A few years ago the guys who create the gamer oriented web comic Penny Arcade! created an amazing charity called Child’s Play which donates new toys, games, books and other goodies for use by sick kids in children’s hospitals across North America and the world. To date they’ve donated over a million dollars in items and 100% of the donations including the cash go directly to the hospitals, everyone involved donates their time and effort.

This year a group of Mac developers have decided to donate all proceeds from the sales of their software on Thursday, December 7th to Child’s Play.

So, while you’re checking the site for details about the party on Friday take a minute to head on over to Child’s Play Day by Mike Zornek to check out the links for the participating developers and products. I suspect you’ll find application you never knew existed that you can really use. SlingShot looks like it does something I’ve been wanting for a long time: synchronize data and iTunes playlists between my Macs.

Buy yourself an early holiday gift and somewhere you’ll make a sick child’s hospital stay a little bit happier.