Bundle Hunt is one “too good to be true” bundles around. Don’t believe me, see what someone said on Twitter – “Can anyone confirm that @BundleHunt is legit? Sounds too good to be true.”

It’s true. For a limited time (ends Aug 16),  you can get a bunch of design industry’s best design resources eg. apps, stock photos, icons, vectors, Wordpress themes, web hosting etc for $49 instead of $1,400.

What do you get for $49?

Billings

Website ($39.99)

The time billing program for professionals who want to simplify quoting, invoicing and time tracking. Includes customizable templates for those who want their invoices to make a good first impression. Valued at $39.99.

Flux

Website ($63.99)

Flux is a state of the art WYSIWYG engine that creates the code for you as you drag and drop web page elements. If you prefer to have control over how the code looks, you can also switch to a mode that allows HTML, XHTML, and CSS.

Site5

Website ($83.70)

Site5 is a web hosting company specially created for web designers. They offer free migration and a guaranteed 99.99% uptime. Get 6 months of the HostPro + Turbo plan at a special price only with Bundle Hunt.

Smashing Magazine E-book

Website ($19.90)

Mastering Photoshop For Web Design is a new eBook from Smashing Magazine aimed to intermediate and advanced Photoshop users who want to brush up on their skills and improve their workflow.

SUBERNOVA

Website ($149.99)

SUBERNOVA is a sleek project management tool that lets you track time, send invoices and estimates, collaborate with others and keeps your business smooth by keeping tabs on late payments, deadlines and more..

Icon Dock

Website ($60)

Icondock is an amazing resource that helps you find stock icons to add finishing details to your projects. Bundle Hunt includes an amazing icon pack valued at $60.

DryIcons

Website ($150)

DryIcons is another icon site with exclusive resources. They created Iconika, a special set for BundeHunt users with Extended License.

Mojo Themes

Website ($135)

MojoThemes offers high quality templates for WordPress, Tumblr, and co. With the Bundle, you get three best selling three WordPress themes (Signal 8, Apollo & FolioStudio).

Photocase

Website ($500)

Photocase is a strictly curated stock photography platform focusing on modern, creative photography. They made an exclusive selection of the most popular 100 photos (extra large size).

Vandelay Design

Website ($27)

Vandelay Premier is a new membership-based community managed by Vandelay Design. They prepared a special pack with high quality textures, bokeh backgrounds, Photoshop brushes & more.

WP Bakery

Website ($70)

WPBakery is a new WordPress themes marketplace that prepared two never-seen-before templates: Cubixoid & Simplic.

Designious

Website ($179.99)

Designious is a well known resource for designers around the world, offering more than 6000 stock graphic files. The Bundle includes the famous Giga Vector Pack.

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If you have an iPad, you are probably wondering what apps you should load up your iPad with. If you don’t have an iPad, bookmark this post and come back later when you get yours.

I received my iPad a few weeks ago and the first time I got it, I surfed around looking for iPad app round ups. But the Apple community seems to be lack of posts like this, so I hope this will help you find something useful.

Below are 40 carefully handpicked iPad apps that I find useful and well designed. Some of which are free, some are paid, some I have used and some I have not.

Enjoy!

Weather Station Pro

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Turn your iPad into a weather station and check weather conditions and forecasts at your current location and other locations worldwide.

NewsRack

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

NewsRack is a full-featured RSS reader for your iPhone and iPad.

Evernote

[Free | Website | iTunes LInk]

Evernote is the popular note taking app you should have known by now.

Articles

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

With Articles, you can easily read and discover Wikipedia articles on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

SoundPaper

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

SoundPaper is the best way to take notes in meetings, lectures, and interviews. It tracks what you type while recording audio, so you’ll never have to worry about missing anything.

Ego

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Ego gives you one central—and lovely—location to check web statistics that matter to you. You can quickly view the number of visits to your website (including daily, hourly and monthly numbers), feed subscription totals and changes, how many people are following you on Twitter and more.

Deliveries Touch

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Delivery Status touch will help you track packages from UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, TNT and many more.

Instapaper

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The critically acclaimed, award-winning app to read web pages on the go, in the air, or on the couch.

Penultimate

[$2.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The ultimate notes app for iPad®. Write, sketch, imagine and remember. Your touch creates beautiful ink. Organize your ideas into infinite notebooks, and share by email with your coworkers, classmates, and friends.

Things

[$19.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

The famous GTD application for Mac, now on iPad.

iMockups for iPad

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

For rapid wireframing and app design. Mockup your app ideas in seconds and iterate on them faster than ever.

1Password for iPad

[$6.99 | Website | iTunes LInk]

Login to websites, encrypt your documents, and keep your bank accounts at the tip of your fingers. The most beautiful security vault for iPad is at your service

Gusto

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Gusto is a full-featured website development environment designed exclusively for the iPad with a focus on workflow and usability.

The Early Edition

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

The Early Edition is an iPad application that takes what’s great about print and what’s great about online media and combines them in a format that is familiar, stylish and intuitive.

Pages

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Pages for iPad combines robust writing and advanced layout tools with the simplicity of Multi-Touch. So you can create all kinds of documents — including newsletters, reports, brochures, and flyers — using just your fingers. Text is crisp, clear, and very readable on the large, bright iPad screen. And the handy page navigator lets you scroll through your document in thumbnails, so you can quickly jump to any page you want.

Numbers

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Numbers is the most powerful spreadsheet app designed to work with iPad and Multi-Touch technology. With a few taps, you can create tables and charts, add photos and graphics, and enter and edit data. Numbers isn’t just a spreadsheet application — it’s a flexible canvas. Which means you can add multiple tables and charts anywhere on a sheet and move them wherever you like.

Keynote

[$9.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Keynote is the powerful presentation app you love from iWork, completely reworked for iPad and Multi-Touch. So you can do everything on iPad with a tap or drag of your finger — from creating your first slide to presenting your work.

Weather HD

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Weather HD is a radically different kind of weather app that lets you check the current weather in a visually stunning way.

Photogene for iPad

[$3.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Photogene is the ultimate editing tool for your iPhone photos. With Photogene, it’s easier than ever to edit and decorate your photos right on your iPhone or iPodTouch.

Digits Calculator for iPad

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Digits Calculator is a simple, elegant calculator with scrolling history tape, scrollback, autosave and customizable background.

Bento

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Bento for iPad is a new version of Bento, the popular personal database from FileMaker. Manage contacts, track projects, plan events, and so much more – all in one iPad app that you can use standalone or synchronize with Bento 3 for Mac.

Sorted

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Sorted is an intuitive to-do list app for the iPad.

Twittelator for iPad

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Twittelator needs no introduction. The design of the iPad’s version looks awesome.

iBooks

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

This should be the first app you should download when you get your iPad!

Wikipanion for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Browse Wikipedia on the iPad with this free app.

Sociable

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Sociable is all of your favorite social networks rolled up into one easy to use, elegant iPad application.

Twitterrific for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Twitterrific is a beautiful iPad app for Twitter that lets you check statuses with style.

Analytics HD

[$6.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Google Analytics in a native app.

PhotoPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

A free and good looking photo editing app.

TweetDeck for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Need I say more about TweetDeck? But the truth is, TweetDeck is very slow, at least for me.

Headline

[$4.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Beautiful RSS reader app that syncs with Google Reader. But I won’t recommend buying this app until they turn up the speed. My only complain is that when you first launch the app, you are not able to browse to any articles until the app has fully synced with Google Reader. If you have a large number of feeds to sync, prepare to wait before you can read anything.

Touchpad

[$3.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Transform your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch to remotely control your computer through WiFi. Extended keyboard, Multi-Touch Trackpad and Apple Remote.

Layers for iPad

[$5.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Built on the feedback of hundreds of mobile artists, Layers packs in everythingyou need to be creative on the go. An art studio in your pocket.

Synotes

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Synotes is a note taking app that brings advanced features such as sync, search, icon selection, previous versions into a user friendly and polished interface.

Phases HD

[$1.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Phases is a beautifully crafted app that shows you all kinds of useful information about the moon—and a little bit about the sun.

WeatherBug Elite for iPad

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

A sweet weather app that lets you see all kinds of thing related to the current weather condition. My only problem? It uses Bing!

Sketchbook Pro

[$7.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

Autodesk® SketchBook® Pro for iPad™ combines high-quality digital pencils, pens, markers and airbrushes with a Multi-Touch gesture-based user interface, enabling users to create everything from quick sketches to high-quality artwork on the iPad. Using the same paint engine as its desktop and mobile counterparts, Autodesk’s new SketchBook Pro for iPad delivers a complete set of sketching and painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface.

GlobeConvert

[$0.99 | Website | iTunes Link]

One of the most good looking converter app for iPad so far.

Speedtest X HD

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Use Speedtest X to evaluate the speed of your EDGE, 3G, or WIFI connection.

Dropbox

[Free | Website | iTunes Link]

Dropbox, a cloud file storage app now available on the iPad. Very pretty! Dropbox users will love love love this.

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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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I have been listening to internet radio more than before. I thought it was more fun to listen to internet radio right on the Mac itself, rather than having to play local radio stations on a separate radio receiver.

I was using Snowtape previously and it gets the job done in an awesome user interface, it also lets you record internet radio etc. But what if you just want the core feature of an internet radio app, that is to listen to the radio.

Meet Radium

Radium by CatPig Studios got you covered. And the best thing about Radium is that it is a faceless app. Well almost.

There is no window or dock icon, it just sits quietly in the menubar just doing its job. Radium is one example of an app that does only one thing but does it extremely well.

User Interface

You can control Radium by clicking its icon on the menubar. The search box is immediately highlighted to let you search quickly for a radio station. The volume and playback controls are at the bottom of the interface. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to control certain aspects of the app (which we’ll discuss later).

Favorites

To access radio stations that you frequently listen, mark it as a favorite by clicking the star beside the radio station. To see all your favorite stations, click on the star beside the search box.

Radio Networks

There are tons of radio networks to listen to. if you can’t find one in the list, add it using a URL.

You can even request a radio network to be added by telling CatPig Studios.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Of course, no app can ship without keyboard shortcuts. :) The most useful one I find, is the “Play/Stop” shortcut. When I receive a call, this is the key combination I hit.

Conclusion

Radium is an app for listening to internet radio and nothing else. I love it and use it very often. When you’re listening to music, the app should naturally be in the background and Radium is TRUELY in the background, not getting in the way and just playing the radio stations you love.

Radium cost $16. And yes, we have a giveaway for this!

Giveaway

Thanks to CatPig Studios (cute name by the way) we have 5 free licenses to giveaway! Winners will be announced on Sunday, 18 April.

Just share with us what genre of music you like most in the comments. :)

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A few days ago, I demonstrated how you can use a bookmarklet to tweet the title and URL of any page right on the site itself.

I programmed this script to solve my own problem of wanting to tweet an interesting article in the fastest way possible. I thought this might be of interest to you too.

Video Demo

What It Can Do

What this script can do is that when you click on the bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar, a modal window appears with the title of the site and the URL (shortened with j.mp) automatically inserted into the text field. The modal window is fixed in the center of the screen, so scrolling up or down the page will not affect it’s position.

All you need to do is hit “Submit” to share an article with your followers.

Multiple Accounts

Multiple accounts is supported, so you can select an account using the drop down menu to tweet from. This can be configured in the config.php script.

URL Shortening

What you don’t see in this video is URL shortening. But I have programmed it in after receiving some initial feedback. You will need to set your bit.ly or j.mp (it’s the same thing) username and API key in the config.php script.

Character Count

The character count is displayed at the bottom left of the modal window. If you exceed 140 characters, the character count text will turn red.

Download

You can download the script here:

DOWNLOAD LINK: http://drp.ly/M9laM

You will need to host the script on your own server, the instructions are included in the zip.

With this script, I hope you find sharing articles easier and more enjoyable.

Have fun and let me know if you like it!

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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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