Hi Sarah,
where did you find that? Their site shows a "promotional" price of $50.
Thanks and best regards.
Geoff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Alawami" <[email protected]>
To: "Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Mac App Store Black Friday Specials
Cool deal. I won't try any of these since i don't need them but I'm sure
someone on this list will like the sales. I just bought vm fusion 4 for 29
bucks. so we'll see how that goes. and hope more peopel will take advantage
of these sales.
Take care.
On Nov 25, 2011, at 10:36 AM, Esther wrote:
Hi All,
In connection with Black Friday, the first day after U.S. Thanksgiving,
when there are sales to start off the Christmas shopping season, a number
of interesting sales have shown up in the Mac App Store for applications
or subjects that have been recently discussed. Some of these will be for
today only, some for the Friday and Saturday, and some will extend through
Monday.
Here are a few of the items I've noted:
• ABBYY Fine Reader Express $49.99 (50% off regular price, this weekend
only)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abbyy-finereader-express/id412310371?mt=12
• Bento 4 $33.99 (price just dropped from $49.99, no comments about this
sale price or how long it will last at the App Store or at the main Bento
web page, where the price is still listed as $49.99)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bento/id413293930?mt=12
• YummySoup! $4.99 (75% off regular price of $19.99 Thanksgiving through
Cyber Monday)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yummysoup!/id402757302?mt=12
All three of the above applications (ABBYY Fine Reader Express for OCR
with scanners, Bento for database, and YummySoup! for recipes) have been
previously discussed on the mac-access list. All of these products have
15-day free trial downloads at their main web sites (through the link on
the Mac App Store page for each product). (I'll give a direct link for
the ABBYY Fine Reader Express trial download, since navigating the main
web page is confusing, and while there is a link that eventually gets you
to the Mac product buried in the page under a name like "Try Try", the
link to "Trial Downloads" takes you to trial downloads for their Windows
products). The ABBYY Fine Reader Express trial download can be found at:
http://www.abbyy.com/finereader_for_mac/trial/#
Other applications at the Mac App Store that have been mentioned as
accessible, but that I've not used, include:
• Checkbook $6.99 (normally $14.99, on sale this Friday only)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/checkbook/id412485361?mt=12
• Checkbook Pro $11.99 (normally $24.99, on sale this Friday only)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/checkbook-pro/id412490330?mt=12
Another Splasm Software product that I have used is flagged with the same
"over 50% off for Black Friday only" label, but as far as I can tell, the
price has only dropped by a dollar:
• Audiobook Builder $4.99 (normally $5.99)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/audiobook-builder/id406226796?mt=12
• Soulver $11.99 (normally $24.99, on sale for Thanksgiving and Black
Friday)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soulver/id413965349?mt=12
Scott Howell posted elsewhere about Soulver, which is an app for doing
calculations that gives you a combination of functions somewhere between
calculator, spread sheet, and text editor. I'll excerpt a bit from the
recent MacLife article, since that site puts in annoying ad pop-ups if you
just open a link to the page:
Source: http://www.maclife.com/article/reviews/soulver_calculator_review
"Soulver Calculator Review posted 11/21/2011"
<begin quote>
Hey! You got your text editor in my spreadsheet!
Wouldn’t it be nice if the calculations you scribbled on scrap paper were
interactive, or if spreadsheets were easy enough to use at the drop of a
hat? Soulver is a calculator that aims to combine these tools into
something that’s both easy to use and powerful enough to crunch data in
useful ways. Soulver lets you enter problems from simple arithmetic to
trigonometry in natural language—using words as well as numbers and
symbols—and combine the answers in flexible “math-processor” documents.
Typing “15.3% of $29.95” will get you an answer, for example, but Soulver
isn’t quite magic, or even Siri. You have to use the vocabulary it
expects, which is usually varied enough to get the job done, but it still
requires a trip to the built-in cheat sheet every now and then.
Nevertheless, its text-friendly design is great for adding notes and
context to your numbers, and it’s even better for unit and currency
conversions. Soulver even recognizes stock ticker symbols, so you can
quickly figure out how much your 50 shares of AAPL are worth in yen (lucky
you).
Soulver offers more power than just a cool input gimmick, however. You can
easily define custom variables and save them for use in multiple files.
Answers are summed automatically, and you can view their average,
variance, or standard deviation with a click. You can even save answers as
keys to use throughout a document, so when the original answer changes,
problems containing its key update instantly. When you’ve finished
working, Soulver exports to multiple file types, including PDF and HTML,
with various styling options.
The bottom line. While pricey as a simple replacement for Apple’s
Calculator, Soulver is worth a look if you want something less cumbersome
than a spreadsheet but much more powerful than the back of a napkin for
working out complex calculations.
<end quote>
Although the iOS Soulver apps for the iPhone and iPad are also on sale for
half price today, the number pad entry is apparently not yet accessible
(although apparently you can input with a keyboard). The Mac version
includes remarks about "improvements for VoiceOver accessibility:, and
there's also a 10-day free trial at the main web site linked from the App
Store page.
Remember that many of the free trial downloads support the ability to
purchase and register from within the trial apps. You almost certainly
won't get the discounted prices this way, so delete these trial versions
if you download them and decide to make a purchase directly from the Mac
App Store. There are no trial downloads at the Mac App Store, because
developers are not allowed to post apps where users must pay additional
amounts at a later time to keep the app functioning. That means the
developer can supply a free (Lite) version, or a full-priced version, but
he cannot supply a version where some of the features later stop working
unless you pay more. (That means no trial versions that expire.)
All of the1Password applications (versions on the Mac App Store as well as
for iOS devices) are 50% off. I'm not going to paste in all the links.
You can read the AgileBits newsletter link that gives all this
information:
http://email.agilewebsolutions.com/t/r/e/iydukul/kjihijdki/n/
Lew and others with DJAY aspirations, the new Algoriddim djay app at the
Mac App Store is supposed to be accessible, and is currently available for
an introductory price of $19.99 for their launch sale for version 4.0.
Normal price is $49.99, but you probably need to buy a Vestax Spin DJ
Controller from the Apple Store or elsewhere, which lists for about $275.
This is supposed to let you be your own DJ with iTunes.
• djay ($19.99 for limited time launch sale, $49.99 regularly)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/djay/id411699771?mt=12
Lynne, the SmileOnMyMac PDF Pen and PDF Pen Pro applications are also on
sale, but I think you mentioned these are not accessible.
Finally, I'll just mention that the Apple Black Friday specials have
discounts for the Apple Wireless Keyboard, Magic Trackpad, G-Drive Mini
external disks (a good brand), the Jawbone Jambox, and many other
interesting items.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
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