Check out the nanoBundle from MacHeist

6 Applications are available for free — right now.

5 are available for download at MacHeist.com and a sixth, Virus Barrier is available once you share the news with your FaceBook friends. A seventh application — Mariner Write — will be unlocked when 500,000 free bundles have been downloaded.

Have at it folks. Download the free nanoBundle.

P.S. Be aware... Hordes of Orcs can potentially be addictive. ;)

MacHeist stirring up the Macosphere again

If you haven't been seeing a fleeting tweet or two in your twitter stream and you are an avid Mac user... you've still got time to play.

Take a look at MacHeist.com and do some sleuthing. You'll be rewarded with a copy of DaisyDisk.

Productivity and archiving with your scanner

David Pogue has found a useful tool for his workflow and his recent column, A Better Way to Manage Receipts for Business Travel, is all about how he makes use of the NeatReceipts scanner and NeatWorks software.

I have no experience with that particular scanner but the NeatWorks software looks tempting. I have the ScanSnap S300M, which is a wonderful scanner with duplexing capabilities. It too can handle the small receipts up to legal sized paper. I was pleasantly surprised to see the NeatWorks is listed as compatible with my scanner.

So, if you have a scanner already, check it against their list to see if the software is compatible before sinking the cash into another scanner just to get the capabilities demonstrated by their software.

The Mac App Bundles continue with three to choose from

I'm late to the game with this one. The Mac Sale has been going on for a bit apparently but I just heard about it when I checked my MacZot emails. The Zot for 5% off the $49.99 price runs, as I type this, for 3 more hours.

10 apps included:

• Houdahspot
  
• Stuf
  
• TaskPaper
  
• MarinerCalc
  
• Flux
  
• Scribbles
  
• Interarchy
  
• Iris
  
• Writeroom
  
• REALbasic
  

You have a little more time to decide on TheMacBundles current offer. This one has 6 days to go.

9 apps (plus 1 bonus) included:

• A Better Finder Rename
• BluePhoneElite
• Keyboard Maestro
• Letter Opener
• Math Magic
• Print It!
• TaskTime
• ViewIt
• Web Confidential

The remaining available bonus app is CosmoPod

And there's also the MacBundleBox with 12 apps:

• Freeway
• Simon
• Keynote Themes
• DEVONthink
• myNotes
• iCash
• DaisyDisk
• Web2Delight
• Chronicle
• xHub
• Stomp
• Exces

If, like me, you've bought a fare number of previous bundles you may have some of these already. If you don't have the pricier apps it might be worth a jump for a bundle and then see if any other apps find their way into your regular stable.

Otherwise, perhaps you will find something you didn't know was out there and, if the price for one app directly from the dev is reasonable their marketing has succeeded in getting the word out for the devs involved. 

Happy shopping.

The mac application bundles continue... what market still exists?

Application bundle fatigue? Not me. :)

Then again, I'm a confessed Mac application addict and consummate bargain hunter. The latest offering from MacUpdate via their mupromo.com got me thinking, who is left who needs these apps if they've been around for one or two previous bundles of software from various marketers?

I just had the pleasure of finding some people I'd not known about previously via folks I follow on Twitter. And the pleasure increased when I was able to be the first to welcome @baldheretic, a switcher, to the Mac.

And now, do we have the battle of the bundles? A new bundle has hit the net from themacbundles.com. Both have a selection of apps that could be useful to a new or established Mac user. Both had duplicates of apps I already own, some from previous bundles, or apps that are very similar to ones I already use.

Ultimately it comes down to whether you think you will make use of enough of the bundle to make the discounted cost worthwhile. In the process you might find an app or two you wouldn't have tried, but find useful because it was there to play with.

Keep in mind, not all bundle promotions are equal...

...even if the price nearly is.

There are some wonderful side benefits to participating in something that is "more than a bundle", which is how I view MacHeist. As I mention in a previous post, a vibrant and ongoing community has sprung up around this particular bundle event that remains unrivaled by any other that has come along.