A Great App: Seasonality for Mac

I've just found this application from Gaucho Software, Seasonality.

If you are at all interested in Weather they you are going to love this. I'm running the trial version at the moment but I can see a payment heading to the developers very shortly.



Click the screenshot for a larger picture. Beautiful. Which is more than can be said for the East Midlands weather at the moment :-)

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Mac Developer Network: Developer Lives Podcast Now Free !

http://tinyurl.com/9fy9om

Thanks to Scotty this excellent Podcast can now be subscribed to free of charge. You should still suscribe to MDN though, it is an excellent resource.

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MacWorld Expo Promotion with Macsimum News

During January I have partnered with Macsimum News to provide a 35% discount coupon for any and all Arten Science products. The coupon booklet (which also features dozens of other offers from other companies) can be downloaded from now until the close of MacWorld Expo.



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Useful Tools 3 of ?

Things from Cultured Code is quite simply the best, most intuitive todo list/project management system I have used.



I have been using this for many months since the very early pre-release versions and it has been slick and stable, never missing a beat. It tracks my private and business projects, reminds me who to invoice and when and it syncs with my iPhone.

You need to give this software a try. Highly recommended.

Oh, and Happy New Year :-)

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Sicuro Delayed, Happy Holidays Etc.

Well it's that time of year again. I've just got back from setting up the Spanish offices for a customer of mine: Tailored Marine Supplies.

Much as I enjoyed the work, the climate, Sotogrande, the company and especially the last meal at the Argentinean restaurant - this has unfortunately meant that work on Sicuro has been parked for the last couple of weeks, hence this product is now scheduled to be released in January.

I'd like to wish happy holidays to all my customers, friends and everyone really. I'm not going to be working over Christmas although I will be answering emails.

Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year :-)



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Tailored Marine Bedding and Supplies, A Happy Customer

A customer of mine has recently setup a new business dealing with tailored supplies for yachts and boats. The guys who have setup this company are all extremely successful businessmen who I have known for years.

The initial and primary focus of the company is on tailored bedding. Obviously the shape of the cabins in a yacht mean that the beds are not the traditional rectangular shape and so it is difficult and expensive to procure fitted bedding. Given the track record of the founders, the quality of the products and the effort that has gone into this I believe this is going to be an extremely successful venture.

The company is Tailored Marine Supplies and their website is at www.tailoredms.com.



My involvement with this venture is from the IT and software perspective. My ArtenSUITE Framework has been used to develop a suite of modules specifically for TMS.

All the products information, pictures and prices are setup and stored on my hosted database. ArtenSUITE is a Mac OSX and Windows Client running locally, it is only the database that is remote. This works extremely well as TMS are based in Spain, I am in the UK. They need to run the software, I need to maintain it and back it up. The online ordering website also pulls all it's information from this hosted database and save quotes and orders back to this database.



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DataClean 1.0.0 Released

Version 1.0.0 of DataClean has been released for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux.

DataClean is a Cross Platform Utility designed to make it straightforward to ‘clean’ large amounts of data. Data can be imported from a CSV or TAB delimited file, modified (any column, any row) and then saved back in several different formats including native Excel (XLS), TAB Delimited and Comma Separated. You can also save the modified file using your own Custom Delimiter.

DataClean supports the following Actions: Remove / Replace / Find / Insert and Format. Within each Action DataClean provides Tasks that you can apply to the data grid.

Tasks include:

Remove Leading Spaces
Remove Trailing Spaces
Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces
Remove Text
Remove Selected Row(s)
Remove Text from Start of Column
Remove Text from End of Column
Remove Text Before ...
Remove Text After ...
Replace Text
Find Text
Insert at the Beginning of the Column
Insert at the End of the Column
Insert Blank Row
Format as Uppercase
Format as Lowercase
Format as Capitalised

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DataClean Preview: Download for Mac / Windows and Linux

http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/DataClean.html

Download Links:

http://www.artenscience.com/autoupdate/latestversions/dataclean_osx.zip
http://www.artenscience.com/autoupdate/latestversions/dataclean_win.zip
http://www.artenscience.com/autoupdate/latestversions/dataclean_lin.zip

DataClean is a Cross Platform Utility designed to make it straightforward to ‘clean’ large amounts of data.

Data can be imported from a CSV or TAB delimited file, modified (any column, any row) and then saved back in several different formats including native Excel (XLS), TAB Delimited and Comma Separated. You can also save the modified file using your own Custom Delimiter.

DataClean supports the following Actions: Remove / Replace / Find / Insert and Format. Within each Action DataClean provides Tasks that you can apply to the data grid. Tasks include:

*Remove Leading Spaces
*Remove Trailing Spaces
*Remove Leading and Trailing Spaces
*Remove Text
*Remove Selected Row(s)
*Remove Text from Start of Column
*Remove Text from End of Column
*Remove Text Before ...
*Remove Text After ...
*Replace Text
*Find Text
*Insert at the Beginning of the Column
*Insert at the End of the Column
*Insert Blank Row
*Format as Uppercase
*Format as Lowercase
*Format as Capitalised



We are looking for feedback as to what additional features and / or tasks you think should be available within DataClean. All suggestions are welcome.

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macVCR 1.2 Screen Capture Software Free with MacFormat Magazine Issue 203

A special version of macVCR, version 1.2 is available for free on the cover CD of MacFormat Magazine, issue 203, available from 10th December 2008.



In addition any user of version 1.2 is entitled to an upgrade to the latest version of macVCR for only £11, a saving of over 20%. Contact me for further details. steve@artenscience.co.uk

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DataClean Preview: Cross Platform Utility for Data Controllers

The Preview Edition of DataClean is available for download. Although the release version will be a Cross Platform Utility, the Preview Edition is Mac OSX Only.

http://www.artenscience.co.uk/artenscience/DataClean.html

DataClean is a Cross Platform Utility designed to make it straightforward to ‘clean’ large amounts of data. Data can be imported from a CSV or TAB delimited file, modified (any column, any row) and then saved back in several different formats including native Excel (XLS).

DataClean supports the following Actions: Remove / Replace / Find / Insert and Format. Within each Action DataClean provides Tasks. For example; within the Remove Action there is the Task ‘Remove Trailing Spaces’.
The Preview Version of DataClean is Framework complete, but at the moment has few Tasks. I am looking for feedback as to what you think should be available within DataClean.

All suggestions are welcome.



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