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Ian Smith pinged most of us the other day about the fact that MacHeist are running a limited promotion of their annual Macheist Bundle. The macheist bundle is a great set of commercial applications, which can be purchased fro a fraction of the cost of buying them normally, added to which a percentage of the price goes to charity. The normal cost of the applciations is over $350, but you can get them now for the low price of $49, which for us UK residents weighs in at a stupidly cheap price.

Some of the application only kick in once a group purchase limit is reached, meaning that CSSedit, SnapZ Pro X and Pixelmator, all get unlocked once a few thousand people have purchased (and so far they have!). The included applications is really a no brainer for Mac fans;

1Password is a Password Manager that uniquely brings you both security and convenience. It is the only program that provides anti-phishing protection and goes beyond password management by adding web form filling and automatic strong password generation. All your confidential information, including passwords, identities, and credit cards, is kept in one secure place provided by Apple’s OS X Keychain.

CoverSutra is to iTunes controllers as the iPod is to music players. Sure, the fact is that all MP3 players really do the same thing… they play music. But nobody does it better than iPod. And no controller does it more beautifully, more painlessly, and more powerfully than CoverSutra. Combining an elegant interface, including a CD jewelcase with cover art right there on your desktop, with some powerful features ( Last.fm integration, fully customizable keyboard shortcuts, and instant player controls), CoverSutra is worth it for the same reason the iPod is: it does the same thing all the other players do, only better.

Cha-Ching battles the claims in those ads that PCs are the realm of accounting and spreadsheets, but we know the truth: Mac users have finances to worry about, too. But we’ve got a secret weapon: Cha-Ching, an app that makes even boring stuff like checkbook balancing, budgets, bills and expenses fun and easy to use. No one would ever accuse Quicken of doing anything iTunes-style, but that’s exactly what Cha-Ching is– they’ve taken the best of OS X interfaces, and turned it into an accounting program.

Stop motion is a method of filming that involves taking snapshots of inanimate objects, and tweaking their positions in each frame, to achieve an illusion of motion when the shots are played back at speed. This is the technique used by movies such as the original King Kong, The Nightmare Before Christmas. and TV series like Robot Chicken and Moral Orel.iStopMotion is the ultimate tool for stop motion photography. Brought to you by the folks at Boinx, iStopMotion offers a powerful toolbox of features that streamlines the process of capturing and processing stop motion film. All you need is a camera, some props, and a great idea.

Awaken allows you to set any song in your iTunes library (or a playlist) as the buzzer on multiple alarms. If you’re worrying about alarms failing due to your computer falling asleep, no need to worry - Awaken supports waking your computer up from sleep to pull off its job of waking you up. Plus, you can control all of this from your bed using the Apple remote. Best of all, we’ve secured an exclusive for MacHeist customers. You’ll be the only ones with your hands on an exclusive new version of Awaken: version 4.0, which is totally rewritten, and features a new, animated UI, better iTunes support, additional full screen modes, and more.

AppZapper succeeds in transforming the mundane task of uninstalling apps into a genuinely fun experience. It’s no surprise that AppZapper quickly became one of the Mac community’s top selling apps within weeks of its release. Just drag an app into AppZapper’s window, and you’ll be immediately presented with a list of all associated files the app has scattered around your hard drive. From there, you’re just a quick zap away from a thorough purging. And to note, a major 2.0 upgrade, free for all customers, is on its way. AppZapper 2.0, which is currently under development, features a Leopard-tastic refresh of AppZapper’s looks and features. Believe it or not, AppZapper 2 actually has less buttons than version 1. Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks.

TaskPaper is a simple to-do list application that helps you stay organized. Unlike competing applications, TaskPaper is based on plain text files which offer you paper-like simplicity and ease of use. TaskPaper makes it easy to create a list of your projects and their tasks so that you always know what needs to be done. It’s simple to reorganize the list, create new items, mark items as done, and delete items that you’re finished with. You can also assign contexts (such as “home”, “office”, or “car”) to your tasks so that you can later generate lists of all tasks assigned to a specific context.

CSSEdit provides a quick and easy way to go from code to preview, Apple Design Award for Best Developer Tool of 2007, provides Live Preview that lets you see your code at work immediately and in real-time– no uploading, no refreshing, just editor and output. And incredible tools like CodeSense (which actually learns how you write code as you write it) and Selector Builder make sure the code you create is perfectly formed and simple to put together. And after the code is created, the X-ray inspector will let you search every element and attribute, and the Milestones feature will let you track all your changes from concept to validation. If you edit CSS (or just want to start doing so), CSSEdit is a must-have piece of software.

Snapz Pro X, is designed to make it super easy for you to show what you’re doing on your Mac to someone else. Whether it’s screengrabs or all out screencasts, Snapz makes it simple, super-fast, and elegant– everything you’d expect from an award-winning and much-loved piece of Mac software. The Live Preview feature lets you edit your screenshots live and on the fly– no more opening up a grab only to find you have to take it again. And Snapz’ video capture engine is faster than any other application of its kind out there, so you can screencast every one of OS X’s beautiful graphic touches– Expose, the Genie Effect, and even DVD playback– without worrying about a low framerate. Snapz Pro X makes a perfect capture, still or video, every single time. Why settle for telling when it’s just so easy to show?

Pixelmator is a beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images. Pixelmator is a layer-based image editor. You can quickly create layers from your photos, other pictures, from selections or even your iSight. Yes, Pixelmator can add a layer to your composition directly from your Mac’s little camera. Not only can you link and arrange added layers, but Pixelmator allows you to blend layers, change their opacity, create clipping masks or even add layer masks to hide some portions of layer. If your image editing experience so far has been defined by PhotoShop, we guarantee you will be blown away by Pixelmator’s speed and beautiful UI.

Speed Download is the doorman for your Mac. It stands between you and the Internet, and makes sure that everyone coming through knows exactly what they’re doing and where to go. Everything that comes in and out, whether it come to or from the browser, FTP, your iDisk, or the included encrypted P2P client is handled with speed and power and sorted by type– movies go into Front Row, music goes directly into iTunes, and everything else goes exactly where you want it, automatically. Track your history, use Smart Folders to organize your files, and take advantage of unlimited undos throughout the application and a smooth auto-resume on everything if you make any mistakes. We all know what the Internet is for: downloading, and Speed Download helps you do exactly that.

The MacHeist Bundle is something you don’t want to miss out on!!

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