We all love a good deal. Especially when that includes a load of Mac applications all bundled up for heft of savings. Over the years there have been many app bundle sales, most prominently by MacHeist, which has inspired the likes of other sales like One Finger Discount. In this article, we will cover three sales of app bundles going on this March.
theMacSale
TheMacSale bundle has a collection of 10 apps for $49.99, claiming that their combined worth is over $500. Among the apps are gems such as Path Finder and Shovebox—both apps that anyone can find use for on a day-to-day basis. Path Finder is a Finder replacement, and Shovebox an information snippet organizer that’s iPhone sync capable; they’re included below in the list with the others:
- Path Finder – a replacement for the Finder ($39.95)
- Shovebox – an information snippet organizer ($24.95)
- Supercard – a quick and easy development environment ($179.00)
- StoryMill – a word processor that’s specially suited for story writing ($49.95)
- MiniOne Racing – a three dimensional kart racing game ($19.95)
- Inkbook – note-taking software with handwriting recognition ($40.00)
- VideoConverter Pro – a video and audio converter, and DVD ripper ($49.00)
- Slideshow – make slideshows as standalone apps for Mac, Windows, Flash, etc. ($55.00)
- MacGourmet Deluxe – organize your recipe and wine collection in a database ($49.95)
- Finance 6 – a way to keep track of your bank accounts and manage your budget ($40.00)
Summing up the individual costs for licenses, you get a total of $547.75—upholding the claim and totalling exactly $497.76 in savings. The whole thing seems to be organized by (or at least collaborated with) macZOT, and you can save an additional 5% by entering in their coupon code “MACZOTROCKS” that would bring down the cost of theMacSale bundle to $47.49. That’s a savings of 90.46%.
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If your iTunes library happens to be in disarray, with incorrect ID3 tags, missing artist names and album art, then you might be happy to know that there’s an app that can add all those in for you automatically. Pollux, whilst previously free, had to be shut down because the services it used could not endure all the queries made to their servers. However, it returns today with a nominal fee of $10/year. Not bad for keeping your music library updated with the correct song, artist, album, and other metadata names, along with the lyrics and album art. A trial to tag 20 songs is available as a download on the Pollux website; feel free to try out its accuracy for yourself.
Click here to download
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With over 140 iPhone and Mac developers participating in Indie+Relief, exactly $143,872 dollars was raised for Haiti in just 24 hours—making it a huge success. A full list of the sold apps and participating developers are still available on their site. A special thanks to both Garrett Murray and Justin Williams, who made the whole thing possible.
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I’ve been waiting for this one for a while. Note-taking, scrapbooking, journaling and general information manager Thoughts by Green and Slimy software has been finally released for the price of €24. It’s been in private beta up until now, with access only to those that had pre-ordered. What distinguishes Thoughts from most other note-taking software is its delicious and very user-friendly interface. If you’ve been looking for something like this, give the demo a try.
Download here: Thoughts
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MacRumors has recently reported that most of the issues with Microsoft Office and Apple’s desktop “Spaces” should finally be fixed in Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. The problem, which had serious consequences on usability had made many users permanently switch over to iWork, including myself. So what took so long? Microsoft pinned the blame on Apple, citing the architectural implementation of Spaces in Leopard as the cause of the issue. However, in a recent blog post Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit senior product manager Mike Tedesco has announced that both Apple and Microsoft have worked together to fix the problem in Snow Leopard:
Q. Are there any differences with Office 2008 for Mac running on Snow Leopard vs. Leopard?
A. Office 2008 for Mac is Snow Leopard tested and ready! Best of all, with the launch of Snow Leopard, the bulk of the Word 2008 Spaces issues have been fixed after our collaborative efforts to address the problem.
Mike’s wording connotes that there may still be a few lingering bugs. The Microsoft Mac help and support site suggests that there are problems when the Formatting Palette is open:
Note: With the release of Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard, a number of Word 2008 for Mac Spaces issues are fixed. For example, when the Formatting Palette is closed, there is improved performance between Word 2008 for Mac and Spaces.
Hopefully everything will (soon) be fixed in upcoming updates.
[via MacRumors]
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ARTICLE OUT OF DATE: YOU CAN DOWNLOAD CHROME DIRECTLY FROM GOOGLE HERE
We’ve all been waiting for it. As Google Chrome for Mac and Linux veers right around the corner, many of us will take a sigh of contentment to finally be able to run it on an operating system other than Windows. Even Google co-founder Larry Page called the lack of a Mac version embarrassing, mentioning that he has to use VMware on his Mac just to run it.
The good news is we have a precompiled, binary version of the latest build for those who want to have a feel of Chrome on a Mac. Except that it hasn’t even reached an open beta, so it will be buggy. Read the rest of this entry »
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