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Five Fun Games: Inheriting a Castle, I Spy-ing in a Spooky Mansion, Relaxing with Games at the Beach and More

Happy 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 a spooky I Spy game for kids and adults alike, relaxing games on the beach, a mission to inherit a castle and more.




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iPhone and iPad Apps Weekly Digest: Getting Musical, LEGO Photos and Battling Bees

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 Beat It!, Beatwave, Bee Spelled, LEGO Photo, and WhatTheFont.

APP OF THE WEEK
Beatwave (iPad): Layered grid-synth. Several sounds + in-app purchase for more. iPad screen improves UX. 5/5 Free http://is.gd/bAIJQ

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Silicon Valley Police Investigating Gizmodo's Purchase of 4G iPhone

There's another juicy wrinkle in iPhonegate. The Silicon Valley cops are investigating, reports CNet:
Silicon Valley police are investigating what appears to be a lost Apple iPhone prototype purchased by a gadget blog, a transaction that may have violated criminal laws, a law enforcement official told CNET on Friday.
Apple has spoken to local police about the [...:]

Apple Inspires Designer to Turn Photo Booth Grimace into Mask

Designer Mark Pernice took that love we all have of late-night grimaces immortalized with the Mac's built in Photo Booth program to another level: he made a mask out of it.
Pernice took one of those gazing-up-the-nostrils, Mr. Bean-on-acid shots of himself, then got master special effects wizard Christian Hanson to whip up a mask from [...:]

German Airline Offers Free Flight, Beer To Apple Employee Who Lost 4G iPhone

The German airline Lufthansa is offering a free flight to Germany to Gray Powell, the unfortunate Apple employee who lost a prototype iPhone 4G.
Powell lost the prototype iPhone in a German beer garden in Redwood City. It ended up being sold to Gizmodo and became the biggest tech story in recent memory, catapulting Powell into unwelcome notoriety. To make him [...:]

Daily Deals: $999 iMacs, $189 iPod Classic, $49 8GB iPhone

We close out the week with a deal on iMacs from the Apple Store. The desktops range from 21-inch to 27-inch models carrying Core 2 Duo and i7 processors. A 21.5-inch 3.06GHz Core 2 Duo iMac can be had for $999. Next up is a new deal on a 120GB iPod Classic for $189. We [...:]

99 Year Old Limericist Loves Her New iPad

99 year old Virginia Campbell just got her first computer… and it's the iPad.
Emphasizing Apple's own "it just works" mantra, Virginia was quickly able to make sense of the iPad's operating system and use Pages in landscape mode to write the following limerick:
To this technically-ninny it's clear
In my compromised 100th year,
That to read and [...:]

iPhone OS 4.0 Mail Trades Delete for Archive For GMail

The latest iPhone OS 4.0 beta features a great new addition to iPhone Mail for GMail users: the ability to archive mail.
According to the good boys at 9to5Mac, it replaces the option to delete your GMail: just swipe on a message like usual and you now get the option to archive as opposed to delete.
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Google Bringing Free Turn-By-Turn GPS Navigation to iPhone OS?

One of the few real advantages Android has over iPhone OS is free turn-by-turn navigation: why spend $100 for the likes of TomTom when your smartphone already does the same thing for nothing? If you do a lot of driving, it's pretty much Android's killer app… except now it's coming to the iPhone.
Or is it?According [...:]

ARM CEO Downplays Talk of Apple Acquisition

The CEO of ARM seemed to dismiss a rumor that Apple was considering acquiring the UK chipmaker as unnecessary. He did not flatly denying the chatter which erupted earlier this week, however.
"Nobody has to buy the company," Warren East told The Guardian. The London-based Standard reported Wednesday Apple was talking about buying the chipmaker for [...:]