My friend Bill from 2 Sentences or Less turned me onto MacHeist a while back. MacHeist is a great deal – they put together a bundle of applications for the Mac that you can purchase at a steep discount. If enough people purchase and enough money is raised for charity, they provide every purchaser licenses for every application in the entire package.
It’s an ingenious marketing tactic since it pressures participants to go viral, promote the bundle, and look for other folks to purchase!
MacHeist 3 just completed and has some incredible apps in it. The campaign was a success and all of the apps were licensed. One of the applications was Acrylic Times, a fascinatingly cool $30 application for managing and reading your RSS Feeds. Everything about the application is unique – it doesn’t utilize any paradigms of navigation nor does it use the tired old typical navigation tactics. Within a few seconds you’re able to figure it out… it’s very intuitive.
It’s the night before election day and I’m still not enthusiastic about tomorrow’s election. I can’t help but wondering if Barack Obama is simply a redo of Vista:
Huge marketing budget.
Hyped for change.
Promises of greater stability.
Improved security.
Complete compatibility.
A little more expensive.
The media and pundits are calling it a win for Obama already. In a few months, I wonder if America will be wishing for a downgrade, or even the opportunity to switch to a Mac. (McCain, that is).
My first attempt at animating a popular post I did early last year, an honest conversation between Mac and PC. GoAnimate is a neat application – though I ran into some trouble in the later frames, perhaps some memory issues with the browser, I’m not sure. Anyways, it came out half-decent (with 1 bad typo)!
The interface is pretty intuitive and I appreciate the fact that the duration of the slide is proportional to the text displayed in the bubbles. One big feature missing? Open and edit an existing animation. After I watched mine, I realized how quiet it was and how it could use some additional background music. Oh well – it was fun to try out! I’ll try to come up with something original in a few weeks.
It seems every week I’m downloading another service update for Vista. Most recently, Vista had a Service Pack on the same day that Apple had their 10.5.3 update for OS X Leopard. Since the update on Leopard, I’ve been having tons of issues using a browser… whether it’s Safari or Firefox.
Today I decided to reinstall Safari to see if I could fix this once and for all. When I started the installation, I was met with this:
So they did an upgrade but neglected to update their Safari installation to allow for it? Oh dear Apple, perhaps you should stay small. The irony is that I’m using Firefox in Parallels on this MacBookPro to now quickly surf the net.
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