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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!
MarinerCalc for iPhone: A spreadsheet in the palm of your hand
The wizards at Mariner Software have been around the Apple world for a long time. Their first product, a HyperCard stack that charted stock prices, came out in 1989 as a shareware product. After twenty years of developing cool Mac apps, Mariner has just released a useful product for the iPhone: MarinerCalc, a feature-packed spreadsheet application.During the past few days, I've been putting MarinerCalc for iPhone (US$9.99, click opens iTunes) through a series of tests on my iPhone 3G. My assessment is that MarinerCalc is an excellent spreadsheet app. If you have any need to manipulate, create, or even just view spreadsheets on your iPhone, this is the app to get.Read more about MarinerCalc by clicking the (you guessed it!) Read More link below, and be sure to visit the gallery for plenty of MarinerCalc screenshots. %Gallery-47365%
Mariner Calc for iPhone
The upcoming iPhone 2.0 software is providing more document viewing capabilities in the form of readers for PowerPoint, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers, but Apple still isn't providing a way to edit docs on the run. Mariner Software announced at WWDC 2008 that they'll be resolving at least part of that dilemma with the release of Mariner Calc for iPhone. Mariner Calc is the software firm's popular Excel-compatible spreadsheet for the Mac.Mariner Calc for iPhone is about 80% of the way to completion at this time and is expected to ship about the time the virtual doors open on the App Store. If you like to work on huge spreadsheets, you'll love this app since it sports a maximum of 1,000,000 rows and 32,000 columns.Mariner Software President Mike Wray mentioned to Macworld.com's Dan Frakes that Mariner Calc for iPhone will support multiple sheets per document, charts, and objects. It's expected that the application will integrate with new versions of Mariner Calc for Mac. No price has been set for Mariner Calc for iPhone, but expect this little spreadsheet to be a popular purchase from the App Store. [Via Macworld]
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.
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.
