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It looks like April is shaping up to be a good month for Shareware fans. MacUpdate has partnered with 10 Mac developers to bring us the MacUpdate Parallels bundle. Similar to the MacHeist bundle of apps, the MacUpdate bundle consists of 10 apps, the three most expensive of which need to be “unlocked” by hitting sales goals in order to be obtained. The biggest name in the bundle (and thus the reason for the bundle’s name) is Parallels Desktop.

The bundle costs $64.99, and with the 7 currently unlocked apps would retail for $265. When all 10 apps are unlocked, the value of the bundle would be $475.

The MacUpdate Parallels bundle contains the following applications:

• Hazel “your personal housekeeper, organizing and cleaning folders based on rules you define. Hazel can also manage your trash and uninstall your applications.”
• Art Text “an application to create high quality textual graphics, headings, logos, icons, banners and buttons.”
• MenuCalendarClock for iCal “gives you instant access to your iCal calendars from a menu bar icon.”
• Leap “A combination Spotlight, Bridge, Finder, and more. With the Finder on Leopard you can find that you have over 10,000 images. Leap shows you all of them, and more importantly – where they are on your computer.”
• StoryMill “introduces aspiring authors to multi-level writing methods of tracking characters, scenes, and locations, while professional writers will appreciate StoryMill’s time-saving ability to oversee and manage the full creative process with Smart Views. ”
• Typinator ” types repeating texts and pictures for you”
• DVDRemaster “is an utility for Mac OS X to recompress large DVDs so that they fit on standard DVD5. DVDRemaster can also convert DVDs so they can be watched on iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod touch, iPhone, Apple TV and much more”

Apps which must be “unlocked” include
• Sound Studio “s an easy-to-use Mac OS X application for recording and editing audio digitally on your computer.”
• BannerZest “Flash presentation software for professional and amateur web designers. ”
• Parallels Desktop “is the first solution that gives Apple users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.”

As always, if you are considering purchasing the bundle, we’d love for you to do so via clicking this link, which helps support Macenstein.