December 17th, 2008 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Traverse City, Michigan - MacUpdate’s Holiday Bundle, a collection of awarding-winning Mac applications available at nearly 90% off, has added a bonus app to the mix with 48 hours left in the promotion. Pangea Arcade, a collection of three updated classic arcade games, is available to the first 20,000 buyers of the bundle. This additional app brings the value of the MacUpdate bundle up to more than $465, but through the end of December 19 (EST), Mac users can take home the bundle for just $49.99.
More than 17,000 bundles have already been purchased by Mac users around the world, making this MacUpdate’s most popular bundle to date. A gifting option, newly launched for this bundle, also means that numerous Mac users will be receiving the gift of the bundle from friends or family in the coming days.
The MacUpdate Holiday Bundle is available for $49.99.
The other 10 apps included in the bundle include:
* Drive Genius 2 ($99): Currently the highest-rated disk utility on the market and used by Mac Geniuses at Apple Stores, Drive Genius diagnoses and repairs problems with your hard drive, optimizes your system, and much more. Buyers will receive a link to download a bootable DVD image of the software to burn, which can be used to boot and fix any Mac that can run Mac OS X 10.5, including Apple’s newest laptops.
Notable Mentions: MacLife Editor’s Choice pick (July 2008), 2008 MacUser Labs winner against competing disk utilities, Macworld UK Editor’s Choice (5/5 rating), “Excellent” rating from ATPM
* RapidWeaver 4 ($79): Create powerful, professional-looking Web sites quickly and easily.
Notable Mentions: 2008 Macworld Editor’s Choice pick (5/5 rating), 4.5/5 rating from MacFormat magazine
* DefaultFolder X 4 ($34.95): Fly through Open & Save dialog boxes at lightning speed.
Notable Mentions: 4.5/5 rating from Macworld, 5/5 rating from MacUser UK, and numerous other awards
* VirusBarrier X 10.5 ($69.95): Fast, simple, and non-intrusive anti-virus software for your Mac.
Notable Mentions: 4.5/5 rating from Macworld in July 2008, which called it “the gold standard”
* MacGourmet Deluxe ($44.95): Like iTunes for food, track recipes, plan meals, manage wines, and more.
Notable Mentions: 4/5 rating by MacLife magazine
* Little Snitch 2 ($29.95): Monitors your network connection to make sure your Mac only sends out what you want it to.
Notable Mentions: 4.5/5 rating by Macworld, 5/5 rating by MacUser UK
* KeyCue 4 ($27): Displays full keyboard shortcuts for all your applications; learn them and work faster.
Notable Mentions: 4.5/5 rating by Macworld, 5/5 rating by MacNotes
* MacPilot 3 ($19.95): Access hundreds of hidden features to customize and improve your Mac OS X experience.
Notable Mentions: 5/5 rating by MacCompanion magazine, 4/5 rating by Macworld UK
* WhatSize 4 ($12.99): Effortlessly identify files that are hogging disk space and that you don’t need anymore.
Notable Mentions: 4/5 rating by Macworld, prominently mentioned in the latest issue of MacFormat magazine
* iVolume 3 ($29.95): Ensures all your iTunes tracks play back at the same level, so you never have to adjust the volume individually.
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MacUpdate was founded in 1997 and has since become the leading Mac software site on the Web. The site remains independently owned and operated and represents one of the largest Apple communities online. MacUpdate Promo was launched in 2006 and delivers 24-hour daily software deals and periodic bundles. Copyright 1997-2008 MacUpdate. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
December 17th, 2008 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Florence, Italy - Tapping It is delighted to introduce Memento Xmas 1.1, a free, lite version of their popular e-card creation and sending app for iPhone and iPod Touch. Designed from the ground up to leverage the iPhone’s unique abilities and interface, Memento is an elegant e-card sending application offering a natural feel and ease-of-use.
Just in time for the holidays, Tapping It has released this Lite version of Memento specifically for Christmas. Version 1.1 includes all new Christmas styles. Now is a perfect time to send a Christmas e-card for free to family and friends straight from the iPhone, as well an opportunity to try out the functionality of Memento (Regular $4.99 USD).
Memento’s emails are of unmatched quality and richness. Its built-in designer styles support and enhance anyone’s photos, and help convey a mood or feeling. Easily compose a card (Full version includes beautiful 14 styles) add a favorite photo, enter personalized text, and email just the perfect postcard. So much more than a plain e-card, Memento’s emails are of unmatched quality and richness.
“This is just one of those applications that is cool, and has a variety of uses. If you’re looking to surprise grandma with pictures of her grand kids, then this is the application for you.” - TUAW first look
Feature highlights include:
* 4 Christmas designer styles (more in the full Memento)
* Visual, Fully WYSIWYG display of Cards
* Multiple Email Recipients
* Amazing yet familiar User Interface
* Compatible with Mac OS X Mail, Thunderbird, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, MobileMe
Supported Languages:
* US English, German, French, Italian, and Dutch
System Requirements:
* iPhone or iPod Touch 2.1 or later
Pricing and Availability:
Memento Xmas 1.1 for iPhone is free and available exclusively through Apple’s App Store.
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Based in beautiful Florence, Italy, Tapping It is a new privately funded company founded in 2008 by Duncan Wilcox. With a passion for user interface design and utility, Duncan brings five years of Cocoa development experience to the iPhone platform. Copyright 2008 Tapping It. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.
December 17th, 2008 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Jhangle, Pingtung, Taiwan - Ohanaware, a company specializing in photo editing software announced the immediate availability of an update to their flagship product “Funtastic Photos”. Funtastic Photos is a user friendly Photo Editor for the Macintosh platform. This minor update (free to existing customer) features several important improvements to the printing aspect of Funtastic Photos.
Funtastic Photos is a ‘non-permanent and easily reversible’ photo editor, with over 50 simple to use 1-Click Styles, Advanced Effects engine, direct sharing via Fun Cards, Cell Phone (inc. iPhone) and popular photo sharing sites (flickr, Facebook, Picasa & MobileMe). Funtastic Photos features a creative print layouts system, with awe-inspring projects, including photo mosaics, greeting cards, photo cubes, mini photos books and more.
What’s New In Version 1.0.3:
Funtastic Photos 1.0.3 update improves the printing. This release resolves the issue whereby some high resolution images were not being printed at high resolution. Printing portrait greeting cards is now easier as Funtastic Photos will rotate them correctly and no longer requires additional rotation of 180 degrees. The printing resolution has also been doubled, allowing higher quality printing when available. Minor fixes include toolbar enabling/disabling and a rotation error in the Save As Copy dialog.
System Requirements:
Funtastic Photos requires a Power Macintosh G4, G5 or Intel based Macintosh computer, running Mac OS X v 10.4 or later. It is recommended to have at least 512 mb of RAM.
Pricing and Availability:
Funtastic Photos is available today for the seasonal price of $27.99 (USD before taxes). A free unlimited trial can be downloaded from Ohanaware’s web site, during the trial Funtastic Photos will watermark any exported or shared photos. Ohanaware provides a wallet friendly family pack, up to 5 people can install and use Funtastic Photos, for the great price of $56.00 (USD). Gift Vouchers are available, enabling anyone to give the gift of Funtastic Photos, during December we’re doing a special gift voucher pack, 3 for the price of 2. These special prices are only valid through the month of December (2008), after which they will revert to $34.99 for the single user license and $69.98 for the family pack.
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Ohanaware is a family team with a history and passion in software development, in 2007 their games company Ohana Games had a top ten hit with the game Recyclorama. Both Joy Sha and Sam Rowlands enjoy the thrill of amateur photography and sharing their photos with family and friends. Joy Sha has a history in the design industry with experience as a 2D and 3D artist, she also holds a masters in 3D animation. Sam Rowlands has been writing software since 1990. He won his first award in 2004. His most famous work includes iWatermark and net_clipper.
December 17th, 2008 — iPhone Hacks, Tips and Tricks
Hagenberg, Austria - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.3, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos. The new version adds predefined sets with subscript and superscript characters and separate auto-correction dictionaries for US and British English. It thus comes with a total of 10 predefined abbreviation sets for system-wide auto-correction for three languages, HTML coding, FileMaker development, and more.
Typinator 3.3 also allows to define set-specific options, where users can conveniently specify common prefix and suffix characters for all abbreviations within a set, define separate expansion sounds and add notes per set. Finally, the new version includes a number of other improvements and fixes, including increased compatibility with Adobe Acrobat.
“The current version of Typinator comes with a total of more than 8000 snippets in ten predefined sets. This makes Typinator a guaranteed productivity booster right out of the box, even without defining any own snippets,” said Christoph Reichenberger, founder and CEO of Ergonis Software. “And the new set-specific options are great for customizing your snippet sets. Whether you want to assign a custom expansion sound or add a common prefix to hundreds of snippets - all this is now a matter of just a few clicks.”
Typinator is a powerful, yet elegantly simple solution that works across all applications to detect specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replace them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters.
For business users, Typinator leads to a layer of operational consistency and productivity across heterogeneous applications. A standard customer service response, a signature image on an email, a clause in a contract - each of these can be inserted in any application with just a couple of keystrokes. For technical users, Typinator automates typing of code and the implementation of documentation standards.
Typinator 3.3 requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or newer, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) is recommended. Visit Ergonis Software’s website to learn more about the changes in this release and to download and try the new version.
Availability and Pricing:
Typinator can be purchased securely on the Ergonis Software website. The upgrade to Typinator 3.3 is free for all customers who purchased Typinator in the last 2 years. For information about purchases, including enterprise licenses, volume discounts, and upgrade pricing offers, see the company’s web site.
Instead of purchasing Typinator by itself, customers can get the Macility Productivity Bundle that also contains two of the company’s other productivity tools, PopChar X and KeyCue. The pricing of the Productivity Bundle represents a saving of more than 35% over the separate purchase of its components.
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Ergonis Software develops ergonomic and intuitive software that boosts the productivity of Mac and PC users. Ergonis Software, a privately held company founded in 2002, is headquartered in Hagenberg, Austria. Ergonis and Typinator are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Ergonis Software GmbH. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
April 11th, 2008 — General Computing
Apple waited a full week before seeding the latest version of Mac OS X 10.5.3 (9d19) to developers on Friday. The latest version of Mac OS X Leopard adds 31 bug fixes to the growing list of issues addressed in the upcoming release.
