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MacUpdate Fall Bundle: 12 Mac Apps for $49.99

jessica. said:
Really? What does it say? I need toast and I would not mind the interior design app since I no longer have a windows box to install my AutoCAD onto, I don't run parallels and I could use some ideas on placing furniture in my house. I use and love Voila and would love the upgrade.

What's that say about me? :rolleyes::cool:
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That you're easy enough to sucker into purchasing bundles for apps that are at their refresh dates, whereby you'll have to shell out another $25-100 per app if you want them current? Not to mention the plethora of junk apps with soon to be old versions that you neither need nor want but will surely get emails from letting you know the latest version of "Crapware 8" has been released.

Toast 9 to 10 upgrade is $60, so it can be reasonably assumed the 10 to 11 upgrade will cost the same. So if you're mostly buying the bundle for Toast, you'll actually be spending $10 more for Toast 11.

Also, AutoCAD is coming back to Mac by the way, since you clearly prefer that.

A lot of these programs are in these deals to get cheap(er) consumer penetration. Then after the bundles have run their course they release the paid upgrades. It lets them get their hooks into consumers who a certain percentage of which will buy the upgrade just to stay current, while simultaneously giving them a quick cash influx by unloading a few more old versions of the software that the developers give bugger all about now.

If MacRumors is hard up for cash I'd just as soon click a Paypal donate button and know exactly what I give them rather than this scheme.
 
Some time ago I searched for an encryption app that could encrypt folders or files alone. Like AxCrypt for Windows (great app).
Looks like Espionage is the one!
 
I bought this just now, then I see everyones reaction. I stopped and thouht "am I stupid?!"

haha of course im not!

i dont know whats wrong, although Toast 10 will be updated soon $50 is a good price for it alone.

Alot of the "free" apps will all have their share of uses. Ill definitely use folder synchronizing, and the world-wide network sharing is almost impressive. Didnt apple attempt that feature in 10.6, called back back to mac? But i tthink they decided you need mobleMe to use it. Also I have heard it doesnt work well anyways.
 
Not my bundle this time round.
Toast is a good deal but it will be upgraded in a few weeks/months, plus OSX does most everything I need right now.
The rest is fluff.
Pass thank you.
 
I actually don't mind the apps

I think this is one of the good ones. They usually only give you one major app and 2 decent ones, the rest are usually crap.

Toast for $50 for someone that is still using Toast 7 is a plus, the rest may get used by the wife, she seems pretty interested in Concentrate.
 
Questions about toast

I have two questions about toast. I think I have 9 now -- was that the one where you could pay extra to be able to burn few minutes of "Blue-ray" on a regular DVD-r. Is that feature included now? The roxio website mentions blue-ray numerous times and doesn't seem to have any *s saying you have to buy the plugin.

and

Can toast use the chapter markers I set in FCE yet? I couldn't get it to work with 9 and have been having to use iDVD instead when I need chapter markers in long videos. :mad:
 
Reminds of "PorkBarrel" Bills in Congress

One good bill that is popular with all sorts of "pork" added on that is not popular and would never pass on its own.....
 
I did the mac heist bundle thing once - when it was free.

WriteRoom was nice, but, honestly, the world wouldn't have collapsed if I hadn't gotten it.

Usually you get apps with such offers that you normally wouldn't buy.

Or simply don't need.

I have Toast ($70 at Amazon, not $100), and I wouldn't know what I'd need these other apps for.

I'm careful not to let just anything install on my mac.
 
I've just purchased. Toast, Live Interior 3D, and Compartments all seem like they'd be very useful to me. The other apps will probably rot in my software library, but at $49 for three quality apps, you can't complain..

Also, it's nice to support MR, however indirectly.
 
Listing an advert as a main news item on the front page really affects the integrity of this site. And a 'financial interest' disclaimer doesn't solve the problem, in fact it makes it worse. There's plenty of space to put adverts on this site.

Maybe I should stop thinking this is a credible news site anyway.
 
iTeleport said:
Listing an advert as a main news item on the front page really affects the integrity of this site. And a 'financial interest' disclaimer doesn't solve the problem, in fact it makes it worse. There's plenty of space to put adverts on this site.

Maybe I should stop thinking this is a credible news site anyway.
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Make it worse? In what way is that?

Bundle sales through these links benefit MacRumors financially, and provide a way for readers to directly support this site.
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Sounds perfectly reasonable – if someone doesn’t like it, then they can just skip to the next story

MR has being listed these stories and declared its interest on a number of occasions, such as a couple in 2007. There were five in 2008, I think - which seems to be when you joined. Do you feel that MR’s integrity for news coverage been compromised because of such offers during this time?
 
kntgsp said:
That you're easy enough to sucker into purchasing bundles for apps that are at their refresh dates, whereby you'll have to shell out another $25-100 per app if you want them current? Not to mention the plethora of junk apps with soon to be old versions that you neither need nor want but will surely get emails from letting you know the latest version of "Crapware 8" has been released…..

A lot of these programs are in these deals to get cheap(er) consumer penetration. Then after the bundles have run their course they release the paid upgrades. It lets them get their hooks into consumers who a certain percentage of which will buy the upgrade just to stay current, while simultaneously giving them a quick cash influx by unloading a few more old versions of the software that the developers give bugger all about now.

If MacRumors is hard up for cash I'd just as soon click a Paypal donate button and know exactly what I give them rather than this scheme.
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I take you point, but there are apps like Rapidweaver, which I first got with one of these bundles in Dec 2007 and I’ve still yet to pay for an upgrade – and with its last major update, I was amazed that it was still free for me; if it hadn’t been, I wouldn’t grumble.

Although I do feel you’re right in saying some apps are around their refresh dates, this isn’t always the case – in my own experience, it hasn’t. Personally, on the occassions, I found it was the case and I was expected to pay, I wasn’t a huge fan of the software so I passed - and it didn't endear me to the company. It's bad business.

When I thought it was worth upgrading, invariably I got over a year’s use out of it and in some cases – e.g. Typinator or DVDRemaster – two years. Maybe I’ve just been lucky, but the upgrade costs I’ve found to be pretty reasonable – such as $9.99 for DVDRemaster. Nor have I been troubled with emails asking me to upgrade. On the other hand, Drive Genius 2 was pretty expensive to update, I seem to rememeber and the update came after 6-8 months of the offer.

I haven’t bought every bundle, but I have bought a few and mine experience has always been largely positive – I’ve bagged a few bargains and experienced some cracking software that would otherwise pass me by.
 
kntgsp said:
That you're easy enough to sucker into purchasing bundles for apps that are at their refresh dates, whereby you'll have to shell out another $25-100 per app if you want them current? Not to mention the plethora of junk apps with soon to be old versions that you neither need nor want but will surely get emails from letting you know the latest version of "Crapware 8" has been released.

Toast 9 to 10 upgrade is $60, so it can be reasonably assumed the 10 to 11 upgrade will cost the same. So if you're mostly buying the bundle for Toast, you'll actually be spending $10 more for Toast 11.

Also, AutoCAD is coming back to Mac by the way, since you clearly prefer that.

A lot of these programs are in these deals to get cheap(er) consumer penetration. Then after the bundles have run their course they release the paid upgrades. It lets them get their hooks into consumers who a certain percentage of which will buy the upgrade just to stay current, while simultaneously giving them a quick cash influx by unloading a few more old versions of the software that the developers give bugger all about now.

If MacRumors is hard up for cash I'd just as soon click a Paypal donate button and know exactly what I give them rather than this scheme.
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Read son, I have AutoCAD for windows ... no matter what happens to the Mac platform that's not changing my copy purchased years ago as a student.

Sucker? Yeah Toast 10 may be a sucker purchase to you but their updates are often minmal and many will roll with a prior version for a while. I assure you I'm far from a sucker, I'm not being duped, and you haven't a clue what you're on about. MR isn't doing this because they are hard up for cash, they're a business and this is one of their partners.

Why no remove the massive chip on your otherwise misguided shoulder? We get that you're pissed about the package but no one will chop your arm off if you don't buy it. :rolleyes:
 
I might get Toast, but I'm not sure (all the other bundled apps are of no use to me). However, I'm still using version 6 of Toast and it works fine enough.

Slightly O.T Question though:
Is Toast the only app that allows you to easily do multi-session disc burning (i.e, burning again and again to the same disk until it's full), or do one of the free disc burning apps have that feature now?

I know you can do this with Disk utility, but that takes a bit of fiddling around.
 
I take it this offer is only open to people in the US or with US bank accounts?

Some thoughts. Toast is actually infuriatingly useful! It is one of the few burning applications that doesn't slap an extended GUI onto and using Disk Utility. For instance, if you have young kids or just anally feel the need to protectively archive any new application that you buy and then only use the backup DVD you made; I'm told Toast is the only way to 100% clone your hybrid Snow Leopard DVD (which is to say including the windows sector, which apparently you can't do with Disk Utility; I haven't tried but I don't especially want to waste a DL dvd!). Besides, it's just one of those Swiss penknife things with a zillion useful functions and a nice interface.

My other thought is a bit disingenuous. In the UK the computer magazines, or at least the PC ones, often come with DVDs with free software bundles of fully functional full retail products - and the magazine then offers you discounts on upgrading to the very latest version. As I say, I'm being disingenuous, here, I know of no way to get earlier versions of Toast, etc, for the Mac. I need to find the small print but am I right in assuming this is only open to American customers?
 
Detosx said:
I take it this offer is only open to people in the US or with US bank accounts?
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Huhh?
I just bought this with a perfectly european creditcard. So I think you can as well.

And, yes I have no use for most of the applications in the bundle. But I see this also a donation to the Mac developer community. The platform would be nothing without them...
 
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