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I’m with Shawn Blanc. I miss “Save As” too.

Tree is an outliner with a difference – it offers an unusual horizontal view of your document alongside a host of useful outlining features.

The guys over at Macminicolo just celebrated their seventh birthday (Happy Birthday!), and took a look at some numbers. During those years, the humble Mac mini’s benchmarks have increased by some 1429%.

I rather like the look of these handmade wooden iPad stands from Woodpad here in the UK.

I’m lucky: the real Stonehenge is only about 40 minutes’ drive from my front door, so I can go and visit whenever I like. For students of prehistoric monuments who live further afield, the Stonehenge Experience app for iPad offers a tiny glimpse of what this ancient English stone circle is all about.

This is Mou, a rather cute little text editor that you might like to check out if you ever use Markdown to format stuff for publishing on the web. Or even if you don’t.

The idea behind Kinotopic is to capture those little moving moments with Harry Potter-esque animated photos.

Wait – animated photos? I mean animated gifs, right? Well, yes and no.

The Pentax WG-1 GPS ($350) is a waterproof, shockproof location-aware camera.

If you’ve never tried a waterproof camera before, it can be quite a jarring experience. Every fibre of your soul tells you that you shouldn’t put electronic gadgets in water, so immersing this beast feels decidedly like the wrong thing to do.

As soon as you’ve done it, though, there’s a rush of delight as you press the on button and the screen lights up, and everything just works as if it were out on dry land.

This is FlickrBucket, a cute one-dollar uploading utility I found on the Mac App Store this week.

All this time, people have blindly taken the Birds’ word for it, and joined them in their campaign of violence against the pigs. Nobody thought to ask the pigs for their side of the story. Until now.

Here’s a treat for Indiana Jones fans. It’s called Temple Run, it’s free on the iOS App Store, and it gives you the chance to relive your Indy treasure-hunting dreams.

Hey kids, NASA needs your help. And your iPhone.

Here’s a fun idea from Kickstarter: hip headphones with built-in housing for your iPod shuffle.

(Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament, under Creative Commons license.)

The UK Parliament spent £17,000 (about $26,000) on a total of 34 iPads for official use this year.

Proceeds from of a pile of great Mac and iOS apps sold today (December 20th) will be donated to a charity working to provide clean water to those who don’t have it.

New at PhotoJojo is this crazy Holga iPhone lens case that gives you nine special effects for your photos.

Mariner Software just updated veteran writing/blogging app MacJournal to version 6, with a double helping of new features thrown in.

Ah, wonderful. Imagine the comic opportunities that lie ahead now that Dilbert characters carry talking smartphones.

Somehow, you can tell this is probably just part of Dogbert’s masterplan for the company anyway.

Last week, we asked you to vote for your choice of the best iOS apps of 2011. Big thanks to everyone who contributed. Here are the results.
Let’s go through the list in detail; at the end, we’d like you to vote on the best app of the year, for inclusion in Cult of Mac’s annual Best of 2011 list. Let’s go!

Shared Paper is a lovely iPad app for making and sharing presentations on a huge scrollable canvas.

Solar Walk is an excellent educational app about space and everything in it. With Earth as your home base, you wander the Solar System, cruising the planets and moons and making discoveries along the way.

It’s here! After long years of waiting, you can finally – finally – get your hands on a copy of TextMate 2.

The Olloclip ($70) is a clip-on device for iPhone 4 and 4S which gives the built-in camera lens a little more flexibility for wide angle and close-up shots.

It includes three lenses. At one end, the largest of the three is the fisheye. At the other end you have a general-purpose wide angle. Unscrew this, and you uncover a tiny macro lens nestling underneath.