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Another brace of Mac bundles for bargain shoppers

IT Industry - Development

The $US49.99 MacFriendly bundle contains a more diverse collection of applications:

3D Image Commander (apply 3D effects such as perspective to thumbnails; $US29.95)

Cocktail (maintenance and customisation utility; $US14.95)

CrossFTP Pro (FTP client; $US25)

Data Guardian (encrypted data storage; $US19.95)

Iris (photo editor; $US79)

Mac DVDRipper Pro (DVD ripper; $US9.95)

Mac Snapper (web/PDF authoring tool; $US49)

MacJournal (personal journal; usually $US39.95)

Pagico Professional (project and contact management; $US50)

Sleep Blaster (alarm clock; $US8)

Super Flexible File Synchroniser Pro (cross-platform sync tool; $US59.90)

TranslateIt! Deluxe (multilingual dictionary, also integrates with any Cocoa application; $US25)

There are also two bonus applications that will be unlocked after 1000 units are sold. They are Flash Decompiler Trillix 4 (convert SWF files back to Flash or Flex; $US79.95) and Hear (sound enhancement, $US49.95). Early buyers will receive licences for these applications once the 1000 target is reached.

A $US3 per copy discount is applied to orders of three or more copies.

The offer expires on October 23, 2009.