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Daily Deals: App Store Freebies, Acrylic iPhone Case and Music Organizer

We wrap up another week of deals with a trio of free, or next-to-free items. First up is a new batch of App Store freebies, including "Extreme ExposeIt! Awesome Ford Mustangs 2005-2010!" (Liberal use of exclamation marks also apparently thrown in for free.) Next is an acrylic case for your iPhone for under a half-buck. [...:]

Five Fun Games: An RPG with Depth, A Fight to Save Fiction, the Restoration of Babylon and More

TGI Friday! Here's this week's selection by Mac Games and More featuring fun casual games you can play into the weekend. The games include restoring fiction from A to Z, saving Venice from sinking, protecting a barbarian city and more.




Babylonia – The ancient city of Bablyon (Babylonia) lays in ruins and the only remnants of [...:]

iPhone and iPad Apps Weekly Digest: It's games week (again) with a zombie twist!

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 Azkend HD, Dizzypad HD, GTA: Chinatown Wars, LetsTans 8-in-1, Plants vs. Zombies HD, Scrabble for iPad, Scrabble Tile Rack, and The Catching.

APP OF THE WEEK
Plants vs. Zombies HD: Superb, playable, [...:]

Tivoli's Connector Dock Is An Expensive Way to Pair Your iPhone With A Radio

To celebrate their 10th anniversary, Tivoli Audio has introduced an attractive new iPod Dock, the Connector, which allows you to hook your iPhone up to any radio… although the wood panel design of the Connector indicates that it is specifically meant to be paired with Tivoli's own $199 Model 10 table radio.
A bit rich [...:]

Report: BT to Launch iPad Rival in UK

British telecom company BT is readying a device similar to the iPad, but executives were reticent to compare it to Apple's tablet device. BT CEO Ian Livingston told The Guardian newspaper the unnamed device is seen as a touchscreen telephone for the home.
"Someone else made a reference to it being a bit like the [...:]

Suicides and Poisonings at Apple's Chinese Manufacturers Provoke Calls for Investigation

Foxconn Technology, the world's largest electronics contractor and main supplier of most of Apple's componentys, is once again in the news over the welfare of its employees in China after it racked up its sixth employee suicide this year.
The most recent suicide occurred in Foxconn's factory city in Shenzen, where one of their 300,000 workers [...:]

Cheap Toshiba Film Makes iPhone Displays Truly Tactile

The iPhone and iPod Touch have the industry's best touchscreens, but some people still find the lack of true tactile feedback a barrier to adoption. Various companies have been working for a solution to that problem, but Toshiba's new Senseg E-Sense technology seems ready for prime time now: slapped as a film on top of [...:]

Wi-Fi Sync Rejected By App Store, Costs $9.99 On Cydia

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_09mqhMa-g
When Greg Hughes' first revealed his amazing Wi-Fi Sync app a couple weeks ago, it didn't take a genius to realize Apple was never going to let it on the App Store. Sure, there was no actual rule preventing it, but Apple has shown time and time again that they don't want anyone messing around [...:]

ITC to Investigate Kodak Claims Against Apple

There's nothing like a lawsuit to start the morning. The U.S. International Trade Commission announced Thursday night it would investigate Apple's claims of patent infringement against Kodak. On April 15, the Cupertino, Calif. company alleged the imaging company violated two patents involving digital imaging and digital cameras.
The trade body said it would announce in 45 [...:]

An iPad, An Apple IIe, Sophtware Slump and A Robot Named Jed

Gradaddy's song "Jed's Other Poem" off of their album The Sopftware Slump has to be one of the most sweet and lonely ballads ever ostensibly written by a sentient robot, but Stewart Smith's retroactively official "music" video for it — which prominently features an Apple IIe running a hand coded AppleSoft II program illustrating the [...:]