Crazy good deal for the next 2 weeks on a bunch of Mac apps. But the main two that you might be inter­ested in are Par­al­lels, which nor­mally sells for $79, and Screen­flow, which sells for $99.

Affil­i­ate link that sup­ports this blog and gets you a great deal.

The Main Apps I’d Rec­om­mend the Bun­dle For

Par­al­lels is the app that allows you to install Win­dows (or other oper­at­ing sys­tems) on your Mac and run them in par­al­lel to OS X. Great for web design­ers who need to test on mul­ti­ple browsers, busi­nesses that need to run Quick­books or other arcane Win­dows soft­ware in an oth­er­wise Mac world or even gamers who still want to play the occa­sional Win­dows game.

Screen­flow is the app I use for any of the video capture/​tutorials that I’ve done over here. It’s a great pro­gram that’s very intu­itive to use and tremen­dously pow­er­ful despite being fairly sim­ple on the sur­face. I know of a few peo­ple who use it as their video edi­tor instead of iMovie because of it’s tra­di­tional time­line edi­tor view. I rec­om­mend this app at it’s reg­u­lar $99 price — a steal at $49.

Busy­Cal is a replace­ment cal­en­dar app for iCal — that suede/​faux leather designed hideous app that some­how made it on to Lion. Bet­ter Google Cal­en­dar sync­ing and full sup­port for iCloud/​iCal Server. Think of Busy­Cal as a free add on in the bun­dle that you’re pur­chas­ing one of the two apps above for that will just make your Mac a nicer look­ing computer.

Other Apps Included

The other apps included in the bun­dle are Civ­i­liza­tion V (game), Jak­sta (audio/​video recorder from the web), Espi­onage 3 (data secu­rity), Speed Down­load (down­load man­ager), Attach­ment Tamer 3 (bet­ter Mail.app attach­ment sup­port), Key­Cue 6 (util­ity to learn and mem­o­rize key­board short­cuts), A Bet­ter Finder Rename (util­ity to rename files on your Mac) and My Liv­ing Desk­top 5 (desk­top screenshot).

Video Tour

You can watch a video tour of the apps included to see if any of them might be what you’re after.

Direct link to video

Buy the Bundle

Pick up the bun­dle while you can if any of the big three apps listed above appeal to you. The rest of the apps are hit or miss for me, but maybe you’ll find a use for some of them.