True to MacHeist’s promise, this year’s bundle is a freakin’ great one. Here is a breakdown of the apps in different categories / profession, so it’s easier for you to analyze if you really “need” this bundle. But what the heck even if you don’t need it, treat the purchase as a good deed as 25% of every sale goes to charity!

Anyone

PhoneView [$19.95]
PhoneView lets you do what iTunes won’t, letting you backup your data from Notes, SMS, call history, use your iPhone as data storage and even grab songs directly out of your iPhone.

The Hit List [$69.95]
The Hit List is a potential alternative to Things and you can read more about The Hit List here. The Hit List is basically a To-do list app on steroids.

Designers

Picturesque [$34.95]
Easily beautify your images with this app, set your images in perspective, easily add reflections, drop shadows or add round corners to your images etc. Picturesque lets you do all this at a snap without having to open Photoshop.

LittleSnapper [$39]
If you frequently do annotations on screenshots, collect graphics and web pages for inspiration, this pretty app does the job well. Read more about LittleSnapper here.

Acorn [$49.95]
An alternative to Photoshop, although not completely. Touted as a photo editor for the rest of us, Acorn lets you add everything from text, shapes, and effects, you can make the perfect picture in a short time.

Developers

Espresso [$80]
Espresso only recently released it’s 1.0 version after the free beta period, already costing $80, if you need this app buying the bundle makes perfect sense! Espresso is a web editor with a complete set of tools for coding, previewing and publishing sites via FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3 services. Espresso is also written by the same developers who wrote CSSEdit.

Cooks / Chefs / Sous Chefs!

SousChef [$30]
Sounds very much like MacGourmet to me. If you love to cook and wants access to 8,000 recipes shared by other users, this is the app for you. One interesting feature is that SousChef comes with Speech Recognition that can read out recipes while you cook. The “Ten Foot Mode” basically makes the font size of your recipes appear larger so you save on printing out the recipes.

Gamer

World of Goo [$20]
Hailed as one of the best games of 2008, your goal is typically to help get the blobs to where they’re going, and the adventure lies in exploring the creative tools and intriguing story behind who the mysterious World of Goo Corporation really is.

Ebay Seller

iSale [$39.95]
I have sold things on eBay before and I know how cumbersome it is to put up an auction. With iSale selling on eBay is a breeze, with 222 pre-designed iSale auction templates you can use or customize, integrate videos from YouTube, Google Video and MySpace while saving on additional image fees. iSale also keeps you up to date with your auction status and much more.

3D artist

Kinemac [$299]
At $299, Kinemac is a niche app designed for 3D manipulation and animation, the result can be exported to QuickTime, web formats, or for burning to CDs and DVDs.

Podcaster

WireTap Studio [$69]
WireTap Studio is a recording utility, giving you complete control to record, organize, edit and share sound from any application or system input. If you can hear it on your Mac, WireTap Studio can record it. WireTap Studio can also digitize your tapes and LPs, recording iChat and Skype conversations, and creating the perfect podcast.

BoinxTV [$199]
BoinxTV Sponsored Edition is a complete “TV studio in a box,” ideal for recording podcasts, seminars, and other events. BoinxTV lets you create live effects, and support for up to three cameras. You can apply cuts, graphics and effects during a live recording.

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Though, I’m still contemplating on buying this bundle as I’m only under the Anyone, Designer and Developer category, I also already owned LittleSnapper and am using RememberTheMilk for GTD.

What about you? Will you or have you already gotten this bundle?

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If you always find yourself taking screenshots on the web, on your desktop etc, so that you can post the pictures to your blog, you’ll find your desktop often clogged up with fragments of your screenshots. There are also countless reasons why we take screenshots, like annotating screenshots so that you can explain stuff more easily to your clients or friends.

LittleSnapper lets you organize your desktop mess by placing all your screenshots into it’s simple and elegant user interface. LittleSnapper is designed and built by Real Mac Software, who’re also behind RapidWeaver, so expect nothing less than fantastic design and user interface.

Where are your screenshots saved?

If my screenshots are not saved on my desktop, where are they saved? After some investigation, they’re actually stored neatly in your ~username/Library/Application Support/[username].lslibrary.

Any screenshot you delete will be deleted from this [username].lslibrary file.

So think of this little file as your “desktop” which stores all your screenshots in which you can manage them through LittleSnapper’s user interface.

What’s great about LittleSnapper?

- Screenshot management user interface. You can create folders on the left to organize your screenshots. Tagging and rating your screenshots are also possible using the panel on the right.

- Let’s you take full web pages (good for showing your clients work progress)

- Let’s you snap any window (forget about crosshair!)

- Let’s you snap a specific DOM element from any page (much like Safari Web Clips). You can only do this within LittleSnapper’s in-built web browser.

Annotation Tools

When comparing LittleSnapper to Skitch, I find that the annotation design elements for LittleSnapper are alot nicer, more “generic” in a sense that it does not look too “kiddish”. Other than letting you draw squares, circles, lines, arrows, texts, what is most helpful is letting you “highlight” certain portions of the screenshot (see below).

Highlight tool lets you highlight a portion of the screenshot and fades out the rest of the image:

You can also blur out certain portions of the screenshot extremely easily (good for blinding out passwords or other sensitive information you don’t want to share)

Other standard annotation tools

Uploading / Sharing via QuickSnapper, Flickr, SFTP or FTP

You probably know what’s FTP and Flickr by now. There’s also a “QuickSnapper” option where you can upload your screenshots to QuickSnapper.com. RealMacSoftware makes one of the most attractive web application for you to share your screenshots online.

Why no Resize?

LittleSnapper lets you crop your screenshots non-destructively, great, but there are no resize functions! Not sure why this feature is not included as it should be one of the most basic feature that should be included.

Otherwise, another example of an eye pleasing useful app. $39 and you’re a keeper.

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