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Ah, now sir - you are a genius. I think you’ll be even bigger than Hillbilly Milli Vanilli! Can I join your band? As you know, my washboard skills are feared and respected across the land…

And on that note - we’ve officially hijacked this thread… Sorry Jason.

Can I join the Band as I have two copies now of Little Snapper.  (See what I did there to bring the thread back?)

How long will it be before a $39 bundle of Mac apps is worth only $39?

I have seven of the 12 apps in this MacHeist bundle already, and I have Little Snapper and Picturesque (great app) twice already without even buying this bundle.

Despite their moronic hijacking of sites last year, these guys put together a great promotion that generates a lot of excitement and traffic. The combo of unlocking some apps as the promotion grows, while giving away other apps for the early buyers is great. Based on this it looks like the trend is toward lower prices for Mac software.

As at 14:35 BST only 1,000 more downloads before Expresso is unlocked - will they do it today - the last day? Probably.

There you go - Expresso now available!

I’m starting to feel like MacRabbit just took the money from this sale and ran. Looks like the heists on us.

http://wiki.macrabbit.com/forums/viewthread/402/P50/

What’s really sad about this whole deal is the disparity between the usefulness and elegance of MacRabbit’s CSSEdit and Espresso. CSSEdit is wonderful, Espresso is sorely lacking, and a huge disappointment. Espresso may have a lot of new owners, but I question how many are actually users.

What’s really sad about this whole deal is the disparity between the usefulness and elegance of MacRabbit’s CSSEdit and Espresso. CSSEdit is wonderful, Espresso is sorely lacking, and a huge disappointment. Espresso may have a lot of new owners, but I question how many are actually users.

I totally agree with you, I was very excited to finally get Espresso but after messing around with it for a couple of days I found myself going back to coda.

i still have to give textmate a good run.

I completely agree. I was really looking forward to giving Espresso a try and was very disappointed as a whole. Really just doesn’t stack up to Coda.

What’s really sad about this whole deal is the disparity between the usefulness and elegance of MacRabbit’s CSSEdit and Espresso. CSSEdit is wonderful, Espresso is sorely lacking, and a huge disappointment.

I love CSSEdit too, it’s a critical part of my toolset and workflow. The utility and innovativeness of that app is what lead me to give Espresso a try. I think Espresso still has promise. I never used CSSEdit before 2.x ... but I can imagine it must not have been as refined and as solid as it is now when it was first released. So a comparison between CSSEdit 2.6 and Espresso 1.0.5 may be like comparing an adult to an adolescent.

Espresso’s minimalist interface is appealing to me. The hierarchical Navigator makes it quick for me to find and highlight blocks of code. Creating your own syntax highlighting theme is flexible and simple. The extensibility of the languages through Sugars allows for code completion for EE tags. The Publish mechanism makes it very clear what files will be changed between your local machine and the server, and you can set the preferences on a per file / per directory basis so Espresso remembers them. The tool just needs some refinement and polish.

So for me ... the main concern is more “where have the MacRabbit developers gone, when are the refinements coming, what is the roadmap for the future of the app and why hasn’t there been a word from them since MacHeist”. Which leads me to think (being the skeptic I am) that they got a nice chunk of change from MacHeist and took an extended vacation. Would they have done the same if MacHeist was not so successful?

Hopefully, we’ll hear from them soon (http://twitter.com/CaptainNeutrino August 5 tweet).

I am using Esspresso as my weapon of choice when at home (at the office we use windows, so using e-text editor).

I do find it ok, it dont have the power of textmate but then has a ftp built in, where as textmate dont.

I am kind of on the fence with Coda, as Espresso does what I need and had some bad experiences with Coda when on trial, such as no saving preferences and messing up uploads when uploading.

Looks like MacRabbit is back with an explanation and promising to treat us better with more product updates + improved communication.

http://macrabbit.com/blog/
(11 August 2009, Hello Again)