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GeneralToday we’ll be giving away five copies of Snowtape, an application that will be fully reviewed next week. Snowtape is the perfect solution for recording audio from various Internet radio stations, automatically tagging each file with appropriate information and album artwork. Perfect for quickly filling your iPod with interesting new music.
If you’d like to win a copy, simply leave a comment on this post letting us know who your favourite music artist is. Be honest – we won’t judge you!
The competition will run for one week, and we’ll announce the winners on Friday 23rd October. Good luck!

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Thank you to everyone who entered our Daylite competition. We had three of the “Daylite Bundles” to give away (including the desktop application, plus a 1-year iPhone app license), and the winners have now been chosen.
Thanks again to Marketcircle for providing the free licenses, and without further ado – here are the three lucky winners!
- Bundle #1 – Garry Aylott
- Bundle #2 – Eric Vitiello
- Bundle #3 – Josh Crain
Sorry to everyone who missed out (we still love you!), and rest assured we’ll be back with another great competition next week.
The 15% Offer
We’re also pleased to let you know that if you’d like to purchase a license outright, you can benefit from 15% off for 30 days (starting from today). Simply use the code appstorm when making your purchase!
Mac software developers are incredibly generous when it comes to giving something away free to the community – whether in a competition or a bundle. Federico got in touch yesterday to let me know about MacStories Festival, a 10 day giveaway of more than 130 different software licenses. That’s an awful lot of free software!
The MacStories Festival includes a variety of popular apps such as:
- Tweetie
- Fontcase
- 1Password
- Pixelmator
- Master Of My Domain
- Layers
- Twitteriffic
Almost 35 different apps for Mac and iPhone are on offer, and 130 licenses are up for grabs. It’s a big party, created with Apple lovers in mind! Head over to the competition announcement to read more and enter. The giveaway closes tomorrow, on Wednesday 7th October. Good luck!

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Following our review of Daylite and Daylite Touch, I’m pleased to announce that we have several copies to give away for free to you wonderful readers!
We have three Daylite “bundles” on offer, each including the Daylite desktop client and a 1-year license for the iPhone application. Entering is simple. All you need to do is:
- Post a link to this competition – either on your website, or via Twitter
- Leave a comment, letting me know where you posted the link!
The competition will run for one week, and we’ll announce the winners on the Thursday 8th October.
The 15% Offer
We’re also pleased to let you know that if you’d rather purchase a license outright, you can benefit from 15% off for 30 days (starting from the day we announce the winners). Simply use the code appstorm when making your purchase!
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.
ForkLift – Forklift is a powerful file manager and ferociously fast FTP client, clothed in a clean and versatile UI.
MiniBooks – A handy iPhone app from FreshBooks that lets you track your time and invoice your clients while you’re away from your computer.
CleanMyMac – CleanMyMac represents a sophisticated all-in-one-suite utility that helps keep your Mac clean and healthy.
Easy Tasker – Manage your projects, invoices, clients and so much more from as little as $11 per month, with a companion iPhone app.
Wallet – Your own flexible, personal database for storing web passwords, serial numbers, and credit cards, and anything else!
Color Stream App – A beautiful iPhone app that can create and store stunning color palettes created from scratch, or generated from a photo.
1Password – The ultimate Mac password manager – a huge time saver, with an incredible array of features.
TidyUp – Tidy Up! allows you to search for duplicate folders; by name, date modified, date created, label visibility, empty folders, their contents and more.
Super Cool Coupons – SuperCoolCoupons is a social discount community where every day consumers come to find and share coupons for thousands of online stores.
Top Ringtones – A ringtone, wallpaper and joke service for your mobile phone.
In the last three years our Envato Marketplaces (FlashDen, ThemeForest, GraphicRiver, AudioJungle and VideoHive) have grown like gangbusters, with big communities, huge libraries of files and lots of activity. So when we set out to redesign them earlier this year everyone on the team knew it was going to be big. What we didn’t realise was HOW big it would eventually get! Today it gives me great pleasure to show you …

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Thanks to everyone who entered our recent competition to win a copy of Layers or Concentrate. I really enjoyed reading all your entries – you had some very compelling reasons for wanting a free license!
The winners have been chosen, and I’m pleased to announce their details below:

