Mac Apps

News Anchor 2.2 is 42% off for this week only

To celebrate the lunar new year and the launch of the independently distributed version of News Anchor, Basil Salad Software is offering a 42% discount of News Anchor. This offer is only available until 15 February 2011 and applicable only to the version of News Anchor downloaded from the website. Customers will need to enter coupon code RABBIT when ordering to be eligible for the discount.

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News Anchor is the revolutionary feed reader available exclusively for the Mac. Unlike other RSS readers that simply copy the design of e-mail applications, News Anchor presents web feeds as a television-like news show using the Mac’s voice system. With News Anchor, you can now enjoy news feeds with your breakfast and don’t need to worry about spilling food on your keyboard.

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Features, benefits, and advantages of News Anchor:
* Generate news channels automatically based on the feeds of your choice
* One-click, hands-free operation. News Anchor relieves you from needing to use the mouse or keyboard to get to the next article in your reading list
* Apple Remote support – control playback with your Mac’s infrared remote
* Off-line operation – News Anchor can present the news even when your Internet connection is not active
* Instant-on and always ready – News Anchor can update its data in the background even while it is not running, therefore you can always enjoy the latest news immediately on launching the application
* Take it anywhere – News Anchor can create podcasts of news feeds that you can play in any digital music player (any player that can play MP4/AAC format such as the iPod, iPhone, or iPad)

New features in version 2.2:
* New "kitty" presenter
* In-application help file

$29.99/Download

Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.