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Tomorrow (November 28th) is probably the busiest shopping day of the year. Retailers look forward to the beginning of the holiday shopping season, and that season begins tomorrow with Black Friday.

Like every other retailer, Apple will be offering some deals tomorrow. Since it’s already Friday in Australia, TUAW is reporting that the best offer in the Australian online store is a discount on the new unibody Macbook. It’s likely Apple will run the same deals across all countries they do business in.

The discounts in the AU store include:

• Macbook
• iMac
• 8GB Nano
• iPod Classic
• 8GB iPod touch
• Apple TV
• Time Capsule
• iPod and iPhone cases
• Other Mac accessories

If you need to shop for the Apple fan in your life this holiday season, tomorrow is likely the best day to do so!

Update 11/28/08: Here’s the link for the Black Friday deals page on the US Apple website.  Just replace the two character country code with your country to see the deals listed for your country.

It must be the holiday season, because the software bundles/sales are beginning to appear. Up early is Give Good Food To Your Mac.

So what’s the deal with Give Good Food To Your Mac? You purchase between 3, 4, or 5 applications and receive 20%, 30%, or 50% off the purchase price. Purchasing more than 5 applications will get you maximum discount of 50% off.

The promotion has over 60 applications to choose from. Including:

• BannerZest (and BannerZest Pro)
• DEVONthink Personal
• DiscLabel
• LibrarianPro
• RapidWeaver
• Together
• Yummy Soup

Check out the Give Good Food To Your Mac website for the entire list of applications available in the promotion. The promotion ends December 1st!

Have a Wii and a Mac? Want to share your movies, music, and pictures directly to your Wii? If you answered yes to both those questions, you need to check out Wii Transfer. Use the coupon code “NEWSLETTER” to save 20% off the already low $19 price.

New in version 2.6: The ability to copy your Miis to your Mac!

If you’re in the market for a case for your 1st generation iPhone, case-mate is having a big sale on two of their cases. The Leather Flip Case and Signature Leather Case are both on sale for $6. The regular price of these cases are $35, so this is a very good deal. No word on how long the prices will last. You can get more information about the two cases on sale and other 1st generation iPhone cases here.

For some time now I’ve been meaning to to write a review of the Elgato EyeTV Hybrid. I’ve owned one for about a year and absolutely love it. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, what exactly is the EyeTV Hybrid?

The Elgato EyeTV Hybrid is a USB device that allows you to watch TV on your Mac. The EyeTV Hybrid can receive over-the-air HD signals (antenna sold separately) or you can just plug in the coaxial cable from your cable provider. Bundled with the device is the EyeTV software which allows you to schedule TV recordings with the click of a button. In the US, a free TV guide is also included within the EyeTV software. The EyeTV software has a couple of presets allowing you to easily export your recording into AppleTV or iPod compatible formats. Of course you can just watch the recording on your Mac too if you wish. I promise a full review of the product is coming later this month!

Retail price of the device is about $150 USD. Other World Computing is currently offering a factory refurbished EyeTV Hybrid for less than $70 USD! This is a fantastic deal on a great product. It looks like version they are offering supports the NTSC and ATSC standards, so you need to be sure the device will work in your country before buying it. The only downside is that the factory refurbished models appear to be shipping with the previous version of the EyeTV software, version 2. I’ve had no problems with the version 2 software so I wouldn’t consider that a deal breaker. If you want to watch TV on your Mac and save some cash at the same time, this is a fantastic deal.

Update: Someone in the comments linked to the upgrade details for EyeTV 3.  It looks like you can get the upgrade to EyeTV 3 for free!

It seems like every other week when a large Mac software bundle/deal comes along. I’ve participated in one of those deals, and wouldn’t hesitate to again if the right software was involved. I recently found out about yet another Mac software deal.

Mac Mix is a tiered discount promo. The website is very clean and has some nice JavaScript touches. Browsing the website is easy. Buying between one and twelve applications will net you a discount of between 10% – 75% off. The more you buy the more you save.

Here is a sampling of applications included in this promo:

• Parallels
• MacGourmet
• Yep
• iBank
• ForkliftTextExpander
• And more

Checkout the Mac Mix website for more details about the applications available and the discount amounts. I’ve been thinking about buying at least one or two of these applications so I might stop by the website and do some shopping.

[Via TUAW]

It’s been over two months since Office 2008 was released at Macworld. Shipped on January 15th, 2008, Office 2008 became one of the last applications to become a universal binary. In addition to being universal, Office 2008 is a major upgrade to the flagship Microsoft product. While you can buy Office 2008 online, at retail stores, and via education discounts, there was one place you couldn’t buy it; via the Home Use Program. The wait is finally over for those wishing to purchase Office 2008 from the Microsoft Home Use Program. Microsoft added Office 2008 to the availability list today.

The Home Use Program (HUP) allows employees of companies with Volume Licensing agreements to purchase certain Microsoft Products at steep discounts for use in their homes. For instance, my company is part of the HUP and I’m able to purchase Project, Visio, and Office for less than $20 USD ($19.95).

For those waiting to get Office 2008 via the HUP, go forth and purchase!