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The gift giving season is now in full swing, and will be up through the end of the year. Luckily for you, the deals are in full swing as well. As special offers and giveaways from Macintosh and iPhone/iPod developers are announced or extended, we’ll round them all up here. Check back often for the best deals as they hit the wire.

Macintosh

• Ambrosia Software, Inc. has announced the Ambrosia Holiday Bundle with savings of up to 70% off on Ambrosia’s games & utilities. The sale runs right up until Christmas Eve, December 24th, 2009. The Ambrosia Holiday Bundle features steep discounts in two “work” and “play” bundles for Ambrosia’s award-winning utility products and action-packed games, respectively. The more you buy, the steeper your discount…but for a limited time only.
• Embraceware Software today announced holiday sale prices on Awaken for Mac (regular $15 - now just $10). Awaken for Mac is a digital alarm clock for Mac OS X that wakes you by playing music or podcasts from your iTunes library or any of the built in alarm sounds. It can also put both you and your Mac to sleep with the sleep timer feature.
• BandmateLoops.com is offering a “No-Brainer Loop Pack” this holiday season. Bandmates bundled five of the most popular products and have reduced the price by over 80% to just $19.95. This collection of products would normally sell for $110.00. BandmateLoops.com is the leading provider of inspiring digital-delivered audio loops and multisample instruments. Their products are geared specifically for music-software users interested in creating their own unique musical compositions.
• Coladia has extended its special Black Friday promotion on their Mac Games for one more week. Until December 7th, 2009, customers will receive a free game when they buy 2 games. The deal applies to The Secrets of Da Vinci, Return to Mysterious Island, Cleopatra: a Queen’s Destiny, Destination: Treasure Island, Secret of the Lost Cavern and Still Life 2. All games are available for download from Coladia online.
• New - FMPug along with the generosity of many well-respected companies have organized one of the most bountiful giveaways to-date. From December 12th and each day thereafter, FMPug will post the set of daily prizes on their newly redesigned “12 Days of Giveaways” Home page. Vendors seeking additional exposure for their company and respective products are welcome to participate in this holiday giveaway by contacting Andy Gaunt on/before Thursday, 11 December by 6pm EST.
• New - BinaryNights today today announced a special holiday promotion for ForkLift, their popular file and FTP manager for OS X. Forklift is a powerful file manager and ferociously fast FTP client clothed in a clean and versatile UI. Starting today, ForkLift is available for a nice discount until Christmas Eve. ForkLift carries a complete toolbox for managing your files, including Folder Synchronization, Batch Renaming, Archive handling, Application deleter, and many more.
• iFunia has announced its new Holiday Center. The iFunia featured products should be very useful for Mac shoppers who would like to convert holiday video (including HD!) or movie into any format and enjoy the video entertainment on iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, BlackBerry, cell phones and more. Until January 15th, 2010, buyers will be able to save 14 to 30% on iFunia products.
• Encouraging Mac users to get a grip on their 2009 finances and a jump on 2010, IGG Software today announced an instant rebate on iBank, its flagship personal finance software. The company’s new “Why Wait For 2010?” rebate offer is good through December 31, 2009, exclusively for purchases made at IGG’s online store. The new, streamlined Instant Rebate is available to all new purchasers of iBank.
• iPresentee has announced their free Christmas Gift bundle to be used with Apple’s iWeb, Keynote, Pages and Mail software. Christmas Gift package includes one iWeb Theme with static and flash backgrounds, two Keynote Motion Themes, one Keynote Theme, Keynote 3D Stuff, iWeb Animations and Mail Stationery. All the add-ons are ready to inspire Christmas spirit into frequently used Mac Applications. All products are easy to use, made with precision and absolutely free.
• New - MacFriendly has released their new MacFriendly Bundle of 12 applications for Mac users. The Bundle is available for a limited time and represents a savings of over 85% off the list prices. The bundle includes the latest version of each application. Additionally, one bonus applications will be added to the bundle for all customers when 750 bundles have been sold. The MacFriendly Bundle provides an unprecedented selection of high quality software at unprecedented low prices.
• New - MacUpdate has launched its newest bundle promotion, delivering 11 of the most appealing independent Mac apps. Available through December 23 exclusively at MUPromo, the bundle includes a little bit of everything, from some of the most highly most acclaimed utilities on the Mac to brand new favorites and a few of the most vaunted titles of the year. The 2009 Holiday Bundle has routinely been voted favorites by the media and users alike.
• New - Humble Daisy has announced their Happy Holi-Daisy Sale, offering ProfCast for 50% off retail purchases of ProfCast. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint slides for creating enhanced media files. It allows users to record their presentation as they give it, and create enhanced media files for online distribution. The Happy Holi-Daisy promotion will run through December 31st, 2009.
• ToonBoom is offering a $230.00 discount on their Family Creative Pack, which includes Toon Boom Studio, Flip Boom Classic, Flip Boom All-Star and Comic Boom. Ideal for 6 up to 100 years old, this great package will deliver loads of fun and learning experience in animation techniques while fostering creativity. Expires December 25th, 2009.

iPhone

• Embraceware Software today announced holiday sale prices on Awaken for iPhone (regular $1.99 - now just 99¢). It contains all of the core features of the Mac version along with iPhone/iPod unique functionality. Awaken for iPhone and iPod touch is a digital alarm clock, sleep timer, full screen clock and flashlight.
• The holiday season is upon us, and CAZE is celebrating by giving away a gift a day through December 25. For the next three weeks, CAZE will be giving away a different iPhone case each day and one ultimate gift on 25th of December. From December 5 till December 25, CAZE will give out one iPhone case each day and on December 25, a winner will be chosen at random from among all participants to win an Apple iPhone 3G/3GS.
• ZappTek and InterLingua Publishing today have announced that the EngLits collection for iPhone and iPod touch is on sale through the month of December. With over 50 titles in the full collection, EngLits is a collection of detailed audio and text summaries of classic books and plays by Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Hawthorne, Bronte, and other authors that can be played on an iPhone or iPod touch. EngLits tell the full story of the book or drama, including all characters and events.
• Through December 11th, Incipio is offering a buy one get one free iPod touch 2G case blowout. Purchase any Silicrylic, duroSHOT, dermaSHOT, 1337, or iLab case for iPod touch 2G and receive a second case free of charge. Use coupon code: 1touch.
• nFinity has announced that until the end of the year they is giving away 25,000 copies of their award winning QuickVoice pC desktop computer software. This is an exclusive give-away to iPhone users. The promotion is 100% free, as in no purchase necessary and no gimmicks. iPhone users need to only download one of nFinity’s two apps from Apple’s iTunes App Store.
• New - Avalinx Studios Team is celebrating the holidays by putting their entire Pro Series Casino suite on sale at 60% off. Look for more games coming soon, in early 2010.

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