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Feb 26

GeoWiz Campaign Manager

A simple, powerful way to raise money for your booster club.
Plus $1 per sale for You!

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Normally: $39.99

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Feb 23

RapidWeaver Classroom Bundle

This is your “A-HA! That’s how it’s done!” moment. Get your web design questions answered, and have some fun, too!

Normally: $59.94

ZOT Price: $29.97

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For years, RapidWeaver has been one of the Mac’s best web design apps, but 2012 is shaping-up to be the greatest year in its existence, and it will be hard to argue that there is anything better. New developers and new add-ons have extended RapidWeaver’s functionality to levels never seen before — it is an exciting time and building awesome websites is easier than ever! RapidWeaver Classroom has spent 4 years training RapidWeaver users all over the world — helping them understand the available tools, and how to effectively use them. If you haven’t looked at RapidWeaver lately, or have never seen it before, now is the time!

Get 60 days of access to EVERY video offered at RapidWeaver Classroom!

What do you get with a RapidWeaver Classroom Combined Subscription?

  • 60 Days of UNLIMITED access to BOTH the RapidWeaver Classroom & Grad School curriculums
  • More than 350 unique tutorials
  • Step-by-step instruction on every detail of RapidWeaver
  • Over 50 tutorials on RapidWeaver 5
  • Over 200 tutorials on 3rd-party plugins and stacks – Updated for Stacks 2!
  • Over 70 advanced Grad School tutorials
  • Receive discounts of 10-20% on 3rd-party themes and stacks
  • Quickly gain the confidence to create your own professional website

Click here to view the complete RapidWeaver Classroom curriculum, and click here to view the complete Grad School curriculum.

Feb 22

MathMagic Personal Edition + 1-year Free upgrade

The ultimate Equation Editor on the Planet!
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MathMagic Personal Edition + 1-year Free upgrade, for Mac OS X


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MathMagic is an easy-to-use and powerful equation editor for a broad range of users, from Novice to Professional.

If you are a student, teacher, professor, tech writer, engineer, researcher, editor, contents developer, or a human being, you will have to deal with some equations and scientific symbols, from time to time. – You will find MathMagic eases your life whether or not you are good at Math.

How it works


MathMagic Personal Edition is a stand-alone equation editor application.

You run MathMagic, write any equation or symbol in the editor window fast and easily via keyboard or palettes, or typing TeX expressions or pasting LaTeX or MathML from other editor.

Then, you can bring the beautiful equation to other applications and documents, via Copy&Paste, Drag&Drop, or Export in PDF, PICT, PNG, JPEG, GIF, LaTeX, Plain TeX, MathML, Wiki equation, and more.
MathMagic even comes with Text-To-Speech to read out your equations and symbols in a voice as you read equation by the math notation. Or, you can copy it out as a normal English sentence. This can be useful when learning how to read math.

Since MathMagic is built on top of TeX-like powerful equation formatting engine and WYSIWYG editor, you get the high quality equations on both screen display and various outputs.

Thousands of large publishers around the world are relying on MathMagic to publish their Text books and technical publications.

You can also re-edit those equations by pasting back to MathMagic’s editor window.

MathMagic also read various foreign equations, such as MathType equation, Google Docs equation, MS Word equation, Wiki equation, via Drag and Drop or Copy and Paste.

MathMagic comes with a powerful Batch conversion feature as well as Macros for a convenient file naming.
MathMagic can batch-convert one or more file formats into another format among MathMagic supported formats.
MathMagic can read Microsoft Word documents(.doc, .docx) and extract all equations(created with MathMagic, MS Equation Editor or MathType) and other graphic objects out of the documents and convert to other formats as well.

Where it works

MathMagic equation works well with

  • Word processors, such as iWork Pages and Numbers, AppleWorks, Nisus Writer, Mellel.
  • Presentation software, such as Apple iBooks Author, Keynote, PowerPoint.
  • Layout or graphic software, such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, Illustrator, Photoshop.
  • Google Docs, Zoho Writers, Wiki pages, and othe web applications, using LaTeX or Wiki TeX.
  • Others, such as OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, or various 3rd party TeX editors, MathML/XML applications.

via Copy&Paste, Drag&Drop, Export in PICT/PDF/PNG/JPEG/TeX/MathML/Speech text.

Why MathMagic?

What you get

  • MathMagic Personal Edition for Mac OS X, with 1-year Free upgrade and Free tech support during the period
  • After the Free upgrade period, you use the last version of MathMagic Personal Edition continuously.
  • You can install the License on up to 2(two) computers – for example, one Desktop and one Laptop, if they are owned and used by you.

What MathMagic users say…




System Requirements

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, including 10.8 Mountain Lion
  • Intel Macs
  • Universal Binary build available separately for PowerPC users

External Links


MathMagic Home
MathMagic Mac Screen Shots
MathMagic Customer Support


Whenever equations are the question,
MathMagic is the magic answer.

[Math+Magic], MathMagic, MathMagic Personal Edition, MathMagic Pro Edition, MathMagic Prime Edition, MathMagic logo, InfoLogic logo, and InfoLogic are trademarks or registered trademarks of InfoLogic, Inc.
Other trademarks may be the properties of their respective owners.


Feb 21

Ruby on Rails 3

Your complete video guided tour of modern Rails web development!
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Normally: $129.00

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Ruby on Rails™ 3 Tutorial is your complete video guided tour of modern Rails web development!

Top Rails expert and author Michael Hartl walks you through the entire Rails development process: installing and setting up Rails, designing Rails applications with MVC and REST, building dynamic pages, coding effectively in Ruby, implementing registration and authentication, adding social features, even testing and deployment.

Just watch and learn: You’ll find expert insight, modern best practices, and step-by-step instructions for solving real-world problems.

  • Video courses that are organized into short, self-contained lessons–you’ll learn key skills in under an hour
  • Track your progress as you follow clearly defined learning objectives
  • Follow along as your instructor shows exactly how to get great results in your real-world environment

    Watch top Rails developer Michael Hartl guide you through the process of building a complete Rails 3 web application using today’s best practices for MVC and REST design, layout, Ruby coding, security, testing, deployment, and more;

    Master core Rails concepts, including the Model View Controller design pattern;
    Learn how to master key Rails techniques, including REST, security, data modeling, messaging and more;

    Also covers RSS, search, caching, social features, performance, testing, refactoring, and real-world deployment.

    By Michael Hartl
    Programmer, Author, Educator, and Entrepreneur

    Ruby on Rails Tutorial creator Michael Hartl is a programmer, educator, and entrepreneur. Michael was coauthor of RailsSpace, a Rails tutorial book published in 2007, and was cofounder and lead developer of Insoshi, a popular social networking platform in Ruby on Rails. Previously, he taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. Michael is a graduate of Harvard College, has a Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech, and is an alumnus of the Y Combinator entrepreneur program.

    Click to www.udemy.com for more info.

    macZOT asks Dan Murphy of Udemy:

    Why should our users BUY Udemy videos when they can find so much FREE stuff on YouTube/Vimeo etc etc etc…?
    You get what you pay for. These are 5-10hrs of guided tutorial, so at the end of the course you have really learnt something. You just can’t get that off YouTube.

    What is the refund policy on the course?
    We like to keep our users happy, so we have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy. Send an email to support@udemy.com for refund requests.

    How did Udemy get started?
    It was started by 3 co-founders that wanted to make good education available/affordable to everyone

    What have been 3 of your most popular courses? Why?
    Ruby, iOS and PHP……people want to learn to code and iOS is always popular.

    Will these courses pay for themselves in the long run?
    Like any knowledge it depends on what you do with it. But yes the content in these courses can be used as a starting point into a career in web/app development space

    Can I really make my own Udemy course? How?
    You sure can. Simply go to udemy.com and click the ‘create a course’ button at the top left of the screen and follow you nose =)

    How long do I have access to the course materials?

    You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

    Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
    Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!

    About Udemy

    Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.

    Ruby on Rails 3 will be available through March 7th via a link on this page.

    Click to www.udemy.com for more info.


  • Feb 14

    How to Make iPhone Apps

    A Step-By-Step, Three-Day iPhone and iPad Programming Course From a Professional Programmer
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    Normally: $197.00

    ZOT Price: $87.00

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    ★★★★★Worth every penny!!!
    Written by Itay Gal 1 month ago


    If it is hard for you to decide if spending this amount of money on this course is the right thing to do then as you already read in the title IT IS! I had my doubts if taking this course and struggled for a few days with a lot of other tutorials on the net, after this few days i felt really lost and before i gave up i decided to give this course a try, and it just put me on the right track in a few hours. the explanations are detailed and in simple english (I’m not a native english speaker). When i had some questions i wrote the instructor an email and got helpful and quick answer, and Shawn even created a new session that explains the topic Shawn suggested using for the solution of my problem. So Thank you Shawn for this course and answers.”

    More reviews…

    Click for Course Materials and What you’ll Learn

    This is the three-day course I teach to businesses who want to teach their programmers how to do iPhone programming.

    You will save time and you’ll learn quickly with this course!

    Cost of the Live Course

    The live course I teach is customized to the particular business’ programmer needs. This video course is more generic, but still teaches the fundamentals of that class.  

    I charge businesses $3,000 per programmer for the customized, live-course.  

    Requirements

    This course requires an Apple Macintosh computer that has OSX Lion installed. 

    You’ll need to install the Xcode software.  We have a free tutorial on how to do this.

    Don’t have a mac?  Don’t want to buy one yet?

    You can rent a mac here (~$20/month):  

    http://www.macincloud.com/

    Who is this course for?

    You should be familiar with programming and Object-Oriented Programming. 

    Results and Goals

    I have taught this material to programmers and they have quickly been productive for their companies. I understand that the price of this course seems high.  These concepts and the material presented here have been developed over the past 3 years.

    By taking advantage of these video courses that start from the basics, using a see-and-do model, you should quickly learn by doing.  If anything, you will be learning ahead of the ‘standard learning’ curve for new iPhone programmers.  

    BEAT THE LEARNING CURVE

    Even though I am a professional software developer, who has been developing commercial software since high school, it took 6 months of reading iPhone programmer books and creating iPhone apps to ‘get it’.  

    FAST TRACK YOURSELF TO A PUBLISHED APP

    Programmers I have taught this material to, have beaten this learning curve by months. You will save time, which is money… you could be making on apps!  I am sure you will ‘get it’ quickly, through this video course as well.  

    I envy you and the investment you have made in yourself and your future career in iPhone app development.  This course will bootstrap you and enable you to be productive quickly as an iPhone app developer.  I’ll lead you by the hand from the basics to a published app in the app store.  

    Cheers to your success,

    Shawn Arney – professional iOS Developer and trainer 

    Questions And Help During the Course?

    Send questions about any video or topic to: Shawn@LearnApps.org



    Mike Biskup asks Dan Murphy of Udemy:

    Why should our users BUY Udemy videos when they can find so much FREE stuff on YouTube/Vimeo etc etc etc…?
    You get what you pay for. These are 5-10hrs of guided tutorial, so at the end of the course you have really learnt something. You just can’t get that off YouTube.

    What is the refund policy on the course?
    We like to keep our users happy, so we have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy. Send an email to support@udemy.com for refund requests.

    How did Udemy get started?
    It was started by 3 co-founders that wanted to make good education available/affordable to everyone

    What have been 3 of your most popular courses? Why?
    Ruby, iOS and PHP……people want to learn to code and iOS is always popular.

    Will these courses pay for themselves in the long run?
    Like any knowledge it depends on what you do with it. But yes the content in these courses can be used as a starting point into a career in web/app development space

    Can I really make my own Udemy course? How?
    You sure can. Simply go to udemy.com and click the ‘create a course’ button at the top left of the screen and follow you nose =)

    How long do I have access to the course materials?

    You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

    Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
    Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!

    About Udemy

    Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.

    Click to Udemy’s Site for more info.

    Feb 08

    MockupScreens

    Quick and Easy Screen Prototypes for Software Developers and more…
    At a REALLY great price ONLY for ZOT.

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    Normally: $99.95

    ZOT Price: $29.95

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    Create five screens in ten minutes without any programming knowledge or prior training!

    Create quick screen prototypes and experiment interactively with your clients, quickly visualizing scenarios of your application, even before the coding has started.

    Make effective presentations by showing screens to your customers, and getting valuable feedback from them.

    Improve project communication by bridging the gap between clients and developers, using MockupScreens to visualize the application being built.

    Build better systems by clearly understanding your users’ needs. MockupScreens makes it easy to turn abstract ideas into a detailed prototype.

    Satisfy your customers by building on user feedback and managing user expectations, using MockupScreens to demonstrate the design and function of the system.

    Get better results by staying focused and avoiding rework, using MockupScreens to clarify requirements and set the priorities right

    As Seen on MSDN Magazine:


    “MockupScreens makes creating wireframe screens and organizing them into scenarios as simple as pointing and clicking.”

    Switch between Mac, Black and white or Windows skin for your mock-ups.


    Make comments right on the screens and print meeting-ready documentation.

    For Independent Consultants…

    If you are independent consultant or developer, then MockupScreens allows you to prepare bids and proposals much more quickly than you can do today. If you can develop and submit an additional proposal every three months, this piece of software will pay for itself immediately.

    Or if You Work for a Corporate IT Department!

    And if you work for a corporate IT department, then MockupScreens avoids misunderstandings and expensive development projects that result in the wrong system being developed. And we are talking about tiny fraction of the cost of project development!

    Understand Your Customer:

    Once the requirements have been gathered, take the easy route and test your grasp of the users’ needs by presenting them with the one thing they understand best. Give them a visual representation of the screens that they’ll actually use when the new system is installed. MockupScreens lets you show them what you believe they need, in terms that they’ll understand. Users will have an opportunity to tell you what they REALLY want, before program development begins.

    Get Better Software Requirements!

    Misunderstandings are costly in software development. If you are not careful, you could find yourself aiming at a moving target while scope creeps up on you or even end up building an application that nobody needs or wants. The right thing to do is to use prototypes as a tool to show you where you are wrong – immediately.

    Ensure Your Team’s Success!

    Many top-notch software development teams don’t have system analysts on board. The task of developing the requirements often falls to the programmer who has the best communication skills. With developers, users, and management speaking their own special languages, there are many opportunities to “get it wrong”.

    You can ensure your success by creating and presenting visual prototypes, including screen shots or screen mockups. Mockupscreens lets you speed your way through the creation of visual prototypes. You don’t need to be an artist to create clear, stunning screens with MockupScreens.



    “Instant productivity! It is so easy that I can prototype realtime in a meeting.”
    - Laura Arlov, author of GUI Design for Dummies

    “MockupScreens helped me do a better job at helping my customer understand what they’re going to get.”
    - Sean Winstead, Director, Surehand Inc.

    Loads of other GREAT testimonials on the MockupScreens site…

    System Requirements: It works on Lion, Snow Leopard and Leopard. It reportedly does work on older systems but they are not officially supported. Installer size is 49MB.

    Need More Info?

    For much more details along with more screenshots, short video demo and discounted multiple license packages
    click here to go to the MockupScreens website.

    What are you waiting for? Start creating screens right away!

    Jan 31

    Ruby Programming for Beginners

    Learn to code in Ruby in ten easy steps!

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    Normally: $250.00

    ZOT Price: $87.00

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    ★★★★★

    great so far
    Written by Aditya Agarwal 3 months ago -

    I only just started the course – am on chapter 3. At different points in the last 10 years or so I have tried understanding object oriented programing (I had some exposure to sequential programing earlier in life). Each time – I struggled to understand the concepts. For the first time ever I think I am beginning to get a hang of this… thanks!

    Ruby is famous for being easy to learn, but most users only scratch the surface of what it can do. While some books and tutorials focus on Ruby’s trendier features, this course reveals the secret inner workings of one of the world’s most popular programming languages, teaching you to write clear, maintainable code.

    Rather than bog you down with a lot of theory, this course takes a hands-on approach and focuses on making you productive from day one.

    Whether you’re new to programming or just new Ruby, this course is your guide to rapid, real-world software development with this unique and elegant language.

    Who uses Ruby?

    Ruby is an incredibly powerful and highly scalable object-oriented language. Leading technology companies & startups around the world use Ruby or the Ruby on Rails framework to power their websites & web applications. They include:

    • Amazon
    • Twitter
    • Electronic Arts
    • Yahoo
    • New York Times
    • 37 Signals
    • And many many more…

    What’s in this course…

    • 27 video lectures detailing the ten steps to becoming an awesome Rubyist
    • Free eBook The Little Book of Ruby and exclusive discount for The (Big) Book of Ruby
    • Downloadable source codes and sample test files to compliment lectures
    • 5 extra videos detailing Ruby on Rails, Symbols, Recursion, and other challenges

      About your instructor

      Huw Collingbourne

      Director of Technology,

      Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software (http://www.sapphiresteel.com/), developers of the “Ruby In Steel” Ruby and Rails IDE for Visual Studio and the “Amethyst” IDE for the Adobe Flash Platform. He is author of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press.

      Huw has been a programmer for more than 30 years. He is a well-known technology writer in the UK and has written numerous opinion and programming columns (including tutorials on C#, Delphi, Java, Smalltalk, and Ruby) for a number of computer magazines, such as Computer Shopper, Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine, PC Pro, and PC Plus. He is the author of the free ebook The Little Book of Ruby and is the editor of the online computing magazine Bitwise (http://www.bitwisemag.com/).

      In the 1980s he was a pop music journalist and interviewed most of the New Romantic stars, such as Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Adam Ant, Boy George, and Depeche Mode. He is now writing a series of New Romantic murder mysteries.

      At various times Huw has been a magazine publisher, editor, and TV broadcaster. He has an MA in English from the University of Cambridge and holds a 2nd dan black belt in aikido. The aikido comes in useful when trying (usually unsuccessfully) to keep his Pyrenean Mountain Dogs under some semblance of control.

      Mike Biskup asks Dan Murphy of Udemy:

      Why should our users BUY Udemy videos when they can find so much FREE stuff on YouTube/Vimeo etc etc etc…?
      You get what you pay for. These are 5-10hrs of guided tutorial, so at the end of the course you have really learnt something. You just can’t get that off YouTube.

      What is the refund policy on the course?
      We like to keep our users happy, so we have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy. Send an email to support@udemy.com for refund requests.

      How did Udemy get started?
      It was started by 3 co-founders that wanted to make good education available/affordable to everyone

      What have been 3 of your most popular courses? Why?
      Ruby, iOS and PHP……people want to learn to code and iOS is always popular.

      Will these courses pay for themselves in the long run?
      Like any knowledge it depends on what you do with it. But yes the content in these courses can be used as a starting point into a career in web/app development space

      Can I really make my own Udemy course? How?
      You sure can. Simply go to udemy.com and click the ‘create a course’ button at the top left of the screen and follow you nose =)

      How long do I have access to the course materials?

      You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

      Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
      Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!

      About Udemy

      Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.

      Ruby Programming for Beginners will be available through Feb 15th via a link on this page.

      Click to www.udemy.com for more info.


    Jan 24

    Web Development Code Camp

    Work as a Professional Web Developer… All the Coding Skills You Need in One Convenient Course!
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    Normally: $199.00

    ZOT Price: $87.00

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    Work as a Professional Web Developer… All the Coding Skills You Need in One Convenient Course!

    Check out this sample…

    Contents:

    1: HTML Ch 1: Welcome To HTML
    2: HTML Ch 2: Text Markup
    3: HTML Ch 3: Working with Lists
    4: HTML Ch 4: Creating HTML Links
    5: HTML Ch 5: Working with Images and Media
    6: HTML Ch 6: HTML Tables
    6: HTML Ch 6: HTML Tables
    8: HTML Ch 8: Understanding the CSS Box Model
    9: HTML Ch 9: CSS Based Page Layout
    10: Javascript Ch 1: Hello Javascript!
    11: Javascript Ch 2: Storing Information in Variables
    12: Javascript Ch 3: Conditional Statements
    13: Javascript Ch 4: Dialog Boxes
    14: Javascript Ch 5: Now We’re Iterating! Loops in Javascript
    15: Javascript Ch 6: Coding Javascript Functions
    16: Javascript Ch 7: Working With Arrays
    17: Javascript Ch 8: The String Object
    18: Javascript Ch 9: Obtaining and Manipulating User Information
    19: Javascript Ch 10: The Document Object
    20: PHP mySQL Ch 1: Your First PHP Scripts
    21: PHP mySQL Ch 2: Variables
    22: PHP mySQL Ch 3: Arrays
    23: PHP mySQL Ch 4: Conditionals
    24: PHP mySQL Ch 5: Loops
    25: PHP mySQL Ch 6: Custom PHP Functions
    26: PHP mySQL Ch 7: Server File I/O
    27: PHP mySQL Ch 8: Sending Email with PHP
    28: PHP mySQL Ch 9: Working with the mySQL Database
    29: PHP mySQL Ch 10: Useful PHP Classes and Objects


    “Mark is truly amazing! I don’t think that I have worked with a more skilled and polished trainer/presenter. His ability to make the difficult seem easy and the complex seem simple is unmatched by anyone else that I have had the opportunity to work with. He is a star among experts and it shows on screen. Another amazing ability the Mark has is his ability to develop courseware. I don’t know if there is anything that Mark can’t do!”

    - Ammon Wiese

    Click to www.udemy.com for more info.

    About your instructor

    Mark Lassoff

    Corporate Technical Trainer

    LearnToProgram.tv is a leading corporate technical training firm. LearnToProgram.tv provides training for software, web and mobile developers world wide. Our courses have taken place at Fortune 500 companies, training centers and Federal Government organizations. Now on Udemy, you can experience the same great instruction that you get in one of our classroom sessions– at a small fraction of the price.

    About Mark– The Guy Behind LearnToProgram.tv

    Mark Lassoff’s parents frequently claim that he was born to be a programmer. In the mid-eighties, when the neighborhood kids were outside playing kickball and throwing snowballs, Mark was hard at work on his Commodore 64 writing games in the BASIC programming language. Computers and programming continued to be a strong interest in college where Mark majored in Communications and Computer Science. After completing his college career, Mark worked in the software and web development departments at several large corporations.

    In 2001, on a whim, while his contemporaries were conquering the dot com world, Mark accepted a position training programmers in a technical training center in Austin, Texas. It was there that Mark fell in love with teaching programming, which has been his passion ever since. Today Mark is a top technical trainer, traveling the country providing training for software and web developers. Mark’s training clients include the Department of Defense, Lockheed Martin, Discover Card Services, and Kaiser Permanente. He has consulted for companies such as Dell, Target, Lockheed Martin, and government agencies including the US House of Representatives. In addition to traditional classroom training and consulting, Mark releases video tutorial training for aspiring programmers on his website, www.LearnToProgram.tv and Udemy.com.

    He lives near Hartford, Connecticut where he is in the process of redecorating his condominium.

    Mike Biskup asks Dan Murphy of Udemy:

    Why should our users BUY Udemy videos when they can find so much FREE stuff on YouTube/Vimeo etc etc etc…?
    You get what you pay for. These are 5-10hrs of guided tutorial, so at the end of the course you have really learnt something. You just can’t get that off YouTube.

    How did Udemy get started?
    It was started by 3 co-founders that wanted to make good education available/affordable to everyone

    What have been 3 of your most popular courses? Why?
    Ruby, iOS and PHP……people want to learn to code and iOS is always popular.

    Will these courses pay for themselves in the long run?
    Like any knowledge it depends on what you do with it. But yes the content in these courses can be used as a starting point into a career in web/app development space

    Can I really make my own Udemy course? How?
    You sure can. Simply go to udemy.com and click the ‘create a course’ button at the top left of the screen and follow you nose =)

    How long do I have access to the course materials?

    You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

    What is the refund policy on the course?
    We like to keep our users happy, so we have a 30-day no questions asked refund policy. Send an email to support@udemy.com for refund requests.

    Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?
    Definitely! If you have an internet connection, courses on Udemy are available on any device at any time. If you don’t have an internet connection, some instructors also let their students download course lectures. That’s up to the instructor though, so make sure you get on their good side!

    About Udemy

    Udemy enables anyone to take and build courses online. Our goal is to disrupt and democratize education by enabling anyone to learn from the world’s experts.

    Web Development Code Camp will be available through Feb 8th via a link on this page.

    Click to www.udemy.com for more info.


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    Jan 13

    AppStar 2

    Intelligence for your App Store Business

    Normally: $49.95

    ZOT Price: $24.95

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    It’s time to focus on your added value: create applications and develop your App Store business, instead of worrying about your accounts.

    AppStar 2 is the business analytics solution you need to easily and efficiently manage your Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch app sales.

    Access your products or regional sales data in a few clicks, keep all your resources, rankings and reviews at your fingertips, follow up on your competitors, get instant snapshots of the money Apple owes you, and easily reconcile your payments.

    AppStar 2 compiles your iTunes Connect reports automatically. It presents your Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch app sales data in a user-friendly dashboard:

    • Get an instant overview of revenue generated on the App Store.
    • Visualize splits among sales, upgrades, downloads and refunds.
    • Analyze sales generated by region, country or product, and see which of your apps are best sellers at a glance.

    You can choose to view your sales data in the currency of your choice among the 64 currencies managed by AppStar 2. You can also customize the period displayed: daily, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or the precise period of your choice.

    Financial stats

    Keeping track of payments can be complex… unless you’re using AppStar 2.

    AppStar 2 instantly processes the financial data Apple sends you and presents it in an easy-to-use visual display. With just a glance at AppStar 2, you can see region-by-region data for:

    • Financial reports sent by Apple
    • Processed payments
    • Pending payments

    To manage your financial data effectively and easily, try AppStar 2 now!

    Resources

    Keep all your application resources at your fingertips:

    • Store, in one place, all your product descriptions and screenshots per version, language and country.
    • Access your App Store product page directly per product and publisher.
    • Follow up on your competitors’ activity: prices, categories, languages, screenshots, texts, reviews, rankings, etc.
    • Compare your rankings with those of your competitors.

    You can store all your marketing materials, and those of your competitors, in one place. You can instantly access all the marketing information you need to improve your software and your business.

    Rankings

    How do your applications perform compared to those of your competitors?

    • Access your live rankings and those of your competitors – up to level 300.
    • Compare per category and/or per country.
    • Customize which applications you want to compare, up to 100 iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch apps.
    • Follow history across the period of your choice and instantly view trends.

    AppStar 2 provides you an instant snapshot of how your applications and those of your competitors are perceived!

    Reviews

    Selling your products worldwide requires that you be present in more than 90 App Stores; you also need to manage what customers say in all those stores.

    AppStar 2 gives you instant access to what users say about your applications!

    • Access all reviews in one place.
    • Sort by reviews you have read or not.
    • Filter positive or negative reviews, by version and country.
    • While the App Store doesn’t allow you to copy and paste reviews, you can do this with AppStar 2: use powerful customer comments to improve product descriptions and convince partners.

    Thanks to AppStar 2, save time managing your reviews. Be more effective in managing customer comments.

    Competition monitoring

    AppStar 2 is not only the tool you need to efficiently manage your sales and financial assets; it is also a very powerful tool to follow what your competitors are doing:

    • Keep an eye on the way competitors describe their apps.
    • Stay up-to-date on their price positioning.
    • Get an instant grasp of what consumers are saying about their apps and the rankings they give.

    Spying on your competitors has never been this easy. Stay ahead of the curve: try AppStar 2 now!

    Testimonials

    “With version 2.0 of AppStar, the author has addressed (and addressed well) my only criticism of the app’s past version: At its new price, AppStar is a fantastic tool for any serious App store developer. [...] I’ve already purchased the app at its new price, [...]. It truly is a beautiful piece of software. Thanks!” — Veryvito

    “I was looking for a simple application that would collect all the financial information regarding the sales of our game Roto and I couldn’t find anything that ticked all the boxes. AppStart is simple to use, looks good and does what I need. What more could I want?” — Jean-Yves Avenard • CEO, Hydrix

    “AppStar is an essential reporting tool for mTrip, which offers 20 applications in over 80 different App Stores. AppStar is a simple and easy-to-use tool, offering advanced features for financial consolidation and trend analysis.” — Frederic de Pardieu • CEO, mTrip

    “AppStar is the tool that each iOS/MAC developer needs to monitor its sells, downloads, ranks and revenues. Moreover, the Damabia Team is very reactive when you request for supports and updates are released very often to improve the application. I like and I recommend!” — Cyrille Démare – CEO, Ebots

    “With 500+ apps on iTunes, AppStar saved “my life” and gave me all the visibility on the sales I could dream of.” — Claudia Zimmer • CEO, AveComics.com

    Code delivery: After the ZOT Damabia Software will generate serials based on your email. You will receive your serial within 24 hours of the end of this ZOT. The Demo for AppStar 2 is Fully Functional for 10 days.

    SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

    AppStar 2 requires Mac OS X v. 10.6 or later and an iTunes Connect account.

    It’s time to do some serious business; it’s time to use AppStar 2.

    Click to Developer’s Site for more info.



    Dec 27

    Mellel

    A powerful, reliable word processor, and a long time favorite with writers and scholars, for long document writing.

    Normally: $39.00

    ZOT Price: $19.00

    Click to MacZOT Try Now  



    Mellel is a powerful and reliable word processor for people who are serious about writing. Mellel was designed to allow you to create long and sophisticated documents – from a book to a dissertation… or just a letter to your aunt (she’s on Facebook, though).

    Do not let Mellel’s speedy launch, nimble performance, or humble footprint mislead you – there are no bells and whistles, but there is power. In fact, we’ll openly claim: Mellel is the most powerful word processor for the Mac OS.

    Your documents should look the way you want them to look

    Looks matter, and Mellel has no competitors when it comes to controlling the way your document looks and creating consistent, predictable, and beautiful looking results.Consistency and predictability are the most important things when dealing with text and images.

    In Mellel, flexibility when setting columns or text does not come at the expense of of getting the results you want to get: Images with text flowing around them stay where you set them to stay, columns stay balanced, and headings don’t go strolling down the page just for fun. Looks matter, consistency matters even more.

    And stay in control. Get your documents in order, and keep them ordered

    As your document gets longer, it gets harder to keep all things in it in order. Mellel’s superb Outline feature is just the tool to achieve that. The outline pane gives you a bird’s eye view of your entire document, and lets you, tells you where you are, and lets you move things around easily.

    To streamline your document’s content, you can view elements such as captions for figures, tables, charts, and so on separately – and review them one by one.

    Another excellent streamlining tool is Mellel’s find: It allows you to create GREP-like searches, save them and create sets of Find Actions – allowing you to perform dozens of searches all at once.

    Headings are much more than you think

    Headings are easy, right? You just click the right style (in Mellel, the right auto-title) and there you have it.

    But with Mellel you can achieve so much more: you can set your title to look differently than its numbering, set which headings will be numbered and if they’ll reset the numbering, set headings to always appear at the top of the page, add a running header that changes dynamically, insert tabs and line breaks in a heading (but not in the ToC), set the content of the outline (to include just the title, for example), force appending body text to headings, and so on.

    With most of those, Mellel is the only word processor that allows you to do this automatically and reliably. You control how your document headings look, how the outline will look, how your Table of Contents will look, and so on. Once you’ve tried this with Mellel, it would be tough imagining how you could do without those up until now.


    Cite with ease and power

    Mellel offers you an easy way to handle citations and bibliographies, keeping them always in check, and preventing this delicate task from becoming tangled and annoying.

    The Bibliography palette in Mellel allows you to view all the citations in the document, navigate to them, switch to a bibliography manager, scan, unscan, rescan, etc. Scanned and Unscanned citations in the text are highlighted, and you can open them and easily set special options (e.g., page numbers, omitting author or year).

    Finally, there’s the bibliography: You can use the preferences to set how it will appear in the document, move it around in the document, and otherwise manipulate it.

    View Mellel tutorials here…

    General Features

    Mellel offers you a rich and advanced yet easy to use set of features for word processing. The following list highlights some of the features in Mellel.

  • Track Changes
  • Easy to use and powerful Outline pane
  • Outstanding Bibiliography and citation support
  • Tables
  • Sort
  • Bulleted and numbered lists
  • Advanced Find and Replace
  • Advanced Hyphenation
  • Advanced multi-lingual support
  • Cross reference
  • Columns and sections
  • MS Word import and export
  • RTF import and export
  • Insert special characters
  • Live document statistics (word count)
  • Image placing and resizing
  • Document setup and info
  • Outline and Document navigation
  • Full screen mode
  • Smart Quotes (Typographer’s Quotes)
  • Writing the great American novel? Or just a small one? A scholarly book? A complex document? A play? A technical guide? Mellel offers special tools to help you write and organise long documents easily

    Multilingual Support

    If you need multilingual support or are writing bi-directional text, Mellel is just the thing for you. Arabic, Persian, Hebrew and Syriac never looked better on a Mac

    If “none of the above” is what you need, Mellel is still the right choice: reliable, time-tested, clean, and stable.

    Notes from the developer -
    “Your copy of Mellel from macZOT is a permanent license with free unlimited updates. For example: People who bought Mellel via MacZot in June 2008, and in 2009 ALSO got a permanent license. Essentially, the deal with Mellel is simple: You get an application on par, or better, than MS Word, for a fraction of the price MS Word costs. The reason for that is also simple: Because we think word processors are basic, essential tools and they should be affordable.”

    Regards,

    Ori Redler

    System Requirements: Mellel 2.9.1 is compatible with Mac OS 10.5 or later. It will not run on Mac OS 10.4.x or earlier.

    For more information, visit www.mellel.com.