Very cool OSX apps at a HUGE discount
JimD (2617 pencils) | Tue, 2008-12-09 18:56Macupdate is offering a fantastic Holiday Bundle of ten really popular, and highly useful OSX apps for only $49.99 (regularly $447.69), now through December 19th.
The Holiday Bundle includes:
- Drive Genius - Optimize/repair/test/resize and clean up your Mac's drives. The Apple Genius Bar reps use it, so you know it's a great tool.
- DefaultFolder X - Enhance your Save and Open dialog boxes. This is one of the first things I install on any new Mac!
- RapidWeaver - Create beautiful template-based Web sites rapidly. This is perfect for throwing together quick Web sites and blogs.
- MacPilot - Enable over 700 hidden features in Mac OSX & other popular apps! I love this litte app!
- Little Snitch - Alerts you to outgoing network connections. Excellent for connection troubleshooting, and finding out which apps are "phoning home" and to wear.
- Virus Barrier - You can't get infected, but you can spread them.
- MacGourmet Deluxe - Easily create, build, and share your recipe collection. Yummy!
- iVolume - Improves the built-in "Sound Check" function of iTunes.
- KeyCue - Displays all the menu shortcut commands. Handy for newly downloaded apps.
- WhatSize - Helps you find out what's taking up all the space on your hard drive.
At just $49.99, this bundle is a bargain just for having Drive Genius, Default Folder and RapidWeaver. But when your throw in Little Snitch, MacPilot, and the other apps, it's probably the software deal of the year - far better than past bundles from MacHeist.
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This all is at the very least Windows Freeware!
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Click the link and make JimD rich!
Yes, I do receive a receive an affiliate referral fee. With everything I make in referrals from this promotion, I can probably buy three or four cups of coffee at Starbucks, or pay my hosting fees for one month. Big whoop.
Look, this is a great promotion by MacUpdate. The bundle includes several highly popular and useful applications that cost double the bundle price in some cases. They're worthy of promoting.
If you're ticked off because I'm making a tiny referral fee, so be it. I mean really, what do you care? I contribute here, and have over several years. You've been a member for 4 hours (as of this post) and the first & only thing you have to say is this?
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I really don't mind you making a buck! What ticks me off is this whole hearted recommandation by you of each and everyone of these 10 apps. In combination with the fact that your profit is hidden to the reader.
It doesn't look good. Are you making these recommandation out of self interest? I don't know, but I know that I was mightily disappointed with RapidWeaver which I got when I bought a previous MU-bundle.
I made a sarcastic comment and I think you earned it.
You could do as John Gruber: Write something like: "Click the link and make me rich". If you are putting a lot of time into this site people are going to WANT to support you!
I had posted a long-winded reply, but I've decided to delete it and replace it with this one. You're hiding behind a newly created username, and quite frankly, your opinion no longer holds any interest for me. Read my articles. Don't read them. I really don't care one way or the other, it's a free world.
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I'm a big fan of Little Snitch and DefaultFolder X. Thanks Jim.
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Jim, actually I don't enjoy having offended you - and it's not a personal thing. Perhaps you can just look at it from a more cool point of view.
My point is: When are we (in general) a sharing community that help each other out as friends - for mutual benefit - and when are we trying to make money off of each other. There is nothing wrong with either, but if it_looks_like a friendly recommandation but is in fact a business scheme, then I don't like it.
My simple suggestion was that you make it clear that you're making money on it.
It's a thing in the media that generally bugs me - and the problem seems to be bigger online: When things are not what they pretend to be. Like all these socalled "experts" that are being quoted everywhere, but are having their own hidden agendas, they are promoting ...
So me being sarcastic was also an outlet for that frustration - that corruption seems to be everywhere. I also saw it in your post.
Judging from your pissed off responses I don't believe that you are corrupt.
... So, are you happy now?
You seemed genuinely ticked off that I posted this article. Here's my deal with this promo:
I was going to post an article about this MacUpdate promotion anyway. I really like Rapidweaver & DefaultFolder. They're both excellent applications with a ton of loyal followers. I like Drive Genius (so far) and a few of the other apps. When I found out I could become part of the affiliate program, I signed up thinking I could make a few bucks.
But make no mistake about it, this article would have been posted regardless. I also made a similar post this past year to promote the MacHeist bundle, for which there was no affiliate program. I had no financial interest in it at all, but I thought the "deal" was worth promoting.
Part of what I think is important in my writing, both here at CB, my site, and other sites I write for, is to introduce readers to new applications and/or deals to be had. If I can make a few dollars here and there off my work, I just don't see anything wrong with it. The expense of running my site, and the time I spend writing for CB and other sites (which I don't get paid for) is done because I love doing it - but it also must pay for itself, now more than ever because I'm currently not employed full-time.
I didn't note in the original article that I'm an affiliate because I really don't see the value of saying so. To think otherwise is ironic because as designers, we create advertising to promote products that we many times don't truly believe in, or care about. But we don't put a disclaimer in every ad we do that says "we designed this ad and were paid for it, but we think this penile-enlargement pill is a joke."
If I thought the bundle price wasn't good, or the aps sucked, I wouldn't have promoted it to begin with. And the fact that someone (affiliates) make a small cut for helping to promote sales in no way affects the buyers/end-users - you still get the same great apps at a fantastic bargain. Believe me when I tell you that I receive MANY free copies of applications, and get asked to review products all the time. I don't do it if I feel the products aren't worthy of the publicity, or I just don't like them - I don't see the point in wasting my time writing an article for something I don't whole-heartedly endorse. Maybe it's just the whole "if you don't have something nice to say..." thing, or maybe I'm just lazy...
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Fair enough - I understand where you're coming from. I am an occasional reader of this site and one of the things that I enjoy about it is this feeling of people sharing on a friendly basis out of their joy.
You know, most of the time I keep my guards up when I'm reading or watchiing stuff in any media because of all those hidden agendas, but not on this site. So I think I felt it like a "betrayal" (on a small scale) when I read your article and saw it as something like a sneaky spamming. But I now understand that that wasn't the case.
This is a reminder to myself not to "shoot first and examine afterwards". Well, I guess we all live to learn, right?
Prasad :-)
Hey JimD, I have no problem with people getting payment for promoting goods that they use - That's why ad systems like 'the deck' are so successfull. I think all something like this needs is a bit of wording along the lines of 'and if you buy through this link I'll get a little bit of each sale!' to let us know what the deal is.
Were I in the market to buy something like this I'd happily do it through an affiliate scheme where people I trusted and got on with earned something out of it.
My only real gripe would be that you are more passionate abot some of the apps in your responses here than you were in your original article :)
They just added Pangea Arcade to the bundle. Pangea Arcade is a collection of three games, a remake of the classic arcade games Centipede, Asteroids and Missle Command. The graphics and audio is awesome. I've been playing for three hours now and can't stop.
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You got me on the games... off to check out the bundle now.
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The bundle may be a "bargain" but I don't need half of the items on the list. I've got TextWrangler for websites, OnyX and "repair permissions" for my hard drive and I can pretty much keep track of my own files without an app to help me with that.
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