[NewsPoster]

Every so often, MacNN finds a deal that is too big or important to go into our usual deal lists, and is deserving enough to be highlighted in its own Big Deals post. It's been a week since Cyber Monday, but MacUpdate's Cyber Monday Bundle is still going strong, with a package of great apps for your Mac on sale for $55, representing a saving of 93 percent on the normal cost of the collection.

The apps can be divided up between maintenance, productivity, and artistic tools. On the Mac maintenance side, the collection is fronted by TechTool Pro 8, which can analyze the performance of your system, while Arq 4 can help you back that Mac up. NetShade 6.3 is a VPN tool that can keep your surfing private with one year of service included, Yummy FTP 1.11 is a speedy FTP client, and Hear 1.2 is a tool that aims to improve your audio options and increase sound quality across all of your OS X apps.

For photographers, cf/x Alpha 2.0 can be used to quickly blend or add transparency to images. Writers can use Mellel 3.4 to focus on putting words on a page, and Future.DJ Pro 1.1 is a tool for mixing together tracks from a music collection, similar to what a club DJ does. Continuing with productivity, Money 4.6 is an accounting tool, while OfficeTime 1.8 can be used to track expenses and time spent working on tasks.

The first 3,000 people picking up the Cyber Monday Bundle will have their ten apps increased to 11, with the addition of web development tool RapidWeaver 6.

[elroth]

You might want to read this before downloading anything from MacUpdate:

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/11/has-macupdate-fallen-to-the-adware-plague/

Be careful of adware installers that may be included in MacUpdate downloads. Read every screen that asks you to "accept" something.

[Mike Wuerthele]

Alternatively, there's our own piece on it, where we talked to the staff over there.

https://www.macnn.com/articles/15/11...hanges.131375/

Elroth's advice is sound. The MacUpdate issue with installers is avoidable as long as you don't blindly OK OK OK OK OK through the install.

[cjkace]

Whatever you were told it is quite obvious, that the goal for the installers is to get software onto the machines of the unwary (or new users to mac).

Is it a coincidence that after over a week of sales, they have only sold just over 1300 bundles, when the fall bundle (https://www.macnn.com/articles/15/10/05/pick.up.ten.mac.apps.for.just.50.from.macupdate.13 0698/) sold over 9300? Or does it show that their great experiment has backfired, badly?

[Mike Wuerthele]

Might be a little of both. I prefer the apps in the first bundle.