Stomp Giveaway Results
A month ago I reviewed Stomp by Shinywhitebox, the video application to reencode, crop and add effects to your videos. The developers agreed to give away one license for Stomp. Your suggestions have been very constructive and they’ll sureley help the developers improve their application.
The randomly picked winner of the giveaway is: Stephan
The developers has been informed of your email so you should receive your license soon.
Thanks again to everyone who participated.
Stomp Review and Giveaway
Last November Shinywhitebox released Stomp. Stomp is a very useful application that allows you to re-encode videos, crop them, add effects and even more. Shinywhitebox is a software company from New Zealand that has already created two apps: iShowU, a screen recording tool, and Chatter, a screensharing tool. Today they released the 1.6 version of Stomp; let’s see in more detail what this application is capable of.
Stomp has two main features : re-encoding and effects.
The first feature allows you to re-encode a video in a different format. The application includes a lot of different presets from Apple TV to YouTube, but you can also choose your own settings for both video and audio, and even create your own presets.
Drawit 3.2 Released: Fresh New Interface
A new version of DrawIt, an easy-to-use, powerful image editing and drawing application, was recently released. This new version brings some new features to the table but the main change is the interface which has now been completely overhauled. At its heart DrawIt is an image editing and drawing application that features vector and bitmap editing tools and a non-destructive editing mode.
As mentioned, the interface has been totally redesigned with some help by Laurent Baumann and sometimes reminds me of the look of Finder. Take a look below.
NetNewsWire 3.1 Released as Freeware
The 3.1 version of NetNewsWire, the well-known RSS reader, has just been released. Along with new features, such as a new view mode, HTML archiving, and performance enhancements, the major change in this new version is that the application is now totally free.
Newsgator, the company that bought the application decided to drop the paid model for a totally free model. This application which used to cost $30, is now totally free. The Lite version of NNW has suitably disappeared but note that people who purchased NetNewsWire in the past 30 days are entitled to a refund.
Wallet 2.7 Released
Yesterday, Waterfall Software released version 2.7 of Wallet, their well known private data manager. Wallet allows you to manage all your passwords, applications’ serial numbers, and other important data. All of your information is well protected with a 448-bit Blowfish encryption. This new version adds better Leopard integration and some cool new features such has Global Search.
The new user interface now matches Leopard’s look. It also fixes the graphical bugs that were present with the last version when running on Leopard.
Bee Documents Releases Timeline 2
Bee Documents recently released Timeline 2. This new version of the popular timeline application brings a lot of new features to the table, and the completly redesigned user interface actually makes the app much easier to use.
A bulk edit mode allows you to create a timeline by entering events in a table. Support of images has also been added; you just have to drag and drop an image on a selected event and it’s added to your timeline. You can also now create multiple event rows which is great if you want to compare two parallel actions. Here is an image of the reworked interface to demonstrate.
DivX Pro: Free for Christmas
For Christmas, DivX is offering the Pro version of their software for a limited time. The pro version brings the DivX Codec and the DivX Converter application to the free version of DivX. DivX Pro Codec allows you to export your videos with DivX encoding within Quicktime, and other video applications such as iMovie or Final Cut Pro. If you don’t know DivX converter is an application that lets you convert any video file into the DivX format. It also supports batch encoding to DivX.
Anxiety: A Sleek and Free To-Do List Manager
Recently, designer and developer Tom Stoelwinder released Anxiety. Anxiety is a very simple but highly effective To-do list application that allows you to easily create lists and to-dos inside those lists. Its main characteristics are its strong integration with OS X and a very clean interface, but there are other features that make it a truly perfect To-do list manager.
Pixelmator 1.1: Graphic Tablet Support and More
Pixelmator is a fairly new image-editing application, recently reviewed here. The focus of the application is to provide easy but powerful image editing . Recently, Pixelmator’s team released the first 0.x update of the application: version 1.1, codename Kitten. This new version brings a lot of new features such as graphic tablet support, a QuickLook plugin and many new filters.
Together 2.0 Review
Two weeks back, Reinvented Software released the second version of Together, an application to manage your documents.
Together 2.0, previously known as K.I.T. (Keep It Together), brings a lot of new features such as a widescreen mode, an improved search, Leopard support and the Shelf: a side-panel available in every application.
At its heart Togeher is a files manager, much like Yojimbo. It allows you to manage all kind of files (images, videos, texts, or even links), so that you know where they are. It also allows you to create folders to keep your files organized and, for example, regroup files that are used for the same goal. You can edit text right in Together so you don’t have to open an external editor.
