The HackStore is a viable alternative to the Mac App Store [sponsored]

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By Cody LeeSep 26, 2012, 4:00 am487 pts
Back in April, a handful of developers launched the HackStore, an alternative to the Mac App Store. Similar to Cydia for iOS, the HackStore hosts third-party Mac applications that for one reason or another didn’t make it past Apple’s approval process. In our first take, we noted that while the Store looked…

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