Master iOS 10, streamline your workflow and more with the best deals this week [Deals]

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TaskPaper uses plain text editors to keep yourself on point and organized.
TaskPaper uses plain text editors to keep yourself on point and organized.
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Every week we take the many amazing deals we have and decide on a small handful of the absolute amazingest. This week we’ve got a dead simple way to streamline your desktop workflow, a speaker that projects sounds and glittering light, a high-speed VPN subscription and a lifetime of courses in iOS coding — including the soon-to-be-released iOS 10.

TaskPaper Flawless Text Editor – 50% off

What looks like a plain text editor is actually a lean, mean, finely tuned productivity machine, optimized to auto-format projects, tasks, notes, and tags. The simple system makes it easy to keep track of work you’ve done, and work you’ve yet to do, all kept manageable by a powerful outliner. Format lists automatically, fold, focus and filter big lists down to comprehensible sizes, use an integrated search engine to track down old notes, and lots more to keep you on point and sane in your day to day tasks.

Buy now: Get TaskPaper for $12.49, a full half off the usual price.

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The FRESHeCOLOR Bluetooth speaker will please your eyes as well as your ears.
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FRESHeCOLOR Bluetooth Portable Speaker – 76% off

Summer is as much about its sights as its sounds, and this little boombox brings both. It’ll play tunes from any Bluetooth enabled device with glorious sound, reacting in real time with a scintillating surface of LED bulbs and 5 different lighting modes that’ll bring the vibe together. It’s portable, eye-catching, and ear-pleasing with all the features you’ve come to expect from a modern music maker.

Buy now: Get the FRESHeCOLOR Bluetooth Speaker for $59.95, a whopping 76 percent off the usual price.

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Get two years of VPN protection to keep all your data and browsing activity private.
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HideMyAss! VPN: 2-Year Subscription – 55% off

This entertainingly named virtual private network offers high-speed, secure browsing by channeling your traffic among servers located in nearly 200 countries. Bypass pesky location restrictions or protect your browsing history and private data from hackers and other snoops on all of your devices, including internet-enabled TVs and game consoles. You can browse the internet securely on up to two devices at once, with constant access to premium customer support online, via chat or phone.

Buy now: Get 2 years of HideMyAss! VPN for $69.99, that’s a discount of 55 percent.

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iOS 10 is coming, developers. Now’s your chance to get ahead of the pack and master its many new features.
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iOS Online Courses: Lifetime All Access Pass – 95% off

iOS Online Courses are a leading provider of professional level instruction in iOS game and app development. With their continually growing library of courses for programmers of all levels, you can access to courses on iOS, Apple TV OS, Apple Watch, GameKit apps, Swift, Objective-C, and more. That includes lessons in the highly anticipated iOS 10 and Swift 3, meaning you can get ahead of the game in developing for — and profiting from — the next great OS.

Buy now: Get this lifetime of iOS training for $69, a massive discount of 95 percent off to usual price.

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