Lifehack Presents…The Mac Productivity Bundle [Deals]

It’s been a while since we’ve had a “pure” productivity offering over at Lifehack Deals — but that ends today.

This bundle of productivity tools is one of the best values you’ll find on the web. It includes seven top Mac apps plus another 4 amazing creative resources that will save you time and money. All of this is available for just $50 — a savings of 91%! As always, this deal will only be around for a short time, so don’t miss out. This is truly a case of where “time is money”.

Here are just two of the highlights of The Mac Productivity Bundle:

Keyboard Maestro 5 is now available with control flow, variables, calculations, file actions, image manipulation, macro library and more. I’ve been using Keyboard Maestro for some time and it is definitely an app you want in your life hacking arsenal.

Keyboard Maestro is a productivity enhancer with four main functions, allowing you to record and design your own macro shortcuts and activate them at any time, navigate through running applications with Application Switcher and open windows with Window Switcher, work with an unlimited number of clipboards using Clipboard Switcher and with clipboard history using Clipboard History Switcher.

Keyboard Maestro organizes your macros into Macro Groups. Think of them as folders of macros. Each Macro Group controls when the macros it contains are active. A Macro is made of two parts: a set of Triggers you choose to determine when the macro is executed and a list of Actions that define what the macro does when it is executed. (Regular price: $36)

Typinator boosts your productivity by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and graphics and auto-correcting typing errors.

Set up custom abbreviations for frequently needed text items, and Typinator automatically replaces the abbreviations with the corresponding expansions as you type.

With thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for US and British English, German and French, Typinator is not only a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically fixes typing errors and misspelled words.

Setting up Typinator is easy — you just define an abbreviation along with its replacement text or picture. Whenever you type one of your abbreviations in any application, Typinator inserts the corresponding replacement. (Regular price: $30)

Default Folder X (Regular price: $35)TotalFinder (Regular price: $18)PhoneView (Regular price: $20)iStopMotion 2 (Regular price: $49)LittleSnapper (Regular price: $40)Smashing eBook Bundle (Regular price: $24)Picons Ultimate+ (Regular price: $59)ThemeFuse (Regular price: $196)Glyph Ocean (Regular price: $63)

To learn more about all of the apps in The Mac Productivity Bundle, head over to our Lifehack Deals page. And while you’re there, download some trial versions of the software, check out the other deals we’ve got on tap for you, and maybe even pony up the dough to take advantage of this offer while it lasts.

Because it won’t last long.

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Mike Vardy is the Managing Editor at Lifehack. An independent writer, speaker, podcaster and "productivityist", you can read more of his writing at Vardy.me. He is @mikevardy on Twitter.

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Lifehack Deals: The Omni Group Bundle Giveaway

Mac productivity app fans rejoice! Lifehack Deals has a bumper crop of apps that will help you become more efficient and effective with your Mac — and in your work and life. We’ve got a great giveaway that we’ve lined up where you’ll have a chance to win a bundle that contains all of The Omni Group’s top Mac apps.

The total value of all of the apps in this bundle is $580 — and considering that The Omni Group is one of the premier developers for Mac productivity software, you’ll want to get in on this today!

Here’s all of the apps that are part of the Omni Group Bundle Giveaway:

OmniPlan is designed to help you visualize, maintain, and simplify your projects. Break down tasks, optimize the required resources, control costs, and monitor your entire plan—all at a glance.

We’re big fans of OmniFocus here at Lifehack. OmniFocus is designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items while helping you to work smarter via powerful tools for staying on top of all the things you need to do.

If you need a diagram, process chart, quick page-layout, website wireframe or graphic design, OmniGraffle can help you by keeping ines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, providing powerful styling tools, importing and exporting Microsoft Visio files, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click.

Another favourite here at Lifehack. Use OmniOutliner’s document structure to brainstorm new ideas, drill out specifics, and line up the steps needed to get everything done. It’s more than just an outlining tool—you’ve got multiple columns, smart checkboxes, customizable popup lists, and an über-innovative styles system at your disposal. Use OmniOutliner to draft to-do lists, create agendas, manage tasks, track expenses, take notes, plan events, write screenplays . . . and just about anything else you can think of.

OmniGraphSketcher helps you make elegant and precise graphs in seconds, whether you have specific data to visualize or you just have a concept to explain. Specifically designed for reports, presentations, and problem sets where you need to produce sharp-looking graphs on the fly, OmniGraphSketcher combines the data plotting power of charting applications with the ease of a basic drawing program.

Simply enter your email address on our Lifehack Deals page to give yourself a chance to win. Remember that you’ll want to act on this giveaway offer now — you’ve only got until April 30 to enter. The official rules for this extremely rare type of giveaway are available here.

So enter today — and start lifehacking with your Mac better than ever before!

Mike Vardy is the Managing Editor at Lifehack. An independent writer, speaker, podcaster and "productivityist", you can read more of his writing at Vardy.me. He is @mikevardy on Twitter.

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Lifehack Deals: The Mac Designer Bundle

The latest of our Lifehack Deals is one that offers our Mac-using readers a chance to add some stellar apps to their Mac that will help them create more effectively and efficiently. And that’s exactly the kind of thing we want to bring to our Lifehack readers.

This time around, we have 7 Mac apps for only $50 – a savings of 86% – that will make your machine more productive than ever. And it won’t put a huge dent in your pocketbook, either.

The Mac Designer Bundle has some serious efficiency packed right into it. Starting with the truly awesome calendar app Fantastical.

Fantastical has been touched on here briefly before, and it is one of the best calendar apps out there – for any platform. The ability to enter your appointments using real language and knowing that Fantastical will parse it out into your calendar so that you don’t miss a beat is a marvel to behold. It supports syncing across popular calendar apps like GCal and iCal, and allows for editing right from within the app as it sits on your menu bar as you work away on the task at hand. It does what it does exceedingly well, and gets out of your way when you don’t need to have it right in your face. The fact it is is such an inexpensive app to begin with is another amazing thing about it, but being part of The Mac Designer Bundle means you get even more great apps along with it – like RapidWeaver 5.

If you’re not a web designer, have no interest in using anything that isn’t native your Mac and are familiar with iWeb, then RapidWeaver 5 is perfect for you. It is what I would describe as “iWeb on steroids”, allowing you to create and design elegant and effective websites right on your Mac. It’s simple to use, and the results are as professional as they come. And it does all of this very quickly – after all, it isn’t called RapidWeaver for nothing.

There are 5 more apps that make up this incredible Lifehack Deals offer, including:

ExpanDriveFX Photo Studio ProIconBoxKeyCueMotionComposer

The Mac Designer Bundle is only available for a limited time, and at a savings of 86% off the regular price you’re not going to find a better deal on 7 apps that will improve the performance of your Mac – and yourself in the process.

Pick up The Mac Designer Bundle while you can…and you’ll see exactly what I mean.

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Supercharge Your Mac with the StackSocial Mac Superbundle [Software Bundle]

StackSocial has been offering some pretty amazing deals, and their latest is no exception: The StackSocial Mac Superbundle. The amount of apps that they’re serving up that will aid you in getting work done faster and better is pretty astounding — there’s 10 amazing Mac apps worth $471 that they are offering for just $49. And while not all of them may seemingly fit into your work arsenal at first glance, you might find by diving in a little deeper that every app offered here certainly can improve your productivity in some form or another.

I’ve not had the chance to use every single one of these apps, but have put a few through the paces over my time as a Mac user. Here are some of the apps that I’ve used and how they’ve managed to level up my productivity on my Mac.

There have been times that I’ve needed to have a PC at my disposal when working at past employers, such as my stint using box office software for my city’s film festival. Our office was a Mac office, with only 2 Windows-based machines that were available to use for ticket selling. Luckily, I had Parallels Desktop for Mac installed on my MacBook Pro, and it proved to be a huge timesaver. I was able to run reports, check out statistics and ticket availability and get my work done without having to move to another machine or totally disrupt my workflow.

The best part about using this app was that I could flip back and forth between the work I had to do on the OS X side and the work I had to do that required Windows. The time saved on that alone paid for the software.

If you have to use a Windows machine for certain parts of your work — or perhaps even use a Windows environment for gaming so that you can take a break every once in a while, you can’t go wrong with Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. This app normally sells for $80 on its own — so you’re already way ahead of the game by picking it up as part of the Mac Superbundle by StackSocial.

Realmac Software makes some really beautiful, essential and easy-to-use apps, and LittleSnapper is no exception. i’ve had to grab plenty of screenshots during my time as an online writer and editor, and LittleSnapper handles this job with effectiveness and ease.

And i’ve barely scratched the surface with this app over the years. Using it mainly for high-quality “screengrabs”, I’ve yet to take advantage of the other tools baked right into LittleSnapper, such as callouts and highlights. I’ve blurred out personal info for app reviews when testing apps, I’ve cropped screens to fit as imagery for various websites and I’ve kept them all organized into collections.

Well…that’s not entirely true. LittleSnapper automatically organized them all for me. That’s a tremendous timesaver unto itself — because there’s nothing quite like having something like that being automated for you.

LittleSnapper usually retails for $40, which is only $9 less than the entire StackSocial Mac Superbundle.

I’ve tried my share of money management apps, and only in the past few years has the Mac come into its own as a platform where you can really have some useful software to do so. Of all of the native apps I’ve tried, Chronicle isn’t only the easiest to use — I actually enjoy managing my money with it.

With iCal integration built right in, Chronicle does everything it can to keep you on top of your finances. The app offers debt reduction tracking, bill viewing and will allow many to make online payments right from within the app. And because I enjoy using Chronicle so much more than any of the past native Mac finance apps, I’m really keeping on top things when it comes to my money — often without even thinking about it.

Chronicle is $15 — a great price point for an app that is supposed to help you keep a handle on your finances — and it rounds out what is a very robust bundle offering by StackSocial.

There’s a lot more to the StackSocial Mac Superbundle than the three apps I just mentioned. Here are all of the apps in the bundle, along with what you’d pay for them separately:

Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac – $80LittleSnapper – $40iStat Menus 3 – $16Flux 3 – $120iStopmotion Home 2 – $50Fantashow – $50Video Converter 2 – $46SyncMate Expert 3 – $40CuteClips 3 – $15Chronicle 4 – $15

Check out the video below to get an overview of all 10 apps offered in the latest StackSocial bundle that will supercharge your Mac — and your productivity.

If you’re looking to level up your productivity on your Mac, go out and get the StackSocial Mac Superbundle today. You’ve got a ton to save ($49 for $471 worth of apps) and nothing to lose — other than time.

StackSocial Mac Superbundle – [StackSocial]

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Mike Vardy is a writer, speaker, and "productivityist". Read more of his writing and learn more about him at MikeVardy.com, and you can also follow him on Twitter.

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