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Save Hundreds: Friday Freebie Bargain Vault.

Bargain VaultNo Friday is complete without a list of bargains for the weekend—shareware discounts.

This week is one of the best ever with a dozen Mac utilities available for special discounts. Many are on the Mac360 Favorites List. All will save you big money.

I’m not talking $10 off here and there for utilities that are dubious in value. There’s a way to save hundreds.

Earlier in December MacHeist announced a special promo for a select bundle of Mac utilities—9 award winning Mac tools for $49 (80-percent off list).

The list plays like a Who’s Who of Mac software developers, with a percentage of the discount proceeds going to the charity of your choice.

For example, alphabetically, there’s Delicious Library, normally a $40 application, part of the 9 Mac tools for only $49 total. The same for FotoMagico, one of our all-time favorites which is usually $79, but included in the MacHeist promotion.

There’s ShapeShifter and DevonThink Personal, as well as Disco. Also on the list is another favorite, RapidWeaver, one of the best Mac apps ever for building web sites.

Two others include the excellent NewsFire RSS reader, and another new favorite for text editing on your Mac, TextMate.

The MacHeist deal is rather straightforward but an odd promotion.

You get the bundle of 9 Mac apps for $49. It’s a special promotion for Mac developers, but a portion of the proceeds will go to a charity of your choice (from a list of charities—I checked, and the Alexis Kayhill Mommyhood Charity isn’t on the list).

If the charity amount reaches $100,000 then you also get a license for the TextMate application. See?

That’s an odd feature of what amounts to a good promotion for buyers.

There’s some discussion on Daring Fireball as to whether it’s a good promotion for Mac developers or not. The price is hard to beat, though.

For the geekier among Mac360 readers, Ron has secured a 20-percent discount on the popular Navicat MySQL utility.

“The promotion for your Mac360 readers will be a time limited offer. Your readers can enjoy 20% discount to purchase Navicat on or before the end of this year. This is a discount code for your readers: mac360nav. If your readers are interested in this special offer, they can send the code together with the version they wish to order via email to us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). The download information of a product will normally be sent out within 12 hours upon purchase.”

The folks at Circus Ponies have a special offer for their popular NoteBook application. Developer Jayson Adams gives the details.

“This holiday season we’re extending an exclusive, limited-time offer to NoteBook owners: a 20% rebate when you purchase the boxed retail edition of NoteBook.  Everyone can use a little more organization, which is why NoteBook is the perfect gift for any Mac user.  And with this special offer, it’s even easier to give. To get started, download the rebate form.”

Of course, it’s the boxed version available at Apple Stores, CompUSA and other places; not the download version. Still, every little bit helps.

Finally, there’s bargains galore at the Mac360 Store. For most items, you should be able to get delivery before Christmas. Remember, shopping at the Mac360 Store is the same as shopping at Amazon, and Mac360 gets a small cut so we keep the leader of the pack, Ms. Barbara Marie Hambi, healthy, happy, and dining out often.

Finally, here’s a fun item to keep you busy for a minute or two. Are you good at finding differences between two photos? If so, Click Here. Look closely at the two photographs to see if you can find the differences between each. Look closely. The instructions are in German, but it says something like look closely or find the differences.

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Classy Mac360 PhotoBy Alexis Kayhill | I'm a 20 year Mac user veteran, writer, photographer, wife, and mommy. I live in sunny San Diego with my husband, three children, two dogs, one mean old cat, and an SUV with a back seat full of beach sand. Follow me on Twitter.

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