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.
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.
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.
Keeping track of your appointments and daily activities are hard enough as it is without a calendar. Inputting these events could be a lot easier, and in fact, it is easier with Fantastical.
Fantastical, reviewed by Susan back in September, has recently been updated to version 1.1, bringing with it iCloud syncing capabilities, as well as the ability to edit notes from directly within the application. Fantastical also now has CalDav support so you can work in Fantastical without having to run iCal simultaneously to sync your calendar information to you iPhone or iPad.
Don’t lie. You spend most of your work day looking at animated GIF images on Reddit, and any time spent not doing that is spent checking out the world’s best website Animals Being Dicks. You know what those websites have in common other than stomach-clenching LAWLs? Animated GIFs. And we’re about to give you one of the best GIF creators for your iPhone — GIF SHOP.
Have you ever given Finder a second thought? Well, I know I never have. It did what it had to do, no questions asked. Sure there were a few annoyances here and there but nothing to write home about. Or so I thought. That is until a friend of mine introduced me to the TotalFinder by BinaryAge. He told me it would change my Finder-world. And I can say that after having tried it for a little while, I am sold and there is no turning back.
Monday is probably the worst day of the week for most people. That depressing feeling of having to get out of bed in the morning and leave for work gets even the happiest people down. So, with the help of the team over at the fantastic Realmac Software, we are offering you fine readers a chance to win one of eight copies of LittleSnapper for Mac to brighten up your Monday.
LittleSnapper allows you to quickly snapshot anything on your screen and then organize it however you like, by categorizing, rating and annotating images. Users can then share images directly to Ember, Flickr and SFTP from right inside LittleSnapper. The application looks and works fantastically and is an indispensable tool for many writers, bloggers and design types across the world.
Find out how you can win one of eight copies of LittleSnapper — which is worth $29.99 and requires Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later — after the jump.
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.
December 22, 2011
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