All of you may know Tom Nelson from About.com. He writes awesome blogs on everything Mac. Each week he picks a software application that meets his requirements for quality software with extraordinary value. Software from every category, including utilities, games, productivity, development, education, graphics, and multimedia are tried and the best one is featured in ‘Tom’s Budget Software Pick’. So guess what made it to the list. You got that right, it is Voila Mac Screen Capture Tool.

Tom tried Voila and has absolutely loved it for its utility and ease of use. According to him:

If you’re looking for a timesaving screen capture application with unusual features, give Voila a try.

Something we always say, now Tom says it too. You can read more from his blog. So go ahead and try Voila and unleash your creativity.

-Vaishnavi

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I guess it’s about time we brought out the Champagne glasses now. Camera Plus is on a roll and going strong. From half a million downloads to One Million downloads in 20 days, with the update v1.2 acting as a catalyst, is just incredible! The app has also made it to the Top 10 Free Apps in the UK, Australia, Germany and Japan App Stores. Just in time for Thanksgiving too! This has to be the best Thanksgiving gift any developer could receive from their customers. Thank you Apple for providing us with an opportunity to develop apps that can make at least a little difference in people’s lives and thank you all who downloaded Camera Plus and have helped us in achieving great milestones in such a short span of time. It thrills us no end to know that you love the application. Can I say, we are overwhelmed with all the loving?

The response to the Camera Plus Photo contest is also amazing. The entries range from pets, landscapes, food, room cabinets; you name it, you have it. Check out the entries on Facebook and Flickr and if you still haven’t sent in your entry, do it now! If you haven’t tried Camera Plus yet, don’t fret, try it today! And be a part of the growing Camera Plus family.

Have a great Thanksgiving and do remember to send me some Turkey and Pie. Happy holidays!

-Vaishnavi

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Developers of iPhone/iPod touch apps (including yours truly ) many a times require to capture a screen shot of the iPhone simulator. Especially when you want to show how your application looks on an iPhone; be it on your website, forums, handouts and most importantly to convey issues to the Apple engineers. Yes of course, you can always rummage through hundreds of images over the internet to get the appropriate image or you could just use Voila to capture a screen shot of the iPhone simulator. I’d choose the latter. It’s much easier that way. Voila lets you easily capture the iPhone simulator in just a matter of seconds. With it’s customizable short-cut keys, just do a Selection or Object capture of the iPhone simulator and you are good to go. Further, with Voila, you can edit the images and add annotations; to highlight or describe a feature. Try Voila today and invest your time where it is rightly needed; developing apps.

-Vaishnavi

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Well what do we say. Camera Plus has done it again . Apple has featured Camera Plus in it’s New and Noteworthy section in the UK, Australia, Japan and other major European and Asia-Pacific App Stores. Thank you Apple for featuring Camera Plus as a Noteworthy app. We also thank all our customers for downloading Camera Plus and providing us with your suggestions and feedback, thereby helping us to improve the app further. And those of you who still haven’t tried Camera Plus, get it now and re-discover photography on your iPhone!

-Vaishnavi

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I like pictures in Black and White. There’s always a mystery to it. Like, I wonder what the color of her hair is or what might be the color of his shirt and many such things. I guess that’s what makes a Black and White picture so interesting. It lets you imagine. Perhaps this is the overall feeling among most of you as we received many requests to add the Black and White feature in Camera Plus.

And like we always say, your wish is our command, the new version 1.2 of Camera Plus comes with a Black and White feature. Simply apply the B/W option after clicking a picture and Voila! you have a Black and White photograph. You can also convert your previous images from your collections into Black and White.

Now most of you wanted to have control over the app by being able to choose which picture you want to save. Thus you have the ‘Preview before Save’ option in the new version. This is beneficial in two ways. One, you can choose to save what you want, rather than having all the pictures that you captured getting saved. This enables you with better photo management. It also greatly helps in reducing the disk space being used up in your device. Secondly, this option helps you to save battery power that would be otherwise consumed while saving a picture directly into the disk.

The feature additions in the new version of Camera Plus is a result of the extremely helpful feedback received from all of you. We hope you continue to enjoy using Camera Plus and keep giving us your valuable feedback. We know all of you are waiting for the Pro version to come out and are excited about what new features will be a part of it. Guess what, we are too! The Pro version will be out soon. In the meantime, keep sending in your entries for the Camera Plus Photo contest, you can read the details here. Who knows, you may get to see the Pro version before anyone else does!

-Vaishnavi

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