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 Offers: 2010 May 19 - iUseMac offers Secret Folder Site License at 70% off

Offers and New Products
iUseMac offers Secret Folder Site License at 70% off with a free bonus application
iUseMac will be featuring Secret Folder Site License with a 70% off for a week with the tool "Running Applications" as free bonus application. iUseMac offers popular Mac applications at reduced prices for limited time periods. The regular price of Secret Folder Site License is 34.99 and iUseMac will offer it at 9.99. In the offer is included as free Bonus application "Running application" which is a launch utility. This offer ends in 7 days.

This offer will start on Thursday, May 20 2010 at 00:00AM and will end a week later.

About Secret Folder:
Apimac Secret Folder is a program that provides an easy and fast way to protect personal documents and avoid them being seen, modified, or erased by other users. It allows users to hide folders and their contents. Files and folders can be added by means of a single click on a choose dialog box or via drag and drop. The application is really simple to use and can be protected with a password for extra security. Secret Folders is very useful to keep your information away from prying eyes or kids who may accidentally modify or delete your files.

About Running Applications:
Running Applications is an application launching utility for Mac OS X that conveniently lists all running applications in a handy menu in the menubar. With a focus on ease-of-use, Running Applications has a very small footprint, and was developed specifically to accommodate those users who switch between many different applications on a daily basis. A single click brings an application, including all its opened windows, to the front, facilitating switching among apps a breeze.

Secret Folder and Running Applications are fully compatible with Mac OS X Tiger, Mac OS X Leopard and Mac OS X Snow Leopard and it is distributed as a Universal Binary and runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs.

LINKS:

iUseMac
http://www.iusemac.com/

Download Secret Folder Demo
http://www.apimac.com/sw/secret_folder.dmg

Screenshot
http://www.iusemac.com/pr/secretfolder/sf_screen_shot.png

App Icon
http://www.iusemac.com/pr/secretfolder/SF_Icon.png


Based in Udine, Italy, iUseMac is a privately held company founded in 2009 by Gabriele Gobbo. Committed to offering the most popular applications to Mac users around the world, iUseMac is devoted exclusively to special offers on leading software solutions for the Mac platform, with a major emphasis on total customer satisfaction. Every week iUseMac offers a new Mac application at a discounted price for two days only. Copyright (C) 2009-2010 iUseMac. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

###

Gabriele Gobbo
CEO/Founder
0432820021
Italy
gabriele@iusemac.com

Posted by bfmug on Thursday, May 20 @ 05:15:27 EDT (105 reads)
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 Offers: 2010 March 31 - Free Tourist Maps for the iPhone

Offers and New Products
RouteBuddy and OpenStreetMap are pleased to announce the release of Free Worldwide Tourist maps for the iPhone and iPad.

It's the Easter holidays and many of us are traveling abroad to sunnier
climes, but the main problem is that using any online map browser on
your iPhone will cost you dearly with high data-roaming fees. On the
other hand a digital map that shows exactly where you are in a foreign
city, or using the transport network, has inestimable value.

RouteBuddy's no-cost answer to tourism maps on your iPhone is quick,
easy and simple! Before you travel just load RouteBuddy Atlas from the
iTunes store, connect via WiFi, and in three easy steps load free tourist
maps onto your iPhone:
- Step 1: Select OpenStreetMap in RouteBuddy Atlas
- Step 2: Locate your holiday destination
- Step 3: Touch the 'Cache Map Tiles' button and store the maps on your iPhone

Arrive at your destination (with data roaming turned off) and know where you are, anytime, anywhere.

Tourist Maps from RouteBuddy, quick, simple and free.

- Going Skiing? Use our Free Ski Maps instead! -

RouteBuddy Atlas is available from the iTunes Store at:

<http://www.routebuddy.com/itunes/atlas/>

RouteBuddy Atlas supports installation from both Mac and PC platforms,
and any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.

More detail about RouteBuddy Atlas is on the RouteBuddy website at:

 <http://www.routebuddy.com/atlas/>
About RouteBuddy Ltd
-------------------------------
Founded in 2005, RouteBuddy Ltd have pioneered the development of
native GPS mapping software for Mac OS X and iPhone OS.

By bringing high-precision map data to Apple's unique platform,
RouteBuddy aim to take full advantage of Mac OS X technologies such
as Quartz graphics and multi-processing to develop powerful new
mapping solutions for Mac, iPhone and iPad users.

RouteBuddy Ltd are based in the U.K., and can be contacted at:


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 Offers: 2010 March 10 - Markzware's Deep Desktop Search Finds ''Smoking Gun''

Offers and New ProductsDramatically Enable Content Searching of Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Publisher And QuarkXPress Documents 

SANTA ANA, California March 10, 2010 -- Markzware continues to 're-invent' itself, from a software company directed at print, to a software company also directed at 'content.' Today, the software development company that invented preflighting by introducing FlightCheck® to the print industry, unveiled a new version of its PageZephyr™ desktop search product. 

PageZephyr 2.0 allows publishing companies, advertising firms, legal eDiscovery or any company possessing so-called proprietary files to manage more of their digital data regardless of how small or large their business' archives may be. Previously inaccessible content is now a breeze to search and reuse. 

PageZephyr 2.0 captures, indexes, and converts content created in proprietary or non-common formats without the need for the original authoring application. This transformative technology substantially reduces the cost for time spent searching and cataloging unmanaged content residing within these file types on local or network drives. Before PageZephyr, documents had to be opened by the original application and manually searched, one by one. Now PageZephyr 2.0, enables anyone to instantly find content in these documents by simply typing in a search term or phrase. 

Internet search engines provided by companies such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing are typically used to search the web for content within common file-types, such as text in PDF, RTF, TEXT or Word documents. On the desktop, indexing and search engines such as Microsoft Windows Index and Apple's SpotLight work in the same manner with the same limitations. However, none of these companies possess technology that performs like PageZephyr 2.0

PageZephyr 2.0 is very different, providing a new approach that takes search much further by discovering content inside popular file formats that are 'non-common' such as .indd (Adobe InDesign), .pub (Microsoft Publisher) and .qxd (QuarkXPress) for examination and important decision making. Beyond that, PageZephyr 2.0 allows searching in a specific area of interest across these different file types, to merge, edit and combine content for easy creation of new and relevant information pertinent to that topic. PageZephyr 2.0 also responds to detailed boolean queries by using AND, OR and NOT to further refine the search. 

Mary Gay Marchese, director of public relations at Markzware says, "Until now it has been impossible to search and find content within the billions of Quark, Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher files, let alone extract text and convert text once found, without opening each one in the native application. Once again, Markzware has taken the technological lead. With PageZephyr 2.0, Markzware is essentially releasing 4 products in one: content searching, content viewing, content extraction and content distribution for these unique file formats." Marchese continues, "eDiscovery firms trying to find that 'smoking gun,' or companies trying to manage risks while reducing the cost of maintaining content compliance will benefit from PageZephyr 2.0. Companies in various vertical markets having the need to recycle premium content contained in these document types to market their goods or services, especially through the internet, will find PageZephyr 2.0 invaluable." 

Priced at only $199, PageZephyr 2.0 runs on Macintosh platforms OS X 10.5.8 and higher. 
Until March 31, 2010, Markzware is offering a web-coupon for PageZephyr at the super-discounted price of $149. 

PageZephyr processes both Macintosh and Windows versions of these document types. 
Anyone may download a FREE fully-functional, 30-day trial by visiting www.pagezephyr.com
Training and educational movies are also available. 

This new release of PageZephyr includes expanded file support for: 
• Versions of QuarkXPress 4.0 to 8.x 
• Adobe InDesign CS through CS4 
• Microsoft Publisher 2002 to 2007 

About Markzware 
Markzware, is a privately held company based in Santa Ana, California. For over 15 years, Markzware has been a proven software development leader of cutting-edge content management, data conversion and workflow solutions for digital multimedia including the legal, medical, government and graphic arts industries. More information can be found at www.markzware.com. You can follow us at http://www.twitter.com/pagezephyr

Contact: 
Mary Gay Marchese 
Director of Public Relations 
office - 949-756-5100, ext. 250 
email - pr@pagezephyr.com 

Contact: 
David Dilling 
Director of Operations 
Markzware Europe 
email - mwe@pagezephyr.com

Investors, OEMs, distributors, resellers and integrators or others interested in this technology. 
Contact: 
Bob Claborne 
Director of Sales 
office - 949-756-5100, ext 201 
email - sales@pagezephyr.com

Posted by bfmug on Sunday, March 21 @ 08:56:10 EDT (129 reads)
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 Offers: 2009 Dec 1 - geekanoids December Competition video with Discount Codes

Offers and New Products
Hello 

The December Competition video is up. All are welcome to enter. One lucky winner will win a full boxed copy of Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro.

The video can be found here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by7wkkbnqQM

The video also has a 20% off discount code for all the viewers from a major case manufacturer (iPod, iPhone, mobile phone & camera cases). Plus a $20 & $39 discount code, with free UK delivery, from Eazydraw, who publish a great drawing app for Mac OSX.

Both these companies have been very generous with giving me these codes, so I hope some of your members find them of use.


I also invited companies to send me their four best iPod touch cases. Griffin Technology kindly sent me their selection. The resulting video review can be found on the link below;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3A3iKnYso


Last, but not least. Tomorrow (Wed 2nd December) will see my first look video go online for the HP Storageworks X510 Data Vault go online. This four bay server is the UK's equivalent to the MediaSmart EX495. It offers a lot of Apple Mac functionality, so the video is well worth checking out. Keep an eye on the YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/geekanoids/) to see the video.

All the Best
David
http://www.geekanoids.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/geekanoids/


Posted by bfmug on Wednesday, December 02 @ 09:33:20 EST (135 reads)
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 Offers: 2009 May 8 - 25% off Flux for your members

Offers and New ProductsHi, I'm Moray from The Escapers (www.theescapers.com).

We'd like to offer all your user group members 25% off Flux, our CSS and HTML web design app, we've just released version 2.

To get this deal, your members can enter MUGSPECIALDEAL as the coupon code when they purchase Flux.

Thanks a lot

Moray

Posted by bfmug on Saturday, May 09 @ 05:21:44 EDT (257 reads)
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 Offers: 2008/12/19 - SilverFast - special offer for BNHMUG members

Offers and New ProductsFrom: Christian Gregoire [mailto:christian.gregoire@silverfast.com]
Sent: 19 December 2008 10:03
To: i.j.burn@reading.ac.uk
Subject: SilverFast - special offer for BNHMUG members
 
Dear admin of BNHMUG,

LaserSoft Imaging would like to make your Mac User Group - Berkshire & North Hampshire Mac User Group - a special time limited offer: 20 % discount on any SilverFast product.
http://www.silverfast.com

SilverFast is a renowned and awarded software for scanning and image processing. Although SilverFast was developed for professionals to process images, it's very easy to handle the software, even for beginners. Tutorial QuickTime movies in each SilverFast dialogue help users to quickly master all controls. Predictable color from the SilverFast preview gives imaging and color reproduction a new dimension, ensuring the correct workflow to the final scan with the ScanPilot. SilverFast comes as a standalone application and also as an Adobe Photoshop plugin.
Furthermore the SilverFast product range provides software for the use with digital cameras, printers or for HDR image processing.

SilverFast 6.6 got awarded as the 'best color management software 2008' by the EDP and is 100% Mac Leopard compatible for the established scanners.

For additional information you may like to read our latest three newsletters:
http://www.silverfast.com/show/newsletter200806-nikon/en.html
http://www.silverfast.com/show/newsletter200810/en.html
http://www.silverfast.com/show/newsletter200812-canon/en.html

If you are of the opinion, that our discount offer could be interesting for your Mac Group members, please let us have a short reply to this email and we will provide you a special promotion voucher code. Afterwards you can introduce the offer to your members, who can use this code in our online shop to get the 20 % discount on any order.

with kind regards
Christian Gregoire
LaserSoft Imaging AG
_____________________________________________________________________
Luisenweg 6-8, 24105 Kiel, HRB 5739 AG Kiel, Tel.: 0431-560090 Fax: 0431-5600999
Vorstand: Karl-Heinz Zahorsky (Vorsitzender), Helga Bischof
Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Wolfgang von Hacht

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 Offers: 2008/12/08 - EveryMac.com Update

Offers and New ProductsUseful site – as you probably know...

Adrian


------ Forwarded Message
From: Brock Kyle
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 16:36:23 -0600
To:
Subject: EveryMac.com Update - 8 December 2008

Hi Adrian,

This month, EveryMac.com (http://www.everymac.com/) features a complete update to the MacBook Air Q&A to cover the latest models and a new Aluminum iMac Q&A "spun off" from the Intel iMac Q&A with more information and improved ease-of-use. Additionally, all G3 and later specs pages now can be added to EveryMac.com Pro with two clicks.

If you haven't already done so, be sure to also check out the Ultimate Mac Comparison feature, which makes it easy to dynamically compare all G3 and later Macs side-by-side.
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-comparison

The MacBook Air Q&A answers "What is the battery life of the MacBook Air (NVIDIA/Late 2008) in real-world usage tests?" and "What are the differences between the MacBook Air (NVIDIA/Late 2008) and the 'Unibody' 13-Inch MacBook (Aluminum/Late 2008)?" along with dozens of other questions.
http://www.everymac.com/macbook-air-faq

The Aluminum iMac Q&A answers "What are the differences between the displays used in the Intel-based 'Aluminum' and 'White' iMac models? What is the viewable angle and the brightness of each?" and "Can you wall mount the Aluminum iMac models? Are they VESA compliant?" as well as everything in between.
http://www.everymac.com/aluminum-imac-faq

To ensure that you can continue to receive notifications of updates and Q&As, please join the RSS Feed:
feed://www.everymac.com/feed.xml

In case you missed one, Q&As since the last major update include:

What are the "pros and cons" of the MacBook Air? Is it the right Apple notebook for my needs?
http://www.everymac.com/list1

What is the battery life of the MacBook Air (NVIDIA/Late 2008) in real-world usage tests?
http://www.everymac.com/list2

How fast is the MacBook Air (NVIDIA/Late 2008) compared to the original MacBook Air? How fast is it compared to the "Unibody" MacBook and MacBook Pro models?
http://www.everymac.com/list3

Can you wall mount the Aluminum iMac models? Are they VESA compliant?
http://www.everymac.com/list4

What type of video processor is provided by the Aluminum iMac systems? Is it upgradable?
http://www.everymac.com/list5

What are the differences between the displays used in the Intel-based "Aluminum" and "White" iMac models? What is the viewable angle and the brightness of each?
http://www.everymac.com/list6

For a complete summary of additions and changes:
http://www.everymac.com/whatsnew/

Have more questions? Please join the discussion in the forums:
http://www.everymac.com/forums/

As always, please tell all your Mac-using and iPod-wearing friends about the site.

Cheers,
Brock

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The EveryMac.com mailing list is sponsored by:

PowerMax
http://www.everymac.com/powermax

Operator: Headgap Systems
http://www.everymac.com/ohs

Other World Computing
http://www.everymac.com/owc

Blueberry Press: Fun Foods for Kids & Grownups
http://www.everymac.com/bp

"I love Fun Foods for Kids & Grownups. . . . and am ordering two copies -- one for each set of granddaughters." -- James W. Anderson, MD, Director, HMR Weight Management Program, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
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This Month's Book Selection:

Apple Training Series: Mac OS X Support Essentials
Kevin M. White

The only Apple-certified book on supporting Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, this comprehensive reference takes support technicians and Mac aficionados deep inside the new operating system, covering everything from installation to networking technologies, and more. A first-rate primer for computer support personnel who need to troubleshoot and optimize Mac OS X.

Click here for additional info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321489810/everymaccom
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http://www.everymac.com/

To change your EveryMac.com mailing list preferences:
http://members.everymac.com/

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 Offers: 2008/12/07 - Ferguson Hill Speakers

Offers and New ProductsSpecial Offer

Special offer for Mac User Groups

To  get your hands on these award winning speakers simply buy online direct from the Ferguson Hill website :

www.fergusonhill.co.uk

Entering the offer code that you can obtain from the Mac User Groups website

www.macusersuk.org
Ferguson Hill Studios Ltd 178 Royal College Street Camden London NW1 0SP Tel +44 (0)207 284 0969 info@fergusonhill.co.uk http://www.fergusonhill.co.uk Registered in England and Wales: No 4926912.

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 Offers: 2008/11/25 - AppleStore Vouchers

Offers and New ProductsI have been looking for the non site with info on applestores but I can't find it but I have come across this which may be useful if anyone is about to buy apple products

http://www.vouchercodes.co.uk/apple.com

Posted by bfmug on Wednesday, November 26 @ 18:49:31 EST (1429 reads)
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 Offers: 2008/09/17 - Back-2-School 08 iPod rebate

Offers and New ProductsDear all.

The 2008 Apple back-too-school offer has opened and offering £95 rebate on iPod Nano for anyone, student/staff, in higher education buying a new Mac before 31st Oct 2008.

http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/campaigns/back_to_school


"It's the smartest way to start off the school year.

If you're a student at a higher education institution, a teacher or a lecturer, and you buy a qualifying Mac before October 31st, 2008, you can get a £95 rebate on an iPod nano. After all, isn't student life about seizing every opportunity?

After you receive your Mac and iPod, submit your claim online by November 30th, 2008. Once your claim has been submitted, check your rebate status at any time."

Regards,

Asam...

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