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BundleHunt: 11 Great Mac Apps & Design Goodies at $49

How great would it be to have access to some kind of deal for useful and well-designed Mac apps bundled with resources for web design, CSS, or even Photoshop? That’s exactly what BundleHunt is offering in its latest initiative to sell a bundle of “11 Mac Apps + Design Goodies” at $49.99. For the same price of a Thunderbolt Cable you’ll get gems like Launchbar and Divvy – we reviewed the latter here – as well as Hype, the beautiful HTML5 design app, Xslimmer and WriteRoom. And on top of the OS X love, you’ll also get your hands on 4 Smashing Magazine design ebooks, 3 WordPress themes from Theme Trust, and a complete Geomicon icon set.

BundleHunt includes:

  • LaunchBar: Objective Development’s LaunchBar is the original application launcher for the Mac, used every day by folks who care about being productive with their Macs. Gestures may be the hot new trend in Lion, but let’s not forget about the power of the keyboard. LaunchBar lets you control every aspect of your Mac, it’s highly customizable and efficient in letting you access applications, folders, contacts, bookmarks – you name it. Normally $35.
  • Color Schemer Studio 2: This app lets you build color schemes quickly, so you can create and save palettes, and use the color wheel to check out harmonies between your color choices. Available on the Mac and Windows, it fully supports web (RGB) or print (CMYK) standards. Sold  for $49.99.
  • WriteRoom: A full-screen writing environment to get words on a page, stay focused, and keep your work synced across the Mac and iOS. Normally $25.00.
  • Divvy: A new way to manage your desktop by quickly choosing the exact proportions of application windows with keyboard shortcuts. You can create as many shortcuts as you want, and manage your apps’ settings through Divvy’s grid interface. $14.00.
  • Tumult Hype: With “no coding required”, Hype enables designers to build beautifully animated websites that will work on desktop computers, iPhones, and iPads. By rivaling Flash content with a universal standard supported by any modern web browser, Hype uses WebKit to visually build animations, giving you additional tools to create custom JavaScript code and edit an element’s HTML. Original price is $30.00.
  • Seamless Studio: A desktop app that makes it easy to design vector patterns for the web, print, fabric, or any other design project. Available both on Mac and PC, regular price is $49.00.
  • Smashing Magazine: Ebooks from Smashing Magazine are available as PDF, ePUB, Mobipocket (DRM-free) and they include: Mastering CSS for Web Developers; Professional Workflow Package; Modern Web Design & Development; Mastering Photoshop for Web Design, Volume 2. Normally $30.00.
  • TN3 Gallery: An HTML-based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options so you can create web galleries that support CSS, XML, and Flickr. $37.00.
  • GeomIcons Full Icon Set: 315 royalty-free vector icons in EPS format desgned by Brent Jackson. $16.00.
  • ThemeTrust: 3 WordPress themes licensed under GPL, with support for widgets, and more. $147.00.
  • XSlimmer: Sometimes applications come packaged with unnecessary code that your Mac will never use, and Xslimmer understands this. You can use Xslimmer to right-size your Mac apps and remove binaries or other chunks of code your Mac won’t need, while retaining the functionality of the app and, actually, trimming the code down to what’s really used so that apps will launch even faster. Normally sold for $15.

I’d argue that LaunchBar and Divvy alone make up for the bundle’s price, yet with BundleHunt you’re going to save $400 and get a variety of other Mac software, plus some useful goodies for your next design work. $49 gets you 7 great apps to add to your Mac’s library with licenses delivered directly to your email inbox.

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