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Micromanage Peasants In Addictive iPhone Game, We Rule [Favorite Apps]

What it is: We Rule is an addictive world-building iPhone game that blends Sim City with Facebook's Farmville. Set in medieval times, you must build a prosperous kingdom by micromanaging the peasants and expanding trade with other online players.
Why it's good: The game blends the best empire-building aspects of Sim City with the social aspects [...:]

Fruit Ninja Satisfies Your Inner Sensei [iPhone Game Review]

Fruit Ninja is a super fun game from Australian developers Halfbrick Studios that is impossible to put down!
Fruit Ninja incorporates the speed and simplicity of games like Doodle Jump with an innovative control method that makes the game addictive. I love this game. The graphics look like crap but the game proves the old adage — gameplay [...:]

Run Dead Easy Offsite Backups To iDisk [How To]

Apple recently updated its Backup software to v3.2, improving its reliability and efficiency.
So now is a great time to show how to use it to make offsite backups of your most important files.

One of the best things about owning a Mac and using OS X is the amazing bundled backup software – Time Machine. Both my [...:]

RedLaser Is Red Hot: Top iPhone App Boasts 2 Million Downloads and 50 Million Scans

One of my must-have apps from the iPhone is not only breaking down barriers between consumer shopping habits and the online marketplace, but also passing milestones left and right.
The top-selling barcode-scanning iPhone app RedLaser has recently passed 2 Million downloads, catered to 950K active users last month, and successfully completed 50 Million scans according to [...:]

Daily Deals: $999 iMacs, 2.53GHz MacBook Pro, Mac OS X Box Set

We start out with another deal on Core 2 Duo iMacs, including a 22-inch desktop machine with a 3.06GHz processor for $999. Also on tap: a 2.53GHz Core 2 Dup MacBook Pro with AppleCare for $1,699. Our final top deal is the Mac Box Set, including Mac OS X 10.6, iLife '09 and iWork '09 [...:]

Japanese Mac Blog Finds Rare MacBook Pro With THREE Command Keys

Japanese blog KODAWARISAN sent us this picture of a 15″ Macbook Pro i7 with an interesting keyboard configuration. Instead of a command and option key on the bottom right of the keyboard there are two command keys.
This brings the total number of command keys to 3. The Google translation of the blog indicates that this notebook [...:]

Steam For Mac Goes Live

Steam has arrived for your Intel chipped Mac with an impressive list of titles for your playing pleasure. We have been anxiously awaiting this contemporary gaming standard's arrival and I for one am pleased with the titles made immediately available.
Diablo-esque Torchlight is half price at $9.99. If you want to test out Steam's prowess without  having to [...:]

Get Your Hands On A MobileMe Mail beta Invitation

Adding fuel to the free MobileMe rumors, Apple began issuing invitations to its new MobileMe Mail beta to existing MobileMe users yesterday.
MobileMe Mail beta features include:

Widescreen and compact views.
Rules to keep your email organized everywhere.
Single-click archiving.
Formatting toolbar.
Improved webmail performance.
SSL security.

You can claim your invitation by logging into MobileMe through me.com. The invite should be on [...:]

Comcast's New Xfinity Remote App Turns Your iPad Into A Cable Box Remote

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLz72XErN8U
The iPad is a perfect accessory for the living room table, and Comcast's forthcoming remote control app, the Xfinity Remote, capitalizes on that by pairing your iPad to your cable box through Bluetooth, allowing you to easily search listings and access movies on demand through an extremely attractive interface.
Additionally, Xfinity comes with some powerful [...:]

Adam Carolla Hates On Apple [NSFW]

"Everything that Apple makes is meant to be dropped"
Adam Carolla tells it like it is in his latest rant about Apple products including a demonstration using his lucite handled Apple Tower. (Anyone know the model?) And apparently everything that Apple makes is shaped like soap.
Adam's off TV, but he's certainly doing well for himself. Check [...:]