For a lot of people, this fits the bill and will be a valuable cog in the MacHeist machine. RipIt bills itself as "effortless DVD importing." It does what it says - you pop in a DVD, hit "Rip," and it takes care of the job for you, automatically ripping the main feature and excising the menus and extras. However, I'm looking for more of a brainstorming/outlining program, so my search for a Mori replacement continues - more on this another time. If you're looking for a journaling program - meaning, jotting down your thoughts, making them searchable, and keeping track of when you wrote what - MacJournal makes the nanoBundle worth it alone. First impressions of MacJournal are very good it has a great full-screen writing mode (up until now I've been using an old freeware version of Writeroom for this functionality), it plugs into a number of blog services for posting to the web, and for keeping a journal it really seems like the app to beat on the Mac. Thus my interest in MacJournal it's a similar program, but more fully-featured, and has a long history of development and support. However, Mori hasn't been updated in ages and it seems development is at a dead-end. It's not a great program, but its simplicity is its virtue, and I'm used to it. On its own, Clips retails for $27.įor the past four years I've been using Mori to keep track of ideas, organize initial outlines, brainstorm, and keep a journal. It should "just work," and it didn't for me. I want you to figure out what works best for 90% of your users, and present that to us as the default functionality don't make me choose from eight options the first time I start it up. Plus, Clips tries to do too much - there are three different ways of displaying your clips, two different hotkey options, and two different display options (dock or menu bar) - honestly, guys, the hallmark of Mac is simplicity. It would only remember the most recent thing I copied, which defeats the entire purpose of using it perhaps I'll figure Clips out in the future, since I officially own the software now, but first impressions are not good. Clips seemed to offer a unifying solution, but I'm sorry to say: upon initial use, it just didn't work. I was hoping Clips would be a more advanced version of Jumpcut, as right now I only use Jumpcut for temporary copying and pasting for frequently-used snippets of text like URLs, html code, and canned email responses I use Apple's built-in Stickies. I've been using Jumpcut as a clipboard manager, which allows you to keep track of dozens of bits of cut/copied text, instead of the default system clipboard, which only allows you to paste the most recently copied item. Anyway, RapidWeaver was the main reasons I was interested (it's also the most expensive app at $79), but let's see if any of the first five are useful. See the image at right - on first glance, is it clear that Flow is included but Rapidweaver isn't? If you're going to put a "will be unlocked" dialogue under Monkey Island (which I couldn't care less about), you should do the same for RapidWeaver. I didn't realize RapidWeaver was included in this "maybe" category - they have a threshold of 50,000 sales to unlock Monkey Island, but don't explicitly list the number for RapidWeaver, which is either unintentionally bad design or intentional deception. The final two apps require a certain number of purchases to be unlocked, so you're incentivized to tell friends to buy the bundle. The seven bundled applications are MacJournal, RipIt, Clips, CoverScout, Flow, Tales of Monkey Island, and RapidWeaver. Cheap apps and you're helping save the world (you can choose which charity your 25% goes to, or distribute it evenly among the 11 options)! At the time I'm posting this, the ticker's up to $131,000 raised from nanoBundle2 and over $2 million in the site's history. They're raising a lot of money for charity 25% of all purchases go to a worthy cause.As a multi-hyphenate who uses an embarrassing number of Mac apps over the course of an average day, surely I'll find one of these useful. Wait, why wouldn't I buy this? The entire bundle costs less than the even the cheapest application.
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