Phill Ryu’s My Dream App might have just ended but a new online sensation is about to begin. MacHeist is the name and shareware (Mac app) love is the game. Okay that sounded a bit cheesy but I assure you MacHeist is going to be amazing. As with everything Phill Ryu, you are bound to find many Mac developers involved with MacHeist.
MacHeist is a 5 week long event that will be invitation-only at first and will work towards an über bundle at the end with the last week starting on December 11th. Users can get money off of the über bundle by completing “heists” which are hacker/thief themed missions. An example heist might include “hacking” various Mac sites that are working with MacHeist. Regardless of heists completed, each week there will be a free Mac app given away.
So the über bundle has got your attention hasn’t it? Phill has given me a sneak peek and I must say that it is insane – a bunch of quality apps that I would pay good money for. As for the apps to be given away each week, what shareware Mac applications do you love? Please leave a comment as MacHeist organizers will be scouring this post for suggestions!
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Looks really cool. This guy is just too smart.
Man this is great. Newsfire is one of my favorite apps, and then possibly app zap.
Anything by Austin Sarner is pretty good
AppZapper, Disco…
NoteTaker, Stuffit Deluxe, ircle, and Omni* could be possibles
Devonthink Pro
Nice suggestions guys, I haven’t heard of a few of these.
Me, I’d gladly pay for Fugu and Colloquy!
Maybe iPartition fits the bill a bit better.
iTele, Quicksilver, Pseudo, BonjourBrowser, VLC, nmap, wireshark …
Snak and Transmit would be useful, as well as maybe MS Office for Mac and Parallels Workstation.
Little Snitch!
#1 app on my mac: TextMate.
What garbage. I mean really, we don’t need to have a virtual heist in order to get software. If you need software you go out and buy it.
I love the way it says “1 million dollars worth of freebies” – I don’t think they would ever have sold any of those garbage dolphin music programs anyway.
I’m also frustrated by the way the Apple category on Digg is being clogged up with this stuff. Yeah, My Dream App was a good idea to begin with which was spoiled by people constantly submitting stories about their own application to Digg. I now bury ANYTHING from these guys (I assume that Austin Sarner guy that needs a haircut is involved in this too) like Disco, MDA or MacHeist as Spam or Lame depending on who submits it.
I’ll say it again. If I need software I will research it myself and buy it myself. I do NOT need someone to turn the software development market into a series of online gameshows to convince me to buy something I do not want or need.
What’s your next trick, Phill? App or No App? Wheel of Applications?
Unison & Newsfire would be great, as would Swift Publisher and Snapz Pro X.
skEdit and Transmit. Nuff said.
Yojimbo would be nice. Disco..
Voodoopad FTW!
IconBuilder, VisualHub, SubEthaEdit, Delicious Library, GraphicConverter, PhotoToMovie, MPEG2Works, Pacifist, Life2Go, Snapz Pro X2, WireTap Pro
…to name a few. some of these i have, others i have’t because of cost.
Textmate, Jumsoft’s Money, Tangerine, MySync.
Find It! Keep It!
Catalog or Launchbar would be nice.
Transmit, Candybar, Unison.. The list can go on forever. :
SnapZ Pro!!!
I’m all for TextMate and Keep It Together (KIT). Maybe Yummy FTP?
You know, with all the press these “events” get I think some freeware app developers should be involved too. No harm in it. :)
hey paul, signed up for updates when i saw the link to macheist, but haven’t gotten anything yet. site says it’s invite only now. do you happen to have any invites?
Hey jimmy, thanks for stopping by. unfortunately I have no invites for you. Just put your email in on MacHeist and I guess they will systematically invite people.
Why does this post keep showing up in bloglines? Are you updating it everyday?
(no I haven’t saved the article, marked it “Keep New”, etc..)
Hrm, that’s weird. I haven’t touched it since I published it.
My Bloglines is suffering the same fate — and it’s also not updating a lot of my feeds lately. Something is up (and I’ve opened a ticket), but they think the problem is on my end. :(
Yeah, this is showing in my bloglines every day, too.
Wow that is weird. Is this only bloglines? I don’t think this happens in Google Reader.
Yeah, this post has shown up every single day in my Bloglines since you published it. It’s getting kinda annoying.
I resync’d the feed, hopefully that helps. But I really think it is a problem with bloglines, I don’t experience this in Google Reader. =/
Can you just delete it? It’s such a pain.
This sounds pretty cool!