My MacHeist theft

I always feel like I’m stealing software whenever a MacHeist is released. Every year there’s a new bundle of software available to purchase, with 25% of the total sales going towards various charities like Action Against Hunger.

Right now, there is a “nanoBundle” available to purchase. If you have a Macbook, it’s a must-buy for $20, if for only one reason: Tales of Monkey Island!

I played the first Chapter (of 5) on the PC and absolutely LOVED the game! Tales of Monkey Island has full voice acting with the original actors, so you’ll feel right at home if you’ve played any of the other Monkey Island games. The puzzles are fresh, funny, and challenging.

The other items available in the bundle include:

• MacJournal
• RipIt
• Clips
• CoverScout
• Flow
• RapidWeaver

MacJournal is actually really cool. It’s a premier writing app -- in fact, I’m using it right now to publish this blog post! RipIt puts DVD’s into iTunes/iPhone video format. Clips is a clipboard manager, CoverScout works like the iTunes “Download Album Covers” (only better), Flow is an amazing FTP client, and I hear RapidWeaver is a web-publishing tool.

Both Tales of Monkey Island and RapidWeaver have a delayed “release date”, based on how many bundles are sold... 50,000 for Tales and 80k for RapidWeaver, but the sale goals are always reached, trust me.

Now that was all about the nanoBundles... the real amazingness of MacHeist comes in April when the website turns into a giant puzzle quest and scavenger hunt! There are coded messages to solve. Videos to decrypt. Websites to discover. As you progress along the “Heist”, you earn various rewards like DaisyDisk or TinyGrab!

So bookmark MacHeist.com if you haven’t already and get ready for the Heist to start next month!