CrunchDeals: MacUpdate Promo Holiday Bundle for $49.99

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by Ivan Beres on December 10, 2008

MacUpdate offers a bunch of handy software for $49.99. For that price you get everything on the picture. I never needed any of these and I also have no idea what they do (except for VirusBarrier) but this seems like a bargain. Thanks Stephen!

Eric - December 10th, 2008 at 10:36 am GMT+5

This is half price just for Drive Genius! It’s a great deal for Mac users. Don’t pass this one up. I’m already using six of these apps every day. Although Little Snitch is a pain to get set up (having it block ETQW logons was a challenge) it’s nice to know no software can transmit diddly without being snitched on.

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StephenK - December 12th, 2008 at 3:11 pm GMT+5

You’re welcome, Ivan.

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StephenK - December 12th, 2008 at 3:22 pm GMT+5

Ivan said I didn’t leave enough “content”, so here goes:

After humming and hawing for a couple of days after learning of this deal on macrumors.com, I decided, “meh, it’s only $50 (US)”, and I took the plunge.

Haven’t tried Drive Genius — the UI is a little retarded, but Drive Genius is the software APPLE STORE EMPLOYEES use when you bring them fuxed drives.

Little Snitch is great.

Virus Barrier is simple and good.

KeyCue is helpful for keyboard-shortcut noobs.

DefaultFolder I’ll be looking into more, but seems to put a lot of things right at your fingertips in Open and Save dialog boxes, which is :D .

MacPilot I haven’t opened yet, but supposedly it unlocks a number of otherwise-Unix/Linux-Terminal-accessed stuff that I don’t particularly want to have to learn bash in order to use.

So for those alone, I’m happy-dappy-pappy. The rest appears to be BS (like MacRecipe or whateverthefsk).

Anyway, how’s that for content, Ivan? :shiftyeyes:

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