Happy Holidays!

Jumsoft Goodies: Holiday Edition

So this is Christmas... And what have we got here? Just as we should: an assortment of gifts for you, your loved ones, your clients and colleagues, and your Web site visitors. Specifically, we have 10 lovely holiday greeting templates from the Mail Stationery pack and a bunch of Web site add-ons for those of you who use iWeb, RapidWeaver, or Freeway. Ho ho ho!

As you probably recall, our bundle of Goodies regularly includes novel, fascinating designs that are completely free of charge. There are themes for Keynote and Mail, a set of 3D Keynote objects, and a beautiful assortment of Web add-ons to make your site simply exciting.

With the 10 new holiday greeting templates for Mail, you can avoid all of the customary dullness that so often plagues holiday cards, ranging from moderate banality to a mind-blowing, eye-popping, jaw-dropping waste of paper or kilobytes. Our talented designers would and probably will happily use our stationery templates this Christmas, which pretty much says it all.

Another gift we are offering this holiday season includes several options for you to create your very own customized Web site. Whether you prefer iWeb, RapidWeaver, or Freeway, you will find some great designs in the Goodies treasure chest. Even better, they are completely free!

To make use of these amazing treats, you simply need to download them, unzip the packages, and follow the installation instructions. Have yourself a merry big Christmas!

Mail Stationery 3.0: Balanced for Everyone

Do you ever wake up in the morning and feel a weird rush in your head? A penchant for bizarre kidnapping of your common sense without a promise to ever give it back? When you are desperate for some real action, and the only three options that come to mind are: 1) jumping on your bed in green pajamas while reciting Dante’s Divine Comedy; 2) getting your head shaved and trashing someone’s car with an umbrella; 3) sending the whole office an e-mail depicting the chairman of the board in a “wanted” poster—we can help with the last.

Actually, we can also help if you are a perfectly adequate individual and have never even dreamed of owning green pajamas. Surely, you do have a circle of friends, acquaintances, and relatives who deserve a lovely and original holiday card—and by “original,” we mean no sappy reindeer and no fluffy white beards managing to release the scent of nylon from a computer screen. It should be a proper greeting, one that sparks a smile and makes your loved ones think of mulled wine, a fireplace, and the smell of fresh snow. Like the ones in Mail Stationery 3.0.

We do offer fantastic Apple Mail templates for the situations described above and for many more special and not-so-special occasions. Whether it’s an invitation, a newsletter, a small reminder, or a joke you want to send, you will definitely find an appropriate design in this collection of 100 templates—plus 10 bonus Christmas greetings, plus 200 designs from previous releases, plus lots of different color schemes and design variations included in most of the templates. Wow, that’s a lot of opportunities to get your e-mail noticed and appreciated!

We are especially proud of two design-focused lines, Ink Sense and Cardboard Gallery. You can use these for a variety of purposes, but no matter what you do, they will always look great: simple, stylish, and funny. As usual, many templates have image placeholders, allowing you to blend your own images into the background. And don’t forget to click on the template backgrounds, which may reveal a totally different color scheme or text (check the “See you in 1 minute!” template).

As with most of our products, you simply need to download the package, follow the installer’s instructions, and find a set of fresh, crisp templates in the New Message section of Apple Mail. Easy!

Find out more about Mail Stationery 3.0 and see samples here. Get your own set for a totally reasonable price here.

NOW We Are Finished with the Keynote Bundles: Meet Keynote Quartet FX’10

This is officially over. The seemingly endless stream of blog entries on Keynote products will stop, for the new Keynote Quartet FX’10 is launched, including all four releases of the past month: Keynote Animations FX 7.0, Keynote Objects FX 4.0, Keynote Backgrounds FX 4.0, and the freshly squeezed Keynote Themes FX 5.0.

The total result is 150 objects, 100 animations, 35 motion backgrounds, and 15 motion themes in one brilliant bundle. Plus, if for some reason you find a total of 300 Keynote tools worth less than the $99 we ask for them, worry not. We have added a whole bunch of bonus products: 425 still themes, objects, and photos. Do we have a deal now?

Go on and delve into the world of Keynote presentations so good they capture, mesmerize, and never let go. Find perfect illustrations for your ideas; add some animations for further excitement; perk your slides up with swirling and swaying backgrounds; or just opt for full motion themes complete with matching backgrounds, fonts, frames, and even bullets. Prove to everyone that professionalism and fun are far from mutually exclusive. In fact, the more often you mix the two together, the more appreciative nods your audience will give in return, we promise.

Forget studying tutorials and the other mind-numbing drudgery that tends to accompany any attempt to do something different. Most of the products in the bundle don’t even need to be installed: just download the folders, save them where you like, and feel free to drag and drop objects, animations, or backgrounds onto your slides. In the QuickTime Inspector, choose Loop under the Repeat pop-up for never-ending action of the animations and backgrounds. With respect to the motion themes, download the package and simply follow the installer’s orders, which will eventually lead to a collection of new stunning themes in the Themes Chooser of Keynote. Simple!

Read more about Keynote Quartet FX’10 and see samples here, and grab a copy for a bargain price here.