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  NZMac.com is 5 years old today and kicks off the year with a site survey and a chance for you to get your hands on an incredible prize package worth hundreds of dollars, with 7 consolation prizes on offer also! The site survey and contest will stay open until midnight on January 31st, 2008. Only one entry per postal address. Those outside of New Zealand or those who do not wish to be considered for the prizes are most welcome to complete the survey anyway, as all feedback helps.
It's been a while since there was a site survey, so now is a good chance for you to say what you like and don't like about NZMac.com....which will help with shaping the site in the future. To take the survey, just click here (requires a valid email address). Thank you to everyone that completes the survey and best of luck with the contest.
NZMac.com's 5th birthday celebration is being supported by the following companies (many, many thanks to them!)....
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MoneyWorks Express 5 from Cognito Software
Value $450 NZ
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www.cognito.co.nz
The MoneyWorks family of accounting software provides a range of feature rich but easy-to-use solutions for small-to-medium organisations.
MoneyWorks Express is an ideal solution for small organisations who need more than a cashbook. It provides full invoicing and a powerful debtors and creditors ledger, all fully integrated into the cashbook and general ledger.
MoneyWorks Express 5 is a major upgrade to the popular MoneyWorks Express 4 package. It streamlines both the entry of data and provides the capability for better management and financial reporting. MoneyWorks Express 5 also supports the latest technologies, including Windows Vista. For Mac users, it has a full "universal binary", meaning it runs natively on both PowerPC Macs and the new-generation Intel-based Mac.
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BBEdit and Yojimbo from BareBones Software
Value $164 USD
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www.barebones.com
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.
Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life—without changing the way you work.
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TechTool Protogo from Micromat
Value $135 USD
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www.micromat.com
Protogo allows you to quickly create a bootable diagnostic device that contains Micromat's most powerful tools as well as any of your own utilities you may wish to install. You can then use this device to boot, check, maintain, and repair Macintosh computers as needed.
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FileSalvage from SubRosaSoft.com
Value $89.95 USD
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www.subrosasoft.com
FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:
- been accidentally deleted
- become unreadable due to media faults
- been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted
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WireTap Studio from Ambrosia Software
Value $69 USD
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www.ambrosiasw.com
WireTap Studio is a professional audio recording, editing, and management solution, allowing you to manage and manipulate your audio with ease. Discretely record from a specific application, record all of your Mac system audio simultaneously, or even record from any hardware/line-in device of your choice.
After recording, edit your clips with WireTap Studio's revolutionary and completely lossless editor. Lossless master recording technology enables you to edit your recorded audio without any loss of quality or content. Come back days, months, or even years later and undo the changes you've made. You can even take a file you mistakenly recorded at a lower quality and increase the quality at any time, without the need to re-record!
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Pixelmator
Value $59 USD
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www.pixelmator.com
Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and colour correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, colour management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.
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1 year subscription to VersionTracker Pro/MacFixIt Pro
Value $ 59.90 USD
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www.versiontracker.com
VersionTracker Pro gives you an automated, simple and cost-effective way to inventory and keep all the software on up to 3 Macs current and secure.
www.macfixit.com
MacFixIt Pro provides access to over 10 years of Mac troubleshooting knowledge, exclusive content and troubleshooting reports, e-mail alerts, special reports on incremental and major Mac OS X releases, as well as expert commentary from leading Mac authors.
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PDFpen from SmileOnMyMac
Value $ 49.95 USD
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www.smileonmymac.com
Fill out PDF forms and edit PDFs easily with PDFpen! Split, combine, reorder, sign and augment PDFs with text, image overlays & watermarks. Correct and modify existing PDF text; resize, move, and delete PDF images!
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DragThing and PCalc from TLA Systems
Value $48 USD
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www.tla-systems.co.uk
DragThing puts all your documents, folders, and applications just a single click away. Highly flexible, it allows multiple docks, each customised to suit your exact needs. It stores frequently-used clippings such as text and pictures, and lets you easily paste them into other applications with just a click.
PCalc 3 is a brand new version of the veteran calculator application from 1992. It is a fully featured scientific calculator for Mac OS X with support for hexadecimal, octal and binary calculations, as well as an RPN mode, parentheses, programmable functions, and an extensive set of unit conversions. A Dashboard Widget is also included with the main application.
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1x NZMac.com large sized coffee mug
Value $35 NZ
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| Runner-up prizes (one prize per person) |
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Pixelmator
Value $59 USD
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4x Pixelmator licenses
www.pixelmator.com
Pixelmator, the beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.
Built from the ground up on a combination of open source and Mac OS X technologies, Pixelmator features powerful selection, painting, retouching, navigation, and colour correction tools, and layers-based image editing, GPU-powered image processing, colour management, automation, and transparent HUD user interface for work with images.
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TechTool Pro 4 from Micromat
Value $98 USD
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www.micromat.com
TechTool Pro 4 is a complete Macintosh repair shop in a box. In fact, it’s so good that Apple includes a copy of its sibling, TechTool Deluxe, in its AppleCare Protection Plan. If you have ever experienced a system bomb, freeze, crash, or indecipherable error code, TechTool Pro 4 can help you get your computer running smoothly again.
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FileSalvage from SubRosaSoft.com
Value $89.95 USD
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www.subrosasoft.com
FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:
- been accidentally deleted
- become unreadable due to media faults
- been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted
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1x NZMac.com standard sized coffee mug
Value $30 NZ
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Please note - NZMac.com is a site dedicated to supporting the New Zealand Macintosh community and therefore, this competition is for New Zealand Mac users. All users wishing to be considered for a prize will be required to provide their New Zealand postal address. See the survey for more details.
[Winners Announced]
Congratulations to the following people...
- Glynn Hardy - First prize bundle
- Ben Sheat - Pixelmator
- Steven Comber - Pixelmator
- Oliver Erlewein - Pixelmator
- Mark Jackson - Pixelmator
- Geoffrey Pearson - TechTool Pro 4
- Elaine Youngs - FileSalvage
- Matthew Birch - Standard NZMac.com coffee mug
Thanks to Will, who helped draw the names from...well, I was going to say a hat, but it was his mum's biscuit tin...but you get the picture ;-) And to Miraz Jordan, who gave her copy of Pixelmator back as she had it already
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