The following Boinx Ultimate Christmas Bundles are available for iStopMotion:

• iStopMotion + FotoMagico for just USD 79 (you save USD 39.95)
• iStopMotion + iVeZeen for just USD 39.95 (you save USD 19.95)

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Are you looking for that perfect christmas gift? The one that's fun for the family, gives you hours of joy, vows your peers, saves you money and is available quickly in the last minute? Try Boinx Software Ultimate Christmas Bundles. With the electronic gift certificate, each bundle also gets that personal touch.

Macworld published the annual Gear Guide: Part Two - Gadgets for Moviemakers and Nature Lovers and Jeff Carlson recommends iStopMotion: "It's cold outside, and you've exhausted every possible subject in your house. Time to unleash your inner Ray Harryhausen. With a digital camcorder, a few cans of Play-Doh, and Boinx Software's iStopMotion, you can make stop-motion movies reminiscent of Harryhausen's movie monsters. Create shapes, add a few toys, and film their interactions one frame at a time using iStopMotion's intuitive interface. Then dump the footage into iMovie for editing, and squoosh the Play-Doh into colored, swirly blobs."

Our very own Achim Breidenbach is not also a gifted programmer but also a talented craftsman. Each year, he draws an advent calendar which we put up on the web. This is how it works: Each day, you can click on the current day number (and all previous days) and open another door where you'll find a surprise cartoon hidden that tells a small story.

German Mac Magazine Mac Life this month has a special iStopMotion version on its cover CD and a 3page article. They also host a stop motion contest. You can win a number of Boinx Software Licenses. German readers, get the Mac Life edition at your newsagent's today.

Unfortunately the names got confused a bit, so it's called "iStop Motion CS". The CD also includes samples by Sven van der Hart and others.