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Mariner Software celebrates 21st anniversary, gives you 50% off desktop products
Minneapolis-based Mariner Software is celebrating its 21st anniversary in the software business, and is offering customers 50% off on all desktop software products for a limited time as an anniversary "present." Mariner has been a fixture in the Mac OS software world, particularly with creative writing apps like StoryMill, Contour (a script development app), and Montage (for writing screenplays). They also branched into the productivity market with the Mariner Calc spreadsheet app and Mariner Write word processor, and also have gained success with Paperless (digital document management) and MacGourmet Deluxe (recipe management). One of the first Mariner apps I used was MacJournal, which is a wonderful piece of software for keeping a personal life journal. Although they won't be part of the anniversary discount, Mariner has some mobile offspring these days, including versions of MacJournal and Mariner Calc for iPhone and iPad. The anniversary celebration goes on through midnight (CDT) July 6th, and is only for non-upgrade versions of the desktop applications purchased through the Mariner eStore -- those Mariner apps that are in the Mac App Store are not eligible for the disount. To get the 50% discount, just use the promo code HB21 when checking out. From all of us here at TUAW to the folks at Mariner Software, a very happy anniversary!
Macjournal 5 is ready to go
Mariner Software's MacJournal received a major update this week with some great new features. If you're unfamiliar, MacJournal is a great journaling and organization application with podcasting support, AES-256 encryption and more. It's quite useful and full-featured.Speaking of features, changes to version 5.0.2 include: An all-new interface Smart Journals based on search criteria Keep multiple journals open at once Support for more file types Integration with Picasa and Quick Look. .Mac synchronization You can publish to many popular blogging services including your .Mac account. There's more, of course, and you can get the full run-down here. Macjournal requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher and Quicktime 7 or higher. A single license will cost you $34.95US.
MacJournal 4.0 beta
MacJournal 3.x went Universal just last month, but Dan Schimpf, its developer, has made a 4.0 beta available on the MacJournal Development Blog. The list of changes, updates and fixes in 4.0 is long, as Dan talks about in-depth in this entry, but the biggest new features by far sounds like a major face lift to MacJournal's blogging abilities. Lots of new support is being added or rewritten for blogging protocols like MetaWeblog (for WordPress and MovableType) and Atom (for Blogger).Other new features include a revamped Inspector, lots of full screen mode enhancements, importing text clippings and much more. Check out the progress on the blog, and it sounds like if you own a 3.x license, you can play with the 4.0 beta free of charge until it goes official.
Macjournal goes universal
Macjournal, the popular note taking and organizational tool, has gone universal with the release of version 3.3. I have a friend who works as a teacher and uses Macjournal religiously to keep track of students, meetings with parents, etc. It really is pretty handy. Changes in version 3.3 include: Universal support for the new Intel-based Macs (as well as the existing PowerPC machines). When the drawer has focus, choosing "Stats" from the View menu will get stats for whatever is selected only. Fixed problem with the journals drawer (sometimes preventing it from opening only on Jaguar). There are several other bug fixes. Macjournal requires 10.2.7 or 10.2 with Safari installed, and features a three-tiered pricing system: The boxed edition is $29.95US, the download is $24.92US and a family five pack is $99.95US.
Mariner Software's Five Pack Friday
Mariner Software is running a Five Pack Friday sale from today through Friday, Sept 2, 2005. Aimed at small businesses (or large families), the sale slashes the price of all Five Packs of any of their product lines by 50%. Basically a buy two and a half, get two and a half for free. A real bargain for some great titles, like Mariner Calc, Mariner Write, MacJournal and Desktop Poet. The cool thing about Mariner, aside from their software, is that their policies are unique for a commercial/retail/boxed software company. For instance, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If you don't like the software you return it for a full refund. I don't think Microsoft will take that copy of Office back once you've opened the box, installed it and then discovered that you hate it.Mariner also offer customers a Lifetime Upgrade Plan... "The Lifetime Upgrade Plan (LUP) is a Mariner-exclusive offer to help tackle the rising costs of upgrading software. For a one-time fee of $49.95, per product, Mariner customers will receive EVERY MAJOR UPGRADE FOR THE LIFETIME OF THE PRODUCT(S). No additional annual charges, no keeping track of the latest version, and no hassle with using out dated versions, we take care of everything and deliver the product right to your Inbox." There's another thing you'll never see Microsoft or Adobe do. Today might be a good idea to go directly to your boss and insist that he take advantage Five Pack Friday instead of Six Pack Friday, for a change. Let us know how that works out for you.
