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UsingMac Contest. Beauty of the Mac
Upon seeing my Mac setup, I always have this kind of excitement to share it to everyone.
I believe some of you might feel the same. Now, it's the chance for you to show your
Mac setup to other Mac users as we've arranged this contest for everyone to submit their
Mac setups!
Update. You can also submit your desktop setup to show the world how cool is your Mac.
Contest Prize
Before starting with the requirements for this contest, let's see the prize for winners.
- 1st Place. Pixelmator + Layers + Concentrate
- 2nd Place. Layers + Concentrate
- 3rd Place. Concentrate
Let's continue to the description of the prizes and how to win.
Giveaway: (3x) Blogo Blogging Editor
If you own a blog or twitter account and you're looking for an easy-to-use interface with complete features, Blogo will be your best choice for blogging editor.
There are several appealing features that make Blogo stand out from other editors and make Blogo recommended blog editor:
- Twitter Support - Quickly follow friends or post status
- Offline Mode - Live preview even when offline
- Drag-and-Drop - Easily edit and add image
- Fullscreen Mode - Cut down distractions
- Javascript Bookmarklet - Post content from YouTube, Flickr, etc
Keep reading for Screenshots and How to Win.
Winners of CleanMyMac Giveaway
Many thanks to everyone who has participated in the giveaway to try out luck in winning one free CleanMyMac from MacPaw.
Regardless of the order, here are the five lucky winners we have:
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Vinicius
“ Tried several uninstallers and cleaning utilities for macs, but CleanMyMac really blows the competition … ” -
Aaron
“ … The user-interface it great. It's so simple! … ” -
GSquared
“ … It's as easy as pushing one button. BAM! Clean! ” -
Kaspth
“ … This is one of the applications that truly deserves the tagline, Apple gives its products: "It Just Works". ” -
Gabriel Everett
“ … I'm a student so I'm a freeware addict, and I simply can't afford to pay for cleaning up computers. … ”
License codes are on their way, should reach their places soon!
Giveaway: (5x) CleanMyMac from MacPaw
Upon installation of application, some system files are spread across your Mac without your knowing that. Even after uninstallation, those persistent files are leaved behind, eating up your free space.
Several third party apps are available to clean up these leftovers; CleanMyMac is one of those. And this time, we are giving away 5x CleanMyMac as courtesy of MacPaw.
Winners of SyncMate Expert Giveaway
Many thanks to everyone who has participated in the giveaway to try out luck in winning one free SyncMate Expert from Eltima Software.
Regardless of the order, here are the five lucky winners we have:
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Zachary Price
“The two features that I think are the best are the iCal & ToDo lists synchronization&hellip..” -
James Lee
“.. I'm very interested in some of smaller features in Syncmate Expert, notably: bookmarks, folder and notes synchronization, SMS manager and reader, Device info, actions log and Call History..” -
Mike
“.. folder synchronization. It is awesome to have folders that sync to my Windows Mobile phone as if it was music syncronizing to an iPod.. ” -
Sam G.
“Bookmarks... it is so very painful to have to retype out my web addresses using my SPV M3100's "touchscreen" so the ability to sync bookmarks would save me a lot of time..” -
alej11
“.. managing SMS right from Mac computer. Sending, receiving, creating and deleting SMS when working at Mac became possible with SyncMate Expert Edition.
That's just plain and simply awesome!”
License codes are on their way, should reach their places soon!
Giveaway: (5x) SyncMate Expert Edition
If you are one of those Mac users who own Windows Mobile phones, you have probably encountered the problem of an impossibility of syncing these two devices. As Mac and WinMobile devices were not meant to cooperate, the variety of software synchronization solutions is not really wide.
This time, we are giving away 5x SyncMate Expert as courtesy of Eltima Software. Basically, SyncMate is one of sync tools between Mac and WinMobile.
Comment and Win iSight ScreenSavers, Announcement of Winners
At last, after long time of waiting, we've come to the end of our extremely exciting creativity comment contest to win iSight ScreenSavers.
So many people with various and creative comments here. We've had a really hard time determining who are the five to be the winners: the creative, the strange and the lucky. And we've come to this result.
Comment and Win: TranslateIt! for Mac
When I'm exposed to the chance of learning new language, I feel extremely excited, really. And I feel even more excited when the developer of a program called TranslateIt! approached me, stating that he really loves to share us some free license keys for 4 months.
The Lucky Draw
As usual, the winner will be decided with lucky draw. This time it's quite different, the quality of your comments will determine how much chance you will have during the lucky draw.
Anyway, you can put your comment with any languages, I got TranslateIt! here, I can translate your comment to the language that I am familiar with… :)
The comment box will be closed on 20th October 2008, one week after the Contest to Win Duplicate Image Detector. The result will be announced soon after that.
Comment and Win iSight ScreenSavers, The Last Day
So now, we've come to the last day of this exciting creativity contest to win iSight ScreenSavers.
The requirement is really easy, just put on comment on how you will use the screensaver on the article 5 Minutes Less to Win Free iSight ScreenSavers and you're set.
Up to this point, there are many people already participated to give their precious comments. Some are straight-forward, some are cynical, some even asking back the question, but still they're showing their creativity (and strangeness). Today is the last day, quickly put your creative and extraordinary comment in? :)
To easily access the comment form, you can use keystrokes Command-Down on the article.
In case, some of you don't know how to fill the comment form, here is the example:
Don't need to follow what I put inside, that's just an example…
Contest Ended
We've come to the end of the contest. Please stay tuned for the result to come out :)
Comment and Win: Duplicate Image Detector
Today, as the courtesy of Black Bilby, by simply commenting on this entry you will be able to win one out of three free copies of this application.
The Lucky Draw
We will have three free copies and thousands of people interesting in winning. So, we've decided to take the winner by holding a lucky draw.
To get yourself registered on the lucky draw, you only need to drop a comment related to this application with valid email given. It's that easy.
Note: If you don't want your email to be shown publicly, you can provide it on the comment form; We will know :)
The contest will end 2 weeks from now, mid of October'08. The winner of the contest will be announced as soon as the contest ended. We will contact the winner and the free registration name will be assigned individually to winners' name.
5 Minutes Less to Win Free iSight Screensavers
I've posted about Top 8 Mac Screensavers and Unique Clock Screensavers for Mac. Indeed, those are amazing and free, but they are not as customizable as iSight Screensavers produced by Majic Jungle Software.
iSight Screensavers
iSight ScreenSavers are the collection of screensavers that utilize your iSight camera. It will display scenes captured in front of iSight to your display as screensaver.
There are large number of effects for you to choose inside this single collection of iSight Screensavers. You can see the short demonstration of the screensaver below.