I mostly bought it for CoverScout, Flow, and Tales of Monkey Island.

CoverScout

CoverScout is really cool, but I’m annoyed at the SongGenie integration thing…  I don’t want to buy SongGenie.  It should check if it’s installed and then decide whether or not to use it.  It also installs SongGenie by default (then tells you you have to pay for it after a trail).

Other than that, it’s pretty awesome.  It usually finds the cover I’m looking for instantly.  If it’s not directly on Amazon or Google images, you can launch a web browser, search for the image, and set it by clicking “Apply” from the web browser.  Pretty nifty.  It’s better than my previous way of searching through iTunes for albums with no covers, then passing the song name to a dashboard widget which would search amazon and yeah…  This ways a lot faster, nicer, and easier.

Flow

Flow is another FTP/SFTP/AmazonS3 client.  It looks and feels awesome.  I’ll admit that there are many similar clients out there, and many of them also boast the same features.  One main feature Flow has that other don’t is an internal editor.  Other’s (ForkLift, Fetch, etc.) allow you to open files in an external editor, but for some of the smaller edits, it’s sometimes useful not to have to launch a separate application.

How does Flow go beyond the competition?  Pretty much just in the user interface.  It’s beautiful.  Transmit feels a bit outdated.  Fetch is awesome, but there’s small things that irk me (mainly presentations of transfers, and I swear it’s not at fast, but it’s probably just me).  Forklift is also good, but there are tiny visual elements to Forklift that offset me.

In all honesty, I already own Fetch and Forklift and probably would have never bought Flow if it weren’t for the nanoBundle.  It’s beautiful, but it won’t cause me to go “Oh, I already own an FTP app, but Flow is just to beautiful not to buy.”  But now I’m using Flow, mainly because I feel that a nice interface will increase my spirits helping to produce better results…

Tales of Monkey Island

For those of you who don’t know me, “The Secret of Monkey Island” is about the only computer game I play.  Tales of Monkey Island being on the nanoBundle sold me.  That’s pretty much why I bought it.  I don’t like spending more than $20 on a game, so a $20 bundle with a game I was itching to get had me sold.

No screenshot yet because I haven’t played it (downloading it now).  I love the original game, and I’m hoping that Tales of Monkey Island is just as fun.

The other apps…

So there are a bunch of other apps you get as well.  I can see myself using RipIt, but I don’t normally watch movies, so it may just sit there…  MacJournal feels a little bulky.  I’ve never been a fan of journal desktop clients, especially big and bulky ones…  I might use Clips.  Never really tried a clipboard manager or anything like that because it was never part of my workflow.  RapidWeaver hasn’t been unlocked yet.  I might use it, doubtable, but still possible.  I’ve never been a fan of WYSIWYG or template editors, but recently I’ve been caught in a “quick make a page for _____” and would have preferred a faster method, but I’m currently looking at Flux for something like that (as it has more freedom than RapidWeaver).  For everything else, I use Espresso or Textmate.

I don’t use Storyist for poetry, but I do use it to keep tab on my short stories, and soon, my scripts/screenplays.

I was really shocked that the upgrade is free for those who bought it after September 1st, 2008.  That’s a long ways back.  I bought my copy in October, and would be willing to pay the upgrade cost, but it’s great to find out that I won’t have to.

The interface looks like a huge improvement.  If you’ve played with Storyist before, you can see some differences (major or minor depending on your opinion) that make a big improvement.

Storyist 2 will also add in some features that many people were complaining about it lacking before.  It will add full-screen editing, comments, and image-in-manuscript support.  I’m mainly looking forward to the full-screen and and the updated interface.  There was a short teaser trailer here.

I’m eager to see when it ships, but I can wait.  Steve and friends are probably working their best to get all of the bugs kicked out and everything in working order.

Scrivener is also planning on releasing their big 2.0 later this year.  No news about when the free updates start (I think it’s 3 months before the release date?)

Ulysses 2.0 will also be coming out in May (finally after so many years).  1.7 is supposed to come out before that, but I think people are more eager for 2.0.  Blue-Tec said in their blog (on the 24 of April) that people who buy now won’t see an upgrade fee (I believe).

There’s a lot of 2.0 planned for writing software this year.  There’s a lot of other writing software out there too, but these are the 3 that I pay attention to the most (mainly because I love the interface and work-flow of each one).  When this summer comes, I’m going to be having quite a bit of fun with all the updated software that’s coming out (not just for writing, but for graphics and everything else as well).  I need to focus on my poetry and one of my stories over summer too (which is what reminded me of the software updates coming soon and everything).

I do like SousChef.  Didn’t see that one coming, but I do cook, and I’ve been looking for a recipe manager, and it seems good enough for the job.
I hope the locked apps get unlocked.  I didn’t buy in hopes that they’d be unlocked, but after seeing them, they look pretty awesome.

Not sure if I’d suggest buying it yet.  I was looking at Picturesque and Acorn for a while now, so I bought it for those 2.  The other apps might win me over.  I was watching the revealing and I was bummed out when they started with the eBay app, but once they said Picturesque and Acon, I was sold.  Although I was a bit confused because I was reading articles on how the developer for FlyingMeat was against MacHeist at first, maybe things have changed for the better?

But yeah… I’m going to go play with my new apps   Hopefully MacHeist regains control of the MySQL database soon…

If you’re planning on buying the bundle, feel free to use this link to say I referred you and get me more crap for my mac.