The iPad may not ship until Saturday, but here on the deal desk we celebrate with the first price drop on an iPad app: Touch Hockey Extreme FS5. Also on tap today is a new batch of App Store freebies, including Batter Up Baseball. Finally, you can get your server’s up-to-date with a deal on the server version of Mac OS X 10.6.
As always, details on these and many other items are available from CoM’s “Daily Deals” page, starting right after the jump.
The iTunes App Store offers downloads of Touch Hockey Extreme FS5 for iPad for $2.99. (That’s $1 off and the first iPad-only app price drop we’ve seen.) This game is adapted from the iPhone arcade game and features head-to-head playing via wireless connection and multi-touch gesture recognition.
Below are downloads of several free applications available for a limited time from Apple’s App Store, with price drops from $1 to $3. The apps:
PonPon Touch: Whack-a-mole type game
Action Hero (pictured): Side-scrolling action game
Batter Up Baseball: Baseball game
iFlashCardPro: Flash card creation and management
iSafe: Sensitive information storage
AccelGraph: Accelerometer-based information display
Promodoro: Time management application
MegaMacs.com offers dealmac readers Apple’s retail-boxed Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server, model no. MC190Z/A, for $339.99 plus $6.60 for shipping. (That’s $68 off our last mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen by $18.) It supports an unlimited number of clients.
LA Computer Company offers dealmac readers the Apple Unibody MacBook 13″ Battery, model no. MB771LL/A, for $85. [With $7.53 for shipping, that’s the lowest total price we’ve seen in just over a year.] (For comparison, Apple charges $129.) This is a 45-watt rechargeable lithium polymer battery.
Shop4Tech.com offers this Deluxe Green Laser Pointer for $18.95. Coupon code “JJ15” cuts it to $16.11. (With free shipping, that’s tied with our January mention as the lowest total price we could find by $6.) This silver laser pointer features a green laser. Coupon expires April 4.
JR.com offers the factory-refurbished Nikon D90 12.3-Megapixel Digital SLR Camera (body only), model no. 25446, for $699 with free shipping. (That’s tied with our mention from two weeks ago and $73 under the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit now.) Features include a 3″ LCD, 4.5fps, 720p HD video recording, USB 2.0 connectivity, in-camera image editing, GPS geo-tagging, and more. A 90-day Nikon warranty applies.
6pm.com offers the Timbuk2 Soma 15″ Notebook Bag in Black (pictured), Gray, or Moss for $20.63. (With $6.95 for shipping, it’s $11 under our June mention and the lowest total price we could find for this bag by $34.) Features include over-the-arm shoulder straps and a waterproof bottom.
Cellular Factory offers its Composite A/V Cable for iPod / iPhone for $12.32. Apply coupon code “avcable545” and it falls to $5.45. (With free shipping, that’s the lowest total price we could find for such a cable by $3.) Deal ends April 7.
Update: It purports to not work with the iPhone 3.0 firmware.
Buy.com offers the Interlink Electronics SMK-Link Rechargeable Bluetooth Mouse for Mac, model no. VP6151, for $35.38 with free shipping. (That’s the lowest total price we could find by a buck.) This mouse features 33-feet of wireless transmission capability, multiple RF channels, built-in LED power indicator, and more.
Today only, MacUpdate.com offers downloads of Binary Formations’ Home Inventory 2 for Mac for $19.95. (That’s $15 off and the lowest price we could find for this home inventory management software.) Click here for more information.
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
