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Academic Program Pricing for Bare Bones - Now BBEdit and Mailsmith are US$49 Each for Students and Academic Professionals
Bare Bones Software, developers of leading-edge power tools for the Macintosh, today announced new academic program pricing for their award-winning BBEdit and Mailsmith products.
BBEdit is the award-winning HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Mailsmith is the award-winning, extra-strength email client for Mac OS X(R). Now for the first time, students and academic professionals can purchase BBEdit for US$49 (regularly US$199), and Mailsmith for US$49 (regularly US$99).
"BBEdit is an excellent tool for building the skills that students will need as they prepare for their professional careers," explained Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc." Whether writing papers, slinging code, or creating web pages, BBEdit provides the power tools that students, staff, and faculty need. Mailsmith offers control, flexibility, and the security inherent in plain-text email, all of which are particularly important in the academic network setting."
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of professional Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit reliably transforms text with high performance.
An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit's best of class features including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Perl and Mac OS X Unix scripting support, glossary support, intra-application automation, and a complete set of HTML tools.
BBEdit 8 introduced over one hundred new features and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar interface for working with multiple documents in one window, new Text Factories for intra-application text processing automation, numerous enhancements to the product's signature HTML markup tools, improved Unicode support, integrated support for Perforce and Subversion, integrated support for Automator, and much more.
BBEdit 8 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later. For more information on BBEdit, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the BBEdit web site
Mailsmith is an extra-strength email client designed for Macintosh users. Thanks to its unprecedented flexibility, users can customize Mailsmith's powerful editing, filtering, and searching capabilities to suit their particular needs.
Novice users appreciate Mailsmith's simple interface for sending, receiving and managing email efficiently. "Power users" appreciate its unlimited search terms, unlimited filter terms and actions, and numerous other power features for fine control of email processing. Mailsmith's extensive scripting support gives additional control.
Novice and power users alike all benefit from the seamless integration with SpamSieve, integrated support for Mac OS X technologies including the Apple Address Book, as well as the security benefits provided by the use of text-only email, built-in support for PGP 8.0, and the availability of SSL encryption for server communications.
Mailsmith 2.0 earned a 2003 Macworld Editor's Choice Award. For more information on Mailsmith, or to download a fully functional demo version, visit the Mailsmith web site
The Bare Bones Software Academic Program applies to students, faculty and staff of any accredited educational institution.
BBEdit 8 is available to students and academic professionals for US$49 (suggested retail price is US$199). Mailsmith 2 is available to students and academic professionals for US$49 (suggested retail price of US$99); the purchase price includes a free single-user license for SpamSieve (a US$25 value).
Anyone who purchased at the educational price after June 25, 2005 is eligible for a credit on a future purchase from Bare Bones Software. Those who purchased directly from Bare Bones Software will automatically be notified via email. Those who purchased through a reseller can send email to (sales@barebones.com), or call (781) 687-0700.
Educational licenses for BBEdit or Mailsmith may be purchased directly from Bare Bones Software. Educational licenses for BBEdit may also be purchased from numerous major Macintosh software resellers. Here's a partial listing of domestic and international resellers
Site license pricing is also available. For details please visit the company's web site at (http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml), send email to (sales@barebones.com), or call (781) 687-0700.
Bare Bones Software, Inc. develops leading-edge power tools for the Macintosh. The company's passion for creating deeply functional software with a clean, effective interface has earned it devotion from Mac users worldwide. The company's award-winning products include BBEdit, a professional HTML and text editor, Mailsmith, an extra-strength email client, and TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor. The company's expanding product family also includes Super Get Info, a file and folder info utility. Bare Bones Software has been crafting fine Mac software since 1993 and operates as a privately-held corporation based in Bedford, MA. For more information, visit (www.barebones.com/ ) or send email to (sales@barebones.com).
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