Grabarchuk Puzzles Kft. and MagicSolver Ltd. jointly bring a thousand puzzles for millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users just for FREE! After the joint giveaways’ success of such premium puzzle apps as Puzzle Quizzes Deluxe and LetsTans Deluxe, MagicSolver had selected iCut Deluxe for Free App Magic – a unique daily iPhone/iPad discoverer of the moments the great paid apps become free.

Nyiregyhaza, Hungary / Cambridge, United Kingdom – Grabarchuk Puzzles Kft. and MagicSolver Ltd. jointly bring a thousand puzzles for millions of iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users just for Free! After the joint giveaways’ success of such premium puzzle apps as Puzzle Quizzes Deluxe and LetsTans Deluxe, MagicSolver had selected iCut Deluxe for Free App Magic – a unique daily iPhone/iPad discoverer of the moments the great paid apps become free.

“We are very excited to bring our original puzzles to as many puzzle lovers as possible! We are happy to cooperate in this with MagicSolver, one of the best discoverer of the original apps on the App Store.” said Serhiy Grabarchuk, Co-Founder of Grabarchuk Puzzles Kft.

“We are very happy to select iCut Deluxe in Free App Magic and hope our million users of Free App Magic will enjoy this great puzzle” said Emmanuel Carraud, CEO of MagicSolver Ltd.

iCut Deluxe – a new tool of cutting the shapes into congruent parts. Features: 1008 hand-crafted puzzles and 6 modes, universal, scores, guest player, hints, and Game Center achievements.

LetsTans Deluxe – the biggest tangram app ever. Features: 1440 hand-crafted puzzles and 10 modes, 7 different skins and 50 colors, guest player, hints, time counter, Game Center achievements and leaderboards.

Puzzle Quizzes Deluxe – a mix of the original puzzles and easy-to-play quizzes. Features: 300 hand-crafted puzzles, universal, play in portrait and landscape views, hints, time counter, scores, guest players, Game Center achievements and leaderboards.

About MagicSolver Ltd:
MagicSolver is a Cambridge University spin-out, winner of Cambridge University Entrepreneurs in June 2009, Silicon Valley Comes to Cambridge 2010 and Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-ups 2010.

Have a magic puzzling holidays!

Grabarchuk Puzzles: http://www.grabarchukpuzzles.com/
MagicSolver: http://www.magicsolver.com/
iCut Deluxe: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icut-deluxe/id390513620?mt=8
LetsTans Deluxe: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letstans-deluxe/id377665828?mt=8
Puzzle Quizzes Deluxe: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/puzzle-quizzes-deluxe/id464575264?mt=8
Free App Magic: http://www.freeappmagic.com/

Grabarchuk Puzzles is a family oriented Ukrainian puzzle group which actively creates, develops, and promotes new puzzles of different types and in various forms. Copyright (C) 2010 Grabarchuk Puzzles. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Well it is that time of the season, its getting colder for many of us, the trees are lousing their leaves and snow is either falling or getting ready to fall, that and we’re starting to see more and more references to Christmas, Winter and associated activities. So to help you with this time of the season here is a bunch of FREE photoshop based brushes, tutorials and much more from around the web.

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Deep IT has released Diagrammix, their new Mac OS X diagramming tool for building pretty looking diagrams with minimal effort. Use Diagrammix as a fast business tool for illustration purposes. it offers a lot of art elements and different connectors that make it easy to prepare attractive elements in vector drawing editors. Diagrammix has several palettes with amazing elements specially designed for this release. You can quickly create professional looking diagrams with beautiful style.

Moscow, Russian Federation – Deep IT has announced their new Mac OS X diagramming tool for building pretty looking diagrams with minimal effort. Diagrammix offers a lot of art elements and different connectors that eliminate the need to waste time for preparing attractive elements in vector drawing editors. Deep IT designer developed nice set of elements. If you are office worker, developer, manager, supervisor, student or home user you can draw about anything in extremely simple and intuitive way.

Use Diagrammix as a fast business tool for illustration purposes. If you need to analyze process or structure, describe regularity, simply brainstorming – Diagrammix is a right tool! You’ll be able to focus on what really matters. Diagrammix takes upon itself to connect elements, autosize elements while text entering, align elements and connectors. Just drag and drop elements from palette, connect them and enter the text.

Diagrammix has several palettes with amazing elements specially designed for this release. You can quickly create professional looking diagrams with beautiful style.

Once elements are connected by a line, they stay connected no matter how much you change them or move them around. That means the logical integrity of your diagram is preserved regardless of how you choose to position the elements. There are several connector styles: thin, thick, solid, dashed, dotted, with different arrows and colors, all with predefined styles. Work can be saved in a number of formats including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PDF or copied to text processors via a clipboard.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5 or later
* Intel or Power PC
* 4.6 Mb

Pricing and Availability:
Diagrammix for Mac is available as shareware version. During the promo period Diagrammix is only $9.95 (USD). You can use the shareware version for free during a 15-day trial period. The shareware version has a watermark that will be removed after buying a license.

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Headquartered in Moscow, Russia, Deep IT is an independent software company focused on high quality applications for the World Wide Web, Apple’s Mac OS X and iOS. We provide the Deep analyze and the best IT solutions. We change the reality! Copyright (C) 2011 Deep IT. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Apimac has announced iDatabase 2.0.1 is available on the Mac App Store. Combining simplicity with sophistication in its support of custom templates, iDatabase is a complete personal database management solution. It is ideal for tracking membership lists, expenses, projects, Internet accounts, and more. iDatabase includes 16 ready to use templates such as Accounts, Contacts, Exercise Log, Recipes, and To Do. Creation of custom templates is also supported.

Milan, Italy – Apimac has announced that iDatabase 2.0.1 is available on the new Apple Mac App Store. Designed to permit wireless, bi-directional syncing between Mac computers and iOS mobile devices like iPhone and iPod touch, iDatabase is a complete personal database management solution. Ideal for tracking membership lists, expenses, projects, Internet accounts, etc., the app includes 16 ready to use templates such as Accounts, Contacts, Exercise Log, Recipes, and To Do. Drop and drag creation of custom templates is also supported.

iDatabase 4.0 for iOS (available on iTunes App Store) and iDatabase 2.0 for Mac OS X (available on Mac App Store) complement each other to offer a personal database management solution both on the desktop and on the go. The clean, simplified GUI allows the user to begin using the app immediately, without instruction of any kind. Facilitating this ease of use is a built-in library of 16 templates: Accounts, Classes, Computers, Contacts, Customers, Events, Exercise Log, Expenses, Inventory, Movie Catalog, Membership List, Mobile Phones, Notes, Projects, Recipes, To Do, and Vehicle Maintenance.

iDatabase combines simplicity with sophistication in its support of custom templates. The app allows the user to select from 10 different fields: Small Text, Large Text, Number, Date, Time, Date and Time, Image, Choose and calculation. You can also use a special field type named Separator Field, to divide a record into distinct visual parts.

“With the great success of iDatabase for Mac, it became clear that we needed to be also on the new Apple Mac App Store” stated company Senior Vice President Worldwide Product Marketing Gabriele Gobbo.

Mac Lineup:
Any MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro, PowerMac, iBook and PowerBook.

System Requirements:
* Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later
* 1.4 MB

Pricing and Availability:
iDatabase 2.0.1 is $19.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Productivity category.

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Located in Milan, Italy, Apimac is a company founded in 1996 dedicated to Mac OS X and iPhone only software. People at Apimac aim to put into users’ hands applications which they can use in a way they do things every day. Right after opening their applications, users can immediately focus on their task, not even noticing that they’re using entirely new software. Copyright (C)1996-2011 Apimac. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, iPhone, iPad and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Ken Winograd has announced TinyBooks Pro 7.0.5, an update to his Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program. TinyBooks Pro is an ultra-simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system, designed for sole proprietors, home and small business, and family finances. TinyBooks Pro version 7 is a complete rewrite of the old TinyBooks from the ground up, and is now a native Macintosh application. It requires an Intel-based Macintosh running OSX.

Merrimack, New Hampshire – Ken Winograd has announced the release of TinyBooks Pro 7.0.5, a new version of the Macintosh accounting and bookkeeping program. TinyBooks Pro is an ultra-simple, flexible, non-bloated, single-entry bookkeeping and accounting system for the Macintosh. TinyBooks Pro is designed for Sole Proprietors, home and other small businesses, and family finances. Unlike many tax-related programs, TinyBooks Pro does NOT have to be re-purchased year after year. TinyBooks Pro can easily help you with your taxes this year and in years to come.

TinyBooks Pro is the simplest way to handle the books for most small companies. Just enter your expenses and income, and TinyBooks Pro does the rest. Current and year-to-date on-the-fly totals are continually displayed. Fully automatic bar-charting of all expense and income accounts make the determination of monthly trends intuitively obvious.

A fully non-modal Reports and Transaction Search Window offers easy standard and custom reporting and searching. All lists and reports are easily exportable to other programs as standard tab-delimited text files.

Expense, income and special mileage entry forms can be printed for off-line entry of data as desired. Standard Calendar and Non-fiscal years are effortlessly supported. Recurring expenses are easily created.

TinyBooks Pro includes Quarterly and Full-Year Bottom Line Reports. These are exactly the kinds of reports that accountants dream about. Each report is a full listing of the totals of all of your expenses and income broken down by accounts. The beauty of these reports is that the user need only specify what kind of report is desired, TinyBooks Pro does the rest. It’s impossible to mis-configure such reports.

TinyBooks Pro includes a Professional Invoice Printer that is as easy to use as the rest of the program. It prints professional-looking invoices, estimates, proposals, statements (and more) on plain white paper. No special or expensive forms are required. These forms can also be customized with your own logo, fonts, etc.

TinyBooks Pro also includes intuitive support for handling virtually any kind of taxes from any country, including State Sales Taxes, GST (Goods and Service Taxes), PST (Provincial Sales Taxes), VAT (Value Added Taxes) and more. A Calculate Tax button is optionally available and can be configured to handle tax situations from around the world.

What’s New in Version 7:
TinyBooks Pro version 7 is a complete rewrite of the old TinyBooks from the ground up. TinyBooks Pro is now a native Macintosh application and requires an Intel-based Macintosh running OSX. The new TinyBooks Pro also includes Quarterly Bottom Line Reports, TypeAhead Comments, support for keyboard navigation, mouse scroll wheels, easier backups, resizable windows, and more.

System Requirements:
TinyBooks Pro, based on years of experience ‘doing the books’, is written exclusively for Intel-based Macintoshes running OSX and is available now. TinyBooks (the non-Pro version of TinyBooks) is still available for those running on older PowerPC Mac’s or those running older Macintosh OS’s such as OS8.6 and OS9.

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Ken Winograd (the programmer of TinyBooks Pro) has a long history creating accounting software. Decades ago, Ken worked for Great American Software where he created the invoicing module for their very popular One Write Plus accounting software for IBM PCs. Ken also was lead programmer and Software Engineering Manager for the very first versions of software-based Dome Books, published by Dome Publishing of Rhode Island. At that time, the Dome accounting software supported Apple II, Commodore 64 and Radio Shack TRS-80 computers! For the last decade or so, Ken has designed, programmed, published and supported the popular TinyBooks and TinyBooks Pro accounting package exclusively for the Macintosh. Copyright (C) 2011 Space-Time Associates. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

We all know picking the right font is important when working on your creative projects. There are so many fonts out there, and it litarally may take hours until we find the ONE. To save you some time, here is a collection of 30 quality fonts hand-picked by Fonts2U. Enjoy!

Cristallight announced today the release of the new version of the Home Business Card, one of the most popular mac product for the business card design and printing for MacOS X. The update brings the substantial improvement of the templates included with the product, and the product functionality. QR Code functionality improved, changes in image handling, power text make the use of the product even more easy and intuitive.

Palatine, IL – Cristallight announced today the release of the new version of the Home Business Card, one of the most popular mac product for the business card design and printing for MacOS X. The update brings the substantial improvement of the templates included with the product, and the product functionality. QR Code functionality improved, changes in image handling, power text make the use of the product even more easy and intuitive.

The Home Business Card is a mac business card software for creating and printing business cards using numerous professionally designed templates, large collection of clipart and backgrounds. Use integrated mac Address Book to import personal data into the address field objects. Place Google Maps objects to your card to add your personal or business location in Google Maps image to your business card. Add Code 128, Datamatrix and QR Code objects to your business cards.

Modify image objects by applying image masks and Core Image filters, add Power text and circle text text blocks, add your own pictures in various supported formats, and save it as your own design templates.

Numerous business card formats from Avery, SureThing, Memorex, Fellowes, and custom ones, are at service.

The Cristallight Home Business Card 1.2.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later, runs on both PPC Mac and Intel Mac and costs $29.95, which includes the lifetime license with free upgrades, and free tech support.

Cristallight Software: http://www.cristallight.com
Home Business Card details: http://www.cristallight.com/HomeBusinessCard/
Free Download: http://www.cristallight.com/downloads/mac/homebusinesscard.dmg
Regnow Purchase: http://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-softsell.cgi?item=11839-14
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Founded in 2004, the Cristallight company develops high quality desktop publishing, barcode and labeling software. It renders services for a wide variety of platforms, operating systems, and languages. Copyright (C) 2010 Cristallight. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Professional, fast and easy make cover design and printing CD/DVD standard or custom disc cover labels on MacOSX. Mac cd label maker is a great way to create professional looking CD, DVD or jewel case using our templates library and mac image effects. The Home Disk Labels is a CD/DVD disc cover designer and DVD label maker that helps you to create mac CD, DVD labels etc., using various built-in disc label formats, clipart, background images, and ready made templates provided.

Palatine, IL – Cristallight announced today the release of the new version of the HomeDisk Labels, one of the most popular mac product for the CD/DVD Label design software for MacOS X. The update brings the substantial improvement of the clipart, templates included with the product, and the product functionality. Image masks added, other functionality that makes the use of the product so easy and intuitive is also improved.

The HomeDisk Labels is a simple and intuitive mac software for creating CD/DVD labels, disk covers, tray inserts, mini disks, etc., with numerous professionally designed templates, large collection of clipart and backgrounds. Modify image objects by applying image masks and Core Image filters, add Power text and circle text text blocks, add your own pictures in various supported formats.

Import text and images directly into your label design, and save it as your own design templates. Use the iTunes integration to import the album data. Numerous predefined label formats from Avery, SureThing, Memorex, Fellowes, and custom ones, are at service.

Print your labels to disks with Epson direct-to-disk printing technology.

The Cristallight HomeDisk Labels 1.8.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later, runs on both PPC Mac and Intel Mac and costs $29.95, which includes the lifetime license with free upgrades, and free tech support.

Cistallight Software: http://www.cristallight.com
HomeDisk Labels 1.8.2: http://www.cristallight.com/HomeDiskLabels/
Download: http://www.cristallight.com/downloads/mac/hdlabels.dmg
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Founded in 2004, the Cristallight company develops high quality desktop publishing, barcode and labeling software. It renders services for a wide variety of platforms, operating systems, and languages. Copyright (C) 2010 Cristallight. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.

You know that “Get a Mac” ad campaign? The one where one person represents a Mac and the other a Windows PC? It’s obviously a cheeky way for Apple to differentiate itself from its competition, but the Mac versus Windows difference they portray is actually a good analogy and question for designers: When it comes to your design work, are you a Mac or a PC?

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Ecommerce websites have a reputation for being poorly designed or uninteresting, but of course that is not the case with all ecommerce designs.

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