Archive for July, 2009
MacWeed Creative Bundle
Posted by Elliott Bradley in Bundle Watch on July 29th, 2009
There is a new bundle on sale. This one is comparatively much smaller than most of the recent ones. Here are the included programs.
- Amnesia
- DEVONthink 1
- Finance 6
- Interarchy
- ImageFramer
- Media Catalog
- MacSnapper
- SkypeCap
- Optimism
- ProfCast
- Photo Styler
- Voila
- Sandvox
This isn’t quite the high-profile bundle that some of the other recently sold bundles were. As of this writing they have sold less than one hundred copies. There are some decent apps here, like ProfCast, DEVONthink (only 1.0), and Sandvox; but the majority are either relatively unknown apps or have been around in many of the recent bundles like Voila.
Overall, I’m not impressed. I won’t be picking it up as the better apps will not be unlocked within the 12 days (as of this writing) that the bundle will be on sale.
iTiVo: The TiVo App For Macs
Posted by Elliott Bradley in Quicklook, Video on July 28th, 2009
iTiVo (Free: Open-Sourced, v1.7.6) is an unofficial app for retrieving videos from your TiVo. Admittedly, this app has a limited user base to appeal to, but for those people it is great. It is even better than the official TiVo application in that it allows you to pull the original MPEG-2 video from the TiVo and run commercial cutting algorithms on the video. Recent versions have been very stable and work as advertised. If you have a Mac and a TiVo this is a must-have app for your mac.
SweetFM Is Pretty Sweet
Posted by Elliott Bradley in Music, Quicklook on July 18th, 2009
SweetFM (Free: Open-Sourced, v1.1.1) is a combination Last.Fm and iTunes controller. Aside from the standard controlling of Last.fm stations through media, it offers the interesting feature of saving songs from the stream directly to iTunes. Questionable legality aside, this is an excellent feature that is implemented well and sets it apart from the competition. SweetFM is a free app that I would recommend trying.
