Black Friday deals for Mac and iPhone software

The holiday season is upon us, and Black Friday is here. You know what that means--discounts. Before you go out and brave the throngs of shoppers crowding the malls, have a look at some Mac and iPhone software discounts that you can take advantage of right from the comfort of your home.

Mac software

Devontechnologies: If you purchase Devonthink (personal document manager), Devonagent (Internet research assistant), or Devonnote (artificial intelligence-powered notebook) on Black Friday this year, you can take advantage of a 25 percent discount. The current prices for personal versions of Devonthink, Devonagent, and Devonnote are $50, $50, and $30, respectively.

Karelia Software: Karelia Software makes Sandvox, a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Website builder for Mac OS X that makes it simple for non-programmers to be able to create attractive Websites, while also giving them more control than iWeb does. If you purchase a copy of Sandvox on Black Friday, you can get it at exactly half its retail price--$57 for the regular version and $97 for the pro version. (In its announcement of the discounts, Karlelia encourages users to donate the money they save to charity.)

Microsoft: Microsoft, as you may have heard, makes this wonderful operating system called Windows Vista and on Black Friday, the company is offering Mac users the chance to score it at just--no, no, just kidding. What Microsoft is actually giving is a discount on Office 2008 for Mac Home & Student Edition. The suite normally retails for $149 but can be yours for just $99 on Friday.

Newsgator: Newsgator, the makers of the popular RSS reader NetNewsWire for both the Mac and the iPhone, is giving a substantial discount on its Mac application for iPhone app development, TapLynx. TapLynx helps people create iPhone applications without knowing anything about programming, and has been used for the creation of the popular All Things Digital application for the iPhone. While it generally retails for the steep price of $3,499, Newsgator is offering it for the much more affordable price of $500 on Black Friday this year. The catch, however, is that you have to be among the first fifty people to purchase the app on Friday in order to qualify for the discount. The sale lasts for 24 hours starting at midnight EST on November 27.

Real Software: The makers of cross-platform development tools like Realbasic and Real Studio will be offering a 30 percent discount on all new licenses on November 27 from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM CST. The current price of Realbasic Personal Edition is $99, and Real Studio costs $995.

iPhone software

Agile Web Solutions: The makers of 1Password for the Mac and the iPhone, Agile Web Solutions is offering both of its iPhone versions of the application for free in the spirit of Thanksgiving. 1Password is a vault for storing passwords and other sensitive information and is highly recommended by the editors here at Macworld. The iPhone clients, 1Password and 1Password Pro, allow you to take your saved passwords with you. Although they usually cost $5 and $8 respectively, they are free until December 1.

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