Northstar Solutions Partners With BitsDuJour

August 19, 2009NorthStar Solutions Launches "Daily Software
Discounts" ... MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES NorthStar Solutions is
pleased to announce that, in cooperation with Bits du Jour, we have
launched a new web site designed to help you promote your software
products. Our new Daily Software Discounts web site will help you
gain exposure for your programs by offering discounts to a rich
network of hundreds of thousands of people that subscribe to a
discount newsletter and/or frequently visit our web site looking
for software discounts. Please visit the Partner Information Page
at the web site for more details about the program and how you can
sign up. Note that link is not available on the regular web site.
To view an example of the web site, visit the Daily Software
Discounts home page where you can get a better feel of the look and
feel web visitors experience. THANK YOU As always, we are honored
to do business with you and find it a pleasure serving you. We wish
you great success personally and professionally. Sincerely Yours, -
Jeff Camino, President NorthStar Solutions, LLC

Iconico.com Christmas and New Year's 40% Off

Iconico.com is planning a 40% off on almost all Iconico
software products. You can get huge savings on software like Screen
Calipers, Data Extractor and Clipstory. To get the discount simply
enter the coupon code 200940OFF during the checkout process. This
promotion will last from 23 December 2009 until 3rd of January
2010, so hurry now as we won't be repeating it any time
soon!

BitsDuJour uses TipFrom.Me to make promotions go viral

Thanks to TipFrom.Me, BitsDuJour vendors can now give their
buyers Tips that can be easily shared to their friends and
followers on the various social networks. Buyers of products during
the promotion will have a financial incentive to share the great
deal they just got, thereby making the Tips an exponential
awareness builder for the 24-hour deal, for example one buyer may
Tweet about the deal to his 10,000 Followers on Twitter. Those who
follow the link and purchase will generate cash rewards back to the
original buyer. BitsDuJour customers will see the TipFrom.Me links
after they purchase select products. These will be shown in the
post order receipt page or a follow-up email. Check out this
slideshow of exactly how it all works:
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information please visit http://TipFrom.Me.

Software Industry Conference 2009

This year's 2009 Software Industry Conference was no
disappointment. With some great speakers and great company it was
an excellent chance to put some faces to names that we knew only by
email and newsgroup postings. This year we spent a lot of time
talking in the hospitality suites, here's who was on hand:
Association of Shareware Professionals Avangate cleverbridge
Digital River Shareware Promotions Ltd. Softonic Tucows Nico and
Roger hang out in the BitsDuJour exhibition booth on Friday night.
We had a lot of familiar faces and some new ones stop by, a really
great night. We had some tasty "bytes" on offer on the exhibition
night too. Nico chats with Oliver Grahl, who tops the BitsDuJour
leaderboard of top sellers for PDF Annotator Mike Dulin cracks
jokes at the ASP Luncheon. Most of the e-commerce providers were on
hand at the SIC this year. We caught up with the new e-commerce
company UpClick. Rik Roberts shows how a real man should perform at
the Shareware Industry Awards.

The BitsDuJour Bundle of "10 Great PC Mac Apps" at 87% off ($49.95)

Ladies and Gentlemen, Jewels and Germs, Mac and PC users, it
is our great pleasure to introduce to you the first ever...
(Drumroll please) ...Bits du Jour Big Bundle! That's nearly $400
worth of software for only $49.95, a huge 87% Off the retail price.
Whether you're a Mac Maven or a Windows Wizard you'll be sure to
find diamonds among this treasure trove of top-shelf software
titles. The BitsDuJour Bundle Includes: * BitDefender Antivirus
2011: With one of the most powerful (and most licensed) antivirus
engines out there, BitDefender Antivirus 2011 means good riddance
to bad rubbish. * TuneUp Gold: Get more out of your music. Much
more. TuneUp Gold will make iTunes and Windows Media Player users
wonder how they ever got along without it. * NTI Shadow: It's never
too soon to implement an effective data backup solution. And what
luck! NTI Shadow just happens to be one of the best backup
utilities on the market. Save money and sleep better tonight. *
Screen Calipers: Measure just about anything on your computer
screen with these handy virtual calipers. Intuitive,
resource-friendly, and fully skinnable. And best of all, you can
define your own units! * LastPass (1 year subscription): Got more
passwords than you know what to do with? LastPass the most
intuitive, most powerful, and most excellent password manager out
there. And it's browser-based for your convenience. * Postworkshop
Artists Edition: Love visual art? Hate cleaning brushes?
Postworkshop is a powerful tool that will give new life photos and
digital images in ways you never imagined. * Aurora: Histograms,
color channels, contrast, hue, saturation... let's face it --
editing digital photos is pretty complex. Or at least, it was.
Aurora gives your photos the professional touch. Automatically! *
38 Handwriting Fonts: Show how much you care and give your next
document or correspondence that personal, handwritten touch.
Especially useful for those of us with less-than-adequate
penmanship. * EarthDesk: Anybody can put a map on their desktop.
But only EarthDesk makes it spectacular. Dynamic light and weather
conditions, gorgeous cloud rendering, and more customization
options that you can imagine. * Movavi Video Converter: Like
watching movies? Hate trying to convert them to the correct format?
Movavi Video Converter is a veritable powerhouse that'll make short
work of all your video conversion needs. And it couldn't be
simpler. Purchase this week and BitsDuJour will throw in Screen
Protractor too. See The BitsDuJour Bundle

BitsDuJour Article on 47Hats.com

A new article on Breaking through your sales ceiling with
Bits du Jour has been published on 47hats.com.
http://www.47hats.com/2009/12/breaking-through-your-sales-ceiling-with-bits-du-jour/

Screen Shapes and Controls Released

There are many times that you need to convey the design of a
website or application without needing to deliver a completely
coded solution. By working with your clients to define what they
expect to see before you spend significant time working in the
wrong direction, youll be able to save time, increase efficiency,
and achieve the ultimate in customer satisfaction! Today, one
simple application will revolutionize the way you approach website
and application design. Screen Shapes and Controls lets you quickly
and easily create scenes consisting of all kinds of freeform and
geometric shapes, fully customizable with respect to colors,
opacity, background imagery, movement and more. Even better, you
can add a number of Windows form controls to any of your shapes
with a simple click of the mouse. The result? Easy mockups that
lead to even faster code development. Screen Shapes and Controls
gives you an easy way to show customers how a proposed application
or website will look and behave, without the need for any technical
expertise or programming. On the other hand, if youre a client, you
can use Screen Shapes and Controls to give your programmer a good
idea of what you want the finished product to look like its a lot
better than scribbling on a whiteboard! With Screen Shapes and
Controls, youll be able to store your favorite scenes for quick and
easy retrieval, giving you the ability to quickly modify them to
create new scenes with the same basic elements. And when youve
created a scene and you want to show it off to a programmer or
client, you can publish it as an XML file on your website, so that
its viewable from any web connection. The ability to transform your
visions into working prototypes makes Screen Shapes and Controls a
valuable part of your development workflow! Screen Shapes and
Controls runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 You may download
the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as
you needSingle User license is only $19.50We offer a risk free 30
day money back guarantee To see screenshots check out our Getting
Started Guide and Online Help. To see the movies click here. To
download the application click here.

Software Industry Conference

Catch us at the Software Industry Conference in Boston
tomorrow and all weekend. Stop by our BitsDuJour exhibition booth
Friday night and score yourself some free BitsDuJour
goodies!

Domain Extractor Basic Released

Those of you who are in the business of researching and
maintaining lists of domain names know how cumbersome that research
can get. Who hasnt had to pore over the source code for a website
to pick out legitimate domain names? Not to mention the fact that
you often have to work even harder to identify subdomains, as well
as domains that have extensions other than .com or .net. Domain
Extractor Basic is the latest example of innovative, timesaving
applications from Iconico. With Domain Extractor Basic , your
domain research workload will shrink dramatically, as your manual
digging and searching is replaced by the simple act of entering a
website address, or copying and pasting a block of text! Domain
Extractor Basic provides you with the fastest, easiest, and most
common-sense approach to gathering lists of domain names. Just
browse to any site on the Internet and obtain a list of all of the
domain names on that site with a single click! Then, with another
click, export those domain names to a text file. With Domain
Extractor Basic, you never need to experience the frustration of
researching non-commercial international subdomain names ever
again. Using the convenient Wizard or User generated patterns, you
can customize Domain Extractor Basic to scan the target website for
domains with up to 50 subdomains, and with extensions ranging from
1 to 20 characters. For example, if you wanted to harvest all of
the 2-character domains from a site (such as those from Russia
(*.ru), Canada (*.cn), or the Netherlands (*.nl), but not *.com or
*.net names), you would set the number of characters in the
extension to 2. If you wanted to extract only a specific domain
extension, Domain Extractor Basic lets you do that, as well. Theres
power in flexibility! For really specific searches, you can
customize your own search pattern, using combinations of
alphanumeric ranges, domain numbers, and extension character
counts. Domain Extractor Basic gives you the ability to perform
domain pattern searches that are as specific or general as your
needs dictate. Stop wasting valuable productivity performing manual
domain name collection! Use Domain Extractor Basic to get more work
done, in less time than you ever thought possible! Domain Extractor
Basic runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 * You may download
the feature limited trial, and evaluate the software for as long as
you need * Single User license is only $9.50 * We offer a risk free
30 day money back guarantee To see screenshots check out our
Getting Started Guide. Find Out More about Domain Extractor
Basic.

New 'Suggest' Feature Added to BitsDuJour

For a long time we've been running a suggestions forum on
BitsDuJour, which has been an informal way of allowing people to
suggest software that we feature at a discount. We'll we've decided
that it's time for an update! With the new Suggestion tool you can
suggest an exact piece of software for us to feature, or click 'I
want it too' to add yourself to the fan list. If and when we do
feature a promotion with a suggestion that you've signed up to then
you'll automatically get an email notifying you about it. Check out
the New Suggestion Tool

Join us at the Affiliate Summit

Summer is conference season, which means a lot of travel.
We're happy that next week is the Affiliate Summit, and even
happier that it's on our home turf in New York City. The Affiliate
Summit East 2010 runs from August 15th to 17th and is a major event
of the affiliate industry, in fact, it's huge. So if you want to
escape the crowd this is your chance to meet me us in person. So if
you're making the trip please drop us a note and we'll be happy to
meet up and show you our home town.

ColorPro 2.0 Released

ColorPro 2.0 has been released. To update to this new version
you will have to quit ColorPro 1.0 if it's running then download
and install ColorPro 2.0. Here are the new functionalities and
improvements added in version 2.0. 1. Color Chip shapes can now be
set to: - rectangles - ellipse - rhombus - honeycomb1 - honeycomb2
2. Color Pickers show now extra color spaces: - RGB - HSV - CMYK -
HSL - YUV 3. Color complement selection (based on Hue). Selection
of complements is available from a "star" like figure. 4. Color
Chip/Palette wide color value modification by applying addition or
substraction of: - RGB sliders (add/substract individual R, G, B
channels or all R, G, B channels at once) - CMYK sliders
(add/substract individual C, M, Y, K channels or all C, M, Y, K
channels at once) - HSV sliders (add/substract individual H, S, L
channels or all H, S, L channels at once) 5. Color Chip/Palette
wide color value modification by applying filters : - INVERSE,
GRAYSCALE, SEPIA, BLACKANDWHITE, GRAYANDWHITE - NOHUE, NO, NOVAL,
FULLHUE, FULLSAT, FULLVAL, HALFHUE, HALFSAT, HALFVAL, DOUBLEHUE,
DOUBLESAT, DOUBLEVAL - Same filters as above for R, G, B and C, M,
Y, K channels 6. Searching palette is now possible in the
'Palettes' tab. Search is done by Name, description, number of
chips, palette type, user color name of the chip, user color
description of the color chip and user color key of the color chip.
7. Exporting palettes is now available also in the following
formats: - Image (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF) - HTML - CSS 8.
ColorPro can now export and import ColorPic palettes 9. ColorPro
can select any color (right click or left click -so when you click
on a button you don't activate that button's action) from anywhere
on the screen directly into the current palette from the Edit
Palette section (using the Magnifier Tool). Be sure to have the
Magnifier window "Pick" check box checked before starting to select
colors. Checking the 'Select Frenzy' checkbox and having the
magnifier opened you could send ColorPro to tray and start picking
colors from anywhere on the screen by clicking the left mouse
button. The current color (under the mouse cursor) will be visible
in the magnifier window. 10. You can now select a portion of the
screen (left click, drag and release) and get it's color palette:
Go New Tab as SELECT IMAGE 11. Added 'Magnifier Hi-Lite Checked'
and "Magnifier Hi-Lite Color" settings 12. Retrieve the image from
Clipboard and get it's palette: Go New Tab as CLIPBOARD IMAGE 13.
System palettes are not loaded at startup: you can refresh the
'System Palettes' list or recreate them again. 14. Added new
default (system) palettes. Here are all system palettes: - All
Named Colors - Web Safe Colors - Basic Colors - Red Web Safe - Blue
Web Safe - Green Web Safe - Yellow Web Safe - Cyan Web Safe -
Magenta Web Safe - Grayscale