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BitsDuJour Article on 47Hats.com

2009-12-04T09:01:00.001-05:00

A new article on Breaking through your sales ceiling with Bits du Jour has been published on 47hats.com.

http://www.47hats.com/2009/12/breaking-through-your-sales-ceiling-with-bits-du-jour/

Sleepy No Longer Hosted on Iconico.com

2009-11-24T12:56:00.000-05:00

As of today Sleepy has moved to a new website which will be the home of Sleepy going forward. Find out more here:

http://www.sleepysoftware.com

Window Nudger Released

2009-11-14T15:11:00.002-05:00

Believe it or not, but there are times when using a mouse can actually be counterproductive! Is your mouse old, broken, or just acting strangely? Has the clutter on your desk forced you to confine your working area to just a tiny sliver of open desktop? Have you ever tried to work on a laptop on one of those tiny airline seatback trays? Sure, laptops have touchpads, but wouldn’t it be just easier, and more productive, if you never had to take your fingers off of your keyboard?

Window Nudger is the perfect tool for the keyboard warrior in all of us! Imagine being able to move, resize, cascade, tile, drag and hide any application window using simple hotkey combinations! Window Nudger even lets you set the distance between cascaded and tiled windows.

Window Nudger is the smart choice for anyone who’d rather not fuss with a mouse to perform common Windows tasks!

Window Nudger runs on Windows XP and Vista.

You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
Single User license is only $9.50
We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide.

Find Out More about Window Nudger.

Screen Calipers for $0

2009-10-28T00:12:00.001-04:00

This week we're offering the Screen Calipers for the lowest price ever of $0.00 after mail-in rebate. Our brand new sister website BoomerApp.com has the deal.

All you need to do is pay up front and then print and mail in the rebate form to receive all your money back. This is our best deal ever on the Screen Calipers and runs for this week only!

Get the $0 Deal at Boomer App.com

Introducing BoomerApp.com Software Rebates

2009-10-19T00:00:00.003-04:00

We're extremely excited to announce the launch of our newest software discount website BoomerApp.

So, what makes BoomerApp unlike all the other software websites out there? We think a lot. Firstly we can offer software deals that are up to 100% off of the regular retail prices.

It all works with mail-in rebates. You pay the retail price up-front, and then print out the special rebate form. After you've posted it to one of our worldwide locations we'll send you your payment within two business days.

What's more, after you've made your purchase, you may be offered another software application which you can choose to get for free instead of redeeming your rebate, the choice is yours.

We've partnered with some great software vendors to bring you some really excellent software, at prices lower than we've ever been able to get on our coupon software discount website BitsDuJour. The rebate deals only last one week so you'll need to act fast to make the most of them.

The rebate deals go live today, so stop by BoomerApp.com or follow BoomerApp on Twitter

Northstar Solutions Partners With BitsDuJour

2009-08-19T15:08:00.002-04:00

August 19, 2009

NorthStar Solutions Launches "Daily Software Discounts" ...

MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES

NorthStar Solutions is pleased to announce that, in cooperation with Bits du Jour, we have launched a new web site designed to help you promote your software products. Our new Daily Software Discounts web site will help you gain exposure for your programs by offering discounts to a rich network of hundreds of thousands of people that subscribe to a discount newsletter and/or frequently visit our web site looking for software discounts.

Please visit the Partner Information Page at the web site for more details about the program and how you can sign up. Note that link is not available on the regular web site. To view an example of the web site, visit the Daily Software Discounts home page where you can get a better feel of the look and feel web visitors experience.

THANK YOU

As always, we are honored to do business with you and find it a pleasure serving you. We wish you great success personally and professionally.

Sincerely Yours,

- Jeff Camino, President
NorthStar Solutions, LLC

BitsDuJour on Facebook

2009-08-02T23:22:00.000-04:00

You can now become a fan of BitsDuJour on Facebook, and get all our deals appear on your wall as they happen! Friend BitsDuJour on Facebook

Software Industry Conference 2009

2009-07-31T10:39:00.008-04:00

This year's 2009 Software Industry Conference was no disappointment. With some great speakers and great company it was an excellent chance to put some faces to names that we knew only by email and newsgroup postings. This year we spent a lot of time talking in the hospitality suites, here's who was on hand:

Nico and Roger hang out in the BitsDuJour exhibition booth on Friday night. We had a lot of familiar faces and some new ones stop by, a really great night.

We had some tasty "bytes" on offer on the exhibition night too.

Nico chats with Oliver Grahl, who tops the BitsDuJour leaderboard of top sellers for PDF Annotator

Mike Dulin cracks jokes at the ASP Luncheon.

Most of the e-commerce providers were on hand at the SIC this year. We caught up with the new e-commerce company UpClick.

Rik Roberts shows how a real man should perform at the Shareware Industry Awards.

Software Industry Conference

2009-07-15T17:14:00.003-04:00

Catch us at the Software Industry Conference in Boston tomorrow and all weekend. Stop by our BitsDuJour exhibition booth Friday night and score yourself some free BitsDuJour goodies!

ColorPic Just Got Better: Introducing ColorPro

2009-06-20T10:39:00.003-04:00

At Iconico we've offered our free ColorPic for years. It's so popular that it is the number one downloaded colorpicker on the web, however we thought it was time we went 'Pro".

The all-new ColorPro has the same great color manipulation abilities, but with so much more. We've added webpage and image color extraction and manipulation, and advanced palette management, import and export. Once you go Pro you won't go back.

With ColorPro, you’ll be able to store collections of color chips as palettes, with the power to create new palettes or modify existing palettes to meet changing design needs. Using an intuitive user interface that loads web pages, HTML code, and graphics files in their own tabs, ColorPro gives you an easy way to precisely identify colors and acquire them for your own projects. With three options for creating your own color chips, and complete control over RGB values as well as hue, lightness, and saturation levels, ColorPro is the easiest way to integrate color management into your web development workflow.

ColorPro also excels at color management for existing websites, allowing you to set new colors for various elements of your site with just a few clicks. Now, trying out a new color scheme for your website doesn’t involve hours of manual recoding!

Read More about ColorPro
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UltimaCalc come to Iconico.com

2009-06-05T18:38:00.002-04:00

We're thrilled to announce that UltimaCalc has come to Iconico.com! UltimaCalc represents a new turning point in the evolution of calculator applications, letting scientists, engineers, researchers, and students tackle complex and sophisticated computations that simply aren’t possible using other calculators.

Other calculator applications suffer from limited functionality due to lack of scope. UltimaCalc delivers the superior calculator experience by allowing you to open new UltimaCalc windows that are specifically designed for specialized calculations. The results obtained using these tools can be saved and opened in the main UltimaCalc window.

UltimaCalc isn't just a numerical calculator, it can also plot functions and draw charts:

Using these dedicated tools, you can:

Perform symbolic algebra
Calculate standard deviation
Calculate regression and least squares fit
Solve simultaneous linear and non-linear equations
Minimize or optimize the values of any given expression
Plot up to eight functions at a time, with export to image file
Calculate the real roots of polynomials
Solve for the solution of a triangle
Create many types of charts, with export to image file
Calculate navigation routes between two points

And that's just an abbreviated list!

UltimaCalc runs on Windows XP and Vista.

You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
Single User license is only $29.95
We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

Download UltimaCalc Read More

Daily Deals Weekly Email Changes

2009-04-27T13:30:00.002-04:00

This week we've made some changes to our weekly daily deals emails that go out. From now on the day of the week that you receive the email may have changed. You'll always receive the email on the same day going forward. We've made the change to reduce delays on sending the emails.

If you want to change the day you get the email you can unsubscribe and resubscribe on the day you want to receive the email.

Line Reader v2.0 Released

2009-04-23T15:50:00.003-04:00

Version 2 of the Line Reader has been released. The line reader turns your mousepointer into a line, making it extremely easy to read through long paragraphs of text. With this release we've added some new features to speed your reading.

The application now includes saved profiles, a muli-line capability, keyboard nudge control and auto scrolling lines. We've also added the capability to change the way the line itself functions, inverting the text beneath it, or using a number of graphical effects. Just take a look at our new movies of the Line Reader in action and you'll see how useful this application really is.

Line Reader runs on Windows XP and Vista.

You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
Single User license is only $19.50
We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide.

Find Out More about Line Reader.

New Jobs Forum for Software Marketing Resource

2009-04-14T12:20:00.004-04:00

We've added a new Jobs section to the Software Marketing Resource Community Forums. Please feel free to post any new job offers that you may have, including requests for marketing services.

http://www.softwaremarketingresource.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

More Tweeting, Get Software Marketing Resource Articles on Twitter

2009-04-10T12:58:00.003-04:00

We've set up the Software Marketing Resource Articles feed to post to Twitter, fly on over to: http://twitter.com/SMRarticles

Great Feedback about Bits Du Jour

2009-04-09T16:13:00.001-04:00

Thanks to Torsten Uhlmann for posting some great feedback on hits Bits Du Jour experience.

Homepage Changes at Bits Du Jour

2009-03-16T18:34:00.003-04:00

If you look closely you'll see a few changes on the BitsDuJour homepage. We've added notes for our three channels, so deals are marked as either "Tools & Utilities", "Media" or "Technical"; the notes appear under the box images. In addition we're now showing all of today's deals in full on the homepage, so you don't have to click to get to the second or third deal of the day, just scroll on down. Let us know if you like the changes!

Software Marketing Resource Re-Launched

2009-03-07T18:08:00.003-05:00

We're very happy to announce the relaunch of Software Marketing Resource.

Software Marketing Resource is a revolutionary web community designed to serve the changing needs of independent software developers worldwide. Our target users include just about anyone that writes, develops, or distributes software. To this end, Software Marketing Resource offers a wealth of forums, articles, resources, and targeted services that’ll provide the tools to market software like the big boys, on a limited or even non-existent budget. If you’re a software marketer, marketing copywriter, eCommerce provider, SEO service provider, or at all count independent software developers among your target customer base, you’ll find numerous opportunities to connect with potential clients and spread the word about your particular product or service.

Software Marketing Resource is about making connections, making information more accessible, and unifying the software marketing landscape.

So stop in, look around, and contribute if you’d like.

It’s free!

Tweet Tweet, find Bits Du Jour on Twitter!

2009-03-07T02:11:00.003-05:00

If you're a big tweeter then you'll be happy to hear that you can get your latest BitsDuJour updates on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/bitsdujour

ColorPic Web Palette Generator

2009-02-23T10:42:00.002-05:00

We all love ColorPic's ability to quickly and easily capture colors from the scxreen and make palettes, but wouldn't it be great if we could easily see those palettes in a web browser. Well thanks to "l u c h y x", a ColorPic fan, we now have that ability! You can use the ColorPic Web Palette Generator plugin to automatically create html previews of all your palettes, and also check how the text and background will look.

Find out more about the Web Palette Generator for ColorPic

Line Reader Released

2009-02-22T17:14:00.002-05:00

What if there was one simple application could help guide your eyes while reading, making digesting long electronic documents easier and more efficient? That’s the core reason behind Line Reader, along with a few bonus features that will make this app an indispensable part of your user experience!

Line Reader addresses a dilemma that we all face at some point – how to manage reading long documents online. If we were reading a book or printed article, we could use an index card to mark our place and guide the path of our vision. Since holding an index card up to your computer screen is impractical, we’ve created Line Reader to navigate you through the rough waters of electronic documentation.

With Line Reader, your mouse cursor transforms into a handy reading aid, taking the form of a horizontal line that you use to track your spot in any online document or web page. You can customize the length, width, and color of your line, as well as invoke a secondary helper line that serves to further emphasize the location of your cursor. One click, and your line flips to the vertical, which is convenient for highlighting entire paragraphs, steps in a recipe, or assembly instructions.

Line Reader runs on Windows XP and Vista.

You may download the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as you need
Single User license is only $19.50
We offer a risk free 30 day money back guarantee

To see screenshots check out our Getting Started Guide.

Find Out More about Line Reader.

Lesson Plans for the Screen Protractor in Google Earth

2009-02-10T18:31:00.003-05:00

The Screen Protractor is a fantastic teaching aid for mathematics and geography as it can be used to measure angles on top of any other image. We've used the protractor in Google Earth allowing students to measure angles between real-life geographical locations.

Download the Lesson Plans

LookDisk now integrated into Windows Explorer

2009-01-19T10:02:00.002-05:00

We're happy to announce the release of version 4.2 of LookDisk. LookDisk is excellent at finding duplicate files, searching for files and finding text in files. Being able to specify multiple places to search in is a real timesaver, and the results grid has some powerful options that you can access by right clicking a file. You can easily select file groups based on your own parameters.

latest version of LookDisk, version 4.2, now supports integration directly in Windows Explorer. You can simply select a folder that you want to scan and right click to bring up the LookDisk menu. Choose from 'Find Files', 'Find Text' or 'Find Duplicate Files' and all of the files within your chosen folder will be scanned.

The software is available on trial download and can be purchased for $29.50. Feel free to download and give it a test run.

HTMLLabel the ultimate lightweight ActiveX HTML control

2009-01-13T12:56:00.004-05:00

We're very happy to announce the latest of our developer controls, HTMLLabel. HTMLLabel is a practical HTML renderer packaged as an extremely lightweight ActiveX control intended specifically for developers who want to enhance their software with HTML.

Unlike other similar controls which rely on external browsers, HTMLLabel is designed to enable HTML to be used as an integral part of your applications, without the usual worry of inconsistent rendering and browser bugs.

HTMLLabel supports a wide variety of HTML tags, and is designed to enhance the user experience with rich, dynamic user interfaces. Whether you're adding reporting capabilities to an existing application, creating integrated help or creating rich interactive tutorials you'll find HTMLLabel a simple, quick and versatile solution. We've even created some demo applications in VB, C#.NET and VB.NET to get you started.

A single developer license is only $99.50, and the component can be purchased direct from our online store.

Announcing UniToolbox the Visual Basic Unicode Control Suite

2009-01-12T07:23:00.003-05:00

If you're coding in Visual Basic and have ever been frustrated that Greek, Japanese, Hindi, Korean, Russian or Chinese characters display as '?' in the user interface, then you need UniToolbox.

The UniToolbox family of controls integrate seamlessly into your software, bridging the gap between Visual Basic's internal Unicode support and the shortfalls in VB's user interface. The controls in UniToolbox have been designed as a direct replacement to the standard Microsoft controls. Simply by dropping the new controls into your existing projects you can quickly and easily add support for any language.

We've made it as easy as possible to get the most out of UniToolbox as the control suite comes with a Control Migration Wizard. Running the wizard will automatically convert your entire project, with advanced options that allow you to specify exactly how every control and property is converted. UniToolbox also comes with a set of demonstration applications that help you get the most out of supporting Unicode in every single place in your application.

UniToolbox comes with 8 standard controls, for controls such as textboxes, comboboxes, labels and buttons. For richer user interfaces take a look at UniToolbox2, which has 9 additional controls such as Grid, Menu, Tab and Treeview controls. We also offer UniTabDlg and UniFlexGrid, which are direct replacements for the SSTab and FlexGrid Controls.