A perfect 10!

2010 is going to be a big year. Not only is it going to be the last year of this decade but we are supposed to be hit with a huge amount of technological advances. We hit the ground hard last year because of the recession so there is no where to go but up.

These 10 gadgets and implementations have been the talk of the town and are said to bring 2010 sky high in terms of technology.

The Apple Tablet

Long awaited and highly anticipated.

The Palm Pre coming to Verizon

An amazing addition to the Verizon lineup.

The Nexus One

Many say that this phone is going to change the cell phone industry.

Thinner laptops

Seagate has taken the lead and has made the world's thinnest hard drive.

More mobile credit card readers

Because we're not in enough debt already?

Bigger USB 3.0 implementation

Some computer manufacturers have already started making machines with this port.

Less printed media and more e-books

E-readers are taking over and we are going with it.

More sales

Businesses are going to have to do something to get consumers to buy in this wretched economy.

New types of games from Disney

This game has yet to come out but I was able to play it while at a Disney event. The graphics are amazing.

My website will be switched over to a .com domain.

This move will open up many doors for this blog.

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MacHeist's nanoBundle Review

This was the first year that I participated in MacHeist's annual discounted or free bundle of Mac software and I am so happy that I did. All of the applications were great and they fed every side of my life.

As a Twitterer TinyGrab was a must have. It worked in the background and after taking screenshots or dragging pictures onto the app that appears in the dock it will give the picture a URL and will immediately allow me to paste it anywhere. It's definitely a time saver now that I don't have to manually upload my picture on a site everytime that I want it on Twitter.

WriteRoom is a word processor that displays what you are typing full screen to give you, well, room to write. As a student it caught my attention. When it comes to school work I spend a lot of time on my laptop, not because the work is hard but because I get distracted and do other things. This app definitely solved that problem. It covers everything else up but is easy to get out of, unlike Pages' full screen mode. Best of all it's customizable so I could be happy with what I am staring at.

As a Blogger I am always looking for new information for my blog but I can't always apply it right away so I have to store those URL's, sentences, paragraphs and pictures somewhere; bookmarks are a hassle to keep up with and honestly while running Safari they are tedious to get to. That's where Shovebox comes in handy. It's a nifty little app that hides in your menubar. You just drag whatever you want onto it and will save it automatically, you don't have to press any special keys. You can then rename the "notes" and put them into different folders with just a few clicks.

As a Mac user I don't get to play many games because most are made for Windows computers so when I saw Hordes of Orcs in the bundle I got really excited... and the excitement didn't leave after I played...it intensified. Although it's a simple game of keep-away, I felt like those were really my people behind the gates on the other side of the field. I was so into the game that I couldn't even hear what my mom and brother were telling me, I just had to protect those people. It's definitely an amazing, addictive game.

As for Twitterrific and Mariner Write, they are both superb apps that are user friendly and helpful but I already use Tweetie and Pages in their place. Twitterific and Mariner Write don't offer anything new so I rather just stick to what I use already.

All in all, the bundle was amazing, it had apps that packed a punch and were extremely easy to get used to and they weren't just the "use them once and toss them apps". I would have liked to see more of a diversity in apps instead of 2 writing processors but for free I really can't complain which is why I'm giving it:

★★★★

4 out of 5 stars

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Back To School: Savings

As I was searching the web this Labor Day weekend I came across Studica.com. It is an amazing website that gives student discounts on all of their products including: Hardware, Software and Music Technology.

Most of their products you can purchase with a discount, with no proof that you are a student, but on some you must verify that you are a student with either a schedule, a letter from your school or a photo of your dated ID. For more information on what you need to have to qualify for student discounts click HERE. Happy Shopping!

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