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MacHeist Retail Bundle: 12 Mac Apps, $49

b1on1 said:
I'm not Michael from myownapp dot com, I'm a completely different person, who was just browsing through Google reader and following different discussions and commentars.

By incident I read about myownapp dot com and that webbrowser tab was just next to the tabs with the discussion about the new MacHeist project.

So it seemed just logical to add his approach to the discussion.

I'm not taking any position yet at the ongoing MacHeist discussion, because I want to hear what others think about all the different approaches with independat Mac OS application developers.

To me it seems to be the backbone in the ongoing MacHeist discussions (or should we say "flame wars"?) at various weblogs and forums including the macheist forum - but I beg your pardon and excuse, if I was wrong with that.

Paul.
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Then please accept my apology, was just very peculiar.
 
Basically what it comes down to is that majority of the applications and utilities in this bundle can be found as alternative freeway.

This is a lame bundle. :rolleyes:
 
Buried as inaccurate.

Should've labeled as "First time Mac User: Check those apps out!" or whatever. I'm still not inspired of those apps except xslimer.
 
I did the first MacHeist bundle and the only app I actually use is TextMate. I wish I had bought a license directly from the developer as I would rather see the money go to him and I'd be eligible for upgrades.

I just can't stomach the fact that the MacHeist promoters are making a lot more money off this than the developers are. Yes.... I understand that the developers went into this willingly but I think they would be better off offering a promotional price on their product instead.
 
mikey.f said:
Sounds like a desperate move to compete with the coming MacUpdate bundle, which will have stuff like Parallels and other apps...
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WHAT Macbundle???
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this app seems like digging through the $4.99 each DVD bin at Wal-Mart
either you have it and already have sold it-or theres nothing that remotely interests ya...
maybe im being harsh but it makes me think of the VersionTracker "Value Bundle" only less so.
 
Anything I want from this sorry lot I already have. Nobody who bought any of the previous MacHeist or MacUpdate bundles would have any motivation to buy this bundle. Bargain bin, indeed.
 
Wow! I don't think I have ever seen so many negative votes for a post before... and hasn't even been a full 24 hours yet. I agree with everyone though, not much here to see. I purchased the last MacHeist bundle, but it came with Pixelmator (worth the price of the bundle alone).
 
motulist said:
DEVONthink's purpose is completely eluding me. I looked all over their website and for the life of me I can't figure out what it does or what its purpose is. It seems to be a place where you can collate files and preview them, but I already have something that does that, it's called the finder and the iLife apps.

What am I missing?
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Hardly. DevonThink is beyond that. If you have TONS of PDFs, or clip articles from the web, DevonThink works amazing. You can organize them, tag them, add comments to them, have them OCRed so you can search the text of things.

The Office version of Devon-Think offers scanning, but it doesn't seem to work on 10.5 yet......sadly.........
 
ericdano said:
Hardly. DevonThink is beyond that. If you have TONS of PDFs, or clip articles from the web, DevonThink works amazing. You can organize them, tag them, add comments to them, have them OCRed so you can search the text of things.

The Office version of Devon-Think offers scanning, but it doesn't seem to work on 10.5 yet......sadly.........
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Evernote. Beautiful.
 
ericdano said:
Hardly. DevonThink is beyond that. If you have TONS of PDFs, or clip articles from the web, DevonThink works amazing. You can organize them,
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Finder does that with a great folder, subfolder, and alias system, plus file and folder labels and much more.

ericdano said:
tag them,
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Finder does that with file comments

ericdano said:
add comments to them,
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Finder, same as above

ericdano said:
have them OCRed so you can search the text of things.
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OCR can be done by many programs, then search is done through Finder's Spotlight. In fact in the Finder you can even automate the process with a folder action so that any image file that appears in a specific folder will automatically be OCR'ed.

So you've re-highlighted my point for me. Although DevonThink may (or may not) have unique features or uses that are not already present in OS X and the iLife apps, I still have yet to hear a single one.
 
I was really happy to try the January MacHeist since I was a new Mac user. But now 3 months later, it seems the only apps I use are Pixelmator, Cha Ching and 1Password--and the App Zapper. But in all honesty, the only one I probably would have bought outright is Pixelmator. Maybe I just didn't play around enough with the others to give them a fair shake but it just seems I have have better luck just getting specif apps that are more targeted to what I really need to accomplish.
 
Give Me A Brake

Come on now... I'm a relative newby and there's not ONE damn thing in this bundle that I can use at this point in my Mac-morphasis.
 
i was cringing while reading the description for wrtieroom. it's such a gimmick. wow, green words on a screen. they make it seem like the 'app' has so many features but all they do is repeat the same crap over and over again.
 
Makosuke said:
Question, though, for those praising Cha-ching: Is there something I'm missing? I got a license through the last MacHeist bundle, and while I liked the idea it seemed to be completely broken when I tried using it--the search and category sum features didn't work properly (as in, at all--it would ignore about half the stuff in any category I'd defined), and I'd already generated a corrupt entry in the database in like an hour of fiddling around.

Has an update fixed this stuff or something?
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No, Cha-Ching has not been updated. They are working on the beta of v2 (which was supposed to be out during MH...then a week after...then 2 weeks later...then a month later they said they got it working and would release it...now a month after that not a peep...hmmmmmmm)
 
I bought into one of the earlier MacHeist bundles mainly for one app - PhotoMagico. It also had iClip, RapidWeaver, DevonThink, and that DVD barcode scanner app (that was supposed to help you easily keep track of your DVD library).

Thing is, over this past year I've hardly used any of the apps - even PhotoMagico. So while it did draw me into purchasing and trying out some apps that otherwise I wouldn't have bought, I've never even been tempted to buy the upgrades for any of these (which apparently is why the shareware developers buy into these "heists" in the first place). I'll be curious to see how long these bundled sales continue to be offered.
 
Overflow looks useful and what Stacks should have been. I would rather just pay the $15 for it on it's own though as I can't see anything else in the bundle being any use at all for m.
 
motulist said:
So you've re-highlighted my point for me. Although DevonThink may (or may not) have unique features or uses that are not already present in OS X and the iLife apps, I still have yet to hear a single one.
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It's not just what you can do, its how it's achieved. This should be super obvious to Mac users particularly, the amount of time we have to argue against "well, I can do exactly the same thing by...."

Devonthink offers a very streamlined and clutter-free way to organise certain types of stuff. Much easier and more efficient than a finder-based system where you have to drill into subfolders... That's my take anyway.
 
Digital Skunk said:
Where are all the good Apps???

Besides Cha-Ching and iClip... there's nothing here really.

The price is nice if you want an app or two though.

p.s. I am waiting for the one that has Tech Tool Pro... I missed that one in the last heist and am still kicking myself.
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I didn't like this MacHeist over the previous MacUpdate with Tech Tool Pro. I have a copy of Tech Tool Pro that I don't use Digital Skunk. I believe it's only a $25 upgrade from my MacUpdate copy. ;)

I got my fill from MacUpdate last May/June and I'll just buy keys off of people per application from now on. It was fun last year though.
 
I actually just bought a copy of CoverSutra. Pretty cool app. I like the album art in the corner of the screen and the hot keys to change song/volume/rating.
 
mixel said:
It's not just what you can do, its how it's achieved. This should be super obvious to Mac users particularly, the amount of time we have to argue against "well, I can do exactly the same thing by...."

Devonthink offers a very streamlined and clutter-free way to organise certain types of stuff. Much easier and more efficient than a finder-based system where you have to drill into subfolders... That's my take anyway.
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I hear these vague arguments by you, the poster I replied to above, and from the devon website itself. I'm not trying to be contrarian for its own sake here, I'm inquiring honestly. If you can explain a real world example of how you'd use DEVONthink in a way that uses some unique feature of the program and what exactly (using specific real world examples) makes doing things through DEVONthink better than doing things through the Finder and iLife apps, then please enlighten me!
 
IMHO I think it's a very well priced bundle however I wont buy because I can't see myself needing any of the applications.
 
All I want is Voodoopad, preferably for free, yeah I know the lite version are free, but I'm, then I can't see all features, and I don't want to start using the normal version if it will be limited later to 15 pages ><

But I'm cheap ;D, compared to an OS or game 30 dollar are a lot ;/
 
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