Are you a Mac user?  Are you interested in a bunch of awesome apps for a totally awesome price?  Do you want to do your bit to help charity?  Then you need to hike it over to the MacHeist site, and check out the MacHeist 3 bundle. Its on sale now!

You can get over $900 worth of software for just $39 USD.  As an added bonus, once sales reach  specific tiers, special, additional applications will be unlocked and be given to all purchasers:

The bundle also includes four unlock apps. WireTap Studio by Ambrosia Software (normally $69) will be unlocked for all customers when customers raise $100,000 for charities, with 25% of all bundle purchases donated. BoinxTV Sponsored Edition ($199) is the second unlock, and The Hit List ($69.95) and Espresso ($80) are combined as the final unlock point.

The apps are cool. The cause is good and just; and you can get it all NOW, and up to April 7th.  At that time, the bundle is gone, and the deal closes.  Don’t wait.  Get yours NOW!

The full press release can be found after the break…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MacHeist 3 software bundle now on sale with unprecedented value for Mac users

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 25, 2009

After months of anticipation from Mac users around the world, the MacHeist 3 Bundle is now on sale at http://www.macheist.com, featuring 12 popular Mac applications normally valued at over $900 for just $39.

This year’s lineup offers customers a variety of pro and consumer apps. A sampling of the dozen apps includes iSale ($39.95), a two-time Apple Design Award winning eBay auction manager app, SousChef ($30), a digital cookbook and cooking assistant, World of Goo ($20), widely considered 2008’s best puzzle game of the year, Acorn ($49.95), a powerful and easy to use graphic design and photo editing app, and Kinemac ($299), a robust 3D animation software.

The bundle also includes four unlock apps. WireTap Studio by Ambrosia Software (normally $69) will be unlocked for all customers when customers raise $100,000 for charities, with 25% of all bundle purchases donated. BoinxTV Sponsored Edition ($199) is the second unlock, and The Hit List ($69.95) and Espresso ($80) are combined as the final unlock point.

The sale kicked off on Tuesday evening immediately following the MacHeist Bundle Reveal Show, co-hosted by Veronica Belmont, Lisa Bettany and Chris Pirillo and streamed to several thousand viewers on MacHeist.com. Over a thousand bundles were snapped up by eager customers within the first 15 minutes of the sale.

MacHeist is offering the bundle to Mac users for 14 days. The sale ends at midnight, EDT on April 7th.

This year’s bundle includes:

iSale (equinux, $39.95)
Picturesque (Acqualia Software, $34.95)
SousChef (Acacia Tree Software, $30)
World of Goo (2D Boy, $20)
PhoneView (Ecamm Network, $19.95)
LittleSnapper (Realmac Software, $39)
Acorn (flying meat inc., $49.95)
Kinemac (Kinemac, $299)
WireTap Studio (Ambrosia Software, $69)
BoinxTV Sponsored Edition (Boinx, $199)
The Hit List (Potion Factory, $69.95)
Espresso (MacRabbit, $80)

In addition, the first 25,000 customers receive Big Bang Board Games (Freeverse, $39.95) as an early buyer’s bonus.

Interested Mac users can purchase the bundle on http://www.macheist.com. Information on each product, screenshots, and a screencast can be found there.