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MacHeist is launching Mission 6 tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET. Visitors who complete this final heist will receive over US$50 worth of Mac software “loot.” In addition, three randomly selected people will win “Delicious Generation” T-shirts. MacHeist is a Mac software event involving “heists” for its visitors with free Mac applications as rewards for solving them. Since its inception late last year, MacHeist has managed to build up an active community of over 30,000 members. Read More

In just over three days, MacHeist has raised US$50,000 for eight high-profile international charities. Touting this week as “The Week of the Independent Mac Developer,” MacHeist began selling a software bundle of some of the hottest apps for Mac OS X on Monday in the hopes of increasing the profile of the Mac shareware development community as well as raising $100,000 for charity before the holiday season. Now, only halfway through the week, MacHeist is on pace to meet its fundraising goal.

MacHeist has started its week-long software bundle sale of some of the hottest apps for Mac OS X. The bundle is selling for US$49, at an 83% discount, and features ten award-winning Mac shareware applications, including Delicious Library, Boinx’s FotoMagico, ShapeShifter, DEVONthink Personal, RapidWeaver, iClip 4, Disco and a Pangea game of the customer’s choice.

The following announcement comes from our friends at MacHeist: After weeks of silence from on the mysterious disappearance of Lisa, known to members as the “heist” mission handler, the MacHeist Directorate has finally gone public with what they acknowledge as a likely kidnapping.

MacHeist today announced that it is now open to the public. MacHeist is a Mac software event involving weekly “heists” for its visitors with free Mac applications as rewards. The site will also be hosting a final week of sales of a software bundle containing some of the hottest apps for Mac OS X, with 25% of proceeds given to customer selected charities. This week, visitors will be undergoing a heist centering around an infamous unsolved puzzle.