It is a collage maker

If you find it is difficult for you to collect your cherish photos in a nice way, I believe FotoJet could be a nice choice. You can use it to turn your photos into beautiful collages. There are many kinds of collages you can make with FotoJet. Like creative collage and classic collage. You can choose any one you like to beautifully collect your photos.

It is a picture designer

You can use it to make your poster and invitation. What’s more, you are allowed to create all kinds of social media headers, such as YouTube Channel Art, Facebook Cover and Twitter Header; and social media post, like Facebook Post, Inatagram Post and Pinterest Graphic. You can finish these within a few minutes, only some clicks and drag can help you finish them. I believe anyone can feel easy to use it. In design, plenty of templates are newly added; you are allowed to use them at your need and will to make whatever creations you want at ease.

It is also a photo editor

It gives users the ability to crop, resize, rotate, adjust exposure, color, apply photo effects/filters, and add text, clipart images and more. Users will have an unparalleled photo editing experiences with FotoJet.

It works flawlessly in any Web browser and is fully compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux. Best of all, it is totally FREE. Everyone can use it via: https://www.fotojet.com/

If you have some ideas, do not hesitate to play with them in FotoJet.

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Publisher Plus for Mac Time-limited Giveaway

Bonus time! With Mother’s Day being around the corner, PearlMountain is giving away its award-winning software for worldwide users, offering Publisher Plus – powerful desktop publishing software on Mac – as a free gift from May 9 to May 11. Still don’t find your Mother’s Day gift? Enjoy the free giveaway for desktop publishing software to make a special gift card for your mom.

Mother’s Day is one of the top holidays of the year. If you’re a daughter or a son, you must be looking for the best gift to express your love to dear Mom. Mother’s Day is also the perfect time to start a new promotion for some businesses. The three-day giveaway of Publisher Plus is coming at the right time for both the children and business owners since it’s the easiest and quickest way to design unique greeting cards with personal touch as well as professional marketing materials especially for restaurants and florists during Mother’s Day.

No matter you want to prepare a one-of-kind Mother’s Day card for great mom or to design outstanding menus, flyers, etc. for promoting business during this holiday, Publisher Plus for Mac will meet all kinds of needs and deliver endless possibilities. With this 100% OFF page layout software, everyone can create deluxe and professional prints in minutes without any cost. As one of the most versatile software developed by PearlMountain, it has some highlighted features:

* 170+ deluxe templates, abundant decorations, and many extra templates for free.
* Support adding and customizing images, texts, shapes, custom shapes, calendars, etc.
* WYSIWYG – powerful editing features includes Undo/Redo, Lock/Unlock, Group/Ungroup, Duplicate, etc.
* Export, print and share conveniently.

This three-day giveaway from May 9 to May 11 will benefit anyone who is looking to DIY beautiful Mother’s Day card or make professional marketing prints at home. Just grab this free gift to get your cards, menus or flyers ready now!

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Pricing and Availability

Publisher Plus for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later and it is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite). Despite the original price of $39.90, it will be totally free during May 9 to May 11 here: http://www.pearlmountainsoft.com/promotion/giveaway.html

About the Company

PearlMountain Technology Co., Ltd is a dedicated graphics and software development company founded in 2006. Over these years, it has released products with great popularity among worldwide users like Picture Collage Maker, CollageIt and Watermark Plus.

Its products have already been well received all through North America, Europe and Asia software markets for their ease of use, reliability and superior performance.

Media Contact

David Lin

PearlMountain Technology Co., Ltd

CEO

Email: info@pearlmountainsoft.com

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It is very simple to use and install – simply copy it into your Applications folder or where ever you prefer, and then set archive filetypes to open using it. This can either be done the usual way, or by double-clicking the icon to show The Unarchiver’s preferences.

I’ve been using this utility for years and I’ve never had any problems with it, it unarchives files really quickly and supports a lot of different archive formats. This is definitely one of the best Mac freebies you can get.

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Modern Macs have exceptionally bright screens, and often the minimum brightness level is still dazzling. If you’re working late at night, or your eyes are tired or maybe you’re just sensitive to bright light, it can be difficult to stare at the screen for long periods. That’s where Shady comes in.

How to Control Mac Screen Brightness

Download Shady, and open it. It sits in your menu bar, and is very simple to use.

Shady lets you pull a virtual shade over your screen (or screens, if you have more than one – Shady covers them all), dimming the display to a more comfortable level. The shade will ignore your mouse clicks, naturally, so you can continue to use your Mac as usual.

You can brighten the shade all the way up to your normal screen brightness, or darken it down to 90% shade (very nearly black). It’ll change in increments of 5%, and it starts at 40% opacity (or 60% transparency), which should be quite comfortable. Shady will save your shade level and restore it next time you launch the app, and it’ll also automatically get out of your way when it’s launched (returning the focus to whatever app you were in when you launched Shady).

Shady doesn’t do anything funky to your system (it’s just a regular application; just quit it and trash it if you don’t want it anymore), and will not damage your screens in any way. It should, however, make your eyes feel better – as long as you don’t make your screen so dark that you’re straining to see anything!

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Kuvva has a website which lets you browse through wallpapers. The main area of potential improvement I can see is categories. Currently, Kuvva doesn’t allow you to select a category, so the app will most likely stream wallpapers you dislike to your desktop. Despite this, it is a nice concept, and one that allows people to easily find wallpapers and talented artists that they otherwise might not have. There is also an iPhone app available.

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App

Those who have been Mac users for a decade or two will remember all the auditory fun that could be had with alert sounds and the clock. You could choose alert sounds to chime (play) on the quarter hours. It was very easy to customize the Mac with more alert sounds, and a company by the name of Clixsounds began providing all sorts of free sounds. This art reached its zenith with Westminster-style sets of sounds having melodies progressing through each quarter hour. Various tunes were used, with a seasonal favorite of mine playing “We Wish You A Merry Christmas.” Not only clock tower bells, but piano, glockenspiel, and other instruments were used in the sounds.

Apple eventually provided the capability for announcing the time using any of the Mac’s built-in voices, and removed the capability of using alert sounds for the chimes. Voice announcement is trés cool, but what to do if one wants to hear the time without it joining in the conversation?

Enter ChimeX, a modern version of an application that came out a decade ago, which plays clock chimes on the quarter hour. It is available from the Mac App Store. After starting, ChimeX appears as an icon in your menu bar (see Figure 1).

Figure 1

Looking at its preferences, we see ChimeX allows individual selection of a sound to be played (or not) on each quarter hour (see Figure 2). There is also a Bong selection to ring the number of the hour.

Figure 2

Studying the available sound choices, we see that ChimeX offers only one Chime selection. This is a Westminster-style clock bell sound, which progresses through each quarter hour, and is quite nice as far as it goes. The other selections are voices to speak the time, which are not a reason to purchase this application as you, gentle readers, know because that can already be done through the Date & Time System Preferences.

Adding Sounds to ChimeX

ChimeX currently offers no way to add additional sounds. But, as readers of ResExcellence know, we won’t let that get in our way! Let us first see where ChimeX obtains its chime audio. In the Applications folder, where it is installed, control- or right-click on ChimeX, and select Show Package Contents (see Figure 3).

Figure 3

Making our way to Contents->Resources, we discover that five .mp4 files are used for the quarter hour chimes, and the hour count toll (see Figure 4).

Figure 4

So, in order to play a chime sound in ChimeX, we need .mp4 sound files. The original Clixsounds chime sounds were .snd files, which is the format that Mac OS System 7 used. I long ago converted my .snd files to .aiff files, the format used for OS X alerts, using the SystemSound Converter application.

SystemSound Converter is part of the open source SystemSound project. The other part of this project, SystemSound Extension, plays a wide variety of sound file formats independently of iTunes. This is a story for another day.

There are lots of sound effects available on the iTunes Store

Since .aiff files are the format used for OS X alerts, you may already have a number of files in this format. You can easily convert these sound files to .mp4 format by using the free Music Converter application, available from the Mac App Store. You can also purchase albums of sound effects through iTunes, which will already be in .mp4 format.

Once we have a set of .mp4 sound files that we want to use for our chimes, proceed as follows:

1. Make copies of your sound files, and of the ChimeX application. Always work with copies rather than originals, gentle readers, to prevent inadvertent disasters!
2. Rename your sound files to the same names as ChimeX expects: chime_15.m4a, chime_30.m4a, chime_45.m4a, chime_60.m4a. Also toll.m4a if you have an hour count sound.
3. Open the Resources folder in the ChimeX application, following what we did above in Figures 3 and 4.
4. Copy your renamed sound files into the ChimeX Resources folder, replacing the existing .mp4 files.
5. Start your modified ChimeX application, and enjoy your custom chimes!

Now that we’ve seen how to do this, it’s time for our first Reader’s Challenge.

Reader’s Challenge

Let the musicians among us create Westminster-style .mp4 chime sound sets, recording themselves playing their tune of choice on their axe of choice. We’ll make the submitted chime sets available on ResExcellence.

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Back in the days of Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, we used ResEdit to edit resource files to modify application resources. Unfortunately, ResEdit was never updated for Mac OS X. This isn’t too much of a problem in itself, because most OS X apps do not use resource files. A few programs have come and gone, but none have ever replaced nor had the same level of functionality as ResEdit did. There are a few apps that still use resource files as container files for other file types, one such app is iTunes. Even the latest version uses a .rsrc file to store most of the PNG images which create its user interface.

ThemePark 3, an application that lets you modify the appearance of OS X, still works on the latest version of Mac OS X (Mountain Lion 10.8) and opens .rsrc files without any problems, allowing you to see the contents and replace them. ThemePark 3 is a little buggy on later versions of OS X, and sometimes it’s necessary to resize the window to force the app to redraw the window contents. ThemePark allows you to open .rsrc files, and send/retrieve the PNG graphics to/from Photoshop for easy editing and replacement of PNG graphics.

Working on a copy of iTunes.rsrc to edit iTunes UI elements using ThemePark 3.

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Panic says:

“So where does CandyBar go from here? Well, there’s the other half of the app: the convenient icon organizer, and Quick Drop icon changer, that many of us use often. We’re handing the reins of CandyBar over to our friends at The Iconfactory. They’ve got some thoughts on CandyBar’s future, and where they might take it from here. If you bought CandyBar from us, you will of course be considered if something new shows up. Stay tuned.”

Today, there are a couple of limitations. You can’t change the icons of apps downloaded from the Mac App Store due to code signing. The Dock in Mac OS X 10.8 ‘Mountain Lion’ was changed and also cannot be altered like it used to.

Icon Resources

There are several places to download icon sets for use with CandyBar.

• InterfaceLift – A popular site which isn’t updated as frequently as it used to be, but it still has a good selection of icons available.
• The Iconfactory – The people who worked with Panic to create CandyBar, and the famous icon creators that have been around since 1996! I fondly remember using the free icons provided on Macworld magazine discs that were created by The Iconfactory.
• David Lanham – This guy seems to know what he’s doing when it comes to creating nice icons, and he’s even been interviewed by The Verge, MacThemes, MacUser and Apple Matters.
• ResExcellence – Ah, of course. How could we almost forget ourselves? Now where did we put those icons? … That’s it, they’re in the Archive! You might have to do some digging though…

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The interface is easy to use, giving you the option of opening a package, URL, Apple installers or searching installer receipts. I decided to try out browsing the Mac OS X Mountain Lion Installer app which I keep on my boot drive and backup drives (to save myself having to re-download in the future or rely on the Recovery partition or Internet recovery).

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