App development has taken off in the last few years, making it increasingly difficult to stay on top of all the latest versions. To help all of you out, we here at
MacNN are dedicated to sorting through new update releases, and highlighting some of the important ones, as well as showcasing apps that we find to be interesting. Today, we are highlighting a discount on animation software
Anime Studio Debut 11, as well as detailing updates to FFpmeg interface iFFmpeg, financial manager Quicken 2015, PDF utility Imposition Wizard, contact manager Contacts Sync for Google Gmail, label-maker Labelist, and Markdown editor FoldingText.
Featured App of the Day
Animators rejoice! For the next six days we are offering a 60 percent discount on Smith Micro Software's animation software,
Anime Studio Debut 11. Currently being sold at a cost of only $20, Anime Studio Debut 11 can help users quickly design characters that are ready to animate, as well as convert scanned drawings or existing images into vector drawings. Support is also featured for recording sound clips or importing existing audio into a project, and finished animations can be exported as AVI, MOV, or Flash files and uploaded directly to Facebook or YouTube.
App Update
iFFmpeg v5.7.3
$20
iFFmpeg is a graphical interface for the FFmpeg, a command line tool for converting between multimedia formats. In v5.7.3 x265 Tune options are now correctly listed and the 'Frames to look ahead' option now works for x265. Issues with cropping to 16:9 have also been resolved, and exporting to JPEG images now uses higher compression by default.
Download - 15MB
Quicken 2015 v2.5
$75
Quicken 2015 provides users with the tools needed to manage all of their personal finances in one place. Version 2.5 introduces a new option to the Calendar report that allows the app to show gains and losses for investment holdings. The Download/Financial Institution settings on the account settings sheet have also been improved, and a host of reported bugs have been fixed.
Purchase
Imposition Wizard v1.9
$500
Imposition Wizard is a Mac OS X utility that is capable of reading PDF files, applying transformations to pages, and saving results as a new file. The application does not require any third party software, and supports all main imposition schemes, such as Booklet, N-Up, and Cut Stack. The latest release fixes cut stack layout problems when pages are reversed or shuffled.
Download - 3.4MB
Contacts Sync for Google Gmail v5.1.2
Free
Contacts Sync for Google Gmail is a small tool that allows users to sync their Gmail and Mac contacts to create a single unified list. Along with some minor improvements, the v5.1.2 update also includes support for OS X El Capitan.
Download - 4.1MB
Labelist v9.0.2
$40
Labelist can be used to design and print labels, envelopes, and letterheads. Version 9.0.2 includes a work around for an El Capitan-specific drawing issue, as well as a fix for a problem that occurred when updating the preview image for the back of a design.
Download - 119.3MB
FoldingText v2.1
$30
FoldingText is a Markdown text editor that integrates some productivity features, such as outlining, todo lists, and more. The v2.1 update adds new .calc and .stopwatch does, and has also renamed the .time mode to .schedule. Support for smart pairs has also been added, and numerous bugs have been fixed.
Download - 10.5MB