Software Bundle Offered for School-bound Mac Users by Developers

Software Bundle Offered for School-bound Mac Users by Developers

Several Mac-oriented software developers have banded together to offer a collection of their wares in a back-to-school bundle called MacToSchool. For only $49.95, students, parents and teachers get over $300 worth of the best educational and scholarly programs from now until mid-September.

Several Mac-oriented software developers have banded together to offer a collection of their wares in a back-to-school bundle called MacToSchool. For only $49.95, students, parents and teachers get over $300 worth of the best educational and scholarly programs from now until mid-September.

While most people buying for the new school year remember the standard technology fare: computers, printers, blank CDs/DVs and even iPods, most don’t even think about the software needed to make that technology cost-effective. “Most technology is bought in hopes of staying on the right side of the digital divide. We put together the package for students and educators to deepen that divide and be more productive with their computers,” said Alfonso Guerra, president of Apokalypse Software Corp., one of the developers participating in the program.

Geoff Pado, of Elgebar Studios put it this way, “Back to school is a tough time for teachers, too. But they don’t get a lot of the good deals that students do. A lot of the apps in MacToSchool can be used to teach as well as to study, but I entered Pencils Down as a gift specifically targeted at teachers.” Other developers participating in MacToSchool are AtomicBird LLC, Black Cat Systems, Hog Bay Software, Lucerne Systems, Saltatory Software and Seosoft Systems, Inc.

MacToSchool includes the full-screen word processor WriteRoom; Mori, the digital notebook; Horizon for financial-modelling, Pencils Down, for educators and others creating tests; and the periodic table oriented AtomicMac and units-converter iUnit for reference purposes.

The software making up the MacToSchool bundle aren’t just for schoolwork, either. There are also applications included in MacToSchool to be used for schoolwork, but are focused on personal management: nutritional database and log book Diet Sleuth, the genealogical/lineage-tracing Family, and alarm clock/timer Clockwork. In addition, the bundle gives computer users the tools to look after their data: Macaroni for system maintenance and data-encryption utility Exces. And finally, just for fun, SoundByte Lite keeps favorite music and sound effect files a click away for use in class presentations, theater productions, sporting events and tv and radio shows featuring screaming, chair-throwing hosts.

Unlike other, well-publicized bundles of the past year, the MacToSchool bundle was organized and set up by the software developers themselves to solve two problems in the Mac market: how to bring the small, unknown developer and the end-user together, and how to provide a venue to showcase the talents of the small developer.

Website: http://www.mactoschool.org

The MacToSchool bundle is provided by several small Mac developers, Apokalypse Software Corp., AtomicBird LLC, Black Cat Systems, Elgebar Studios, Hog Bay Software, Lucerne Systems, Saltatory Software and Seosoft Systems, Inc. and hosted by Apokalypse Software Corp. It is a cooperative effort aimed at giving the small, unknown Mac developer another outlet to promote and drive the success of his own products.

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Alfonso Guerra
President
(850) 926-9432

huperniketes {at} apokalypsesoftware(.)com