ImageWell and ShutterBug at half price
Father’s Day is coming this Sunday, and we’re once again pleased to be able to make a special half-price offer for two of the best Mac apps around — ImageWell and ShutterBug.
ImageWell is the acclaimed little image editor that lets you crop, resize and more before uploading your pix to the web. And then there’s ShutterBug to help you create a beautiful web album with your photos — or pretty much any website you can imagine. A shopping cart feature makes this one a real gem.
With this offer, ImageWell is available for $9.95 and ShutterBug for $19.95. And by the way, that’s in Canadian dollars, so U.S. residents can expect to pay even less, depending on the exchange rate.
The sale runs from Friday, June 19 to Sunday, June 21. You can follow this link for a free, full-featured seven-day trial of ImageWell or this one for a full-featured demo of ShutterBug that adds a “demo” watermark to uploaded images. Purchasing a registration number will unlock them.
To buy at the special discount follow these links for ImageWell or ShutterBug.
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 in Cool-stuff
iSquint, meet Evom
It used to be that you could use the freeware iSquint to convert and transfer movies. It was discontinued, but now we have Evom. Drag a video onto the app’s window, choose a destination and let Evom do the rest. Add it to iTunes if you want. It’s currently in beta, so it’s hard to say if it will remain free.
Posted Tuesday, June 2, 2009 in Cool-stuff
See only free apps
Mac OS X Hints has a tip that could very well put thriftmac out of business. If you follow the instructions, you can combine a bit of CSS and javascript so that when you visit MacUpdate or VersionTracker, only the freeware shows up. Very cool — works great in Safari.
Of course, the drawback is that you are presented with all the freeware — the good, the bad and the mediocre. Here at thriftmac, we do our best to sort the wheat from the chaff. Only the good stuff makes it into the collection.
Posted Wednesday, May 13, 2009 in Cool-stuff
Will Postbox deliver?
In a recent survey of desktop email clients, Macworld chose Apple’s Mail as the best of the bunch. Yes, the one that comes free with your Mac.
With the release of Postbox, though, it is apparent that there are those who feel we can do better. This ambitious project is now in beta, and promises to take email to the next level.
There are a ton of features, but what impresses me most is the idea of keeping your email messages and attachments well organized and searchable with the goal of integrating them into your overall workflow.
When it comes out of beta, Postbox will definitely be a candidate for the thriftmac collection.
Posted Sunday, February 22, 2009 in Cool-stuff
Hunting for books, games and DVDs
A suite of freeware apps from JAres helps you organize and store information about your books, games and DVDs. Book Hunter, Game Hunter and DVD Hunter are still at version 0.8.6, but so far they look to have lots of potential. The interfaces are clean and easy to use.
Opening up the information area for an item is daunting until you realize that all those spaces can be filled automatically by the program. I punched in The Godfather, hit Autocomplete, and DVD Hunter did the rest — including the placement of an image from the DVD cover.
We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on these apps, and will likely usher them into the thriftmac collection when they make it to a full version 1.
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 in Cool-stuff
MacHeist starts off with two free apps
MacHeist is gearing up for another season, and to get things rolling they’re offering two programs for free: ShoveBox (regularly $24.95) stores and organizes scraps of information from the menubar, and Webbla (regularly $21.98) gives you visual representations of your website bookmarks.
These are both slick looking apps, and you’ll definitely want to check them out. The catch is whether they are worth jumping through the MacHeist hoops necessary to get them. For some people it’s fun, for others it’s a pain in the neck.
Posted Monday, February 9, 2009 in Cool-stuff
SoundApp Reborn
It took a little over eight years, but a program that many people remember fondly from the OS 9 days has finally made its way to OS X. SoundApp, by Norman Franke, was last updated on Nov. 23, 2000. And now, in 2009, we have SoundApp Reborn, which looks and acts a lot like the original — going so far as to take on the old icon. The question is: do we really need a program that simply plays sounds? Why not, for example, highlight a sound file in the Finder and hit the space bar? QuickLook will pop up and play it. On the other hand, the developer has promised plenty more features, so it may be worth keeping an eye on SoundApp Reborn. And besides, it’s hard to pass up a bit of Mac nostalgia now and then.
Posted Monday, January 19, 2009 in Cool-stuff
Mac Giving Tree giving it away
Sure, it’s a promotion but you really don’t have much to lose. The Mac Giving Tree gives two free apps — Enigmo 2 and Synergy — just for signing up. On Christmas day, you can download two more free apps, and if you give them a friend’s email address, there are yet another two programs for free. I suppose the catch is that they are hoping to build up their mailing list for MacHeist promotions, although you can opt out. They seem trustworthy in that regard. I bought a bundle from them recently and haven’t been bothered by any spam.
Update: The link to Mac Giving Tree seems to be down as I write this. It’s likely a glitch, so keep trying.
Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 in Cool-stuff
Dock organizers
Here’s a neat idea: programs that sit in your dock to give access to all the apps in a group. So far, there are four of them for iLife, iWork, Adobe and Microsoft Office.
Why not just create a folder and place aliases in it? For one thing it would look just like another folder and it would have to sit to the right of the dividing line with the rest of the folders. These dock organizers have readily identifiable icons and sit to the left with the rest of the programs.
In the end it’s one of those cases where you’ll think they’re kinda cool or kinda pointless.
Posted Sunday, December 7, 2008 in Cool-stuff
Python and NodeBox
The programming language Python was upgraded a few days ago to version 3. Normally we don’t write about über-geeky stuff like this, but coincidentally we ran across a freeware app called NodeBox, which uses Python to create cool graphics (static, animated or interactive) — if you’re up to it. Of course, I wasn’t able to do anything with it myself, but the built-in samples were enough to convince me that NodeBox is worth a mention.
Posted Saturday, December 6, 2008 in Cool-stuff
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