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So after much careful thought, deliberation, sleepless nights, and that’s just about who’s on this week’s IMP, I’ve gone through the great comments we’ve had on the 1Password to Rule Them All! review and giveaway and decided that the winners of the amazingly generous giveaway from the folks at Agile Web Solutions are :

Gary Simon Bainbridge

Congratulations guys, I’ll be in touch very soon with your sparkly new license keys. If you didn’t win a copy of 1Password I’d encourage you to go out and buy the app if you can, it’s saved my proverbial bacon on many occasion.

From the development studio that brought us, Glyder.  In Deer Hunter 3D, you play an unnamed player, who can hunt in three areas, using six different weapons, not to mention the four different difficulties.  Between the intense game play and the cool “How did I actually kill this animal?” feature, this game is worth the $4.99. (more…)

CheckUp, from App4Mac,  is an application I have been using for some time now. It has really helped me in controlling my core temperature, disk speed and memory usage. With its powerful Growl notification integration you can really know and understand very easily what is happening inside of your Mac. In this review I will look at this application section by section.

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This week’s panel : Stu Helm, Bart Busschots, Connor Jackson, Will and Ben Armstrong

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:16:19 — 33.7MB)

As many of you know, I, in my spare time, develop applications for Mac under the banner of Blue Pyjama. I tend to have bursts of energy where I just feel like I need to write applications, followed by periods of several months where nothing new is made and things are just let to rot.

I’ve always wanted Blue Pyjama to one day become a money-making company, whether it be via the iTunes Store or through the sale of a desktop app. So far the day hasn’t come yet. This weekend was one of those super productive weekends. I wrote 2 applications that will be appearing on the Blue Pyjama website soon. One of them is a simple app for checking if your Internet is down, while the other is a web browser called Wildfire. Wildfire is actually reasonably OK. You wouldn’t want to use it as your main browser, but possible as a secondary one.

This got me thinking about sales. There are tons of apps that sell very cheaply ($10-$15) that are very simple and plain. How come browsers are free? With a web browser, you can do so much. Not that I want to pick on any apps in particular, but take Blitz for example; Blitz is a small utility that forces your computer to focus all of the CPU on one app. Blitz is $17.

How did this come to be? A web browser that gives you endless possibilities is free while a menubar app that makes other apps shut up costs $17! I’d have thought that the market should be the other way around, with a web browser selling for $17 and an application shutter-upper going for free. Once Wildfire is complete, I doubt that I’d be able to sell it – at most it would be donationware.

I guess that this shows how bizarre this world is. I’ll be interested to see what the comments are on this.

There are four basic steps to GTD: Collect, Process/Organize, Do, and Review. I’ve taken you through the first two, and the third doesn’t need much explaining. The fourth, the Review, I haven’t. And that’s because I’ve been a very bad GTDer. I haven’t been doing my review.

All right, I’d better tell you what it is. The thinking behind it is that you don’t see all your tasks every day, so it’s easy to have them fall out of your mind. After all, that’s a principle of GTD, to not have your tasks cluttering up your brain. The Review is where you go and look at either (a) the tasks you don’t see on a regular basis, such as a Someday/Maybe list you keep, or (b) everything. Yes, everything. (more…)

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This week’s panel : Bart Busschots, Stu Helm. Michael King, Elaine Giles and Paul Shadwell

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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:19:34 — 35.4MB)