MacHeist 3 Bundle rears its beautiful, cheap head
MacHeist 3 has arrived, and for the first time the 12 app bundle promises a $627 value for the low low price of $39. Whether you’re interested in cooking a meal, or playing the best puzzle game of last year, or selling off an old item on Ebay, the MacHeist bundle has you covered.
I find these mega software bundles are often hit or miss, but MacHeist 3 has something going for it that for me makes it extra sweet – the awesome World of Goo ($20). I reviewed WOG last year, and it’s still one of the few games I still play every couple weeks. Also on the list are:
iSale $39.95 - eBay online auction tool
Picturesque $34.95 - add cool effects to your web images
SousChef $30.00 - Digital Cooking Assistant
PhoneView $19.95 - Adds access to your iPhone’s Notes, SMS logs, your call history, disk storage, and more
LittleSnapper $39.00 - Easily grab and share images
Acorn $49.95 - Easy to use photo editor
Kinemac $299.00 - Create Real time, professional 3D animation
WireTap Studio $69.00 - record and edit audio o your Mac
and
Big Bang Board Games $24.95 - 7 classic board games
As always, the bundle also features a few “unlockable apps” which are added to the bundle when certain sales goals are hit. This year’s unlockabels are:
BoixTV $199 - “TV studio in a box,” ideal for recording podcasts, seminars, and other events
The Hit List $69.95 - powerful but easy to use task manager
Espresso $80 - stylish new new web editor
I’m going to go out on a limb and say odds are all three of these apps are likely to be added to the bundle, as I believe traditionally all apps have been unlocked in previous MacHeist bundles. 25% of all sales go to charity, and if you order the bundle by clicking on THIS LINK, you will be giving to the greatest charity of all - Macenstein.
Mark Papermaster’s ransom has been paid
Ah, it seems like it was only November 4th when Apple Announced:
Mark Papermaster is joining the Company as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod(R) and iPhone(TM) hardware engineering teams. Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM.
Well, as you may recall, IBM had a thing or two to say about that decision – namely that Papermaster was in violation of the 1-year “no compete†clause in his IBM contract which legally bars him from accepting a job with a competing company. Papermaster at the time attempted to argue that in his 25 years at IBM, he never heard the company describe Apple as a “competitor”, an argument which sounded a little lame to us, but apparently someone somewhere bought it, because today Apple released the following press release:
Mark Papermaster will be coming to Apple as senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs, on April 24. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod(R) and iPhone(TM) hardware engineering teams. The litigation between IBM and Mark Papermaster has been resolved.
Actually, odds are Apple paid a huge cash ransom in exchange for Papermaster’s safe return. No word yet on whether Mark has all his fingers intact, but seeing as he is going to be heading up the largely “touch-based” iPod division, we’re hoping the answer is yes or else we have a feeling valuable research dollars are going to be diverted towards a way to navigate an iPod using your nose.
Red Giant’s 1 Day sale - 40% off EVERYTHING - today only
Filed under: Awesomeness, News, Software, deals
ATTENTION VIDEO PROFESSIONALS! Red Giant Software, the sellers of such indispensable After Effects and Final Cut plug-ins as Trapcode’s Shine and Particular and The Magic Bullet HD Suite is having a one day only sale, TODAY.
That’s right, just enter coupon code bailout40 during checkout and get 40% off your order, which is no small savings as some of these effects are pretty pricey. Personally I will be picking up the Knoll Light Factory Pro, Datamator, and the Magic Bullet HD Suite. And maybe ToonIt. Oh, I can’t decide, they all look so tasty! A quick word of warning, however: be careful about compatibility, as some of these plug-ins inexplicably do not yet support the latest version of After Effects (and we’re almost at the NEXT version of After Effects!). Click here for details.
Redefining “refurbished”
Overstock.com is selling what they call an Apple iMAC G5 Laptop (Refurbished). Not sure whether they refurbished an iMac into a laptop, or a laptop into an iMac, but either way, they went above and beyond what we normally expect when we hear “refurbished”.
The description reads: “Take your technology anywhere with this G5 desktop computer”. Anywhere, eh? Like the chiropractor? They list it at 18.5 lbs.
Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Kyle for the tip!
Apple special - Buy 99¢ videos for the low price of $1.99
Faithful Macenstein reader Tim noticed some odd pricing when he clicked on the 99¢ Video button in his QuickTime player. Apparently Apple is selling about 2 pages of 99¢ videos for $1.99.
Above: Looking for a deal? Keep looking.
Oddly, if you go through iTunes to the Music Video section and click on their 99¢ music videos box, you get a screen of just 4 correctly priced videos.
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