MacZOT Coloring Contest 2006!

Looking for a creative way to get a NEW iPod Nano?

MacZOT wants to help.

Grab this image. Put it into your favorite paint program and have at it.

OR

Print it out and color it with crayons, markers or pencils.

Submit a digital image to info@maczot.com.

The best coloring will win an iPod Nano

and

A Free ZOT! each month for a year. (That’s 12 Free ZOTs!)

Get started now!

Submissions must be returned by 11:59 pm PST 12.31.2006

(the image is "Meteor" by Mike Biskup)

Party Pro for iPod

Normally: $9.99

ZOT Price: $3.97

The Party Pro Scenario Selector:

A.) You’re out shopping for your New Year’s Eve party. You take your iPod along with Party Pro with you so you have the recipes of great drinks your guests will love.

B.) You’re at a bar, the cute gal / guy sitting there can’t get the bartenders attention because it’s so loud. You pick your favorite drink in Party Pro, find the picture on your iPod and show it to the bartender while holding up two fingers. Score.

C.) The family is gathering, you’re the one who always shows off the latest gadgets and you need to teach your auntie how to use her new iPod. You gift her a copy of Party Pro, and together, you take over the wet bar and get the whole family playing drinking games until your aunt is now dancing on the card table pretending she’s in an iPod commercial.

D.) Your going to college. The In-n-Out burger pays $10.00 but you know bartenders make a lot more. How hard could it be, they mix liquids. So, you put yourself on a program to learn every dink in Party Pro. You get some empty bottles, food coloring, and Party Pro. Your plan-b income is ensured, all thanks to Party Pro.

Well, we’ve enhanced your family status, helped your love life, got you back into your aunt-mary’s will, and ensured your financial success.

How is that possible all for $3.97?

Simple. MacZOT! – Go get it.

Party Pro contains the following that can be looked up on your iPod:

- The 800 most used drink recipes + photos of select drinks
- 55 drinking games
- Global bar and club database for every US + European city
- Bartender 411 (tips and tricks)
- 100 pick-up lines for men and women
- Post-party solutions feature

iDropper Personal

Normally: $49.00

ZOT Price: $19.95

If you need to receive files from customers, clients and colleagues…

If you make frequent and repetitive FTP uploads yourself…

You need iDropper, the electronic self-addressed, stamped envelope.

What is iDropper?

iDropper™ is an FTP file transfer system in two parts: The iDropper application, and the uploader client "droplets" which it creates. You can distribute the droplets (Mac or Windows) to anyone you wish, or use them on your own desktop.

What’s a Droplet?

A droplet is a mini-application that sits on the computer desktop as an icon. Once a droplet is configured, FTP file transfer is accomplished simply by dragging files and folders onto the desktop icon. End users require no knowledge of FTP protocols, do not need to install and configure an FTP client, and NEVER need to know your FTP login and password information.

It’s like giving users an electronic self-addressed stamped envelope!

iDropper™ provides simple, secure, and reliable FTP file uploading.
If your users know how to drag and drop, they know how to use iDropper!

Who Uses iDropper?

iDropper is designed for individuals and companies that need to receive large amounts of files from outside sources, be they customers, clients or colleagues. Printers, publishers and service bureaus love it! Software developers use it to deliver builds. Distributed workgroups use it to share project files. iDropper Personal is great for developers, independent professionals, and smaller companies that do not require the advanced workflow and business integration features of our iDropper Professional and iDropper Enterprise editions. With iDropper Personal, you will still be able to create and distribute unlimited droplets for Mac or Windows.

Features:

• Create unlimited, Mac or Windows droplets 
• Upload files AND folders, keeping folder trees intact
• Archive files and folders with multiple naming options
• Pre-flight status check
• Browse the FTP server with Pathfinder

Requirements:

• iDropper for Mac and Mac droplets require Mac OS 10.3.9 or higher.
• Windows droplets require Microsoft Windows XP SP2 with .NET Framework 1.1.

For more information, visit www.iDropper.com, or read the manual at www.help.iDropper.com

Keynote Themes FX

Normally: $59.00

ZOT Price: $29.50

Click to MacZOT

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The Mac Games Holiday Bundle

Normally: $200.00

ZOT Price: $24.95

AppZapper + Xslimmer

Normally: $22.90

ZOT Price: $14.95

Socialist – Launch Party!

Normally: $18.00

ZOT Price: $9.97

Are you a Socialist yet?

If not, then join our Launch Party today

Are you ready for social bookmarking? Have you heard of del.icio.us but don’t know what it’s all about?

Whether you’re a pro, or inexperienced with Del.icio.us, itt’s a great site with an even better name. It allows people to tag* bookmarks with keywords and find new websites tagged by others with similar interests.

Socialist goes further than the average bookmark manager and includes an extensive set of features:

Organize bookmarks with Socialist.

Assign “tags” to your bookmarks instead of putting them into folders.

Tags are simple keywords describing your bookmark so you can find them quickly.

Example: If you had a bookmark folder called New York City, and a bookmark folder called Photographs, where would you place a website with photos of New York?

Using tags, assign keywords “newyork” and “photos” and you’ll be able to find that link again easily.

Don’t have time to read news?

Many of us have tried an RSS reader or at least heard of RSS by now. There are RSS feeds available at almost every blog and news site including here at MacZot!

RSS is a web format used to publish frequently updated content (like news, videos, etc.)

If you’re like us and don’t have time to read news as it’s published, you’ll love Socialist.

The power of Socialist in action: Subscribe, Scan, Bookmark

1. Subscribe to RSS feeds that fit your interest.

2. Scan the latest content quickly

3. Bookmark anything you want to read later.

If you’ve tried other RSS readers that interrupt your work by bouncing in the dock and beeping, you’ll probably enjoy Socialist’s more leisurely reading experience.

Your bookmarks everywhere!

Discover a great website on another computer and forget it by the time you get home. Nothing is worse!

Socialist gives you access to your bookmarks from any Mac, and even online (if you find yourself on a Windows or Linux computer).

Socialist also offers the ability to share your bookmarks with other people. Have a close friend that shares a common interest in cars? Subscribe to each other’s bookmarks and find new websites.

Don’t believe us? Ask them:

Steve Streza [Tubular] says, “Socialist is the last bookmark manager you’ll ever need.”

Socialist is launching here on MacZOT!

Be in the first crows to get access to this cool new app from the developers of Musicast and Domain Tracker.

See the Developers web site at: GetSocialist.com

Direct Mail

"mailings made easy and organized"

Normally: $29.00

ZOT Price: $12.95

Holiday Letters Anyone?

Direct Mail is a powerful and user-friendly mailing manager that lets you stay in touch quickly and easily — without worrying about the details of mail server configurations.

As Easy as 1, 2, 3!

Direct Mail makes staying in touch with multiple people a snap. Need to get a newsletter out to your database of subscribers? A holiday update out to your extended family? It’s easy:

1. Compose your message in Direct Mail’s fully-featured email editor. Styled, HTML, and plain-text emails are all supported — as well as inline images and attachments.

2. Enter the list of recipients. Email addresses can be entered by hand or by using Direct Mail’s powerful “Import Addresses” feature to grab email addresses from any type of file.

3. Click the “Send Message” button. Your message is delivered instantly to your list of recipients using Direct Mail’s powerful internal mail server.

Features

How does Direct Mail stack up feature-wise? Direct Mail contains a rich set of easy to use tools to help you get your work done quickly without getting in the way. A few key features:

Create custom HTML messages
Hand craft your messages in HTML or automatically import the message body from any web page.

Import email addresses from any file or folder
Quickly and easily grab email addresses from all sorts of files, including your Mac OS X Address Book and even MySQL databases.

Direct delivery support
If needed, Direct Mail can bypass your ISP’s SMTP server and deliver email straight to the recipient.

Optimized for Intel Macs
Direct Mail is a universal application, meaning that it runs native on both Intel and PowerPC Macs.

More Information

For more information, including screenshots, please visit http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail

VelaClock

Normally: $9.95

ZOT Price: $4.95

VelaClock is valuable for many reasons, one of which is:

We constantly interact with people in different time zones and VelaClock puts that information in front of us quickly

See what others are saying here

“My business has me communicating with people all over the world, all day long. One glance at VelaClock, I know exactly what time it is any where in the world. For me, VelaClock is the most functional widget available. Once again, thank you.”

“I want you to know VelaClock is by far my most favorite and most widely used of all my widgets. What a bargain!”

“This latest version of VelaClock (1.5.1) continues your wonderfully simple, clean and functional design philosophy. I admire the clarity of vision and understanding of user needs. Nice work and thanks.”

Macworld magazine called VelaClock one of their favorite widgets. [info]	Macworld magazine reviews VelaClock and gives it four mice! [review]

A world clock widget with a highly configurable user interface. Besides displaying local times, users can quickly display the time of sunrise, sunset, or twilight, duration of daylight, current phase of moon, time zone information, and much more.

The interface of VelaClock can easily be configured to use a minimum amount of screen space or if the user wishes, more detailed information about the currently selected city can be displayed. The user can choose whether to display up to four additional lower panes (each pane has a full and a minimized version):

• A light level bar that gives the user a picture of the 24 hours of natural light (bright daylight, three kinds of twilight and night) for the current day. A thin white bar indicates when the moon is visible. Daylight duration and the change in minutes of daylight from the previous day are also displayed.
• Specific times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset. Begin/end times for civil twilight, nautical twilight, and astronomical twilight can also be displayed.
• An image of the moon as seen in the sky above the currently selected city. This image accurately depicts the angle of the moon’s crescent. Because this angle can change dramatically within the span of an hour, it is updated once a minute, as is the moon’s phase. This view also contains the name of the current phase, as well as local times for the next and previous phase events (new, quarter, full).
• An analog clock and detailed time zone information, including full time zone name and the number of hours the selected city is ahead or behind the user’s current time zone (as set in System Preferences). The current season name (winter, etc.) is also displayed.

VelaClock is a unique widget in that it is completely self-contained. Many widgets are light weight front-ends to web services; such widgets require an Internet connection. By contrast, VelaClock is designed to function without an Internet connection, and so is particularly useful for laptop users away from their home or office. Astronomical calculations are performed by an internal code module.

ReceiptWallet

Normally: $29.95

ZOT Price: $20.95

Find
receipts quickly
If you’ve
ever looked for a receipt for a warranty repair, you
probably had trouble finding it. With ReceiptWallet,
receipts are located quickly and easily.

Expense
reports

Do you have to prepare expense reports? If so,
ReceiptWallet can help. Once you store your receipts in
ReceiptWallet, you can select the receipts to email, print,
or export to PDF.

Taxes and
Accounting

In many cases, the IRS (or other tax
authority) may accept electronic copies of your receipts.
ReceiptWallet makes gathering information for taxes a snap!

Warranties

If you have ever had to get a product
repaired under warranty, you know how hard it is to find
the receipt to prove it is under warranty. With
ReceiptWallet, simply scan in the receipt, add some notes
about the product and now you can find the receipt quickly.

Rebates

Everyone is enticed by rebates, but handling
the paperwork and remembering about them is such a hassle.
With ReceiptWallet, scan it in, put in a note that it is a
rebate and you can quickly find the rebates later on. To
make things even easier, add an appointment to iCal to
remind you to check on the rebate. Without leaving your
desk, you can now look up the rebate and see where it is.

Flexible Spending

Do you have a flexible spending plan or a cafeteria plan at
work? If so, then you know how much of a pain it is to
gather up all the paperwork when the time comes to submit
the receipts. With ReceiptWallet, put items into a category
called Medical or Flexible Spending, then create a smart
collection for the time period, say the last six months.
Next select the receipts, hit print and you’ve now handled
most of the work already. If your plan accepts it, you can
even export the text content of your receipts as a CSV file
and import it into Microsoft Excel; you can print this and
might be able to simply submit it.

What is it?

So what is ReceiptWallet? ReceiptWallet is a
Mac OS X program that allows you to scan in and manage your
receipts. When you scan in each receipt, you enter a few
pieces of information about the receipt such as the
merchant, the amount, and category and then you can quickly
and easily locate your receipts. You can view the receipts
right on the screen, print them, email them, or save them
as PDFs. In addition to the powerful search built into
ReceiptWallet, you can organize your receipts into
collections. These collections can contain whatever you
want and even better than that is the ability to create
smart collections that automatically create collections
based on whatever criteria you like. For instance, you can
create a smart collection that contains all of your grocery
store receipts or one that contains receipts for a certain
year. The possibilities are endless.