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Snow Leopard Up to Date Program

iChris — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:30:57 +0000

If you bought a Mac on or after June 8, 2009 and before December 26, 2009 that doesn’t have Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) on it or included in the box, you can send in a claim form and get a copy of Snow Leopard for $9.95USD. Click here for full program details or on an appropriate link below.

Links for Snow Leopard Up to Date program

If You Purchased Your Mac from the Apple Online Store:

If You Purchased Your Mac from an Apple Retail Store or another Reseller (i.e. a Campus Computer Store):

Alternatively, you can download the order form (PDF) and mail or fax it in yourself. Once you’ve sent it in, you can check the status of your order here.

Apple App Store Contest

iChris — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:04:58 +0000

Apple’s on their way to having sold 1 billion apps (!) from the iPhone/iPod touch App store and they are holding a contest where you could win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. Each time you download an app, you are entered but you can also enter without having made a purchase by going here and giving Apple your information. You can actually enter up to 25 times a day — an easy thing if you’ve got a program like 1Password to fill in all your details automagically!

Make sure to check the official rules to make sure that you are eligible before filling out the form 25 times.

MacHeist 3 Bundle Revealed

iChris — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:34:03 +0000

The latest MacHeist bundle has been revealed and it’s quite a good one this year.

For those not aware, the MacHeist bundles are a collection of various Mac apps sold together in one package for a lower price than buying all the individual programs separately. As more people buy the bundle, more apps are added to the bundle. They also donate 25% of every sale to charity. They do all this for a limited time (2 weeks?) so you need to get it while you can.

Right now the bundle is valued at $626.75 and it’s selling for $39. There’s a few applications that look really good to me (iSale, World of Goo, Little Snapper, Acorn, WireTap Studio, BoinxTV, and Espresso) so at $39 it’s a pretty sweet deal to get all of them when normally that would only get you one of the applications — but you’re mileage may vary depending on what you use your Mac for.

One thing to watch for is the applications are typically the lite version or are about to get revised to a new version, and then try and prompt you to upgrade for a small fee. It’s nothing evil — you are getting the version of the software they promote on MacHesit. Just go into it knowing that a new version may be around the corner.

I think I’ll be buying the bundle this year. Will you?