ForkLift is a new file transfer solution that not a lot of people have heard of yet. MacUpdate has decided to partner with the great folks at BinaryNights to expose to the world what we're calling "the next Transmit." We think that ForkLift's developers are adding features at a faster pace than the most popular FTP client on the Mac. We think Forklift has a strong chance of pulling out from the shadows and becoming the next major file transfer app on the Mac. Be sure to check out some of the demonstration videos of ForkLift's capabilities.

ForkLift is a powerful file transfer solution. It allows you to transfer files using FTP, SFTP, FXP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and even Bluetooth. Its dual pane view maximizes productivity, a Cocoa based interface with smart preview and spring-loaded folders lets you browse your local and remote folders and use Favorites just like in Finder. Use it to edit files or preview images stored in a remote folder, even within archives.

ForkLift integrates a full featured batch rename tool, an application deleter and a small code called droplet, which enables you to create automated upload shortcuts for your most used remote folders, and place them anywhere in your file system.

Features:

• Dual-pane view
• Tabs
• Archives: Rar, Zip, Tar, Gz
• Amazon S3 support
• WebDAV support
• Connect to FTP/SFTP, FTP/TLS, Bluetooth
• Live preview (Archives, FTP, Bluetooth, etc...)
• Spring loaded folders
• Plugin architecture
• "Any to any" workflow
• Remote editing
• Filters
• Integrated Spotlight
• Smart folders
• Growl support
• Favorites shortcuts
• QuickLook local and remote files
• Droplets for drag and drop automated file transfers

RapidWeaver is a next-generation web design application to help you easily create professional looking web sites in minutes. No knowledge of complex code is required, RapidWeaver will take care of all that for you. RapidWeaver produces valid XHTML & CSS based websites.

One of the perks about using RapidWeaver is that it has a strong custom theme community. You can download themes and edit them from within RapidWeaver and the result is a pretty slick looking website that takes very little effort.

RapidWeaver also has a lot of custom plug-ins. Some of them make it easier to edit images directly in RapidWeaver. Others make creating a site map a matter of a few clicks. The supportive community that surrounds RapidWeaver is really what makes this great app superior to other WYSIWYG website creation tools. Be sure to check out YourHead.com for some little tools to help spice up your website in RapidWeaver.

Swift Publisher makes desktop publishing a breeze. You will easily be designing and printing colorful flyers, newsletters, brochures, letterheads and more. This version is the standard downloadable package, that includes 1,100 high quality images, 90 designs and 100 unique masks will help you to layout high-impact documents. You can upgrade to the full retail version for $10. It simply increases the the number of images goodies from 1,100 to 23,000 and adds 40 new designs.

Macsimum News says, "Swift Publisher is what Apple Pages should have been." If the tech-savvy people at Macsimum News feel that Swift Publisher is a superior product to Apple Pages, then it's worth giving it a try. MacUpdate thinks you'll be pleasantly surprised.

• Flow text from column to column or wrap text around the object in real time.
• Adjustable layout guides are used for precise object placement.
• Support for multipage documents with the ability to rotate each page on a fly.
• Background and Foreground layers help to create and edit advanced designs.
• Control transparency, tint images with colors, mask, crop, tile and rotate them.
• iPhoto integration.
• Export your documents to PDF, TIFF and JPEG.
• Import JPEG, PDF, EPS, GIF, PNG, TIFF images.

Marine Aquarium is the most stunning virtual aquarium that MacUpdate has ever seen. It can be run as a screensaver or a stand-alone application.

When we first ran this gem on MUPromo, I downloaded it and immediately gave Nate, who runs MUPromo, a call on his iPhone. I was floored by how real the movements of the fish looked, and the array of options to customize your tank. It has marine life so vibrant you won't believe your eyes. These fish are actual 3D models, not flat images dragged across the screen. You could seriously hang your Apple LCD on the wall in your home or office and it would be the closest replacement to the real thing that I've ever seen (and a lot less work).

It's also functional. Some of the tanks include a clock or calendar so you can see the day and date with a quick glance. This is a truly a gem in the bundle.

Xslimmer removes wasted space on your Mac's hard drive by removing the binary from either its PowerPC or Intel code (depending on the system architecture used). The result users report is that you can save 47% of your disk space.

For example, when running Xslimmer on Google Earth 4, it shrinks the size from 101MB to 52.8MB, which is a 47% reduction.

As the developer states, the driving goal of Xslimmer is to achieve size reduction without compromising functionality. As of version 1.2, the option to strip applications from unwanted language files and localizations is added. Version 1.2.7 improves Leopard support by automatically excluding Time Machine paths from the analysis process.

Additional features for safe use include a "blacklist" and a custom folder list (which is by default populated with key system locations). This prevents problems with applications (or the system itself) that will no longer work after size reduction.

With the "App Finder Genie", a user can list all size reducible applications on the hard disk and choose to slim them and save a considerable amount of hard disk space.

MemoryMiner is the award-winning Digital Storytelling application used to discover the threads connecting peoples’ lives across time and place. It lets you zero in on the stories depicted in your photos by linking them to each other based on people, places and time. Using simple drag and drop actions, you specify who is in the picture, where the picture was taken and when.

Drag and drop audio, video, URL's, etc as attachments onto your photos to add depth and context. Each photo thus becomes a frame in an endless storyboard which can be browsed by periods in a person’s life, where people overlap, by place, by time, or any combination. Create self-contained library documents to share with other MemoryMiner users, or export beautiful interactive web sites which can be automatically uploaded to your .Mac account or other web server. MemoryMiner also works beautifully with PulpMotion in order to create stunning video presentations suitable for web, DVD or iPod/iPhone.

MemoryMiner turns that dusty box of pictures in the attic into a trove of personal history that reveals long-forgotten memories. And that amorphous stockpile of digital camera output accumulating on your hard drive will snap into focus, allowing you to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Yep organizes the paper that clutters your life. Think of Yep as iPhoto for your documents.

Most of the MacUpdate staff live very mobile lives. We understand what it's like to have your desks overflow with clutter from mail, bank statements, bills, letters, and other paper documents.That clutter makes our mobile lives more challenging. That's why we love Yep.

Yep helps make important documents like receipts, medical records, income tax returns, bank statements and important letters more accessible. Often these documents are stored away in filing cabinets in a storage room, or crammed in desk drawers. MacUpdate loves Yep because it helps you scan these important documents into your Mac.

Once your documents are scanned, they become instantly searchable and organized in one central location. You will no longer have to hunt for your documents all over the office or house. Yep is going to save you a lot of time and give you a digital backup copy of your documents for peace-of-mind.

Yep is scanner friendly, but doesn't require one. It can organize all of the documents already on your Mac (like PDFs). It makes them all searchable and way more organized.

One of the most amazing synergies is to combine Yep with the mailing scanning services of Earth Class Mail. Then all of the mail that normally clutters your house can be automatically scanned and emailed to you. Then use Yep to organize and retrieve that mail really quickly.

SRS iWOW was a hidden gem in the first MacUpdate Promo bundle back in July. It was so successful that the developers came back to MacUpdate and said they wanted to participate in the next big promotion. And everyone at MacUpdate uses iWOW with iTunes. In fact, we paid for the version 2.0 upgrade we love it so much. And so we had to bring it back to the bundle as an extra goodie. We're really excited to be able to offer everyone the new commercial release, version 2.0!

SRS iWOW plug-in for iTunes on the Mac will provide amazing audio immersion and maximum thump for a personalized audio experience!

Features:

• Sleek easy-to-use interface design with energizing sonic-like pulses
• Enjoy deep, rich bass
• Choose from many cool presets for all your music, videos and Podcasts
• Custom settings for headphones & desktop speakers
• Compact mini mode display option

Enhances a variety of content... The SRS iWOW plug-in was designed recognizing audio has become more important as many people use their Mac for entertainment, both at home and on the road. With iWOW you can customize your audio experience based on music, movie, video or podcast content.

Audio enhancement technology provides a richer, more powerful and brilliant audio experience. SRS WOW HD - improves the audio performance of compressed and uncompressed audio by expanding the size of the audio image in the horizontal and vertical sound field and creating a deep, rich bass response. The patented techniques in SRS WOW HD also retrieve information lost in the mixing process to create a more natural audio experience.

Advanced audio enhancement features so you can tune and customize your music, movie or video

• SRS 3D - 3D stereo enhancement for moro or stereo content SRS 3D Center Control - a 'virtual' zoom lens that dynamically extracts and positions the dialog in the foreground or background of the audio mix
• SRS TruBass - bass maximization
• SRS FOCUS - optimize speaker output to compensate and reposition audio placement
• SRS Definition - delivers a more lively and brilliant sound by highlightly the high frequency details originally presented in the audio source

Things is task management solution that helps to organize your tasks in an elegant and intuitive way. Things combines powerful features with simplicity through the use of tags and its intelligent filter bar. A Leopard style source list allows for quick and easy focusing. Together with a beautiful user interface, Things aims at the seemingly impossible: making task management both easy and fun.

Ian Beck's screencast is a great introduction. Learn from our users why Things is different – either on i use this or Newsvine.

• The big picture. A Leopard style source list lets you easily focus without ever switching view modes or wrapping your head around filter criteria.
• A magical tag bar automatically appears when needed and adapts to the currently displayed list. It lets you drill down even the longest list of To-Dos. Hierarchical tags? We got you covered!
• Teamwork. Things offers convenient collaboration features. Easily delegate tasks to members of your team. (This is work in progress.)
• No columns! Whether it's multiple tags, dates or notes, To-Do items display their information on an as needed basis. No more space wasted by empty or irrelevant column cells!
• Out of your head, out of your way. A quick entry HUD lets you enter any idea the moment it hits you. Never let the thought of an unfinished business distract you again.
• Yours forever. We won't lock you in. Things will use an open XML file format to store your data. (Not yet activated.)

RAGE MapDesign... Impress your web site visitors with interactive image maps using standards based HTML and CSS. RAGE MapDesign provides an amazingly fast, easy way to create image maps for your web site that respond to user actions such as moving your mouse over certain sections of an image.

Image maps are clickable images on a web site that behave differently depending on where a user clicks on the image. The biggest problem when designing image maps is defining how your web site should react when a user clicks a certain section of an image.

RAGE MapDesign offers a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) user interface, allowing you to visually create simple or complex image maps for your web site. In addition, RAGE MapDesign lets you add mouse-over and mouse-down effects using standards based CSS so you can easily make your web site stand out among your visitors.

Since RAGE MapDesign uses only HTML and CSS, there is no need for your users to install third party plug-ins or add-ons. Your web site will still be fast, responsive and compatible with all major web browsers.

Make your web sites come alive with RAGE MapDesign.

See Just What RAGE MapDesign Can Do For You!

• A Beautiful Family Portrait,
• Show Off Your Product's Great Features,
• Discover Europe With RAGE MapDesign

XMind is now free software. This means when you want to use a fishbone in a spreadsheet, or put your photos and media files into a mind map, or reuse your Freemind/MindManager files, you're free to use XMind. You can even add XMind/XMind Pro as plug-ins into your Eclipse-based enterprise environment.

XMind.net is the best place to share your ideas and thoughts with the world. Adding an embed viewer into your blog will make more people learned from you. If you want to share with yourself, or make a brainstorm with selected friends, just upgrade to XMind Pro for privately sharing.

Download XMind! Drill down your ideas! And begin to share with the world today!

iStabilize is a video stabilizer that removes unwanted shaky motion from movies with respect to translation, rotation, and zoom. It is a complete movie player with editing capabilities and can read and write many movie formats. iStabilize provides a preview mode, where stabilization parameters can be adjusted and their effects can be seen immediately without time consuming rendering. Stabilization can be applied to multiple temporal intervals of a movie.

PulpMotion lets you create animations from your own pictures, videos and music. You simply drag and drop them into a visual theme, add music and export them. You can then send video postcards to friends by email, or podcast your video animation using GarageBand, copy your animation to your iPod or even upload it to your web page using Forklift or RapidWeaver. You can even export your animations for further editing in iMovie or Final Cut.

Part of what makes PulpMotion so useful is that you can spend 3-minutes dragging your videos and photos into themes, and the end product is an eye catching, professional production. It's all done for you.

Some custom themes included are:

• Wedding themes
• Valentines day
• Christmas
• News broadcasting
• Newspaper articles
• Antique picture frames
• 3D Slideshows
• Kids and crayons
• and way more!

MacUpdate has partnered with 13 Mac developers to bring you a great software bundle. You can buy this bundle for hundreds of dollars less than the retail price of $686.69. This amazing offer ends today.

Time: The price of the bundle is very slowly increasing with time, until the deal closes. In the end, the price of the bundle will be $80. Make sure to get in before it hits the $80 price tag. Of course, either way you're still saving hundreds of dollars and helping a good cause.

Your Deal: The Mac community has triumphantly come together reaching all of the unlock milestones before the unlock countdown expired. Now when you buy this bundle, you become the owner of all 13 applications listed in the dark grey box to the right. If new apps are added later, you also become the owner of those as well.

Stage 2 Events: Check below for new daily events that make this event more exciting and more personal.

+ Thursday: iWOW 2 added to bundle for free. Version 1.0 was in July's bundle. 2.0 was a paid upgrade. Now we give it to you for free! It was a huge hit, especially for laptop users who use iTunes often.
+ Friday: Meet the developer of iStabilize. Fun video!
+ Saturday: Meet the developers of Yep. Fun video!
+ Sunday: Meet the developer of MemoryMiner.
+ Monday: Exclusive preview version of Things, a GTD to-do task management app, is added to the bundle.
+ Tuesday morning: The price of the bundle is now slowly increasing with time. Click the buy button quickly and save!
+ Tuesday afternoon: MapDesign, a website image map creator, is added to the bundle.
+ Wednesday: Cheerful giving help, no pressure. Help MU contributor TJ raise $10,000 for a health issue.

Gift it! Remember, this is a great idea to buy as a gift for someone else. Worst case scenario, the people receiving your gifts will enjoy the breath taking virtual fish tank screensaver! :) Anyone can download and try the applications before purchasing the bundle.

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