Child’s Play Day by Mike Zornek

Mac Developers team up for Child’s Play Charity

UPDATE(12/9/2006): The group total is in! $9,865.31 is being donated to Child’s Play in the name of independent Mac Developers. Thanks again for all the companies who participated and all of the people who bought software. You generosity is very appreciated. Have a happy holiday.

Update 2: Ha! Fellow #macsb-er and numeric narcissist Jonathan Wight of Toxic Software has donated $134.69 to make it a clean $10,000! Jon doesn’t have any commercial software available right now, but does have a few projects posted in beta as well a some very tasty bits of source code that I think are in use in a handful of the apps below. Thanks Jon!

Child’s Play is a Seattle-based charity started in 2003 by the guys at Penny Arcade that helps make the holidays a little nicer for sick kids staying in children’s hospitals by providing toys and games for them to enjoy. Since its inception over a million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash have been collected.

This year a group of independent Mac Developers are teaming up and donating all of the proceeds from sales of their various software titles on Thursday, December 7th to the Child’s Play charity. To participate simply purchase the products as you normally would through the various online stores. Your money will be collected and sent to the charity and you’ll get some great Mac software to enjoy. The participating Mac Developers and their products are listed below. If you wish you can also donate to Child’s Play directly. Thanks for your support and generosity.

Astoundit Software (Store)

  • Guitar Shed — Software suite for guitarists. Includes tuners, chord library, tablature organizer, song slow-downer, and much more.

Chimp Software (Store)

  • iRooster — Wake up to the world’s best music–your own–with iRooster, the Mac OS X alarm clock.

Clickable Bliss (Store)

  • Billable — Helps you keep track of the billable services you perform for a client and then lets you create and manage invoices based on those services.

Code Sorcery Workshop

  • Pukka — Fast, light productivity booster for people who use the del.icio.us bookmarking service. Multiple accounts, tag completion, private bookmarking, full AppleScript support, keyboard navigation, Growl, and much more. Stop waiting around and start bookmarking faster!

Delicious Monster

  • Delicious Library — Catalog all your media by scanning barcodes with your Mac’s iSight.

Elgebar Studios

  • Freeze Frame — Allows you to completely freeze an application, making it use absolutely no CPU cycles.
  • Pencils Down — Lets teachers create tests quickly and painlessly.

Flying Meat (Store)

  • VoodooPad — A personal desktop wiki. You put your brain in it.
  • FlySketch — Draw, highlight, everywhere.
  • FlyGesture — Move a little, do a lot.

Happy Apps (Store)

  • WebnoteHappy — Organize and remember the web pages that matter to you with WebnoteHappy - a better bookmark manager with tagging, note-taking, and del.icio.us integration.

Houdah Software (Store)

  • HoudahSpot — Your files at your fingertips. HoudahSpot is the frontend most Spotlight users don’t know they’re missing. Find files you didn’t know you had.

Martian Technology (Store)

  • SlingShot — The easiest way to keep your iTunes music (and your files) in sync between two Macs.
  • LifeBoat — Back up your important data on your external drives, instantly.

Mere Mortal Software (Store)

  • Safe Place — Securely store your passwords, credit card numbers, software activation codes, or any other information you want to keep handy and safe from prying eyes.

MK&C

  • Knox — Simply secure encryption and backup.

Polarian (Store)

  • Screen Mimic — Screen Mimic allows you to record your Mac OS X desktop and then encode that recording to a Macromedia Flash (SWF), Flash Video (FLV), or Quicktime (MOV) file. These files can be easily uploaded to a website, used in a kiosk system, and many other applications.

Prosit Software

  • iDictionary — Dictionary & Thesaurus Tailored For Your iPod
  • App Stop — Take Control Of Your Applications

Red Sweater Software (Store)

  • FlexTime — Manage your repetitive activities with this innovative timer.
  • FastScripts — Access your scripts by keyboard shortcut or menu bar.
  • Clarion — Improve your ability to recognize music intervals.

RQS (Store)

  • Rolling Credits — Make typographically stunning — visually pleasing — completely unboring movie credits.