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As everyone already knows, Football season is in full swing here in the United States, but keeping track of your favorite team whether it be pro or college has become a bit of a hassle. But since your a Mac user its no big deal. Let me introduce The Football Widget from Andreas Amann.

This widget is chock full of features and they are all presented in a very aesthetically pleasing manner. For starters, once the widget is installed it allows you to pick your favorite team and then places their helmet in the lower corner and proceeds to make all games with that team playing in bold. Aside from being pleasing to the eye, the Football widget also serves its purpose, and it does it well.

In good old Macapper fashion we were able to get our hands on three licenses for LifeShaker thanks to the great people over at FunkyCloud. In order to be eligible to win, you must have posted a comment on our LifeShaker Review article telling the developers what you would most like to see in the next version of LifeShaker.

The results are in. RavenCub, Toni, and Chris A are the lucky winners and have each one a free license for LifeShaker. You all should be receiving an email from the developers at FunkyCloud shortly. Stay tuned as usual for more great reviews and giveaways, and be sure to subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss out!

If you’re like me, organization of tasks does not come easy. Luckily for us Mac users there are a plethora of organizational apps including LifeShaker from Funky Cloud. LifeShaker is unlike any other to-do application and makes remembering to do things easy with its fun and clean interface.

The application allows you to create goals and steps that must be completed for that goal to be accomplished. These goals are then divided into categories that are each given their own customizable color.

Uploading and sharing your screencast has just gotten a lot easier. It’s an application by the name of Jing and it comes from the guys at TechSmith, the same people behind Camtasio Studio and Snagit.

The Jing Project is built around the idea of capturing screenshots or recording video of your desktop and allowing you to upload them to screencast.com. Once on screencast.com you are able to share your video or image with friends, colleagues, or readers. Best of all this entire process is free.

Check out the following video review to see exactly how this whole Jing thing works.

As you may or may not know, the OS X AirPort application is not the only one capable of locating and connecting to new wireless networks. Recently I stumbled across AirMoose, an open-source network stumbler built exclusively for OS X. It features everything AirPort does and more without sacrificing ease of use.

AirMoose is built to constantly scan the air around your Mac and report the available wireless access points. The scan rate can be set anywhere from every .1 seconds to every 10 seconds depending on how you would like to use it. It doesn’t stop there, it also gives you a signal strength, MAC address, noise level, and even whether or not the access point is secure.

One week ago, I conducted a review of SmartBackup. In true MacApper tradition, we managed to get our hands on two application licenses from the guys at freeridecoding.

To be in the draw, readers needed to comment on how SmartBackup would fit into their backup routine. After a random selection from all eligible comments, we now have our winners. Follow the jump to see if you won.

Gimp and jwylies are our winners! Your information has been sent to the developers, and soon freeridecoding will hook you up with your shiny new licenses. Thanks to everyone for your comments and if you weren’t lucky enough to with this giveaway subscribe to our feed so you don’t miss out next time.

For a while now, I have been searching for a backup application that fits in with my work flow and I believe I have found it. The application is SmartBackup and it comes from freeridecoding. You may remember that they also created the DVD Backup utility BurnAgain DVD we reviewed a few weeks ago.

This application is extremely simple and surprisingly powerful. SmartBackup allows you to choose the location of your backup, whether it be an external hard drive, iPod, or a handful of other devices.

For those of us who keep aquariums, we know that it involves weekly testings of various levels and daily dosages of assorted concoctions. Well, sooner or later it is just too much information to keep in a notebook. Luckily for us Mac users there is a solution to this problem and it is Maquarium from everyday software.

Maquarium is chock full of features built to keep the novice and even expert fish keepers at ease.