Apps in this year’s bundle are:
iSale ($39.95 makes your eBay sale pages look professional and appealing)
Picturesque ($34.95 a light-weight photo manipulation app with some kewl tricks)
SousChef ($30 an interface to a sort of “social cooking” network)
World of Goo ($20 very fun little physics/construction game)
PhoneView ($19 view your iPhone/Touch notes & data on your desktop)
LittleSnapper ($39 nice little screen capture utility)
Acorn ($49.95 another fairly light-weight photo manipulation app)
Kinemac ($299 awesome 3-D animation program)
WireTap Studio ($69 powerhouse audio recording/organizing app)
BoinxTV ($199 hardcore video editing/organization app)
The Hit List ($49.95 simple GTD “Get Things Done” application)
Espresso ($80 amazing CSS/XHTML/Javascript text editor)
The total value, if you bought each app seperately, would cost you a little over $930. In addition, 25% of your $39 goes to charity. You can choose which charity you’d like your chunk to go to from Macheist’s list, or by default they will divy it up between all the charities.
There is a catch to the “12 apps for just $39″ though; Macheist says you’ll get these 12 apps for your $39 — and you do — but until they raise $400,000 for charity, the last three apps on the list will remain locked (i.e. you can download them, but you don’t get a serial number to unlock them). At this time, those apps are BoinxTV, The Hit List and Espresso. Macheist has currently sold 28,501 bundles which raised $264,993 for charity. Actually, that’s pretty awesome. I checked the box to send my 25% to the AIDS Research Alliance, but other charities they support include Action Against Hunger, the Prevent Cancer Fund and The Nature Conservancy, to name a few.
So, with only 9 days left, I hope Macheist reaches its goal. Yes, because of the charitable intrinsic goodness they’re doing for the world, but also so I can get serial numbers for BoinxTV, The Hit List and Espresso. I hope you’ll do your part to make sure I do. Thank you, that is all.
Comments
MacHeist only says they’ll unlock Boinx when they reach $400,000. The target price for The Hit List and Espresso is different, and assumedly much higher.
WireTap Studio’s unlock price was $100,000, then it jumped to $400,000 for Boinx. So $1 million would have be the logical next round figure for unlocking The Hit List and Espresso. No way that’s happening.
Scott;
Yea, I won’t pretend to understand the logic behind the whole unlock/price thing, if there is any. I agree that $1 million sounds a little off, too. But whatever the reasons, I don’t regret buying the bundle — if only for Kinemac and WireTap Studio alone. The rest of the apps are cool, but not stuff I just HAD to have. But I’m going to play with them anyway.
Oh how I wish I had a faster Mac! Some of those applications in the video looked really cool.