It might be a brand new year, but that doesn’t mean your brand new Mac has to be left app empty. So we want to supercharge your OS X experience with four applications for a powerful Finder experience, smarter windows, and only the fastest downloader on your side of the MacStories Internet. We’re going to supercharge your Snow Leopard, and all you have to do is enter our giveaway for a chance at one of five bundles.
For the next three days, AppSumo is selling a $14 dollar bundle (valued at $55) that’s worth its weight in gold. It’s the first of many bundles to come, and we’re lucky enough to be giving away five of them to some lucky readers.
The Bundle:
If there’s anything useful about Windows 7 it has to be its infamous Snap feature. Macs can Snap too, albeit with Cinch, a tiny mouse driven application that allows you to dock windows to hot zones for dual pane reading or a fullscreen view. The utility shines in its simplicity, and as a quick tip I often dock the Finder and an FTP app side-by-side for easy drag-and-drop file transfers.
Total Finder gives your Finder tabs! How cool is that? Integrating Google Chrome with your Finder, your supercharged file explorer features Dual Mode, can Show System Files without unnecessary terminal foo, and has (holy crap): cut & paste. Whatever crap load (or lack of) files you manage, once you try Total Finder, there’s no way you’re going back.
If you want a download manager that does everything we recommend Speed Download – it’s like adding a turbocharger to your Mac. Download Youtube videos, transfer files over FTP, access your iDisks, and share encrypted files with other Speed Download users. Add Rapidshare support, RSS reader integration, and fully customizable interface, and you have yourself only the best download companion you could ask for.
You’re pretty anal about where those windows on your Mac are located, so why reposition them each time you launch the app? Breeze saves your window positions on a per-app basis so you can stop fudging with windows and jump straight into your preferred productive workflow. The best part is that Breeze saves ‘window states’ independently from your monitor’s current resolution – if you plug your MacBook into a Cinema Display later on, you’ll have the same configuration on the larger display!
The Giveaway:
Amped about the four apps we’re giving away? Let me tell you how can enter our contest: just follow the rules below!
- We have 5 copies of the Supercharge OS X bundle to give away.
- To enter the giveaway, tweet the following message before 11.59 AM PDT (January 18th): Win a copy of Supercharge OS X on MacStories http://mcstr.net/fz0x6Y
- We will search Twitter.com for tweets and retweets and randomly pick up the winners.
- Make sure to follow @macstoriesnet on Twitter so we can get in touch with you once the giveaway is over. If you want to increase your odds of winning, you can also leave a comment to this post.
- Winners will be announced on Wednesday (January, 19th).
A big thanks to AppSumo for providing us with today’s giveaway bundle! They have lots of great deals on software and services every week over at AppSumo.com, so be sure to sign up for an account so you don’t miss out on great opportunities to score some cool stuff.
