Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity [Mediafire]

Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity By Hugh MacLeod
Publisher: Portfo lio Hard cover 2009 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 159184259X | EPUB | 6 MB

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog ??“ gapingvoid.com ??“ and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures.

MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new ideas emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world? Where does inspiration come from? What does it take to make a living as a creative person?
Now his first book, Ignore Everyone, expands on his sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. A sample:
Don??™t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether. There??™s no point trying to do the same thing as 250,000 other young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one.
After learning MacLeod??™s 40 keys to creativity, you will be ready to unlock your own brilliance and unleash it on the world.

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TextSoap 6.4.3 | Mac Os X [Mediafire]

TextSoap 6.4.3 | Mac Os X | 5.5 MB

Find and remove unwanted, extraneous, text. Clean up emails scattered with forwarding marks or make clean paragraphs out of hard to read, broken lines of text, all with a simply click. TextSoap works not just on email, but any any text you might work with, including from the web, a Word document from a co-worker who put a return at the end of each and every line, or output from some mainframe database that you need to convert.


Keep Your Fonts

TextSoap is the only text cleaning utility that maintains formatting while it cleans up the underlying text. Most other "Text cleaning apps" only work with plain text. Remove extra spaces or garbage characters without losing the format of your text.
Or Work With the Styles

You can also format text based on its content. For example:

Find bolded text and tag the text with HTML tags ( ).
Find any instances of a word and italicize it.
Even convert simple rich formatting to a clean, CSS-friendly, HTML.
Customizable Solutions

Though TextSoap comes with more than 100 built-in cleaners, sometimes you have a special situation. TextSoap can build customized cleaners providing a powerful, yet simple, way to help clean up your special case.

TextSoap includes a Custom Cleaner Editor to help you create customized solutions for modifying your text. The editor uses a simple drag and drop interface to build up a list of actions into a simple workflow to change your text. It also includes regular expression support that works with both rich text and plain text.
SCRUB-a-dub-dub

TextSoap features a powerful cleaner called "Scrub". Scrub is a combination cleaner that is designed to handle the most common text cleaning tasks. It will remove extra spaces, fix broken paragraphs, remove email forwarding marks (>) and more. The goal of the Scrub cleaner is to clean up about 90% of the cases you run into under normal circumstances.
Get Organized

With more than 100 built-in cleaners and your own custom cleaners, you may want to organize the cleaners a bit differently. TextSoap lets you create custom collections of cleaners called "Groups". With Groups, you can determine which cleaners to include and in what order. Add in labels and separators to organize within a group. Whether it is just your favorite collection of cleaners or ones geared towards specific tasks, organize TextSoap to meet your needs.
Zero Commute - Work In Your Favorite App

Along with a full featured text editor, TextSoap also integrates with your favorite applications using a variety of plugin options. TextSoap can work directly with your text in Apple Mail, TextEdit, Eudora, Pages, MS Word, TextWrangler, BBEdit, Coda, and much more.

Through OS X Services, you can use TextSoap's cleaners without leaving the application. The shortcut menu module allows many applications to add TextSoap's cleaners to their shortcut (control-click) menu.

TextSoap also has application-specific plugins for BBEdit, TextWrangler, Eudora, and Coda. These plugins are designed specifically for these applications -- taking advantage of additional integration options offered by the programs.
Auto and the AppleScripter

TextSoap also supports both AppleScript and Automator ("Hello Auto") integration. Take full advantage of TextSoap's features in your workflows or scripts.

TextSoap can now easily be scripted to clean up text within an AppleScript, provide a full interface to integrate into scriptable apps or to just clean up the clipboard.

TextSoap offers two Automator actions. One is designed to apply TextSoap's cleaners to text within a workflow, the other is designed to process text files using a workflow. The "Clean Text Files" action lets you create a simple batch processing workflow that takes full advantage of TextSoap.

Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
compatible with Snow Leopard

Version 6.4.3:
Fixes regression issue with Automator actions under 64-bit Automator
Textual Find/Replace: added support for v meta-character for vertical tab character (0x0b).
Textual Find/Replace: if character following is not a meta-character, it just becomes the character. Thus, $ becomes $.
Text now remains unchanged if an error occurs during "Run Automator Workflow" action.
Logs any error encountered during "Run Automator Workflow" action.
Other miscellaneous fixes.

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Jump 2.0.4 | Mac Os X [Mediafire]

Jump 2.0.4 | Mac Os X | 9.2 MB

Jump is a cool utility designed to quickly launch applications, open documents, or access folders. When there is not enough space in the Apple Dock, you can use Jump to store an endless number of items! It can be used in conjunction with the Apple Dock or as its replacement.

When Jump is installed, a discreet icon sits in the corner of your screen, and you can click to activate it. A palette slides onto the screen, to which you can add your favorite applications (with a simple drag and drop), or click to launch them. The Jump palette shows multiples applications at a time; however, you can search for applications in its palettes or browse for them in multiple pages.

A cool alternative to Apple dock that is often too crowded
Allows you to create unlimited groups of items
Allows you to add items with a simple drag and drop: applications, documents, folders,...)
Many options are available to customize the behavior and user interface of the application
Multiple screens support: allows you to put the Jump palette on a second screen
Option for a quick access with a keyboard shortcut

Mac Os 10.5 or Mac Os 10.6

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iDocument 1.5.14 | Mac Os X [Mediafire]

iDocument 1.5.14 | Mac Os X | 5.2 MB

iDocument makes documents managing as easy as creating them. It helps you to organize and manage documents on Mac; it puts all of your documents in order in its library.

With Tag, search, smart folder and flag features, iDocument not only gives you full range of the managing function for you to manage documents on Mac, on top of that, it is the first semi-automatic document management program in the Mac world, it can record your operational habits, and batch process it automatically.

Requirements
Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later.

Version 1.5.14:
Fixed the UI bug in the iCon view
Optimized the support for keynote.
Added CMD + Y for Quick look
Added the Double license recongnition system
Fixed other bugs

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Banner Designer Pro 5.0 Portable [Mediafire]

WinApp | Banner Designer Pro 5.0 Portable | 35 MB

Banner Designer Pro is a deceptively simple banner design tool with extremely powerful features. The best part about Banner Designer Pro is that it does not require you to possess intensive Flash skills. With the simple select and drop functionality you can add different elements to your banner and create attractive banners with complete ease.



Professionally designed banner templates
Banner Designer Pro provides a professionally designed set of attractive templates as a starting step to your banner.

Select a banner size to suit your requirement
You can select from a set of 11 banner size options available or design a banner of the specific size you require.

Add shapes to your banner
Select from a database of shapes and place them according to individual design preference on the banner.

Add images to the banner and edit them
Simply browse through your system and add images of your choice anywhere on the banner. Further you can edit the image to scale its size, rotate and adjust its brightness and contrast.

Add Text to your banner design
Using the Text Tool, add text to your banner. The banner software provides you an array of font options and sizes to pick from. Also add color to your text to make it stand out.

Arrange element order -move objects to front or to back
Using the Arrange (front to back or back to front) tool, arrange the objects in your banner as per your requirement.

Color & Gradient Features for your banner
Banner Designer Pro provides you excellent color and gradient features. Add background color, specify color for the shapes and the text in your banner. You can add solid color and gradient color as well.

Make banners with animated Text & Image Entry Effect
The software has preset animated entry and transition effects. Select the type of animated entry effect you want for the text and images on the banner.

Time setting for effects
Set the time for different effects happening on the banner. A range of animated effects have been provided including text entry effect, text exit effect, image entry effect or image exit effect.

Pre-defined Preloaders for loading banners
Banner Designer Pro provides you a pre defined set of Preloaders so that the banner can be displayed within minimum time.

Completely optimized banner file size
The final banner design is optimized by Banner Designer Pro to make the file light and easy to upload.

Publish banner in SWF or HTML
The Banner Designer Pro allows you to publish your banner as SWF or HTML so you can easily upload it online.

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Hulu Downloader 2.4.4.6 Portable [Mediafire]

WinApp | Hulu Downloader 2.4.4.6 Portable | 11.7 Mb

• Hulu Downloader enables you to download videos from Hulu.com and convert Flash video (.flv) files.
• It includes a FLV Browser that you can use to browse popular video sites and download any FLV content that you come across.


• You can then use the additional utilities that come included to convert the downloaded FLV files to various video formats (AVI, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, MOV, WMV etc.) or extract audio tracks from the video files.
• Hulu Downloader also includes a tool that lets you convert existing video files to FLV formats, as well as a FLV Fixer that you can use to repair FLV files that contain incorrect duration data.

Features:

FLV Browser: It's easy to download Flash movies from Internet movie sites. Simply launch the FLV browser, and visit your favorite video site. Select and play a videod clic, ank "download" to save it to your hard drive.

FLV Downloader: Hulu Downloader dramatically reduces the time that it takes to download Flash movies. The program splits the file into sections, and downloads multiple sections simultaneously, efficiently optimizing whatever Internet connection you're using. The program lets you create custom categories for all of your films, so you can easily find them when you want to watch them again.

FLV to Video Converter: It's simple to convert a Flash file to MP4 format, and view it on your iPod. You can also convert movies to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MOV, and WM formats, without having to wrestle with codecs or external software. After conversion, you can watch your movies on any of your computers or portable devices.

Video to FLV Converter: Hulu Downloader can convert any of these popular movie formats into Flash files. It supports almost all types of video formats such as MPEG, AVI, WMV, MOV, ASF, MP4, 3GP and etc.

FLV Audio Ripper: Hulu Downloader's built-in audio ripper can extract the music track from any Flash movie. It's easy to turn these extracted music tracks into MP3, WMA, WAV, AAC, and other popular music formats.

FLV Fixer: The program can even repair damaged Flash movies. The built-in FLV Fixer and MetaData Injector will analyze and repair Flash files that won't play properly.

FLV Player: A built-in simple and handy FLV Player help you play FLV Files on any PC.
Video Site Library: The Hulu Downloader web site includes a video web site library that lists the finest sources of high-quality movies. The library lists the most popular general-interest sites, as well as movies, television, sports, news, music, health, travel, science, and many more.

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