Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 21st, 2006

Wow! One hundred different participants have now signed up at MacSanta.com, and that’s amazing. Thanks to MacSanta, you can now save on over 200 different software products, from companies both big and small.

There are Macworld Best of Show winners, Apple Design Award winners, and Macworld Eddy winners. There are programs so new they haven’t even been reviewed yet. There are applications from companies who’ve been on the Mac for more than a decade, and applications from one guy working his tail off in his garage. There are games, utilities, system enhancements and much more, and it’s all 20% off.

What do we, the participants of MacSanta, all have in common? We’re all coming together and offering discounts in the hopes of more people checking out the great Mac software you might not find in the Apple store. In exchange, you can learn about some new stuff you’ve never heard of before, and get a great deal on purchasing it. Not too shabby!

If you’d like to help spread the word, please feel free to use any of the following images on your own site:

Recap: Through December 25th, 20% off hundreds of great Mac software applications at http://www.macsanta.com. Spread the word!

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 19th, 2006

The MacSanta promotion has absolutely exploded since yesterday. Thanks to MacSanta, you can save 20% on software from over 50 different companies, with more being added all the time!

More developers are joining in all the time, providing you with great deals. This is a great chance to find some of the hidden gems of the Mac software world, and to get a rare discount on some of the bigger applications as well. Don’t miss out!

If you want to keep up to date as more companies join in our reindeer games, subscribe to the MacSanta RSS feed.

Heaps of great new software at great prices!

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 18th, 2006

MacSanta is here, bringing great savings on great Mac software. Now through December 25th, you can save 20% on tons of great Mac software, at www.macsanta.com. Save on our very own software, as well as all software from:

Bare Bones – including the renowned text editor BBEdit.

C-Command – including the premier spam-stopping solution SpamSieve

Flying Meat – including brain organizer VoodooPad

Potion Factory – including Tangerine!, which creates magical iTunes playlists

Red Sweater – including the personal productivity timer FlexTime

The deals end on December 25th, so act quickly – get yourself to macsanta.com now. And be sure to check back, as we’ll be adding new companies throughout the week!

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 14th, 2006

Lately there’s been a fair amount of discussion on the future of DRM, and labels potentially falling out of love with it. If we’re really lucky, we’ll go back to having real access to the music we purchase. But in the real-world, we’re as likely to wind up with something much worse and much more restrictive. As a businessman, I don’t know that I should complain. As a consumer, however, it’s terrible.

Anyhow, Bill Gates spoke on this recently. The most interesting quote was this:

“People should just buy a cd and rip it. You are legal then.”

I was thinking this was perhaps a dangerous thing to say, until I realized he could just buy all the music labels.

Posted By Paul Kafasis on December 13th, 2006

Twenty two years ago, Macworld magazine started a tradition, giving out annual editor’s choice awards known as the Eddys. Two years ago, we earned our first Eddy award, with Nicecast. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Fission has brought us our second Eddy award! Fission has been met with rave reviews, and now it’s won the first of what we hope will be many awards.

If you haven’t been paying attention, Fission is our newest product. Fission is an audio editor designed to provide fast and lossless splitting and trimming of audio files. With Fission, you can edit MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, and AIFF/WAV files, trimming out portions you don’t need or breaking them up into multiple smaller files.

So why not try out our newest award-winner right now? You can download Fission 1.1 or visit the Fission page for more information.