Comments on: Mac Software Promo Bundle Discount

By: Why I Bought the MacUpdate Parallels Bundle « Daniel mostly on Software

Why I Bought the MacUpdate Parallels Bundle « Daniel mostly on Software — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:22:34 +0000

[...] then, Chris Pirillo published this post that hooked me. I read it and bought the bundle; hence this post to share it with [...]

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:53:21 +0000

ChrisP, You Have Got To Be Kidding!
I was slumming in the Microsoft basement where we keep the NtN’s (Nasal-toned Nerds). One of them very uncharacteristically approached me and spoke,
“Sir Mista Ballmer sir, have you seen what Chris Pirillo has been saying about Vista on his blog, Mista Ballmer sir?”
The NtN was waving his hands, shivering, sweaty, … I keenly perceived that whoever this Chris guy was, he must be pretty important to NtN’s. I of course would never admit to one of these basementers that I had no idea who or what he was talking about, so I just barked, “Bring this guy up on the BIG SCREEN!”
I then calmly walked over to the balcony to see what had the NtN’s so upset on the “BIG SCREEN” (the world’s largest 1440″ x900″ plasma display).
NtN: “Sir, Mista Ballmer sir, Behold ChrisP!”They started showing some uber-nerb’s podcast, he was panting, scratching, crying, flailing, hyperventilating as he wailed and railed about supposed deficiencies in Vista.
ChrisP: “… Windows Vista has let me down, you down, it just does not work, I went back to XP, Lord have mercy! Lord have mercy! …”I raised my hand, the video feed stopped. I whispered to the nerd, “… and why is this clown important?”
The NtN looked at me in astonishment and shakily replied,
“He is ChrisP, the cyber-nerd, there is none greater sir. That is other than yourself and Mista Gates, sir, Mista Ballmer sir.”
The NtN’s glasses had fogged up, he was crying, I said jestingly, “That question was only a test of your knowledge boy!”
I laughed, he snorted, all of the NtN’s started snorting!

I then raised both of my hands, all of the NtN’s froze in breathless anticipation of what I would proclaim, and proclaim I did:

“Be it known this day that the once great cyber-nerd, Chris Pirillo, has become a heretic! BUT! Fear not! I shall personally contact him and bring him back into the light of Vista! Until such time all of his feeds, blogs, podcast, … are hereby banned from these premises! So let it be written, so let it be done!”

All of the NtN’s were relieved as they scurried about to erase every reference to this Chris person that they could find!
They applauded as I went back to the elevator.
I just hope I remember whatever it was that I told them I was going to do tomorrow, whatever.

By: Daniel Brusilovsky

Daniel Brusilovsky — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:46:09 +0000

Chris — regarding Sound Studio…. I use this for all of my audio recording. I even use this for Apple Universe (http://www.appleuniversepodcast.com) ! Great blog post, and worth the buy!

~Daniel Brusilovsky
http://www.danielbru.com

By: joelg88

joelg88 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:05:24 +0000

That looks like a great Bundle of apps. I would like to try them out but there’s 1 thing stopping me from trying it. I do not have a Mac :(. But hopefully i will have 1 sometime in the near future within a couple months lol.

By: ReBirth13579

ReBirth13579 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:44:16 +0000

Gah! I really need to get myself a mac. One of these days I will…one of these days.

From what I have read and heard about Leap, it just sounds like a must have. I know I would love something like it on my XP.

Now the DVDRemaster Pro I would think would be a lot better if it would be able to make files such as .avi or .mpeg into DVD format to play on any DVD Player. No idea why they don’t add that but it sure would be nice.

The Art Text and Sound Studio are nice programs that many won’t have much use for although many will, depends on what you do or are planning on doing. There are so many other similar programs and some that I find to be better (for sound at least).

I don’t know it just seems to me that all this is just fancy things that many dont need for ther exception of 2 or 3. Yet, like I said I am not a Mac user so maybe these are worth it but I would not know much about it, just my opinion.

By: AmazeNYou

AmazeNYou — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:11:05 +0000

Makes me wish I had a Mac, Chris.

I used to be a Word Art junkie, so Art Text looks great.

By: Daniel Jomphe

Daniel Jomphe — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:28:32 +0000

Chris, here’s my story.
If you don’t like its start, don’t miss its end.

I already knew of most of the software in this pack.

I already own Hazel.
I already own a competitor app to Parallels (Fusion).

I already use freeware or shareware equivalents to:
MenuCalendarClock (stock apple widget, not great),
Typinator (trying TextExpander).

I knew I would someday want to buy Leap.
I knew I might someday need Art Text and StoryMill.

I think I learnt of this bundle on TUAW.
I checked it on macupdate, including the screencast.
I read again about it on macapper.
And another time on another blog I’m subscribed to.

And still, with all the knowledge I have of these apps,
I hadn’t purchased the bundle.

But then, you published this post.
I read it halfway and bought it. (Using your link)

So I just wanted to thank you for your effort laying out this post *your* way. It convinced me much better than any other way. Cheers!

By: Made in Apple

Made in Apple — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

MacUpdate Promo (noto anche come MuPromo, che per circa 65$ vi offre un discreto numero di applicazioni, tra cui anche Parallels Desktop (che da solo vale piu’ del costo dell’intero bundle. SecondoChris Pirillo, questo bundle vale la pena di essere acquistato, e dalla sua descrizione delle applicazioni possiamo concordare. Oltre a Parallels Desktop, ci teniamo a segnalare, tra le applicazioni nel bundle, anche