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Mac Bundle Box 4: A good deal that does good

by Steven Sande Mar 1st 2009 at 7:00AM


Starting today (March 1, 2009), Mac Bundle Box 4 is offering 13 Mac applications worth US$333.82 for the discounted price of US$49. Like most deals of this type, Mac Bundle Box doesn't last long; you have until March 12th to get in on the action.

So far, the bundled apps include:
What do I mean by "so far"? Well, the Mac Bundle Box team wants you help out tomorrow and tweet up #macbundlebox. If that hash code becomes a Twitter trending topic, they'll add more apps to the bundle.

By purchasing Mac Bundle Box 4, you're also doing a good deed as 5% of each purchase is going to Charity:Water, a group that drills water wells for the 1.1 billion people on this planet who don't have clean drinking water.

Good apps, good price, good deed. It sounds like a heck of a good deal.

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brendan

It's a shame they suck at life.

Anyone else see the catastrophe on the MacHeist forums involving the organizer posing as a customer?

March 12 2009 at 11:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gregory Pierce

Wow, this bundle doesn't really contain anything I would even spend $49 bucks on. They could have done better.

March 12 2009 at 10:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
george

Actually, the fault turned out to be mine. I had an old email address in PayPal so I'd never received the serial numbers that were sent. Everything's been straightened out. Mea culpa.

March 09 2009 at 9:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
george

I purchased this bundle the day before yesterday and have not yet heard back from the company or from any of the vendors. I've also tried to contact the vendor through its website (no luck) and Twitter (no response). I've just opened up a dispute with PayPal. Under the circumstances, I'd have to advise everyone to stay away from this one.

March 05 2009 at 7:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Pilky

Note: I'm one of the developers taking part in the bundle.

George, what's your last name? All the George's who seem to have purchased the bundle have been sent out codes according to my system. I also haven't received any support request from you asking about your code. If you send an email to support at mcubedsw dot com I'll be happy to send your code out again in case it got stuck in a spam filter, and also inform the other devs.

March 09 2009 at 9:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
webstuff

I've never even heard of half the apps in this bundle. At least with MacHeist they are big name apps (or at least big name developers). The only one of any stature in this bundle is DEVONnote, which I believe I got in last years MacHeist, or maybe it was even in the last MacUpdate Bundle.

The least they could do is come up with their own Web site design. Being a designer, the complete ripoff of last year's MH site design really rubs me the wrong way - so much so that I wouldn't buy a bundle from them no matter what apps were in it.

March 02 2009 at 7:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Tony

"I've never even heard of half the apps in this bundle."

That's kinda the point. Let people know about not-so-well-known apps, allowing you to purchase a bunch for the price of one (or two) apps. There's usually one or two fairly well-known apps, to get people to purchase, with the hopes the lesser known apps will build a following, get some reviews/blog love, etc.

March 02 2009 at 6:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mac_ivan

Guys can you explain please what does this mean:

"What do I mean by "so far"? Well, the Mac Bundle Box team wants you help out tomorrow and tweet up #macbundlebox. If that hash code becomes a Twitter trending topic, they'll add more apps to the bundle."

I never used twitter before and i have no clue what is "tweet up #macbundlebox", "hash code becomes a Twitter trending topic".

thanks :)

March 02 2009 at 1:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Gareth

From a couple of Google searches:

"Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag." From hashtags.org

Popular topics, i.e. the ones being mentioned most on Twitter, are known as "trending topics" and are prominently displayed on search.twitter.com and various trend tracking websites. Just as trends.google.com tracks popular searches being made.

March 02 2009 at 2:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Grant

MacHeist apps are WAY better.

March 01 2009 at 11:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen P

I am so embarrassed. It took me the second time to realize the pattern; that 1Password saved my username, password and a previous blog comment. Therefore, when I log into to TUAW, it automatically enters all three of those pieces of information and submits them. TUAW people, please feel free to delete my last two posts, and this one too if you want. 1Password people, please don't save a blog comment when you offer to save a site's login info. TUAW readers, sorry for wasting your time. It turns out you need to be very, very careful before using 1Password.

March 01 2009 at 8:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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tdowling

Wow, I'm surprised that 1Password does that! I think that you should be able to work around it for now by finding the specific entry in 1Password and just deleting the contents of the saved "comments" field.

March 01 2009 at 9:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen P

I'm trying Safari again after much use of OW and I'm desperately missing:

* The ability to set my browser to never open links in a new window. Never. Unless I specify.

* Being able to line my Bookmarks 'toolbar' with web site icons and no text (by creating a bookmark, saving it on the toolbar and then deleting its name)

* Being able to search in things other than Google, and being able to set up ultra-fast search shortcuts such as 'g' for Google, 'w' for Wikipedia and 'yt' for YouTube.

* Being able to permanently increase or decrease the size of type on a web site, without affecting any other sites.

There's Firefox, but I love the ability to press Control-Command-D over any word to get its definition, certainly much more than Firefox dictionary extensions I've tried. And text looks much better on OW/Safari than Firefox.

What to do? Each browser has its ups and downs. I wish OW would suddenly take off and convince site developers that it represents an important segment of the market and that they'd better include OW support if they wish to be relevant. I know. I know...

March 01 2009 at 8:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stephen P

I'm trying Safari again after much use of OW and I'm desperately missing:

* The ability to set my browser to never open links in a new window. Never. Unless I specify.

* Being able to line my Bookmarks 'toolbar' with web site icons and no text (by creating a bookmark, saving it on the toolbar and then deleting its name)

* Being able to search in things other than Google, and being able to set up ultra-fast search shortcuts such as 'g' for Google, 'w' for Wikipedia and 'yt' for YouTube.

* Being able to permanently increase or decrease the size of type on a web site, without affecting any other sites.

There's Firefox, but I love the ability to press Control-Command-D over any word to get its definition, certainly much more than Firefox dictionary extensions I've tried. And text looks much better on OW/Safari than Firefox.

What to do? Each browser has its ups and downs. I wish OW would suddenly take off and convince site developers that it represents an important segment of the market and that they'd better include OW support if they wish to be relevant. I know. I know...

March 01 2009 at 7:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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