The Macheist.com nano bundle has only got 1 day left and is still some 225,000 partispants short of unlocking Mariner Write. So it looks like Mariner Write won’t be unlocked. However if you haven’t yet downloaded the other 5 free apps including ShoveBox and Twitterrific go and do it now because it’ll be gone in only a few hours, never to return again.

The Mac Sale was launched today and for a limited time only you can get $450 Worth of Apps for $49.99. The bundle of 10 applications combines the products of both established Mac powerhouses and startup indie developers.
The full list of applications in this exciting new bundle is:

REALBasic Personal – The exceptional rapid development environment. Designed to appeal to newcomers to software development and also old hands looking for another tool to add to their arsenal.

Iris – A new image manipulation app with a beautiful user interface. It’s uncluttered …

Here at the Hi-Tech Squad we don’t often “recommend” software but there are two critical bits of software that everyone needs a good anti virus and good backup.

For the anti virus the best free offering is AVG Free and for backup we just found out about GFI Backup…
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VirtualBox 3.0 has been released by Sun. This major update introduces Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) in virtual machines as well improved 3D support.

VirtualBox is an x86 virtualization solution, developed by Sun Microsystems (it was originally created by German software company Innotek). When it is installed on an existing host operating system (known as the host) additional guest operating systems can be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.

VirtualBox the only professional x86 virtualization solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General …

Maximum PC has written a brief overview of 5 different types of free servers (including network attached storage) which you can use on that extra PC that you have sitting around your house/apartment/basement. As long as it has some disks you are set to go.

The article looks at:

unRAID Server
FreeNAS
ClarkConnect
Amahi Home Server
Tonido

Read more here: The Freeware Files: Make the Most of your Spare Storage with Five Freeware Servers! | Maximum PC
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For a limited time SitePoint are giving away Corrie Haffly’s The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques for FREE. The PDF eBook which previously cost $29.95 can be downloaded for free from here.
You need to enter your email address and they send you a download… However I enter my email address about 10 minutes ago and no email yet… Could they be swamped?
The offer ends in 28 days or when their servers crash… Which ever comes sooner!!!
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Got an e-mail in my inbox this morning from Pandora with the thing all UK-based users of this service have feared: Pandora will stop streaming to the UK as of January 15th. They have been forced to isolate everyone except the UK for a while, in hopes they might still be able to work out a deal. I guess it did not work out.
Oh well, there’s always Last.fm or HotSpot Shield. Yeah, you read me right! While it’s been intended as a protection over your wireless connection, HotSpot creates “a …

Following our post on how the Free AVG Anti-Virus Pro Download Swamps Server we are pleased to announce that we have found another mirror. Computeract!ve reported that they were “experiencing severe disruption” to their downloads server after this offer was leaked to other internet users.
If you are looking for an alternative download mirror try here, it worked for us!
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Following a post on downloadsquad that Computeract!ve is giving away free licensed copies of AVG Anti-Virus Pro through Jan 17, 2008, Computeract!ve are now reporting that they are experiencing severe server download problems.
“We are experiencing severe disruption to our downloads server after this offer was leaked to other internet users. We’re working to fix the problem – if you can’t access the file, please try again later.”
CyberNet has pointed us to a couple of mirrors. But when the Hi-Tech Squad tried downloading from them we discovered that one was …

TechSmith is giving away two of their most popular screen capture and screencasting programs: SnagIt and Camtasia Studio.
Along with snapping screenshots, SnagIt can capture scrolling long web pages, extract text from windows, annotate images and so on: quite a way from a regular Windows Print Screen.
While there is a catch (both apps are not the latest version but a decent version nonetheless), you can download them, and after you request your serial number, you can upgrade to the latest versions at a sensible discount.
Download a demo of Camtasia Studio 3 …