MacHeist and the Long-Awaited Dream Bundle

FOR the next couple of days, MacHeist is giving away $154 in software for free as part of its "nanoBundle" promotion. All you have to do is establish a user account.

Before the sign-up process is complete, a pop-up appears to ask whether or not you'd be willing to pay for the six apps on offer and, if so, how much. As I already own the one application I'd be interested in, I responded that, no, I still wouldn't pay for them. Unfortunately, I wasn't given any space on the form to explain why that answer didn't make me a dirty cheapskate.

Since no one asked, I thought I'd slap together a dream bundle, the sort of thing I'd like to see in the future and would buy at the usual bundle-type discount without a moment's hesitation. Some of these (the ones above the divide) are apps I already own and find to be utterly indispensable. The others I have used in the past and/or would really, really like to own, though I have yet to spot them at a reasonable price. Keep in mind, too, that there are excellent apps like Little Snitch and LaunchBar; or MailTags and Mail Act-on; or Twitterific, CandyBar, and Transmit, that are created by the same developer. As much as I would like to see them all in the same bundle, I've tried to avoid double developer entries.

1Password

Fetch / Transmit

The Hit List

iBank

LaunchBar

MailTags

Parallels / VMware Fusion

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Bento

BusyCal

DiskWarrior

iRatchet (aka MacFreelance)

MacJournal

Stationery Pack

Toast

Tweetie (registered version)

Unison (given Fetch and not Transmit above)

Yep

No, no games. And no word processors. And no image editors. That breaks with the usual bundle assortment, I know, but once you're the proud owner of — to pull from the latter category by way of example — Graphic Converter, Pixelmator, and Acorn, all from different bundles, it actually dampens the appeal of new bundles that include them. Yet another 1Password license, on the other hand, is something that I can easily gift to anyone who owns a Mac.

What would you like to see? What would the above bundle be worth to you? Is there a bundle logic that I'm not quite following? And is anyone from MacHeist even listening?