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August 27, 2007

software

One good software bundle deserves another

Posted Aug. 27, ’07, 7:41 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

MacToSchool You’re Mac users, so the stereotype goes that you have money to throw around. Naturally, this means you can buy software bundle after software bundle. MacHeist and the MacUpdate bundles have come and gone. The latest (I don’t know about greatest) is the MacToSchool bundle. For a mere $50, you get 12 education related apps.

  • Atomic Mac - handy dandy periodic table
  • Clockwork - egg timer
  • Diet Sleuth - help avoid the freshman 15
  • Exces - file encryption
  • Family - genealogy software
  • Horizon - finance management
  • iUnit - unit conversion (because Google isn’t convenient enough)
  • Macaroni - force maintenance tasks to happen periodically
  • Mori - notes management
  • Pencils Down - test creation software
  • Sound Byte Lite - digital soundboard
  • WriteRoom - because the intarweb is so distracting when writing papers

While there’s some excellent software in there, I feel less inclined to recommend the bundle blindly. A bunch of these apps aren’t going to be useful to students while others won’t be for teachers. I bet if you’re honest with yourself about which of these you’d actually buy and use, getting just those at regular price would be cheaper.

[via Infinite Loop]


1 Comments

bill owens said:

I am a complete newbie
here and dom't feel that I
can make any worthwhile comment yet

August 28, 2007 7:41 AM

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