I guess I'm getting soft as I enter the oldheimer's years. Yesterday, absolutely nothing provoked me to launch into a profanity laced tirade of curmudgeonly invective that can melt a polyester pantsuit at 30 paces.
In fact, even my spam was interesting. I fried it up and served it with an English and two poached eggs with Tabasco sauce. Delicious! I ate this while I checked mail on my iPod Touch and found an interesting offer from MacGraPhoto that was too good to pass up.
They have bundled seven graphics applications, including the venerable GraphicConverter (which I have purchased a couple of times previously going back at least 15 years), for less than forty bucks American. I decided to hold off on purchase additional ammo for the zombie flu outbreak, and buy this stuff.
This is a limited time offer that runs a little less than two weeks on the counter I see clicking on the lower left of the landing page.
I've only played with a couple of the apps thus far and they deliver what they promise. I'm an old fart who grew up with mail art and hand-cut collages, and although I've used many high-end image processing, drawing, and painting programs, most of my needs are modest and street-punk, and these enhance the set of publishing tools I'm currently using that includes Sandvox, RapidWeaver, ArtRage, Pixelmator, Groboto, Comicworks, and the iLife suite.
If you're new to the Mac and need more power than iPhoto and have no need to spend half a grand (or more) for Adobe products, give this bundle a try. Forty bucks is affordable, even on unemployment. But even long time users might find a couple of these applications useful, considering the price.
So that was yesterday, as Peter and Gordon used to sing, and yesterday's gone. Today, I don't know. It's not over yet.