{"id":60,"date":"2007-07-16T19:19:01","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T01:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2007-07-16T19:19:01","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T01:19:01","slug":"macupdate-and-macheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"MacUpdate and MacHeist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macupdate.com\">MacUpdate<\/a> has been running a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mupromo.com\">special bundle promotion<\/a>.&nbsp; For just $49.99, one could get a bundle of eight very useful Mac programs, including one of my favorites, ProfCast.&nbsp; If you are a professor using Keynote or PowerPoint on a Mac, and want to easily make enhanced podcasts of your lectures, ProfCast is for you.&nbsp; It simplifies the process greatly, and helps you focus on more important things than editing XML and publishing RSS feeds.<\/p>\n<p>But wait&#8230;there&#8217;s more!&nbsp; If enough people buy the bundle, one or two more applications will be &#8220;unlocked.&#8221;&nbsp; If 3,800 bundles are sold, the drawing program Intaglio would be added.&nbsp; And if the 6,000 bundle figure is reached, TechTool Pro will be included.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been using earlier versions of TechTool Pro for many years, and it&#8217;s one of the best testing and diagnostic tools available for the Mac.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/sidebar1.png\" \/ align=\"right\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" \/>But wait&#8230;there&#8217;s still more!&nbsp; The great minds behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macheist.com\">MacHeist<\/a> have developed an even more appealing way to get the bundle.&nbsp; If you buy the MacUpdate bundle through their <a href=\"http:\/\/macheist.com\/buy\">special link<\/a>, you&#8217;ll not only get all of the apps in the bundle, you&#8217;ll also get four additional programs, plus special preview access to two programs in beta.&nbsp; All told, that&#8217;s 15 programs (16 if TechTool Pro is added) plus a free membership in MacUpdate if you send out the bundle invitation coupons.&nbsp; That&#8217;s about $3 a program.<\/p>\n<p>What a deal!&nbsp; If you use a Mac, you owe it to yourself to at least check this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the venerable MacUpdate has been running a special bundle promotion.&nbsp; For just $49.99, one could get a bundle of eight very useful Mac programs, including one of my favorites, ProfCast.&nbsp; If you are a professor using Keynote or PowerPoint on a Mac, and want to easily make enhanced podcasts of your lectures, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/?p=60\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MacUpdate and MacHeist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,20,21],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple","tag-shopping","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drthompsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}