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.

Update: Speech is over. New ver­sions of iLife and iWork (sites not updated cur­rently), updated 17″ Mac­Book Pro and the news that the iTunes music store is going com­pletely DRM free by the end of this quar­ter, as well as vari­able pric­ing on songs (no more $0.99 only, now the song price will range from $0.69 to $1.29 a song). Apple’s got a big keynote speech today in San Fran­cisco where they’ll be announc­ing new software/hardware to the world.

Kevin writes:I have a iBook G4 — 1.33 GHz — 512 MB RAM. It’s run­ning really slow. Do you have any “quick fixes”? I was look­ing on the inter­net and saw that “anacron” was sug­gested. Do you guys have any sug­ges­tions. I don’t really want to buy a new mac (yet) so any sug­ges­tions would be appre­ci­ated. thanks.There’s two areas you can look at when try­ing to speed up a com­puter: hard­ware or software.

Vanessa asks: I really need to get some back up Hard Drive. I’ve heard I need at least 3 HDDs. is that what I use? Also what brand or mem­ory space do you think is required?On a mac the best back up is a exter­nal firewire HD and then set­ting up time machine. Time machine is Leopard’s built in backup solu­tion and you will need to have Mac OS 10.5 installed to use it.

MacZot.com is a site that fea­tures daily deals related to Mac soft­ware. Today they’ve got a deal going on what looks to be a great lit­tle tutorial/manual for switch­ing from Win­dows to a Mac: mac­ZOT » “It’s About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac.”It’s About Time to Learn the Switch to Mac®” is the most inno­v­a­tive learn­ing tool ever cre­ated for “switchers.

Let’s say, hypo­thet­i­cally speak­ing, you wanted to watch the lat­est episode of 30 Rock but didn’t know where to turn because your VCR (VCR? What’s that?) is bro­ken and you haven’t been able to fig­ure out the whole down­load­ing tv shows off iTunes or any­where else on the inter­net (*cough*). You’ve heard of this web­site called Hulu but any­time you go there it gives you this message:It should be noted there can be issues with unin­stalling Hotspot Shield (detailed a bit on Apple’s sup­port forum and remov­ing the ads it uses from Safari).

For those of you that have a white mac­book and have had it for any length of time will notice the dis­col­oration of the palm rests. What once was a bright clean white mac­book as turned to a rather ugly look­ing colour. This can be an issue when you are show­ing off your amaz­ing Mac­book to your PC using friends. If you are like me you tried to use a vari­ety of clean­ers, windex, etc to clean it, all of which did noth­ing to solve the problem.

If you like to twit­ter (What is twit­ter?) on occa­sion and would like to be noti­fied when­ever there’s a new post up on About This Mac, hit up this link and click follow.We prob­a­bly won’t use it for much more than just new con­tent noti­fi­ca­tions, at least for now. So if you’re already sub­scribed to the RSS feed then you’re prob­a­bly good to go.

Happy Birth­day to the Mouse.The com­puter mouse turns 40 via Macworld.

If you are like many peo­ple online you are prob­a­bly using Mozilla’s Fire­fox as your web browser of choice. If you aren’t using Fire­fox then this post won’t directly related to you. How­ever if you are… read on.Do you save pass­words to fre­quently vis­ited web­sites in Fire­fox with this dia­logue drop down menu?If so, do you uti­lize the Fire­fox mas­ter pass­word, which can be set here:I would greatly advise using a mas­ter password.