Welcome to the new generation, where apps no longer have square ugly interfaces. These apps have beautiful and amazing effects. They are no longer confided to the square. As we see from disco, the powerful yet beautiful burning app, by madebysofa.com/, these effects, such as the smoke, no longer limit the functionality of an app. Some of these amazing apps include John Casasanta’s iClip, or Sophia Teutschler’s CoverSutra, Ollie Wagner’s Menuet, or Austin Sarner’s Disco.

And thus, ILikeOlives was born. Austin, John, Sophia and Ollie teaming up to make the ultimate delicious Generation app ever. In the last month, John and austin have been posting to the ILikeOlives blog.

From the ILikeOlives blog:

“And speaking of the whole “Delicious Generation” thing, we’ve taken Paul Kafasis’ narcissistic, pessimistic, manipulative, envy-driven rant and turned his negative “flashy but frivolous apps” meaning into a positive one. We’ve co-opted the phrase to relate to apps that strike a great balance between form and function. Form and function aren’t mutually exclusive. And this is what we’re about.”

At various Delicious Generation events, including the WWDC party, they have been giving out ‘Delicious Generation’ Shirts, with that logo above on them. Of course, many of us, including me, where not lucky enough to be able to visit WWDC 2007, or the Delicious Generation party and pick up one of these shirts. So, I asked John if he could donate a Delicious Generation Shirt for iAppblog. After a few long conversations, I realized that a Delicious Generation shirt is pretty cool, but, for the iAppblog readers, I wanted something more. So I thought, and thought, and finally came up with the idea. I asked John if he could get the some of the ILikeOlives members to actually sign the shirt! He replied saying it was a good idea, and he would “see what he can do”. He said he would actually give us 3 shirts instead of just 1. So, expect an autographed delicious generation shirt but he said it’ll be a surprise about who will be signing it.

So, I thought, these aren’t any normal shirts, these are autographed are produced by the same people who have brought some of the most beautiful apps to your mac, how in the world could I give them away? After long hours of thinking, I have decided a way. You are just going to tell us your favorite Delicious Generation App, and why. I will read through all the entries, and find the best 3. Please keep your entries between 100 and 200 word. But, the Delicious Generation is not all about normal text, so I am also allowing you to submit a multimedia composition, up to 1 minute about your favorite app. If you decide to do this, please upload it to the internet, and link to it in the “Why?” area. If you are making a song, or any multimedia composition that does not describe why it is your favorite app, you can also tell us in the “Why?” area.

To submit it, please visit http://iappblog.com/giveaway/

Recap:
-We have 3 autographed Delicious Generation Shirts
-We are giving them away
-Go to http://iappblog.com/giveaway/
-Tell us your favorite app
-Write between 100-200 words about why it is your favorite app
-and / or make a 1 minute multimedia composition, upload to the internet, link to in he “Why?” area
-Click the submit button
-Your all done!

The giveaway will end at July 9 2007 at 11:59 PM EDT. Thanks to ILikeOlives, and John Casasanta

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We have decided to extend the RAGE ButtonDesign Giveaway for an extra week, until Saturday June 30 at 11:59:59 PM EDT. Just email your designs to contest@iappblog.com.

All the previous rules still apply.

Rules
-Send your entry in a common picture format, preferably PNG, at a resolution of or greater than 512 pixels by 512 pixels.
-The logo must be square shaped and you must include a 16×16, 64×64, 256×256 and the full version. We would also love it if you could include the PSD (the raw photoshop file), or any other raw, uncompressed version you have.
-Your entries must be sent by Saturday June 23 at 11:59:59 PM EST.
-Send your entries to contest@iappblog.com.
-The winners will be announced during the week of Sunday, the 24th of June.
-Once submitted, iAppblog will have full legal rights on the logo. You must use original images, or images otherwise licensed for this use.
-Up to 3 different submissions per person.
-Both EDIT-XTREEM and Phoenix42 will vote on their favourite.

We’re giving away five copies of ButtonDesign. Whoever can make the best logo for iAppblog will win a copy and four runner-ups will be drawn. This is your opportunity to help make iAppblog better, and we appreciate it. We will also link back to the winner’s website or email. Who knows? Maybe we’ll secure more apps for the winner, by the time this contest is over.

Rules
-Send your entry in a common picture format, preferably PNG, at a resolution of or greater than 512 pixels by 512 pixels.
-The logo must be square shaped and you must include a 16×16, 64×64, 256×256 and the full version. We would also love it if you could include the PSD (the raw photoshop file), or any other raw, uncompressed version you have.
-Your entries must be sent by Saturday June 23 at 11:59:59 PM EST.
-Send your entries to contest@iappblog.com.
-The winners will be announced during the week of Sunday, the 24th of June.
-Once submitted, iAppblog will have full legal rights on the logo. You must use original images, or images otherwise licensed for this use.
-Up to 3 different submissions per person.
-Both EDIT-XTREEM and Phoenix42 will vote on their favourite.

So.. Start designing and thinking about the iAppblog logo. This is a great way to show your support for iAppblog and win a great app.

As planned, the Ultimate Mac App Giveaway, which was run, here, on iAppblog since May 14. We had tons of great Mac Application, which were generously donated by their developer. We also had some donations to iAppblog, and we thank those who donated. Remember though, you can always donate to iAppblog. Just on the ChipIn Widget in the Sidebar below the Mailing List signup. Your donations are really appreciated, and we will make sure to put them to good use.

And, now for the winners. To pick the winners, I drew the numbers with the True Random Number Service, provided by Random.org. Then I matched the numbers up with the number in the database.

So, I bet everyone wants to know who the winners are. I have not included their last names, because iAppblog does not have a privacy policy, and it has been requested not to share the last names. In fifth place, Jennn. In forth place, Michael. In third place, Adam. In second place, Niklas. And the iAppblog Ultimate Mac App Giveaway winner for 2007 is Matthew.

Thanks to everyone who participated, but, it is not over, we will continue to have giveaways for everyone on the mailing list, so signup, and hopefully, you will win. To sign up, just enter your name and email in the Mailing List form in the sidebar.

Once again, thanks to all the developers who donated software licenses and to everyone who registered, donated and won.

Note to winners: I have sent you all the licenses I have, please expect the developers to send you your licenses this week, and into next week.

iAppblog is holding the Ultimate Mac App Giveaway from Monday, May 14, 2007 to Monday, May 28, 2007. We will be giving away tons of mac applications including Delicious Library, Garage Sale, 1Passwd, iClip and many more. You can see a full list of applications by clicking here. To enter, all you need to do is click here, and enter your name and email. It will be entered into our database, and on Tuesday, May 29, 2007, I will go through the database, and draw 5 winners. If you visit the prizes page, you will realize that there are a 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th prize. I will draw the names from the database, and based on the order I pick them, I will pick the winners.

Each user will get 1 entry to the Giveaway, unless they donate. For every $1 USD donated you donate using the PayPal donate button below, you will get 1 extra entry. For example, if $10 is donated, you will get 11 entrys, 10 for donating and 1 free one. There is no limit to how many entries you can receive. If you donate, send an email to edit-xtreem@iappblog.com, with your paypal email and the transaction number, and I will add your extra entries. In addition to supporting iAppblog, with your donation, we will do our very best to help support mac shareware and freeware development. You can donate by sending PayPal money to donate@iappblog.com, or by clicking on the PayPal donate icon at the bottom of this post.

We will also be giving away extra entries this week on iAppblog, so check back as much as you can for the extra entries posts. For example, I may post and say that you can re-enter your name between Tuesday, May 15 at 7:00PM EST and 8:00PM EST, the extra entry will be counted. There will not be advance warning for these posts, so check back. Do not enter multiple times when its not during these periods, because we will check the database, and disqualify all users with double entries, who did not donate or signup during the extra entry periods.

I would also like to thank all developers and companies who have donated licenses to for the prizes. I am still emailing with some developers and companies, and if we get any more licenses, I will post them to the prizes page. We are also accepting licenses from the public, and if you are a developer who I have not contacted, but you are interested in giving us a few licenses for the giveaway, please email me, at edit-xtreem@iappblog.com.

If anyone has any questions or concerns, please email me, at edit-xtreem@iappblog.com.

Prizes
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iAppblog is grateful for the donations from the following people:
Jennifer Landefeld
Christopher Humphries

Update: The giveaway has been extended for 1 week until Tuesday, May 29, 2007.

Undercover is a great app/service that tracks and recovers stolen macs. I believe it is an essential service for all. Click Here, to read a great recovery story that recovered a mans macbook pro.

Taken From the Orbicule Website: “Undercover is capable of recovering any stolen Macintosh. It works by transmitting the internet location of the stolen Mac, and by sending screenshots, in order to easily locate the Mac. We will then work with local police and/or law enforcement to recover the stolen Mac. If things go wrong, Undercover switches to plan B and simulates a hardware failure, forcing the thief (or someone who bought the Mac) to return it to an authorized reseller. To alert the reseller, Undercover will start displaying full-screen messages and it will shout that the Mac has been stolen.”

To signup for the giveaway, you must register for fummo using this link (click here), then post a comment on this post saying you registered. You must include a valid email in the comment, and the name must match with a name that I see in the referals. For everyone that signs up, iappblog will get $5.

Can everyone please digg this? Click here

The winners of the iClip giveaway are “Rob”, “Brian Waldo” and “Ankur”. Here are their winning comments.

Rob: “I always copy and paste over something I need later and forget I copy + paste over it so I really like the clipboard history feature.”

Brian Waldo: “Although I already own a copy of iClip, I know someone who would just love a copy. I clip is a wonderful mixture of great graphics and superb functionality. I keep my hiding iClip on my computer at almost-all times, but when I am in need of some clipboard assistance, iClip jumps into assistance and I am rescued from coping and pasting and copying and pasting… I definitely suggest iClip 4 to anyone who needs a wonderful clipboard for their Macintosh.”

Ankur: “Just thought I’d write the third comment, so your licenses don’t go waste

iClip is a great app, but I think it’d be more useful to people who don’t use Quicksilver. iClip lite is cool too; a great use of OS X technologies. And to accomplish something like that on the Dashboard is not easy. Very, very nice.

I like the iClip UI, but the icon should be changed. Othre than that, a great app.”

If you are a winner, I have sent an email to the email address you provided when you posted your comments.

Author: EDIT-XTREEM

To help boost the community at iAppBlog, I’m going to begin to do software giveaways! To enter, just post a comment and post your favourite feature of iClip. I have 3 licenses to giveaway. I will post a full review later this week. Thanks to John Red, the iClip developer for donating these licenses! You can find out more about iClip here: http://inventive.us/iClip/. I will read through the comments, and the best 3 will receive licenses!