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Has Taylor Momsen Ever Been Vooked?

Are you ready to get vooked? You know you want to. And a little company called Vook, with offices in Alameda and New York, is more than happy to show you how.
Vook began with a mission to unite the disparate worlds of books and videos into one complete, blended story. With an innovative [...:]

iPhone and iPad Apps Weekly Digest a.k.a. How to Turn a Vulgar Pop Video Into a Cracking Arcade Racer

It's time for our weekly digest of tiny iPhone reviews, courtesy of iPhoneTiny.com, with some extra commentary exclusive to Cult of Mac.
This time, we review Amazing Animals: Savanna, Battle Bears: Zombies!, Creepy Caverns, Easy Checklist, Find in Page, Flaboo!, Truckers Delight, Tune Runner, and War Chess (iPad).

APP OF THE WEEK
Truckers Delight: Retro-styled racer. Plays like [...:]

How To Fix Common WiFi Problems [MacRx]

WiFi operates in unregulated portions of the radio spectrum.  These frequencies are shared with things like microwave ovens, cordless phones, garage door openers and an increasing plethora of other WiFi devices.  What many WiFi networks face these days is like trying to tune in to a weak radio station in a busy city market.
This week a few [...:]

50 Mac Essentials #8: Mail Act-On

Mail Act-On is a unique plug-in for Apple's own Mail application. It won't appeal to everyone, but it is an excellent tool for managing lots of email and keeping it all organized.
It serves the needs of two distinct sorts of person: those who live most of their working hours inside Mail, and those who [...:]

Olympus Ad For PEN Camera Makes 3D Marketing Fun

I don't often play around with advertising, but Olympus' virtual ad for it's new PEN E-PL1 camera is pretty fun.
Go to www.getolympus.com/PEN3d and download a paper cutout of the camera (you can get it here). Install a plugin, and when you hold the paper camera up to your iSight webcam it turns into a 3D [...:]

Download Rogue Planet For iPhone/iPt For Free

Act quickly, and you can get Gameloft's Rogue Planet for iPhone/iPt for free.
Today only until 5 pm ET, the strategy game is free as part of the company's 10th Anniversary Happy Hour. That's a $5 drop and the best price we've seen for this game.
Grab it quick; time's nearly up.

Apple Studies Geo-Tagged iPhone Ads, Coupons

Future iPhones may be able to flash ads for theater discounts or suggest a burrito special in the neighborhood as you head out of the office at lunch time.
Geo-tagged ads and coupons would zap themselves to iPhone users a number of ways, including RFID, Apple Insider writes.
The Cupertino company applied for a patent this week [...:]

Busker's Delight: iPad Steel Drum

Ayman Shamma's iPad steel drum just might revolutionize music on street corners and subway stops.
Shamma made a pair of drum sticks out of conductive material, then wrote an iPad app that mimics the sound of a steel drum, without any heavy equipment to lug around.
You can whip up a pair of drumsticks in about half [...:]

Analyst: Apple Selling More iPads than Macs

There have been hints of heavy iPad demand, ranging from out-of-stock reports and Apple's own admission of trouble keeping up, but now comes some hard numbers: the iPad is outselling the Mac by nearly two-to-one. The Cupertino, Calif. company is selling more than 200,000 iPads per week in the U.S. while selling about 110,000 [...:]

Report: China Unicom May Be Reason for iPhone's Lackluster Sales

Despite Apple's public pronouncements of success in China, a survey finds 90 percent of consumers don't use – and don't like China Unicom, the No. 2 carrier the Cupertino, Calif. company picked to exclusively sell the iPhone.
Fewer than 10 percent of China residents between the age of 22 and 32 use China Unicom, and of [...:]