It’s Day 3, and we’re just getting started… Today we have twenty five copies of Radar to give away (you read it right, twenty five!). Radar is a desktop companion app to 37signals’ Basecamp. It keeps you informed of changes and additions to your Basecamp project, to save you going to the site unnecessarily.
Read on for more information about the app, and to find out how to enter.
Welcome to Day 2! Today we have two copies of Things to give away. Far from being a straight-forward to do list manager, Things provides separation between tasks due now, scheduled for a future date, postponed indefinitely, or completed. It’s an Apple Design Award winning application, and offers a remarkably easy-to-use interface.
Read on for more information about the app, and to find out how to enter.
A relative minnow in the so-called “Browser Wars”, Camino released their Version 2.0 browser last week. Based on the Gecko rendering engine from Mozilla, Camino has been designed exclusively for the Mac in order to take advantage of all the APIs and services native to Mac OS X.
Personally I never saw a reason to use Camino 1.x, I had Safari for speed, Firefox for web development and Opera for compatibility testing. However, with the new release, and my Firefox install being a little slow and bloated, I migrated to Camino for a week. Today’s review will take a look at the different features in Camino 2.0 and whether or not it’s worth making the switch.
Welcome to the first day of our huge Christmas giveaway! Today we have two copies of Tweetie for Mac to give away. Tweetie is widely regarded as the best Twitter client for OS X, and we certainly wouldn’t argue. It’s packed with features, and offers a really intuitive way to interact with Twitter on your Mac.
Read on for more information about the app, and to find out how to enter.
I’m excited to announce that tomorrow marks the start of the AppStorm Christmas Giveaway. We’ll be running this across both Mac.AppStorm, and Web.AppStorm, and it’s going to be huge! We’ll be giving away a different application every day between the 1st and 24th December. On the 24th, we’re finishing off with an enormous finale including some fantastic Apple hardware.
The total value of all the prizes included in the Mac.AppStorm competitions exceeds $7,000, with over 138 licenses up for grabs. It’s something not to be missed, so read on for a sneak preview of the software on offer and a special AppStorm Christmas wallpaper!
We’d like to say thank you to this month’s AppStorm sponsors, and the great software they create! If you’re interested in advertising, you can order a slot through BuySellAds.
LittleSnapper – Take a look at LittleSnapper from Realmac Software, It’s an awesomely powerful new app to snap, annotate and share screenshots.
Billings – Billings’ simple workflow and intuitive interface makes quoting, invoicing, and time tracking effortless.
Daylite Touch – Daylite Touch is a business productivity manager for the iPhone and iPod touch, winner of a 2009 Macworld Best of Show award, designed as a companion to Daylite on the Mac.
CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.
MiniBooks – A handy iPhone app from FreshBooks that lets you track your time and invoice your clients while you’re away from your computer.
Easy Tasker – Manage your projects, invoices, clients and so much more from as little as $11 per month, with a companion iPhone app.
CSS Gallery App – CSS Gallery is the premiere iPhone app that simplifies the way web designers browse sites for inspiration.
MacGraPhoto – A change to get your hands on 7 fantastic graphics applications for the price of one, including a few really great pieces of software.
Cram – Create and study with flash cards and multiple-choice tests on your Mac. A great way to learn and prepare for an upcoming test.
Wallet – Your own flexible, personal database for storing web passwords, serial numbers, and credit cards, and anything else!
LED Football – An accurate recreation of one of the very first handheld games. A great retro football game, now available on the iPhone.
Layers App – Layers captures every window, palette, and menu on your screen, and stores each as a separate, editable layer in a resulting Photoshop file. Very handy!
I’m pleased to announce that the winners of the TimeNet competition have now been chosen! Thanks to everyone for your promotional tips and advice – there were some really helpful ideas suggested.
A big congratulations to our lucky four winners:
- Xavier Fajardo
- Nicolas
- Sarah
- Paul
Well done, and I hope you enjoy your copy of TimeNet. To everyone else – stay tuned for the chance to win all manner of fantastic applications throughout December. Not long to go now!
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The first words that jump into my mind when I think about the iTunes controller market are “over saturated.” That said, many of them skimp on the features, and lack a little design polish. Only a handful of them do their job well, and only a few of those do it with style.
CoverSutra by Sophiestication software is my personal favorite iTunes controller. I’m going to detail why I chose it over the other controllers out there, and highlight a few of the features that make it particularly unique.
There comes a time in the life of a designer where they seek methods to make their already beautiful design magnificent. The grid system is one of these such alternate methods, with many application developers, both online and offline, creating their own for a specific purpose. Two popular examples in the web field are the 960 grid system and the blueprint framework. Slammer takes this to a whole new level, adding in powerful tools to manipulate your grid system framework across all platforms.
Slammer, developed by Ringce, is an advanced layout tool that allows web and interface designers alike to create and tweak their layouts to align with a grid system, golden sections, harmonious sections and the fibonacci series.
