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#MacStoriesDeals - Friday

Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on hardware, iOS, and Mac apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end!

Hardware & Amazon Deals

  • New! Refurbished Apple MacBook Air Dual 1.4GHz 12” Laptop: $799 + free shipping
  • Refurb Apple MacBook Air Laptops: 12” 64GB SSD: $849 + free shipping

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Mac Software

  • New! Mac SuperBundle featuring Roxio Toast: $453 -> $49
  • New! The Humble Botanicula Bundle: $53 -> Pay what you want
  • New! VirusBarrier X6: $49.95 -> $19.99
  • New! Wondershare PDF Editor Pro: $99.95 -> $49.95
  • New! Lino Icon Set by Rogie King 100+ Icons: $12 or less
  • Omni Group Bundle Giveaway: $580 -> Free

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iBookstore, Audio and Video

  • New! O’Reilly’s Publishing with iBooks Author - An Introduction to Creating Ebooks for the iPad: Free
  • New! Counting Crows “Recovering The Satellites” MP3 Album: $5
  • Stephen Hackett’s ‘Bartending: Memoirs of an Apple Genius’: $8.99 -> $4.99 (review)
  • 24 R&B MP3 Albums at Google Play: $4 each
  • Coachella All-Stars Compilation MP3 Album: Free
  • Martin Scorsese’s Very First Films: Three Imaginative Short Works: Free
  • HARRY POTTER BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE ELECTRONICALLY: $7.99 - $57.54

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Mac App Store

  • New! Botanicula (Games): $9.99 (or buy it thru Humble Bundle)
  • HyperSwitch (Utilities): $7.99
  • Quake 4 ™ (Games): $19.99
  • DropKey (Utilities): $29.99 -> $19.99
  • Sparkbox (Productivity): $19.99 -> $9.99
  • Legendary Heroes (Games): $6.99 -> $4.99
  • RAGE®: Campaign Edition (Games): $39.99 -> $29.99

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iPhone Apps

  • New! Backboard, a minimalistic Dribbble client: 99¢
  • New! Call of Duty: Zombies (Games): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • New! Trenches II (Games): $1.99 -> $.99
  • Contact – Custom Speed Dials for your Homescreen w/ VoiceAssist (Utilities): $1.99 -> $.99

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iPad Apps

  • New! Call of Duty: Zombies HD (Games): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • New! Backyard at Twilight: A Stella and Sam Adventure (Games): $2.99 -> Free
  • New! Flight Control HD (Games): $4.99 -> $2.99

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Universal Apps

  • New! Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies (Games): $6.99 -> $4.99
  • New! Brandnew Boy (Games): $3.99 -> $.99
  • New! Time of Heroes (Games): $2.99 -> $.99
  • Edge (Games): $2.99 -> Free
  • SpellTower: $1.99 -> 99¢
  • Crow (Games): $4.99 -> $2.99
  • Midway Arcade (Games): $1.99 -> $.99
  • Pocket (Formerly Read It Later) (News): $2.99 -> Free (review)
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