Tales of Monkey Island PC AND Mac $20 + other Mac Applications

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Okay, I'm really sorry if this is already up. I did use the search bar.

Anyway, MacHeist is currently selling a nanoBundle that includes 6 (currently, 7 if 50,000 people buy) top Mac applications. MacJournal, Clips, RipIt, CoverScout, Flow, and Tales of Monkey Island. RapidWeaver is to follow after 50,000. If you tweet, you also receive three other free applications: Airburst Extreme, Tracks, and Burning Monkey Solitaire. This is only $20!

Now, here comes the good news. The Tales of Monkey Island download is actually a gift code to Telltale's website. This is good because you will be able to enter the code to download the games from them and unlock your entire season on PC OR MAC. Also, when the season's DVD finally comes out, you will be eligible for the free (plus cost of shipping) DVD of the games, which usually have some snazzy extras. (This HAS been confirmed by Telltale staff. You WILL be able to get the DVD and it will work for PC and Mac)
 
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they unlocked ToMI early it seems, because it was initially supposed to unlock at 50,000. we're at roughly 40,000 so we just need 10,000 more to unlock rapidweaver. this "nanobundle" is great deal, especially once you see the amount of money raised for charity so far, almost $200,000! i give a standing ovation to the app developers.
 
I'm debating doing this even though I already have ToMI. I need to figure out how much I'll actually use the other apps, but this is an awesome deal.

On a related note, looking forward to Valve's Mac announcements this week!
 
[quote name='mkernan']I'm debating doing this even though I already have ToMI. I need to figure out how much I'll actually use the other apps, but this is an awesome deal.

On a related note, looking forward to Valve's Mac announcements this week![/QUOTE]

I already had ToMI as well, but jumped on the bundle. It really depends on if you have applications that do similar things, I guess. I'm really enjoying Tracks, CoverScout, and Clips and think that they alone were worth the $20. Also, you can gift ToMI to a friend, if you would like to do that. They make that easy.
 
I've watched these in the past, but stopped watching as they weren't too interesting, but this is a good bundle, especially with the games. In for one - thanks OP! I also tweeted to unlock the other apps, which is nice because I don't actually use my twitter account and no friends follow me there, so it's a good place to send such advertising into the netherworld. :)
 
Well, Clips isn't worth the download, at least not for me. It doesn't actually seem to work. I mean it comes up (though not in the menu bar no matter whether you set that option or not), but it only holds the most recent clipboard item. Worse, I found it a struggle to figure out how to get to settings once the app is started. It's pretty confusing. On top of that it's dog slow at least on my MacBook running 10.6. So I'd call that one a stinker and not worth your time. I went back to Jumpcut which is free and works great, albeit being much, much simpler. I haven't tried any of the other apps nor the games yet.
 
Anyone actually get ToMI running? Seems on their support problem there's a massive cockup and if it works for you, consider yourself lucky.
 
I downloaded ToMI but haven't tried it yet. Will test it out tonight. More comments on some of the apps: Flow is a *very* nice FTP/SFTP/MobileMe/etc tool. I really, really like it. Great addition to this package. RipIt I used once before in trial mode and it works great, so that's nice to have. CoverScout so far I'm quite unimpressed with in spite of positive comments above. It seems to mostly find albums that already have artwork, but claims they don't. It shows up as not having artwork in CoverScout, but I go into iTunes and there's the album and it has cover art. Moreover, iTunes has always done a pretty damn good job of getting me the artwork anyway. So, for me, at least, CoverScout is pretty much worthless, perhaps even less the worthless. I briefly tested Burning Monkey Solitaire. It seems to run fun, but I didn't play it. Airburst Extreme is an oddity. I think this is probably a fun game, but what the hell kind of game has no way to quite or even pause once a game is started? I pressed every key I could think of and nothing would pause or quit the current game. I ended up having force quit the application in order to get it to stop. On top of that the mouse control option is *terrible*. Completely unplayable, and when I tried keyboard control the keys didn't work! In fact... now that I'm writing this... I bet the problem with not being able to pause and such is actually that the game is somehow incompatible with my Apple bluetooth keyboard. Hmm. I'll have to try a USB keyboard, but that isn't going to be convenient.

I have not yet tried MacJournal, Tracks nor ToMI. So far the bundle is a pretty mixed bag, which I suppose is expected. Hopefully I end up liking ToMI.
 
If anyone here gets the bundle, but doesn't want Monkey Island for some reason, drop me a PM. I'm willing to send PayPal or Amazon Payments for it. I figure it'll help offset the cost of your bundle.

With that said, I don't expect anyone to send me a message because if you don't want ToMI, you're crazy! ;) I have yet to play it because my current PC is too slow to run it - I'm just planning ahead for the future. In the meantime, I'm keeping myself busy by re-playing the original Monkey Island games that I still have from when I was a kid.
 
I went ahead and got the bundle, but was wondering if anyone had any idea if we could use the license for ToMI on the new steam mac application? Would be nice to just have it in one place with the rest of my steam games.
 
i found coverscout to be worthwhile, as it quickly found high quality covers for almost all my missing artwork, and unlike itunes, stores them in the id3 tags of the files, so when i bring my library over to my PC and look at it on WMC or XBMC all the artwork comes over.
 
I presume that's why they are showing up as not having artwork, but at the moment I've got no reason to need the artwork in the individual tracks as the artwork shows up fine on my iPhone and my wife's iPod (edit) and I think when I used the Mac version of XBMC too, though don't quote me on it. I'd rather the artwork were stored separately as otherwise you're wasting a lot of space with each track having its own copy of the artwork. If you've got 10,000 tracks, those extra copies of artwork I think would really add up.
 
[quote name='XxFuRy2Xx']I went ahead and got the bundle, but was wondering if anyone had any idea if we could use the license for ToMI on the new steam mac application? Would be nice to just have it in one place with the rest of my steam games.[/QUOTE]

Unfortunately, no.

Just a heads up, it looks like RapidWeaver was unlocked and it appears that they've also thrown in the Tweetie client for Twitter. In addition, the forthcoming version 2 of Tweetie will be a free upgrade and you'll get early access tot he ver. 2 beta.
 
I just looked and Rapid Weaver isn't unlocked. We're at 48k+. I do see that Tweetie's been added, but it doesn't say when that gets unlocked. I presume at 50k, but it's not clear.
 
[quote name='crunchewy']I just looked and Rapid Weaver isn't unlocked. We're at 48k+. I do see that Tweetie's been added, but it doesn't say when that gets unlocked. I presume at 50k, but it's not clear.[/QUOTE]

Well, if it wasn't before, RapidWeaver is unlocked now. Tweetie unlocks at 56,789 bundles sold (which should be soon, because RapidWeaver was at 50,000).
 
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