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On Friday we launched the MacSuperBundle, which includes nine great apps for your Mac, including Roxio Toast and RapidWeaver 5. If you’ve been tempted to grab this bundle, but you just can’t quite part with your cash (even though it’s a real steal at only $454 $49), now’s your chance to get the bundle for free. That’s right. We’re giving away five bundles for free to our readers. If you’d like a chance to win the Mac SuperBundle, head on over to our deals page to enter the giveaway, but make sure you do so before midnight on Monday, because that’s when the giveaway closes. Winners will be notified by email.

It’s been a while since we’ve done a giveaway here on Macgasm, but we figure it’s time to get back into the swing of things just in time for spring. This time we’re going all out, and we’re bringing you the Omni Group’s entire product lineup, worth well north of $580.00.

All you have to do is enter our sweepstakes by clicking this particular link.

Every one of these applications are pretty much considered top of the class in their genres. Here’s what you’ll be getting if you win!

OmniPlan

OmniPlan is designed to help you visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Break down tasks, optimize the required resources, control costs, and monitor your entire plan — all at a glance.

OmniGraffle

If you need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website wireframe or graphic design, OmniGraffle can help you by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click.

OmniOutliner

Use OmniOutliner’s document structure to brainstorm new ideas, drill out specifics, and line up the steps needed to get everything done. It’s more than just an outlining tool—you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, customizable popup lists, and an über-innovative styles system at your disposal. Use OmniOutliner to draft to-do lists, create agendas, manage tasks, track expenses, take notes, plan events, write screenplays . . . and just about anything else you can think of.

OmniGraphSketcher

OmniGraphSketcher helps you make elegant and precise graphs in seconds, whether you have specific data to visualize or you just have a concept to explain. Specifically designed for reports, presentations, and problem sets where you need to produce sharp-looking graphs on the fly, OmniGraphSketcher combines the data plotting power of charting applications with the ease of a basic drawing program.

OmniFocus

OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items while helping you to work smarter via powerful tools for staying on top of all the things you need to do.

Again, all you have to do to get in on the giveaway is enter our sweepstakes.

With the launch of the new iPad yesterday, Apple has officially revived the iSight brand.

Phil Schiller explains the rational:

Interestingly, that doesn’t just mean the iPad’s camera is an iSight, but the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S’s cameras have been retroactively been rebranded as iSight cameras on the Apple website.

Apple:

It would certainly be great if Apple would bring back a modern version of its once-popular stand-alone webcam called the iSight as well. MacBook and iMac users have cameras built-in, but Mac mini and Mac Pro users still don’t have a good webcam solution without having to buy Apple’s $1000 monitor. Maybe this revival of the name bodes well for a Thunderbolt camera! Then again, maybe Apple wants that $1000 for its display REALLY BAD.

Source: Apple [...]

We’ve been getting an awful lot of email from you guys asking us where we got our iPod nano watch bands that we show off in the podcast from time to time. Long story short, we’ve teamed up with the creators (N-Product Inc.) to get you guys a discount on a Deckster Time:Piece of your choice.

Use the promo code MCGSM at checkout and you’ll walk away with a 15% discount. It’s worth it. I haven’t taken mine off since getting one.

If you’re interested in the Deckster Time:Piece, you can check out our video interview with Dom Coballe, co-founder of N-Product Inc.

Free WordPress Theme for App Developers

We’re also giving away a free WordPress theme that’s aimed at app developers looking to promote their application online. The theme is perfect for showing off your iPhone app. We figured most of you fine readers are toying with creating amazing iPhone apps, so now you have one less excuse in your way.

Check it out.

We’ve got another amazing bundle in the pipeline for next week, and a fabulous app discount tomorrow for a great email client, so make sure you’re signing up to our deals mailing list (through MailChimp) to get notifications when all of our deals go live.

This week’s Macgasm deal is the Ultimate Designer Toolkit for only $49, normally priced at $99. There’s just a little over a day left to snag 50% off of a one-year subscription for unlimited access to over 60,000 premium creative designer resources.

The kit includes tons of Photoshop gradients, layer styles, and paint brushes; high-resolution textures and patterns; and a wide variety of vector elements and illustrations. Combined with included CSS frameworks, PSD to HTML tutorials, web graphics, and more, this kit is a must have for anyone seriously involved in creating functional and aesthetic design for web and mobile.

Head over to our deals page for the detailed info and a chance to get this opportunity while it lasts. If you want to keep up with our software bundles and deals, make sure to check out deals.macgasm.net early and often, or click there now and sign up to be notified by email.

It’s December and we’re feeling festive, so we’re giving away three Pad and Quill products to one lucky winner. What are we giving away?

We’re giving away:

• A Cartella Case for an 11-inch MacBook Air ($79.99)
• A Little Black Book for iPhone 4/4S ($44.99)
• An Octavo Case for iPad 2 ($59.99)

You can walk away with these prizes by getting in on the giveaway action. Want more info on the products? Check out our review. We’d also like to give a huge shout-out to Pad and Quill for making this possible.

If you get your news on the iPad then you’re probably well aware that there are pretty much an infinite number of news applications available to you. Flipboard, Reeder, and other RSS based applications that all do some things particularly well, but may not be for everyone. Personally I split my reading into two categories: work and home. Given that I write here on Macgasm full time, I need a no-fluff RSS reader that will keep me in the loop as fast as possible. That’s where Reeder comes in handy for me. But, when it’s time to pack it in and wrap up another work day and get some leisurely news reading done, I tend to head towards applications that look and feel much more like a traditional newspaper or magazine. This is where Early Edition 2 comes in handy for me.

This beautiful looking application lets users explore their news feeds without presenting your RSS information in the same typical email-esque fashion that most RSS applications do these days. Reading the news becomes more of an experience and not a chore. That’s why we want to give this amazing application away today as part of our weekly Friday giveaway series.

So… have at it, and enter below. As always, this app-gifting event will end on Monday at 12:00 PM EST. Make sure you enter before the event expires.

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There are a number of reasons you’d want to keep track of your time spent on a project or an article, although all of them seem to be for financial gain. We love financial gain, so we thought it might be appropriate to both fill you in on what Timecop does, as well as give away a copy of it so we can help people make some more money.

Timecop is a nifty little application that sits in your menubar and lets you track your time on multiple tasks as well as projects, making invoicing a lot simpler. Sure, applications like Billings does this as well (along with a lot of other stuff), but Timecop is only $4.99 on the Mac App Store, which is a lot cheaper than many of the alternatives.

Pretty simple stuff, but it’s also the stuff that helps you invoice just a little more accurately. Heck, you don’t even need to use it for invoicing. You could use it for tracking the time you spend on a school project, time you spend writing an article, or any other activity that you’re curious about. I was going to track the time I spend on Macgasm on a weekly basis, but man, I’m not sure if the app can even count that high.

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