch for iOS, syncing your project seamlessly. Central michigan gymnastics camp. $14.99 - LaunchBar 6. OK, again, I'm cheating, because LaunchBar 6 came out in June, but I'm technically not cheating because it was updated in July.
Anyway, LaunchBar is a fantastic productivity tool that provides you with instant access to apps and documents, speedy file management, searching on the web and desktop, clipboard history, snippet management and more. LaunchBar keeps you fingers on the keyboard where they belong, making you faster and more productive. LaunchBar 6 was completely redesigned user interface that can now be themed, support for the anonymous web search tool DuckDukGo, live Calendar input feedback, new indexing rules to support emoji and Mavericks Finder Tags, and more.
$29 - What are yours? I'm sure I left some out. What new Mac apps did you discover in July that are worthy of note? Let me know in the comments. This post may contain affiliate links. See our for more details.
“We think this will open it up to typical Mac users,” Brent Brookler, Flowboard’s CEO and founder, told us when we sat down for a quick demo at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Up to this point Flowboard’s adoption rate has been highest in schools, a trend Brent attributes to the app’s availability being limited to iPads. The new Mac app will incorporate live thumbnail previews, the ability to work offline, what Brent calls “one-hundred percent sync” and, will work with the. Another big upcoming feature that should make Flowboard much more popular: Brent says Flowboard users will soon have the ability to export and import PDFs — possibly a soon as the next big iOS update, due out next month.
Though the iOS app is free (with some premium features, like extra storage space, available with a $5 monthly subscription), expect to pay around $10 for the Mac version when it hits the Mac App Store.