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#MacStoriesDeals - Monday

Be sure to vote for your favorite apps of 2011! Here are today’s @MacStoriesDeals on iOS, Mac, and Mac App Store apps that are on sale for a limited time, so get them before they end!

Mac Apps

  • New! MacPaw Christmas Offers: All products are 40% OFF
  • New! The Ultimate Designer Toolkit: $99 -> $49
  • New! 500 Vector Pictograms: $47 -> $17
  • Ends today! ProductiveMacs Bundle: $264 -> $39.99
  • Ends Wednesday! MacUpdate Winter Bundle 2011: $741 -> $49.99
  • Humble Indie Bundle #4: Name your price! (review)

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Amazon Deals

  • New! THQ Day: Save up to 60% on Game Downloads
  • New! DiskAid 5The Ultimate iPhone, iPad & iPod Transfer Tool: $24.90 -> $14.90
  • Buttonless: Incredible iPhone and iPad Games and the Stories Behind Them: $29.95 (review)
  • Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs [Kindle Edition]: $2.99

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iBookstore & Audio Books

  • New! The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis: Free
  • More! Free Audio Books here
  • Beatles ‘Yellow Submarine’ Book: FREE

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Mac App Store

  • New! Flare (Photography): $9.99 -> $4.99 (review)
  • New! Reddit HD (Social Networking): $3.99 -> $1.99
  • New! Hider (Utilities): $9.99 -> $5.99
  • New! Ensoul (Photography): $9.99 -> $5.99
  • New! Play by Play (Graphics & Design): $2.99
  • New! Wallpaper Wizard (Utilities): $6.99 -> $4.99
  • New! Focus (Photography): $9.99 -> $4.99
  • New! EDGE (Games): $5.99 -> $3.99
  • Ecoute: $8.99 -> $3.99 (review)

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iPhone Apps

  • New! Foodish: $1.99 -> $.99
  • New! Outside - Visual Weather Forecast (Weather): $2.99 -> $.99
  • New! FX Photo Studio (Photography): $1.99 -> $.99
  • New! SimplyTweet 3 - Twitter Client (Social Networking): $2.99 -> Free
  • New! I Dig It (Games): $.99 -> Free
  • New! Last Cannon (Games): $.99 -> Free
  • New! Convert ~ the unit calculator (Productivity): $2.99 -> $.99
  • New! Pocket RPG iPhone Edition (Games): $2.99 -> $.99
  • New! BillMinder for iPhone (Finance): $1.99 -> $.99
  • New! Saver ~ Control your Expenses (Finance): $4.99 -> $2.99

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iPad Apps

  • New! Folio Case: $5.99 -> $.99
  • New! Writings (Productivity): $4.99 -> $1.99 (review)
  • New! BillMinder for iPad (Finance): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • New! I Dig It HD (Games): $6.99 -> $2.99
  • New! Read (News): $2.99 -> $.99 (review)

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Universal Apps

  • New! Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (Games): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • New! SpeedTask (Productivity): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • New! Pocket RPG (Games): $4.99 -> $.99
  • New! Push 4.0 (Productivity): $4.99 -> $.99
  • New! Writing Kit (Productivity): $4.99 -> $.99
  • New! Velocispider (Games): $1.99 -> Free
  • New! IM+ Pro (Social Networking): $2.99 -> $1.99
  • New! Rimelands: Hammer of Thor (Games): $4.99 -> $.99
  • New! Aralon: Sword and Shadow HD (Games): $6.99 -> $.99
  • New! Space Invaders Infinity Gene (Games): $4.99 -> $2.99
  • New! Jetpack Joyride (Games): $.99 -> Free
  • New! Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters (Games): $1.99 -> $.99
  • New! Gears (Games): $2.99 -> $.99
  • New! DebtMinder (Finance): $1.99 -> $.99
  • Galaxy on Fire 2™ (Games): $9.99 -> $4.99
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