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Last day to buy MacHeist Bundle

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Jun 24th, 2008

Today is the last day to buy the much coveted MacHeist application bundle. MacHeist has decided to sweeten the deal by unlocking SoundStudio early and offering $5 off any Insanely Great Tee. If you are a registered member of the MacHeist site you can also get early access to Headline (an RSS reader).

The MacHeist Bundle currently includes the following Mac apps:

The MacHeist Bundle costs $49 and 25% of your purchase will be donated to your choice of charity. Currently, MacHeist has sold over 4,000 bundles and raised over $50,000 for charity. You can purchase a bundle at the MacHeist website.

Tags: Awaken, Bugdom 2, Bugdom2, bundle, Cha-Ching, CoverSutra, DEVONthink, Enigmo, iClip, insanely great tees, InsanelyGreatTees, MacHeist, Nanosaur 2, Nanosaur2, Overflow, software, SoundStudio, TextExpander, VectorDesigner, WriteRoom, XSlimmer

Filed under: Software

iClip 4.0

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Jan 31st, 2007

iClip 4.0 has been a long time coming, but the wait is over. That's right, boys and girls, your favorite clipboard on steroids has just debuted in a new version. What is new in this version you ask? Here is a list, just for you:

New interface
Generally faster
Universal Binary
Many bugs killed

In case you aren't aware of what iClip does, it allows you to have multiple clip boards, a cut and paste history, and lets you store things indefinitely on a clip board (think canned responses for email).

iClip 4.0 costs $29 for the first license, $19 each for 2 to 4 copies, and $14.50 each for 5 to 99 copies. There is a free demo that you can use 30 times.

Thanks to everyone who sent this in.

Tags: iclip

Filed under: Macworld, Software, Productivity, Beta Beat

iClip 4 beta released to MacHeist customers

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jan 5th, 2007

Customers of the MacHeist bundle should be receiving an email offering a download link for the new iClip 4 beta that was promised. This is a new version that John Casasanta is apparently just about ready to release next week at the Macworld expo, and users are encouraged to help track down bugs and submit them to a bug reporting link provided in the MacHeist email.

I can't help but wonder if Kevin Finisterre and "LMH" are getting their hands on a copy so they can sensationalize any bugs they find.

Tags: beta, bug, bugs, iclip, iclip 4, Iclip4, macheist, macworld

Filed under: Software

Developers unleash exclusive offers for MacHeist participants

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Dec 21st, 2006

One of the appeals of MacHeist that a few participating developers cited for their participation is residual sales. Things like upgrade licenses, extra plugins and add-ons can all be big boosts to a 3rd party developer's revenue, and some of MacHeist's participating devs have certainly hit the ground running. Yesterday I received my confirmation emails and licenses from RealMac Software (RapidWeaver) and Dave Watanabe (NewsFire), both with exclusive offers for MacHeist customers. First, RealMac Software is offering a 10% discount on theme packs, and Dave is offering a 'lifetime upgrade' add-on for NewsFire for a mere $11. We've also known from early on that John Casasanta has had a version 4.0 upgrade just around the corner for iClip, and MacroMates had an offer on the table since day 1 of at least 60% off an upgrade license to an upcoming version 2 release of TextMate.

It will be interesting to see how all this plays out for these 3rd party developers in the coming months. I know I'm already falling in love with TextMate, and even though I use WordPress, ecto and Dreamweaver for most of my website needs, RapidWeaver is tempting me with its sexy ease of use and purty themes. The 3rd party devs, it seems, have already made a revenue statistic out of me.

Tags: 3rd party, 3rdParty, coupon, dev, developers, devs, discount, iclip, macheist, newsfire, rapidweaver, realmac software, RealmacSoftware, textmate

Filed under: Widget Watch

A few of my favorite Widgets

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (RSS feed) on Nov 21st, 2006

When my machine was a rickety little 800 MHz iBook, crusted with too many hacks, apps and utilities, I just gave up on Widgets. Dashboard was a system hog on an already dog-slow machine, and I just killed it off.

My MacBook Pro is another story. While I've eschewed the volume of Widgets a true power-user may install, I have my fair share. Of course, until we're able to safely and securely swap our sets of Widgets around, I just keep a certain set loaded. Yes, I've tried MultiDash, primarily to swap around when I plug in to my 24" external monitor. I would have included a link to the MultiDash page, but going there today either crashed Firefox or made Safari eat up processor. Gotta love that...Anyway, as a Widget, it was too wonky for production use, so here's what I've settled on for daily use:

Apple's own calendar, weather, iTunes, calculator, and search Widgets (Dictionary, White Pages, Yellow Pages, and Address Book). The unit converter is tucked behind the sticky note
Google search-- pretty much never use it since Google is built-in to every browser but Flock, although sometimes I use the Blogger one too
Radar-in-Motion-- massive kudos to the poor developer who makes this, as NOAA keeps changing the protocols, formats, etc. I love this thing, but I love weather.
WeatherBug-- this one has a bunch more features, but ironically doesn't work as well as R-i-M
iClipLite-- what would I do without this? Very handy for storing form letters, the very ones I use every day
iStat nano-- surely everyone is using this or its older sibling by now, right? Often I use it to check my IP address, but I really wish I could have it quit bugging me about updates, that is really annoying
Slothcam-- I have it always tuned to the TGIFriday's camera in Times Square, great for people-watching! (You will see me on there once in a while too)
Web Translator widget (uses Google)-- handy for quick language lookups, as my Spanish vocab stinks sometimes
Airport Radar-- handy for checking signal strength
PackageTracker-- from Monkey Labs, where they make a terrible TV Tracker... only terrible because every week they want me to update it, but it never gets faster or better, yet PackageTracker never bugs me about it
iCalEvents-- super-fantastic for glancing at my hard schedule for the day
Backpack widget-- from Chipt.com, this Widget has saved me so many times it is scary. If you are a serious GTD nut, you must have a Backpack widget for simple ticklers, and this does the job better than almost anything. Plus, I can access my Backpack reminders from anywhere via web, so I have a constant backup. Combined with floating reminders via Growl, and you can really tame your to-do list.
an obligatory digg widget-- because I'm addicted, I'll admit (where's that Netscape widget?)
Veronica Belmont-- she's not a Widget, but a spunky tech pundit for CNet
and of course, I have a TUAW widget!

So what's in your Dashboard?

Tags: calculator, calendar, dashboard, iclip, info, radar, slothcam, utilities, veronicabelmont, weather

iClip is Free Today

by Damien Barrett (RSS feed) on Jun 30th, 2006

MacZot is offering Inventive's iClip as a free download today. It's version 3.7 and isn't a universal binary but version 4.0 is about to ship and the company has long offered free upgrades, so grab it now and watch for version 4.0 to ship. I'm not personally a user of multiple clipboards, but I suppose it couldn't hurt to give this a whirl. Who doesn't like free stuff.

Thanks Jonathan for the tip.

Tags: free, iclip

Filed under: Software, Productivity

iClip Lite 2 Dashboard widget released

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Jun 16th, 2006

iClip Lite, as we've mentioned in the past, is a free, widgetized version of the shareware iClip. The Lite widget version is "a multiple clipboard & scrapbook widget designed to improve your efficiency and productivity for most tasks you do on your computer". New in version 2 is:

   •   universal binary
   •   automatic Clipboard recording
   •   smooth widget resizing
   •   increased number of bins from 20 to 25
   •   all new, stylish design

iClip Lite is free and available from Inventive.

Tags: clipboard, copy, dashboard, iclip, images, paste, productivity, snippets, text, widget

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