Shiny Things and Little App Factory are holding a sale on our iOS education and Mac media apps with deals of up to 50%. Titles include the fun new Jungle Picnic, Quick Math, the award winning RipIt and Tagalicious.

Available for a limited time only, don’t miss out!

Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

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Thanks Rocket Matter for supporting MacSparky.com

I’ve long believed that computing platforms will become increasingly less relevant as we move forward with cloud-based software. The legal profession is a good example where just a few years ago, everybody used Windows PCs.

That’s not true any more and this week’s RSS Sponsor, Rocket Matter, demonstrates why. These guys have built the premier web-based law practice management platform that takes care of all your needs to run a small (or large) law office.

If you are a legal professional, check them out. If you aren’t a legal professional but pay for your shoes through billing by the hour, you should still check out their free e-book, Ridiculously Remarkable Legal Billing, with immediately useful, practical advice, no matter what your trade.

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My thanks to Colugo for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. As an aside, I’m looking forward to trying this out with family during the holidays.

Colugo is the easiest way to share photos privately with your friends and family.

Colugo is a simple solution to a simple organization and communication problem. Colugo doesn’t use gimmicks like other apps do. No “magic” albums or location based sharing or other features that may sound cool in theory, but when you actually use them you find they are not very useful (at best), and a privacy nightmare (at worst). Colugo is private photo sharing done right.

Want to share some of your photos publicly and others privately – in a single app?

With Colugo you can! Make one album for the world to see, and “publish” it. Keep your other albums private, viewable by only those you invite.

Tired of returning from a party and having to contact all your friends for pics?

With Colugo you won’t have to. Partygoers can take pictures directly into a party album you create and you all share.

Colugo. Simple.
Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

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My thanks to Dozeo for sponsoring MacSparky this week.

dozeo is a young and innovative team of developers and online media experts from Stuttgart, Germany. Together we are excited about redefining videoconferencing and providing a hassle-free solution for people to meet online and communicate live and interactively with each other.

dozeo represents a new kind of social video conferencing. It combines powerful features into an intuitive and stylish design that can easily withstand a comparison with the established online conferencing tools.

Upcoming integrations of dozeo into existing social media platforms will increase the fun factor and improve the effective use of online collaboration tools. With the existing integration for Github we have already made a start: developers get the chance to avoid lengthy plain text discussions and join a video conference directly from GitHub.

Check it out for yourself and sign up for a free dozeo account.

Happy meetings!

Try hassle-free video conferencing with Dozeo today.
Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

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Sifter is a simple project management tool for small teams. It frees you up to focus on shipping better software instead of checking in on team members.

It’s perfect for serving as your team’s central location for capturing and managing all of a project’s issues, questions, bugs and new features. No more swimming through emails or multiple applications to check on the status of an issue. Sifter’s powerful search and filtering make sure you can easily find what you need.

Also, by keeping things obsessively simple, Sifter helps ensure that even the least technical team members feel welcome and comfortable participating so that they can be actively involved in both development and testing without any training.

The result is increased participation working hand-in-hand with a focus on accountability to ensure projects get delivered on time and that nothing slips through the cracks.

Signup for your free trial.
Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

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For years, those who’ve wanted to teach themselves programming have been caught between the trusted content found in books and the ease of use with online materials. Now, O’Reilly Media and Inkling have teamed up to reimagine the world’s most trusted technological resources for iPad, iPhone, and the web.

From embedded coding sandboxes to notes with web links, syntax highlighting, and more, books in the Animal series, Missing Manual series, and others are amplified with Inkling-only features not found in any other e-book version. Copy-and-paste bits of code as you go on your laptop, or drill down into the logic behind the syntax when reading on your iPad or iPhone.

Budding developers and tech enthusiasts alike now have some of the world’s best tech resources right at their fingertips. Watch a video that shows how it all works, and shop for books.

Sponsorship by The Syndicate.

My thanks to Igloo for sponsoring the RSS feed this week.

“That’s no moon. It’s a corporate intranet!”

… 6 months later …

“I felt a great disturbance in our company — as if hundreds of employees cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”

Your intranet doesn’t have to suck. At Igloo, we built a new intranet platform that combines social technologies with document management in a beautiful, usable digital workplace.

In your day, you might give updates, have discussions and share files with your team. With Igloo, that all happens in one place. The tools you want to use, like blogs, comments, ratings, status updates, and more, are already there. Right beside your documents.

No more searching email threads. No more bolt-ons to legacy platforms.

It just works.

Plans start at just $99 a month for up to 25 users and scale to intergalactic sizes. Get started with a demo and you could win a Field Notes Brand National Crop set.

Sponsorship by The Syndicate

This week’s RSS Sponsor is OmniPlan, an app that rethinks project management. I use this app all the time and absolutely love it.

Sarah wakes up, prepares a full breakfast, and fires up her standard suite for design. Two new, time-consuming projects this week — it’s time to start planning much further than was previously warranted. Should’ve started yesterday.

OmniPlan for iPad is perfect for this. An intuitive interface keeps unnecessary controls out of your way until you need them, and you don’t have to become an expert in another field.

It’s just Sarah, three months of work, and a beautiful timeline to keep her studio of one on track. Available in the App Store for $50.

I firmly believe accounting and time-tracking are all heading online. Harvest is a painless time tracking tool for creative professionals available anywhere you find yourself working. Track time via the web, desktop or your mobile device. Within seconds, turn your billable hours into an invoice.

Get started with a free 30 day trial today.