Archive for the 'MacApper News' Category

As you all probably already know MacUpdate is having a huge bundle sale right now with a $474.76 value of apps going for only $64.99. A new app, WhatSize, has ben added to the bundle — but only for the first 3,500 buyers. WhatSize helps you find out what files are taking up your disk space and then allows you to remove/move them. In addition, the first unlock goal for Sound Studio is to be lowered today along with the goal for BannerZest. The unlock goal for Parallels will be set high, however, it is rumored that it will be unlocked by early next week along with the addition of a few more apps.

At MacApper we are always looking for writers enthusiastic about OS X applications and similar Apple based geekery. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to contribute Mac related articles on a weekly basis. Qualified individuals will be asked to contribute articles and reviews, collaborate with colleagues, and help coordination of weekly columns and articles. Expert knowledge of OS X and the Mac platform is preferred, but not necessarily required. At the very minimum you will require a Mac and the ability to write engagingly about our subject matter.

I sure hope everyone is having a great holiday season this year. Now might be a good time to get offline, visit some people who need cheering, or just spend some time with the family. You can always bring your Mac along, or maybe buy one for someone you care about.

I decided to hit Koh Tao, this year, a really great island in southern Thailand, until the end of this month. I know some of the other guys are tied up with family, vacations, and other merry making. I can’t speak for all of the writers here but I would expect blogging here at MacApper to slow down until the holidays are over, as we all can use a well deserved break.

As the Christmas season approaches, I am starting to see a change in the Mac development community, and I have a sense that things are really changing for the better. When I used to use Windows, many of the programs I bought were in boxes from stores. But now that I use a Mac, things are quite different. The developers are different. The apps are different. And I think that the Mac development community is undergoing a monumental change this Christmas season.

The staff here at MacApper look at Mac applications constantly so that we may bring you reviews of all the best Mac software. While we constantly are using new Mac apps, we all have our favorites that we use every day and would be lost without. I thought it would be interesting and hopefully helpful to some of you to to complile our staff’s favorite apps and share them with you.

So without further adieu: the 2007 Edition of MacApper’s Staff Picks.

Joel over at MacUpdate has just sent word that the MacUpdate Promo team has now launched their 2nd bundle promo. The first MUPromo bundle about half a year ago was a huge success, and this time around there is some more really great software up for grabs. If you haven’t heard of the MacUpdate bundles they are quite a unique way to save a really significant amount of skrill on Mac software.

The deal works by buying the 7 program bundle at $49.99 within the 9 day cut-off point (started just now). So right off the bat you get $234 worth of software for $49. That’s quite a savings.

Hurray to John for revealing this just now. I was contacted a couple of weeks ago by Phill Ryu of Macheist and asked if I was interested in helping him promote MacheistII. Phill said that a series of blogs we’re going to be hacked in jest, and following this the Macheist site itself would succumb and MacheistII would be revealed to everyone. The entire ploy sounded harmless, incredibly inventive, and a lot of fun, so I jumped at the chance to help out.

I always thought we wrote some fairly objective and helpful stuff on this blog, but I guess not everyone feels that way. A lame SOB by the name of Malcor has been targeting Mac related sites for defacing (as Glenn found out), and while I admit that we were heavily warned it seems that we were indeed hacked yesterday. It appears that none of the data was affected, but unfortunately I was away from my desk until just recently.

Update: MacApper was not really hacked! None of the following blather about Wordpress is true in any way. We love you Wordpress!

At MacApper we are always looking for writers enthusiastic about OS X applications and similar Apple based geekery. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to contribute Mac-related articles on a weekly basis. Qualified individuals will be asked to contribute articles and reviews, collaborate with colleagues, and help coordination of weekly columns and articles. Expert knowledge of OS X and the Mac platform is preferred, but not necessarily required. At the very minimum you will require a Mac and the ability to write engagingly about our subject matter.

The long awaited release of Apple’s newest operating system is soon to become a reality. Thanks to setbacks brought on from the release of the extremely popular Apple iPhone, previous dates for OS X 10.5 Leopard have been pushed back again and again. However, it looks like Apple is going to make good on their promise of an early 4th quarter Leopard release.

At MacApper we are always looking for writers enthusiastic about OS X applications and similar Apple based geekery. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to contribute Mac-related articles on a weekly basis. Qualified individuals will be asked to contribute articles and reviews, collaborate with colleagues, and help coordination of weekly columns and articles. Expert knowledge of OS X and the Mac platform is preferred, but not necessarily required. At the very minimum you will require a Mac and the ability to write engagingly about our subject matter.

What’s a Gravatar? Put simply it is basically the avatar (the tiny image) you see next to your comments on several blogs, like this one. Gravatar is actually the work of Tom Werner and while I will be the first to say the service has been wrought with scalability issues (they grew really damn fast), I will also point out that I really dig the concept - in fact I wish I had thought of it myself!

Doesn’t this look better than the default image?

At MacApper we are always looking for writers enthusiastic about OS X applications and similar Apple based geekery. We are currently seeking highly motivated individuals to contribute Mac-related articles on a weekly basis. Qualified individuals will be asked to contribute articles and reviews, collaborate with colleagues, and help coordination of weekly columns and drafts. Expert knowledge of OS X and the Mac platform is preferred, but not necessarily required. At the very minimum you will require a Mac and the ability to write engagingly about our subject matter.

We had some fun announcing yesterday’s 1st prize winner in our switcher’s contest, but the truth is that there are really two first place winners, both receiving the 23 apps and t-shirts from Insanely Great Tees. Unlike yesterday’s winner who was chosen by raw skillz and uber Mac talent, today’s winner is really just a lucky duck. This morning we gave all the contest entries a number, and over Skype a few of us chose the other winner of this great list of software.

Wow what a week. Aside from school and my usual stuff I have had the massive job of pouring through nearly 150 creative contest entries, to our massive Switcher’s Giveaway from last month. It was really very interesting and tons of fun, but choosing a winner for these types of things is never easy.

So before announcing the winner I just wanted to thank all the great companies who made this possible, and just congratulate everyone who entered and posted about it on their blogs and websites. Once again the Mac community really pulled through. Also a huge thanks to Miles, Josh, Kyle, Kiro and the other great contributors here for coming together on this effort with your time and expertise.