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#MacStoriesDeals - Thursday

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 Hardware

  • New! Refurb MacBook Air Core 2 Duo 1.4GHz 11” Laptop from Apple.com: $699 + free shipping
  • New! Harman Kardon Soundsticks II: $104 with coupon code LNY5
  • Used Apple Mac Pro 4-Core 2.66GHz Xeon Desktop: $750
  • Used Apple iMac Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz 24” Desktop: $600

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Mac Apps

  • New! Morph PDFpenPro: $99.95 -> $49.95
  • New! Onde Audio Recorder: $29.95 -> $14.95
  • HTML5 Crash Course: $99 -> $49
  • The Ui Toolkit: $8

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Amazon Deals

  • Sony NEX-3 14MP DSLR-Like Camera w/ 18-55mm Lens: $380 + free shipping
  • Bone Collection Amplifier for iPhone: $4 + free shipping
  • 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 and Audio

  • Philip K. Dick - 11 Great Science Fiction Stories (major films based on Dick’s work – Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly and Minority Report): Free
  • Isaac Asimov’s Epic Foundation Trilogy Dramatized in Audio: Free
  • Neil Gaiman’s Short Stories and New Year’s Wishes: Free

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Mac App Store

  • New! iSale (Productivity): $24.99 -> $11.99
  • New! myNotes (Productivity): $19.99 -> $14.99
  • SimpleRSS (News): $.99 -> Free
  • Metronome.s (Music): $7.99 -> $3.99
  • Wren (Social Networking): $4.99 -> $3.99 (review)

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iPhone Apps

  • New! Inertia : Escape Velocity (Games): $1.99 -> Free
  • Sally Park 2 (Lifestyle): $2.99 -> $1.99
  • Virtual City (Full): (Games): $4.99 -> Free
  • Neon Thrust (Games): $1.99 -> Free
  • DrawRace 2 (Games): $2.99 -> $.99

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iPad Apps

  • New! Machinarium (Games): $4.99 -> $1.99
  • Virtual City HD (Full) (Games): $6.99 -> Free

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Universal Apps

  • New! UnArchiver (Utilities): $.99 -> Free
  • New! Bamboozlers (Entertainment): $4.99 -> Free
  • New! RPM: Gymkhana Racing (Games): $2.99 -> $.99
  • Boost 2 (Games): $1.99 -> Free
  • Idyllic! (Games): $2.99 -> $.99
  • Terra Noctis (Games): $2.99 -> $.99

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