Thanks to all who participated on the Chronicle giveaway!

We have 3 winners and here they are:

1. HBB
2. Red Leader
3. Tyago Neres

You will hear from the developers via email regarding your free licenses.

Congrats!

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Truth be told, I just missed making a payment for one of my credit cards, not because I forgot to pay but because the letter wasn’t sent to me. I’m not sure why, but had I used Chronicle, I would have noticed something was amiss when the payment was soon to be due. This is the second time I missed a payment, the first time was because the date reflected on the internet banking site wasn’t updated.

Using Chronicle, you can organize and track your bills but most importantly, it helps prevent a missed payment.

While spending some time using Chronicle, I can understand the other crucial mission of this app. It is to let you set it and forget it. Forget about your bills with confidence!

User Interface

Chronicle spots a wood like interface but it doesn’t stop there. You can change the theme to other alternate colors eg:

Dark Theme

Tranquil Theme

Right from the interface, you can see at a glance how many bills you have, how many are paid or due. If you’ve made a payment for any bill, click “Log Payment” and this will go down in a graph of payment histories which we will talk about later.

Adding A New Bill

From the screenshot, it may look a little busy but there are only a couple of simple fields to fill in. Name of the bill, payment due date, if the bill repeats or not and what is the frequency, amount due and how many days before do you want iCal to remind you.

If your bill is paid online, enter a URL so that you can pay a bill online with a click of a button.

Lastly, choose one of the many colorful icons to represent the bill.

When you hit “Save Bill”, Chronicle opens up iCal to insert a calendar event for your bill and quickly closes iCal.

iCal Integration

By automatically creating a calendar event in iCal, you will be reminded when the due date for a payment is near. Not only will you get reminded on your Mac, if you have an iPhone, you will automatically be reminded via your iPhone too if your iCal is synced with your iPhone.

Logging Payment & Add Receipts

When you log payment, you have the option to add a receipt. This is handy if you ever get audited by the accountants.

Optionally add a note and say something like “I bought an iPad for my loved one”.

Spending History

Seeing your spending history on a graph are both fun and useful. You will be able to tell a lot from your spending trends. See which months you spend money most and rectify. If you are disciplined and is serious about your finances, the spending graph should be enough to scare you into spending lesser.

Goals

This is more for people who are in debt. Setting a goal gives you a higher chance of achieving something. If you have a reasonably large balance on your credit card for example, set a goal on when you want to have the debt paid off.

Conclusion

If you are a working adult with many bills to pay, you definitely need some sort of system to manage your bills. It is like project management, there are just too many things floating around your head which you need to settle them down.

Chronicle lets you do that in a well designed and customizable interface. With many useful features pertaining to bills management like iCal integration, adding of receipts, spending history reports and setting of goals to pay off a debt, Chronicle is hell of an app to save your sanity and money.

Giveaway!

Thanks to Mike from Littlefin, one of you will get one of 3 free copies of Chronicle worth $20.95 each.

Just leave a comment and tell us what kind of bills are you paying every month, eg. rent, credit cards, mobile phone, web apps subscription etc.

This giveaway will end on the 25th April, so go on and comment to get a chance to get Chronicle for free. :)

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Thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway!

We have 5 winners and they are:

1. Michael Nitsch
2. Marius
3. David Ferguson
4. Claudia
5. Axmirza2™

You will receive an email on how to claim Radium for free.

For those of who didn’t win, we have another giveaway tomorrow, stay tuned!

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Looks like MacKeeper is a popular tool. 2 winners has been randomly chosen and they are:

1. Jean-François Ménard-Boissonneault
2. Hugo

Congrats on your free licenses! To those who have taken part, we will have more giveaways.

Big thanks to Zeobit for sponsoring the free MacKeeper licenses!

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It’s been really long since I give my Macbook Pro a clean. You know, over the years, in order to keep your Mac lean & snappy (as the title suggest), you need to clean it up.

Unless you’re a geek, forget about manually going through directories to clean out cache, duplicates, unnecessary language files, logs etc. You need a software to do this.

There are many app of this sort out there, but few gives you the kind of care that you really need.

Imagine the phone number of the company displayed on every section of the app, telling you that a representative will answer any of your questions if you call. MacKeeper is the first, at least for what I’ve seen so far.

Using MacKeeper, I effortlessly wiped out cache, logs, old files, some languages and universal binaries. I also deleted files that are way too big.

As a result, my Mac does feels snappier, especially when launching apps. If you’re curious how much space I have reclaimed – it’s a whopping 20.5GB!

MacKeeper is a robust all in one system care for your Mac that combines cleaning utilities, standalone tools and online services into one. Read on to see how MacKeeper can help clean out unnecessary data.

Binaries Cutter

MacKeeper is split into three parts, cleaners as one of them. I used every cleaner function except old files finder as I want to keep archives of my work no matter how old it is. Some functions like Duplicates finder, I took extra precaution to make sure I don’t delete anything important.

For Binaries Cutter, it was a no brainer. There is no reason to keep the other part of the core that supports PowerPC architectures. If you’re wondering what universal binary is – Every application contains two parts of code, one that will support old PowerPC architectures and one for modern Intel based Macs. The truth is, you only need one of these cores, so MacKeeper cleans out the other to save disk space.

Cache Cleaner

Your Mac caches data so that applications can run faster. Overtime, this may be counter-intuitive because your Mac is loaded up with cache and in turn cluttering and slowing down your Mac. MacKeeper deletes your entire system’s cache with one click.

Duplicates Finder

This function is easy to understand, but Mackeeper takes it one step further, by searching for duplicate files even if they were renamed, leaving no stones unturned.

Language Cutter

With this function, I got rid of a huge list of languages that are redundant to me, except for English of course. Most applications are loaded with many languages that you will never need in your lifetime, unless you speak and read those languages. MacKeeper helps you find and delete these unnecessary language files to save more space.

Logs Cleaner

This is the function that I am most grateful for. I have never needed logs, so do you? Unless you’re a developer of an app. Otherwise there are no reasons to keep these. Applications create log files that store usage, error, statistics etc. Overtime, these files becomes larger.

If you don’t need them, get rid of them!

Old Files Finder

Unless you just started to use a computer, you hard disk is filled with old files dated several years back. If you take some time to review these files, chances are, you don’t need most of them. Especially those that are not used for a long long while. MacKeeper searches for files of this sort and let you remove them with one click. Caution though, you may want to uncheck files that you still want to keep, eg. work archives.

Tools

The rest of the features are under “Tools”. You can backup or encrypt your data. The backup feature lets you create automatic backups of your data on your FTP, ZeoDisk (an online storage service by Zeobit, coming soon), USB or external hard drive. Data encryption will hide the filename and fully encrypt the data. You will only be able to access this encrypted data through MacKeeper app.

Default Apps

I remember being used to opening .doc files and launching it with Mac Office when I really want it to open with Pages by default instead. This tool will let you set app associations with file types. A nifty tool to get rid of that little bit of annoyance.

Disk Usage

This tool gives you the easiest way to see what are the largest file sitting on your Mac. There might be movies you’ve watched and don’t need it anymore, but you forgot to delete. This tool comes in handy for this instance.

Shredder

You may have some very private files that you are hoping that no one will ever find even after you delete them. The shredder eliminates any possibilities that your files will ever be discovered once you throw them into this zone.

Undelete

Undelete on the other hand will help you retrieved files that you have deleted, less the files that were “shredded” with the previously mentioned tool of course.

Wise Uninstaller

When you delete an application from your Applications folder, you’re only half done. There are many files associated with it hidden in not very obvious places.

With Wise Uninstaller, you can rest assured that the app is completely deleted. With this utility, you can also easily delete widgets, preference panes and plugins.

Services

There are three tools under this category.

Anti-Theft is a helpful feature that will send a report of your Mac’s location to the police if it’s stolen, giving you a higher chance of retrieving your Mac.

Conclusion

With so many features, MacKeeper is certainly one of the most comprehensive housekeeping tools for your Mac. One license cost $39.95, a small price to pay for the longevity of your Mac. To get it free, read on!

Giveaway!

Thanks to Zeobit, we have 2 x free MacKeeper licenses to giveaway!

To win this, just leave a comment and tell us how long it was since you last cleaned your Mac!

This giveaway will end on Wed, 14 April. So, leave your comment now! :)

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Thanks to everyone who participated in both Snippets & iDocument giveaway.

Here are the winners!

Snippets

1. Christine
2. Jeremy Buff

iDocument

1. Marius
2. Mark McDonnell

The developers will send you your licenses shortly.

I want to say “thank you” to all my readers. Stay tuned, I’ll continue to find more great apps to review and give. :)

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When I first heard from the developers about iDocument, I immediately wonder what are the use cases for this.

As I was struggling to keep my eBooks (.pdf format) organized, it is a no brainer that I will be using iDocument to organize my PDF eBooks and magazines!

But of course you can use it to manage and organize any type of documents.

eBooks has been gaining traction especially this year right after the announcement of the iPad. So I guess IcyBlaze, the developers of iDocument released the app at the right time.

User Interface

The awesome UI and straightforwardness really make iDocument stand out. In the screenshot above, you’re looking at documents that I grouped under “Ebooks”.

The screenshot below are documents under the category, “Magazine” that I created.

Smart Folders

Smart folders are the best way to give flexibility to the user. Using smart folders, I created one that says “Reading List”. The smart folder will put every document that was “flagged” into itself.

When I finish reading an eBook or a magazine, I will “unflag” the document to take it off my reading list.

Depending on your needs, there are plenty of other ways you can use smart folders.

Quick Look

With Mac OS X’s quick look support, you don’t have to launch the document to read it. Just hit the spacebar and the HUD window will popup, showing you the contents of that document.

Rate Documents

Rate your documents from one to five stars. You can create a smart folder out of the number of ratings too. Say you’ve downloaded a number of eBooks and rated the most popular one 5 stars. Using smart folders to filter these eBooks by rating lets you find the best eBooks quickly.

Sharing via Bonjour

If you have others working in the same place with you and would like to access your documents, this feature will come in handy. Useful too if you have multiple Macs and wish to access these documents from another workstation.

You can share documents at a document level. Meaning, you can select which document you want to share.

Sharing via Slideshare & Email

To share documents with the rest of the world, Slideshare and email sharing is supported. They are accessible via one click at the bottom right of the screen, much like how Facebook and Flickr sharing works in iPhoto.

Conclusion

Basically, if you’ve used iPhoto, iTunes, LittleSnapper or Fontcase before, iDocument will be no stranger to you.

I particularly love just how everything works.

There is certainly a hole to be filled in the market of document management apps, iDocument executed it well and filled that void.

An iPhone app for iDocument is underway. I can’t wait to see how it pans out.

To manage music, there is iTunes, to manage fonts, there is Fontcase, to manage graphics, there is LittleSnapper, to manage documents, there is iDocument. I hope you see the pattern. :)

Price

iDocument originally cost $49.95, but you can get yours now at $34.95. There is no word how long this is going to last, so be sure to grab it quick if you think iDocument can help you get more organized with your documents. But if you want it free, we have 2 x free licenses to giveaway!

Giveaway

Yes, 2 x free iDocument licenses to giveaway!

Just write in the comments how you will use iDocument if you win it.

Go on! :)

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As a developer myself, I write tons and tons of code for many projects. The fastest way to writing code is to re-use what you frequently write. There is no point re-writing code when you have already written it before.

My old solution was to go back to old projects and find the bit of snippet that I want to re-use, but guess what, this only takes more time and drive you to insanity.

You need a system to store them. It should also let you easily search for code to re-use them.

Snippets

Snippets is a time saving tool for developers and designers. Keep all your code at hand and re-use it in an elegant manner. Saving all this little bits of time adds up, making you more productive.

User Interface

Snippets displays your code in a familiar fashion. There is nothing you won’t understand here. To create a snippet, hit “New Snippet” or use “Cmd+N”.

Toolbar

Use one click to send any selected quote to Coda (or other code editor apps), copy code, email and delete.

Supporting Languages

Snippets supports every language you can find under the sun. Categorizing your snippet with the correct language will automatically set the syntax colors correctly.

Menubar Search

This is a crucial feature every snippet management app should have. In fact, this is the first thing I looked for right after I install Snippets. Search snippets via the menubar. Isn’t this better than searching your old projects?

Accessing Folders via Menubar

Keeping Snippet’s window closed, you can still access your folders via the menubar. In this instance, I setup smart folders for AS3, PHP, SSH and HTML. Take the HTML smart folder for instance, it will display snippets highlighted with HTML, CSS or Javascript syntax.

Shortcut Keys

To call up menubar search or to accessing folders via the menubar, the most effective method is by using a shortcut key. Thankfully, Snippets supports this.

Smart Folders

Smart folders for these sort of apps are valuable. It gives you the flexibility to sort and organize your code. Everyone is different so smart folders are there to support them.

I use smart folders to group different languages of snippets. This way, when I create a new snippet and assign it the correct language, the snippet will automatically appear inside the correct smart folder.

The next time when I want to search or edit a snippet, I know where to look.

Sync With MobileMe

If you use multiple Macs, you will be thrilled to find that you can sync snippets between network computers and user accounts.

Scrippets

With scrippets, you can perform custom sets of operations over selected Library items. Go here to learn all about Scrippets. The default Scrippets out of the box will let you share snippets on Pastie.org, Snipplr.com and Snipt.org.

Conclusion

Overal, Snippets gives you a full featured system to search, re-use, edit, share your snippets and more.

I will certainly be using it a lot for our upcoming projects.

Price

Snippets cost $39.95 per license, but you can get it at a cheaper rate from now till 28 March, (TODAY!) at $30. To get it free, read the instructions below!

Giveaway

Thanks to the developers, we have 2 x free Snippets license code (worth $39.95 each) to give away!

All you have to do is to leave a comment and tell us why you want it.

We will be running this until 1st April, Thursday, 5 days from now.

Winners will hear from the developers via email, it’s only a comment away to win your FREE license. So, go on and comment! :)

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Congratulations to the three lucky winners of Dropzone!

1. Okky Ghofoer

2. Marius M.

3. Ammon

The developer will be contacting you shortly with your free licenses.

Thank you all for taking part. Happy holidays and may 2010 be an awesome one for all!

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I bought this app almost immediately when it was released as I was combatting an issue I was having at that time. I find myself frequently uploading files to many different locations. Each time I do it, I have to launch Forklift or Transmit, connect to the FTP, browse to a specific folder and upload the file. I tried using multiple droplets but I don’t want to have a whole mess of them on my dock or desktop.

Here is where Dropzone solves this problem. It lets you setup multiple upload locations so that you can just drag a file into Dropzone on your dock to upload it. Very tidy and convenient!

As you can see from the screenshot above, I frequently upload files, invoices and quotes to my server for our clients to download. Even images that are displayed here are all uploaded from Dropzone. It’s just drag and drop! Really speeds up my workflow.

More Than Just FTPs

Not only can you drop files into FTPs, theres a whole slew of actions for you to perform by drag and drop eg. Flickr, share text, move files and more if you download and install extensions (a.k.a actions) from Dropzone’s website! With the ability to install more actions, the limits are endless.

I personally love being able to conveniently drop photos into Flickr, Twitpic, Dropbox etc.

Wait There’s More!

You can even install applications (.dmg) simply by drag and drop. We’re not talking about .app files where you can simply drop it in the Applications folder. It’s those pesky .dmg files where you have to click next, next, next just to have the application installed. No more! Drop those .dmg files into Dropzone under “Install Application” and Dropzone will mount the disk image, install and trash the dmg file, only ready for you to launch the app.

There are other useful built in features like “Zip & Email” where you can drag a file into Dropzone to have the file zipped up and placed into a new mail message ready for you to send.

Extending Dropzone

What makes Dropzone even more exciting are user contributed actions. There are already a bunch of useful actions ready for download like Twitpic, Dropbox, bit.ly, is.gd etc.

If you’re a Ruby developer you can even write your own actions.

Conclusion

I 100% recommend this app to internet junkies. It has been an indispensable app in my workflow. Even if you don’t win a free copy (see below), $10 is a small price to pay to make your life easier.

Giveaway!

We have 3 FREE copies to giveaway to SUBERAPPS readers! Winning is simple, just leave a comment and tell us how Dropzone will help make your life easier. Following @SUBERAPPS is not compulsory, but encouraged!

Competition ends this Christmas Day!

Look forward to your entries!

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