Chris Herbert

730 posts on MacStories since September 2010

Vector & pixel trafficker for Seymour Midwest LLC, regular MacStories contributor, Hip-Hop junkie all day long; Apple addict circa 1976.

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BundleHunt Holiday Mega Bundle: 6 Great Mac Apps & 6 Design Goodies at $49

BundleHunt is once again offering a great bundle with “12 Top Mac Apps + Design Goodies” at $49.99. You’ll get some great apps like Little Snitch, DEVONthink and PulpMotion as well as MacPilot, Disk Drill Pro, and BannerZest. You’ll also get your hands on 10 Smashing Magazine design ebooks, 4 Copy Hackers ebooks, 4 WordPress themes from Themify and 3 more from WP Bundle, plus a complete White Space icon set and a vector selection from Go Media Arsenal.

BundleHunt has also made this deal a bit sweeter. You can receive a license of MacPaw’s Ensoul worth $9.99 for FREE just by sending a single tweet. Even sweeter is that they are giving away two iPad 2s.  Purchase the bundle or subscribe to their newsletter to enter.

BundleHunt includes:

  • BannerZest Pro: The fastest and easiest way to add punch and movement to your images online and get professional-looking slideshows. Integration with all major web site editors is a breeze! Normally $129.
  • DEVONthink Personal: This app keeps your documents, notes, and bookmarks. Its unique tools and artificial intelligence let you manage your files effortlessly and focus on things that really matter. Sold for $50.
  • Little Snitch: Informs you whenever a program attempts to establish an outgoing Internet connection. You can then choose to allow or deny this connection, or define a rule how to handle similar, future connection attempts. This reliably prevents private data from being sent out without your knowledge. Normally $40.
  • PulpMotion: Create animated presentation using your own media such as photos, videos and music! WOW your friends & family in just a few clicks. Wedding, birthday, travel – just a few of the hundreds of different slideshows that you can create. $129.
  • Smashing Magazine: This awesome package of eBooks will make you a master of CSS, web design, Photoshop, but most importantly a Professional! Available as PDF, ePUB, Mobipocket (DRM-free). Original price is $65.
  • WPBundle: An amazing bundle of 12 quality WordPress Themes and includes the ever growing collection of IconJar Icons (over 300 icons so far!). WPBundle are offering 3 WordPress themes of your choice and their beautiful collection of IconJar icons, regular price is $150.
  • Go Media Arsenal Vector Collection 3: This collection contains 7 outstanding vector collections to supplement your own creations. $270.
  • Themify WP Themes: Themify builds professional WordPress themes that are highly customizable and easy to use. Every theme comes with an advanced option panel where you can easily customize your theme without having to edit any template files. $100.
  • Disk Drill Pro: Disk Drill, Mac Data Recovery Software, recovers data from HFS/HFS+, FAT, NTFS & other file systems right on your Mac. $89.
  • MacPilot: Easily enable and disable hidden features in Mac OS X, optimize and repair your system, and perform numerous routine maintenance operations with the click of a button. Normally sold for $20.
  • White Space Icons: This icon collection, from PixelPress Icons, is one of the most complete set of stock glyph-style icons available. This massive set of 352 unique icons will help you get your app or website to market faster. Original price is $65.
  • Copy Hackers eBooks: Master the Key Components of Copywriting & Boost Your Conversion with Copy Hackers, the ONLY Web Writing Ebooks Made Just for Startups & Micropreneurs. Normally $49.

Most of these applications/design goodies are worth more than the bundle’s price, yet with BundleHunt you’re going to save over $1,000 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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The MacLegion Winter Bundle 2011

I stumbled onto MacLegion earlier this year when they offered their first bundle back in April. They offer very good bundles with quality Mac apps at great bundled prices. Their new bundle is just as great. The MacLegion Winter Bundle 2011 consists of 10 quality Mac apps for $49.99 (a $480 value). We’ve seen a lot of bundles similar to this price point, but this one stands out above many of the others.

As always, MacLegion bundles focus on quality, practical and every-day apps that people enjoy using. The hand-picked line-up ensures that all applications featured within it are the latest versions each developer has to offer. Read more

#MacStoriesDeals - Cyber Monday

It’s Cyber Monday! Many of the Black Friday deals are still active, so we’ve kept them in today’s post. Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on iOS, Mac, and Mac App Store apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end!

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#MacStoriesDeals: Black Friday 2011 Edition

There are so many deals we are calling this post the Black Friday 2011 edition. Keep checking back as we will be updating this post throughout the holiday! Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on iOS, Mac, and Mac App Store apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end!

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Hacker Builds Custom Siri Proxy Server

A hacker known as plamoni created a Siri proxy server that could allow anyone to use it and make Siri work with a wide range of non-Apple devices. Applidium, a development firm, hacked the Siri security protocol and has explained the process so anyone can use it.

One implementation of Siri + the proxy server is sending commands to any standard thermostat with Wi-Fi capabilities. plamoni taught Siri (no jailbreak required) to send commands over the network and if you’re interested, the source code is available for free online. Anyone with an iPhone 4S unique identifier and knowledge of networking can get it working. In order to set up Siri to control your home’s temperature involves a DNS server that uses a proxy to send requests to Siri’s servers.

Video after the break. Read more