MacHeist Bundle Update
Update on the Update! (4/4/09): MacHeist has just added for all customers another application to their bundle, Times. It is an unique RSS reader that organizes the feeds into a visual newspaper format. Normally, it sells for $30. I will give it a look; though it will be hard to get me to shift from NetNewsWire due to the iPhone client and synchronization with NewsGator.
You will need to hurry though. There is only three days left in the MacHeist 3 Bundle!
Just a quick update on the MacHeist 3 Bundle. They have added two additional applications to the bundle: Delicious Library 2 and Multiwinia. If you have purchased the bundle and tweet about it on Twitter, you receive the gifts. Don’t be surprised if you are hit with a bunch of tweets saying:
I bought the @MacHeist 3 Bundle. 12 Top Mac apps worth $900+ for just $39 AND I just got Delicious Library 2 FREE! http://mhtweet.com/g4Flrc
So what are these new applications?
Delicious Library 2 is a great way to catalogue all your media. It won tons of awards several years ago and can use the iSight as a bar code reader. My entire book library is organized using Delicious Library 2. I highly recommend it.
Multiwinia is a shooting war
game where you command stick figures to
fight your friends online. I haven’t tried
it out yet, but it looks fun. Certainly, it
will be an attraction to buyers who have
complained that there isn’t enough fun
applications in this year’s bundle.
"A Tale of Two Upgrades"
To quote Charles Dickens, “It
was the best of times. It was the worst of
times.” This week two long-awaited upgrades
arrived for Mac users: RapidWeaver V4.0 and
Delicious Library 2. Both have offered some
free upgrades to its installed base.
RapidWeaver
allows any
registered RapidWeaver 3.6 customer, i.e. a
Serial Number starting with RW3SN.
RapidWeaver is an excellent Web site
creation tool and is the one used for this
blog. For me, the upgrade was a snap and now
I am using RapidWeaver 4.0 for this entry. I
will report on my impressions of RapidWeaver
4.0 in a later blog entry, once I have had
the opportunity to explore it further.
Delicious Library
has stated
that any customer that bought Delicious
Library 1 on or after December 1st 2007
would be entitled to a free upgrade to
Delicious Library 2, when available. Here is
the actual blog
entry. Delicious Library is a
cool application that allows you to “catalog
your books, movies, music, software, toys,
tools, electronics and video games”.
However, unlike the RapidWeaver upgrade,
this upgrade is not going as well. The
Delicious Library 2 installation and
migration of my library has gone flawless;
however, the new version does not accept my
Delicious Library 1 license key.
Consequently, my instance of Delicious
Library 2 is running in demo mode and will
NOT allow me to scan in any new items.
There are no instructions on the Delicious
Monster Web site on the process to get a free
Delicious Library 2 upgrade license key and I
contacted Delicious Monster by email two days
ago about the problem. I have yet to receive a
reply.
My hope is that Delicious Monster will be
honoring their commitment to the installed
base. In any event, they are not handling the
situation as well as RapidWeaver. I am
wondering if we will see a rerun of the YazSoft
PR disaster?
UPDATE
6/4: Good
news. I found the free upgrade path for
Delicious Library. You simply need to go
through the normal purchase process embedded in
the software and they will credit you the $20
upgrade fee if you qualify. Unfortunately, I
needed to find this on my own and there is no
real explanation on the Delicious Monster Web
site. Nevertheless, I never received a direct
response from Delicious Monster.
UPDATE
6/18: I
finally got an email from Delicious Monster
with my free license key. Clearly, they have
honored their commitment to existing users;
however, it is more than three weeks since the
product announcement.
