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Aug 20

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Aug 19

EasyFrame

Normally: $14.95

ZOT Price: $7.49

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Scrapbook Quality Photo Edging

Have you ever looked at a photo with a cool torn-paper edge and wonder how you can get that effect on your own photos? Using EasyFrame, you can apply all sorts of cool frames and edge effects to your photos in seconds.

Just open an image file, select a frame, adjust the image by dragging if necessary and save. That’s it. Instead of saving, you can even drag the framed image straight to another app (think Mail, or blogging software).

EasyFrame comes with a rich collection of built-in frames, but it also lets you very easily add your own edge effects.

“It’s simple to use, very stable and does exactly what it says that it will.”

Get more info here…

Screen shots

Requires – Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

 

Aug 18

iArchive
Create, extract and convert archives easily.

Normally: $26.00

ZOT Price: $9.99

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iArchiver is a must-have tool for anyone working with archives:

With iArchiver you can create, extract and convert archives with a beautiful and enjoyable drag and drop interface.

Some features designed to make your life easier working with archives:

Simple secure backups. With iArchiver, users can archive and backup their files in popular formats such as 7zip, ZIP and Gzip. Archives can be password-protected with iArchiver’s built-in encryption support.

Popular support. iArchiver opens a broad spectrum of file formats including RAR, StuffIt, DMG, 7zip, Gzip, industry-standard Zip and many more.

Simple and fast redefined. Extracting archives was never simpler and faster: simply drag and drop your archives on iArchiver’s dock icon and see them opened at lightning speed.

Sharing archives made easy. Not everybody knows how to open StuffIt, RAR or similar archive formats. iArchiver can convert these formats to industry standard Zip to make sharing archives easy and painless.


Pack
You need to send large files to a customer? You want to distribute your files as DMGs? Create DMG, Zip, 7-zip and many other formats quickly and easily with iArchiver.

Extract
You can’t open that email attachment? No problem, iArchiver opens Zip, DMG, RAR, StuffIt (.sit), HQX and many more common and uncommon formats.

Convert
Your boss just received a RAR file that he can’t open and needs your help? Make your boss happy by converting RAR and many other formats to ZIP with iArchiver.

Let iArchiver handle your archiving needs — effortlessly and elegantly.

iArchiver requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and runs on both Intel and PowerPC machines.

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Aug 17

The GUI for Fink: Phynchronicity

Normally: $24.95

ZOT Price: $13.95

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Phynchronicity is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Fink Unix-software package management system on Mac OS X. Fink is a powerful command-line tool for installing and updating thousands of Unix-based applications for the Mac. But Fink’s sheer power and scale make it hard to use, even with a GUI.

Phynchronicity aims to make Fink easy to use. Unlike other GUI tools for Fink, it does not overwhelm you with options. Instead, with a simple three-pane interface, it lets you get started doing what you want to do–finding, installing, and removing packages.

Why Phynchronicity?

Phynchronicity compared to other GUI clients for Fink and the command-line
interface:

  • Easy-to-use solution for managing Fink.

  • Three-pane interface makes browsing Fink categories a breeze.

  • Actively-developed; new enhancements come regularly.

  • Extensive documentation.

  • "Fink still requires some command line chops, so Phynchronicity
    takes the Fink idea to the next level. It’s an OS X GUI for installing
    Fink packages that’s as simple as navigating through the categories and
    hitting the install button."–The
    Unofficial Apple Weblog

  • More Information

    Website: http://www.codebykevin.com/phynchronicity.html

    Minimum supported OS: OS X 10.4

    About Code by Kevin

    Code by Kevin specializes in developing software that makes the powerful Unix foundation of Mac OS X easier to use. Our focus is on creating beautiful, elegant, user-friendly GUI programs that leverage the power of Unix command-line tools to make you more productive. Our current products include applications for managing the installation of Unix software, network utilities, and system utilities. We have been developing Mac software since 2004.

    Aug 16

    BannerZest
    Add punch and movement to your still images online.

    Normally: $49.00

    ZOT Price: $29.00

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    Hassle Free Banner Animation Software

    Visit the Aquafadas Site and scroll down to see BannerZest in action.

    For bloggers or website designers

    Enliven your website or blogs in seconds and at low cost with BannerZest. It’s the fastest and easiest way to add punch and movement to your still images online, and create professional-looking slideshows.

    Integration with all major web site editors is a snap !

    Social websites are supported too.

    So Fast

    The Flash-based animations require zero understanding of Flash. In fact you don’t even need to own Flash. Everything has been pre-integrated into BannerZest, allowing you to be up and running- or rather, scrolling, popping and rolling!- in no time.

    So Easy

    All you have to do is select, drag and drop the images you want into a designated area. Then choose among BannerZest’s menu of creative pre-set animated themes, click and you’re done!

    It’s that simple.

    So Professional

    BannerZest creates slideshows and animated banners that give your website or blog a business-like, professional appearance while improving functionality.

    It allows you to reorder the displayed photos, and to assign a link to each picture. Most important, because it is so easy to use, BannerZest saves you time- and therefore money. You don’t get more professional than that!

    Easy web integration

    BannerZest talks to all the leading website and blog editors. So whether you are using Apple iWeb, RapidWeaver, Dreamweaver, Freeway or any other tool, BannerZest allows you to get your banners online easily.

    Uploading work via FTP is fully supported from within BannerZest. To integrate a banner on a page you simply paste a code snippet that BannerZest has automatically prepared for you. Nothing could be easier.

    What’s more, your upload settings are saved with your document, so if you need to change your banner, you just have to hit the upload button again and BannerZest replaces the old files with the new ones. Your site will reflect the change without any modification to your HTML.

    System requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later
  • 1-GHz G4, G5, or Intel-based Mac
  • 512 MB of RAM
  • Flash Player v9.0.45 or above
  • Internet connection required for registration and online publishing.
  • Visit the Aquafadas Site to see BannerZest in action, and for more info.

    Aug 14

    Cheetah3D
    3D modeling, rendering and animation
    Weekend ZOT Preview below

    Normally: $149.00

    ZOT Price: $79.00

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    Modeling:
    Cheetah3D provides a comprehensive set of polygon, spline and surface subdivision modelling tools, which allow to to model almost everything you can imagine. The modeling tools are completed with a full set of UV editing and unwrapping tools and basic texture painting tools. Last but not least, you can create complex mathematical objects using the easy to learn Javascript API

    Rendering:
    Cheetah3D offers a fully integrated multi-threaded raytracer with support for radiosity, caustics, HDRI backgrounds, ambient occlusion, anisotropic texture filtering, bump mapping, environment mapping, reflections, refractions, soft shadows, and more. Photorealistic renderings are just a mouse click away.

    Animation:
    With Cheetah3D, you can also animate your 3D scenes without any problems. Almost every object, tag and material parameter can be animated! Furthermore Cheetah3D offers a full set of joint based character animation tool and support for morphing.

    Build of Mac OS X:
    Cheetah3D has been written FROM THE GROUND UP for Mac OS X using Cocoa. Its not just a simple port of some Windows or Linux modeller which ends up looking, feeling and behaving like a disappointingly un-Mac-like piece of software. With Cheetah3D, you will feel right at home using it without having to learn a completely new user interface.

    Reviews:
    “… Cheetah3D is a unique alternative, providing a fairly comprehensive set of 3D modeling, animation, and rendering tools with a highly intuitive interface at a bargain price …” (Mac|Life Magazine (USA) Vol. 12/2007)

    “… Cheetah3D is a perfect choice for 3D novices, students, and anyone else looking to expand their dimensions. With its clean interface, tool selection, and performance, it’s worth every penny. …” (Mac|Life Magazine (USA) Vol. 12/2007)

    “… The big guns could learn a thing or two from this well-appointed, easy-to-use animation suite, complete with multi-processor rendering …” (3D World Magazine Vol. 92)

    Images created with Cheetah3D:

    System requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.4.x or 10.5.x
  • G4/G5/Intel
  • 512 MByte RAM
  • 16 MByte VRAM

    Click to Developer’s Site for more info.


    This weekend’s ZOT? – BannerZest August 16th & 17th.

    Hassle free Banner Animation software Enliven your website or blogs in seconds with BannerZest. It’s the fastest and easiest way to add punch and movement to your still images online, and get professional-looking slideshows. BannerZest’s Flash-based animations require zero understanding of Flash. Everything has been pre-integrated into BannerZest, allowing you to be up and running- or rather, scrolling, popping and rolling!- in no time.

    Learn more about BannerZest

  • Aug 13

    NoteList

    Normally: $20.00

    ZOT Price: $11.95

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    Where do you keep your million dollar ideas?

    Try NoteList!

    NoteList allows you to store notes in a free format using text and images with full word processing capabilities. It is simple and effective. Use it and you will love it.

    NoteList is based on a list of notes on the left and the content of the selected note on the right. To access a note inside NoteList just click the name of the note on the left and have the content available on the right.

    Multiple notes are inside a single NoteList compact document. A document can store an unlimited number of notes. You can open an unlimited number of documents with an unlimited number of note inside and with an unlimited number of categories to better manage your notes!

    Notes are syncronized with characteristics of the assigned category. Editing a category changes all the notes using it in real time. Categories can be used to filter notes and better browse all your info.

    Notes can be stored and edited using formatted text with font size style and images that can be imported via copy and paste and via drag and drop.

    NoteList adapts itself to your needs. You can choose to have your preferred document opened at launch time without having to browse files on disk to access your most used notes. Obviously, you can open as many documents as you like.

    Browsing all your notes is easy, you can navigate inside any NoteList document using the mouse or the keyboard. If you’d like, you can navigate and copy notes using only the keyboard.

    The Show Category popup and the search field allow you to search for notes inside a document in a snap.

    As long as you select a category form the popup, the list adapts itself to filter only the requested category. And if you use the search field, the matching notes are filtered as you type (no pressing of return required) for an immediate feedback of your input.

    It’s simple, but very effective. It’s a great way to store frequently accessed data that you need to have ready to copy and paste in other documents. Or for other information such as checklists that are not structured in a way that make them suitable for inserting into a database but that you need to keep at your fingertips!

    NoteList is a standard Cocoa application.

    Some ways to use NoteList to keep information organized and close at hand

  • Store company or work data you frequently need to copy and paste
  • Store bank account data you need to send to others for wire transfer payments
  • Organize to do lists regarding specific tasks
  • Create and save templates for emails you send
  • Keep price lists copied from the net
  • A place to save your thoughts, dreams, ideas, positive affirmations
  • Track data
  • Keep temporary data you need to keep for a short time before deleting it
  • Reminders
  • and more…. .
  • You’ll quickly discover how NoteList can improve your workflow, and keep your notes easily organized.

    All the content of the notes inside any NoteList document is Spotlight enabled and searchable from outside NoteList using the Spotlight menu under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and successive. It doesn’t requires a plugin to be installed in a separate place of your hard disk to work with Spotlight because the Spotlight technology is inside the application itself.

    NoteList make full use of advanced features in Mac OS X and requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
    For more information, visit www.pomola.com.

    Aug 12

    SplashShopper
    The Ultimate List Manager for Mac Desktop. Sync with iPhone version!

    Normally: $19.95

    ZOT Price: $9.95

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    Buy 1 item

    We’re celebrating the launch of Apple’s App Store for iPhone and iPod touch with a special offer on SplashShopper. The best-selling smart list manager for smartphones, PDAs, and desktops now works with your iPhone and iPod touch! Get the special iPhone-compatible Mac desktop version here for half price, then go to the App Store and get SplashShopper for your iPhone or iPod touch device!

    SplashShopper is the ultimate smart list manager for your Mac Desktop. Manage your lists of groceries, gifts, to do items, wines, music, movies, and more! Track prices and locations. Easily manage and synchronize lists between the Mac desktop software and the mobile version for iPhone and iPod touch, available on the app store.

    Key Features:

  • Create an unlimited number of shopping lists each with different categories, custom fields and icons
  • Assign Items to multiple stores & track per-store prices
  • Create cross-platform vShop files for sharing customized SplashShopper lists with other users
  • Sync wirelessly with your SplashShopper for iPhone
  • Go to the developer’s site to learn more about SplashShopper!
  • Supported Platforms: *Mac OS 10.4 or later *iPhone or iPod touch OS 2.0 or later
  • Warning: This version of SplashShopper will work only if the user has SplashShopper for iPhone!

    If you want the standalone Desktop version of SplashShopper, please see the other offer page!

    Aug 11

    Theseus and the Minotaur

    Normally: $19.95

    ZOT Price: $9.95

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    Play one of the world’s most famous maze games!

    In Theseus and the Minotaur, you must guide Theseus through 87 mind twisting labyrinths to escape the dangerous Minotaur.

    Playing Theseus and the Minotaur

    In 1990, famous game designer, Robert Abbott, created this puzzle maze based on the Theseus legend. Playing the maze is quite simple, but solving each unique level requires a sharp mind. You must escape each maze before the Minotaur catches you. The Minotaur is twice as fast as you are, but luckily, he moves in a predictable pattern.

    The key to solving these mazes is to realize that a Minotaur follows a rigid program. He doesn’t do what you would do if you were a Minotaur. He doesn’t look ahead more than one turn. And, most importantly, he will choose a horizontal move before a vertical move.

    Features:

  • 87 unique levels
  • Great brain training puzzles
  • Make your own mazes
  • Intuitive and easy to use interface
  • No time-limit pressure
  • Theseus and the Minotaur is made by the indie-game developer Kristanix Games. For more information, please visit it’s website.

    System Requirements

    Mac OS 10.3.9+
    1 Ghz Processor
    128 MB Memory

    Aug 10

    Dragoman
    Convert files with ease!

    Normally: $29.99

    ZOT Price: $12.99

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    Whether you’re a music lover, a graphic designer, digital photographer, office worker, or any kind of Mac user – Dragoman is an indispensable tool for your Mac. It easily and quickly converts images, photos, music and sound files, text documents and archive files from one format to another.

    Dragoman can convert:

    Music and sound files
    You downloaded some music files but you can’t listen to them? Try feeding them to Dragoman and convert them to something your music player can play! Popular music and sound formats including MP3, iTunes MPEG-4 AAC, Ogg, Vorbis, FLAC, Wave and many, many more

    Images Convert thousands of images with Dragoman in one shot. Dragoman handles all your favorite image formats including PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF. All popular image formats from JPEG, over PDF, to TIFF, PNG and many more.

    Digital camera photos. Do you have digital camera photos that you need to convert to JPEG? Dragoman supports all popular digital cameras and preserves your EXIF data. Reads common raw digital camera formats such as those of Canon, Kodak, Sony, Nikon, Olympus and Fuji cameras

    Text documentsText documents are a great way to share information, but often the documents are not in the right format. Dragoman makes it easy to convert your text documents to the right format. Common text document formats including simple Microsoft Word documents, Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML, Safari Webarchive and plain text

    Archives You just received a RAR file that you need to convert to ZIP for your boss? Or you just downloaded a StuffIt file and would like to have it compressed with 7zip? Let Dragoman handle the conversion for you. Archive formats such as Zip, Rar, StuffIt, DMG and 7zip.

    Thanks to its light-weight, intuitive interface, Dragoman that lets you convert thousands of files with just a drag and drop.

    Converting files is easy in Dragoman:

    1 Drag in the files you want to convert
    2 Pick a new format
    3 Drag the converted files out

    Dragoman requires!! Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and runs on both Intel and PowerPC.

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