On the heels of last year's great scavenger hunt, we have MacHeist II. The details are supposed to start flowing later this week, so get over there and get registered.

Tags: software, os x

There is a deal going on with some great software developers right now over here. Some European software developers have banded together to offer their wares and the rub is the more you buy the more you save. It is a great deal for some excellent software.

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Well, I dove in and installed on my new MBP. There are some very cool features that I am looking foward to exploring, like Spaces, but there are also a few key apps that I have come to rely on that do not work…Daylite being the most important. The new features in Mail may be able to over come some of these shortcomings, but Daylite has so many great features, I am anxious for that upgrade as well.

On first glance there are some really slick features, but the sem-transparent men bar has got to go.

Tags: os x, software

MacUpdate has started offering a great bundle of software for a ridiculously low price. This is also the basis for MacHeist 2, which begins today as well.

[EDIT] This is not the basis of MacHeist 2, but rather a smaller bit of joy called skunkworks…my bad.

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There are some cool little utilities out there for your Dashboard. I have recently discover Dashalytics, a great little widget that shows a brief overview of your Google Analytics info. Another indispensable widget is the Mint widget. These 2 items combined keep me apprised of the traffic on my sites and I highly recommend them to any web developer that wants to monitor site traffic.

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John, over at Loghound is another big brain creating some great plugins for the junior cms known as Rapidweaver. The open architecture that Ben and Dan have implemented in their software has allowed small developers like Loghound and YourHead to flourish. In and of itself, Rapidweaver is just another tool that allows some restricted development of websites; offering a sacrifice in functionality for ease of use. The beauty of their software lies in its simplicity and its ability to use plugins that make up for those shortcomings.

Loghound has developed plugin that fills that void RW users have been screaming for; Rapidblog. Up 'til now RW was a desktop app and your site had to be updated through that application. With the addition Rapidblog and the associated blogger account, you can now update your blog from any internet connection.

You install the plugin like any other RW plug; double-click it and then restart the app. From then on you add a new RapidBlog page to your site, associate it with your blogger account and publish the site to your host. From that point on you never have to open RW again; although you will want to. You can now update your blog from RW or from any computer able to access your blogger account.

This is a great addition to the app and shows what some ingenuity can do. RW is a good app, but combining a few select plugins from Loghound and YourHead turns it into a great application capable of far more complex development.

Tags: rapidweaver, plugin, os x

A couple more hours to go and I cannot wait to see what Steve announces in SF. There are tons of rumours of what will be announced today at the MacWorld show, but I hope at least we get a full screen iPod and new mobile device from Apple. A slick Apple phone would be great if they have managed to pull off the technical issues.

Oh well…tick tock.

EDIT

Well what a show it was. The Apple TV was a big deal, but naturally the item that floored everyone, especially those folks over a the CES show, was Apple's new iPhone.



Steve started the keynote talking about the new Apple TV



Apple also introduced a new Airport that offers some great features.




A lot of great technology came out of the keynote and more stuff is coming out of the show. I am looking forward to getting one of everything.

Tags: os x, apple, software, hardware

Isaiah Carew is one of the best shareware developers working in the Mac market today. A little background first; I began using Rapidweaver as a blog solution last year. I was just tired of finding the perfect solution, so I found a half-way decent app, RW, that offered me the ability to easily work on my site, while allowing me to run my business.
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So today is the day the final bundle has been revealed from the folks at MacHeist. If you have not been following, MacHeist has been a bit of an online scavenger hunt to get great deals (read: free) shareware apps for your trusty old OS X. The bundle they are releasing is a great list of popular software that many folks would be happy to add to their Mac. They are also donating 25% of the bundle price to a charity of your choosing, from their selected list.
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I am an id10t. This may be something that I had forgotten, but it is a cool little feature in OS X. When typing in an app if you use the key combination option + delete, it will erase whole words rather than letters. Again, not sure if I had known this and just never used it, but I have recently rediscovered this nice feature in my favorite (read only) operating system.

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The latest release of RapidWeaver is slated for any moment now. RealMac Software has designed a nice little app to let you develop websites with very little training. I actually use it as a RAD tool to create wireframes of sites for clients. It allows you the ability to develop a wireframe site in no time at all to insure the user experience is optimally designed. Read More...

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