We’re announcing a very special collaboration with some of our favorite people in the Mac development community. The Mac Switcher Bundle offers 3 popular and top-rated Mac OS X utilities (TextExpander, 1Password and Witch) along with a special series of video tutorials aimed at the new Mac user from ScreenCastsOnline. This bundle (a great gift for the new Mac users in your life!) is only $49.95, a discount of over 50% of its value.
We wanted to give new Mac users a taste of what makes the Mac OS X experience so great. All three of these utilities are favorites among those who make the lists of must-have Mac software. All three have been awarded 4.5 mice by Macworld. But we wanted to go beyond a great software bundle, and add the top-quality ScreenCastsOnline video tutorials that help new Mac users take full advantage of the power of their shiny new hardware.
For me, the collaboration is also emblematic of what makes the Mac so great: a wonderful community of fellow enthusiasts. Dave Teare at Agile Web Solutions supported the idea from the beginning. We’ve both worked with Don McAllister of ScreenCastsOnline and know firsthand the value of his video productions via his TextExpander and 1Password tutorials. We knew that an educational component would make this bundle unique.
Finally, Peter Maurer of ManyTricks suggested Witch as an ideal program for easing the transition from Windows to Mac by offering a window-switching functionality that former Windows users were accustomed to. (And Peter is the original developer of Textpander, so it comes full circle…)
We have really enjoyed working with these guys to put this together, and we are looking forward to spreading the word about the Mac Switcher Bundle at Macworld 2009, coming up so very soon…