{"id":218,"date":"2006-12-25T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/25\/a-year-of-shareware\/"},"modified":"2006-12-25T18:52:54","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T23:52:54","slug":"a-year-of-shareware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/25\/a-year-of-shareware\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year of Shareware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think before this year I&#8217;d probably purchased 4 or 5 shareware programs, this year it&#8217;s been a different story! I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s that the quality of the available shareware has gotten that much better or if I&#8217;ve just started buying more of it, but in any case, here&#8217;s the list of Shareware apps I&#8217;ve been using:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ecto.kung-foo.tv\/\">Ecto<\/a> (ok, I&#8217;ve probably had this for more than a year, but I&#8217;m listing it here since I&#8217;m typing this blog entry in it and it&#8217;s great.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macromates.com\/\">TextMate<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s nothing I can say about TextMate that hasn&#8217;t already been said. I love it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advenio.com\/macgourmet\/\">MacGourmet<\/a> &#8211; This one was for J, she loves it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulpmotion.com\/\">PulpMotion<\/a> &#8211; Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/aquafadas.com\/\">Aquafadas<\/a> just raised the bar on photo\/video slideshows. Great price too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macrabbit.com\/cssedit\/\">CSSEdit<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t imagine editing CSS without this application anymore. Beautiful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightapps.com\/chaching\/\">Cha-ching<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/iggsoftware.com\/ibank\/\">iBank<\/a> (reviews forthcoming)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.parallels.com\/\">Parallels<\/a> &#8211; Wow. Parallels has completely eliminated the old Dell laptop I had hanging around.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/discoapp.com\/\">Disco<\/a> &#8211; I hardly ever burn CD&#8217;s, but I&#8217;m a sucker for a good (and\/or fun) UI.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.delicious-monster.com\/\">Delicious Library <\/a>&#8211; This came with <a href=\"http:\/\/macheist.com\">MacHeist<\/a>. I was pretty skeptical about it since for my book cataloging needs, it&#8217;s almost useless (I use <a href=\"http:\/\/librarything.com\">LibraryThing<\/a>), but I&#8217;ve found it pretty fun to use nonetheless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/devon-technologies.com\/products\/devonthink\/\">DevonThink<\/a> &#8211; Another MacHeist, I&#8217;d been using the trial for&#8230;well too long, great program.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pangeasoft.net\/index2.html\">Enigmo2<\/a> &#8211; Macheist. The first Mac game I&#8217;ve ever bought and I admit, I love it.<\/li>\n<li>In addition, I got a few other apps from MacHeist that I doubt I&#8217;ll use much, but are kind of cool &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/unsanity.com\/\">ShapeShifter<\/a> (I actually already own a license to this and really enjoyed it, but haven&#8217;t used it for a couple years), <a href=\"http:\/\/realmacsoftware.com\/rapidweaver\/\">RapidWeaver<\/a> looks nice, but I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/rubyonrails.com\">Rails<\/a> head&#8230; who knows, maybe I&#8217;ll use it, <a href=\"http:\/\/newsfirex.com\/\">Newsfire<\/a> is also nice, but I can&#8217;t give up Google Reader for a desktop client, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fotomagico.com\/\">FotoMagico<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inventive.us\/iClip4\/\">iClip<\/a> &#8211; I haven&#8217;t used them yet, but who&#8217;s to say I won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midnightbeep.com\/\">Inbox<\/a> &#8211; Review forthcoming<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, there are a few shareware app&#8217;s I&#8217;ve got my eyes on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogueamoeba.com\/audiohijackpro\/\">Audio Hijack Pro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.potionfactory.com\/tangerine\/\">Tangerine<\/a> &#8211; I almost want to pay 25 bucks just for the Icon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/appzapper.com\/\">AppZapper<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.omnigroup.com\/2006\/09\/25\/omnifocus-our-work-in-progress\/\">OmniFocus<\/a> (is it ready yet? \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.potionfactory.com\/voicecandy\/\">Voice Candy<\/a> (what can I say, it looks fun \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully you&#8217;ve found some good ones in this list, if you like the program, why not support the developers buy purchasing it? What Mac Shareware did you buy this year?<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/lifehacks\" rel=\"tag\">lifehacks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/macheist\" rel=\"tag\">macheist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/OS X\" rel=\"tag\">OS X<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/shareware\" rel=\"tag\">shareware<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/software\" rel=\"tag\">software<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think before this year I&#8217;d probably purchased 4 or 5 shareware programs, this year it&#8217;s been a different story! 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