A peculiar thing I’ve noticed with Mac software is that there seems to be a lot sales and offers on where by you can buy bundles of apps for next to nowt.
I was oh so tempted by Give Good Food to your Mac back in December but just couldn’t work out what to get. The idea behind it was the more apps you picked the more of a discount you got. I was looking at trying to get an 80% discount but you had to pick 10 apps and that was like a $100 minimum and to be honest most of it was chaff… so in the end I couldn’t decide, which was a pity since there where a couple of apps I was very tempted by, namely CSSEdit and Pixelmator.
As it turns out though, another bundle sale cropped up, MacHeist II (which at the time of writing has 6 days left). And unlike Give Food to your Mac, its blissfully simple. 12 apps for $49. And two of them happen to be CSSEdit and Pixelmator! Normally they’d cost $29.95 and $59.00 respectively so even for just those, I got a bargain! There are also some weird mission style things going on in the forums where you can get extra stuff for free and I managed, by doing very little, to get a further $4 knocked off.
It’s also worth noting that 25% of the sales go to various charities, which sounds like a good idea. There’s 10 in total and when you buy you have the option of either donate to a selected one or all.
I’ve not had chance to tinker with the rest of the apps properly, but a couple stand out. AppZapper has come in very handy at tidying up the slew of apps I’ve being trying out and found I don’t want anymore. The clever thing with AppZapper is it’s able to work out where an app has put it grubby hands with regards to settings, files and related gubbins and just deletes it all. Speed Download also has come in handy, I’d say it’s Windows equivalent is GetRight which I used to use occasionally for downloads that were really slow or a pain to get.
Anyhoo, MacHeist is well worth a look!
Oh and first post from ecto… it’s pretty good actually! Seems to do a lot of what BlogJet does.
Edit: Hmmm, ecto seems to output really messy HTML so I’ve had to fix it with BlogJet.
