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Amazing Roguelike iPhone Game "Sword of Fargoal" Free Today Only!

Looking for something to play this weekend? The amazing rogue-like RPG, Sword of Fargoal for the iPhone and iPod Touch is free to download for today only. I bought it for $4.99 a month ago, and it was worth every penny.
Fargoal going free is serendipitous, since this is an especially good time to grab the [...:]

Doctor Who Faces The iDaleks

Mid-way through what turned out to be be a pretty weak episode, the third in the latest series of Doctor Who broadcast by the BBC this evening, we were treated to something unexpected: new Daleks.
And not just any old Daleks, oh no. These ones sport sleek curves, unibody enclosures, and come in a range of [...:]

Hands On: 17″ i7 MacBook Pro

After one of the longest waits in the Intel era, the MacBook Pros were updated Tuesday complete with a migration to the new Intel i5 and i7 architecture. In addition to the CPU update these new top-end notebooks feature better battery life, and the ability to switch from integrated to high performance graphics on the [...:]

Free iPhone-To-iPad Upgrade [Picture of the Day]

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Bargain Alert: How To Get $10 iPad Stand For $0.69

A clever Craigslist capitalist is selling these cool iPad stands for $10. Says the ad:
This is a nice elegant portable durable plastic iPad stand to use either when using a Bluetooth keyboard or when watching a video or photo slideshow in vertical or horizontal position. The stand can easily be packed to take with you, [...:]

Hello, Customers – Are You Still There? Musings of an Apple Consultant

Note: This is a guest column by David Yoken, founder of Macuity, a Boston Apple consultancy, who discusses the joys of providing IT and repair services to machines that "just work."
Just got off a call with an architectural firm for whom we set up a brand new server last week. The typical conversation I have [...:]

Apple Asks Rejected Cartoonist To Resubmit App

Above: Mark Fiore's "Learn to Speak Teabag" cartoon, which Apple considers too objectionable for the App Store.

Thanks to a stink in the press, Apple has called Pultizer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore and asked him to resubmit his rejected app, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Apple initially rejected Fiore's political satire app because it ridiculed public figures, which is against [...:]

Colleges Delay iPad Use Over Security, Bandwidth Issues

Although a few small, private colleges have rushed to adopt the iPad — pledging them to incoming students before they were even in stores — several big universities have delayed adopting them for at least a few semesters.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Princeton, Cornell and George Washington universities have deferred admission of the iPad [...:]

iFranco Joins Growing Ranks of Controversial Leader iPhone Apps

First came iPhone apps for iMussolini then Che Guevara, now there's an app for Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
Just like the other ones, iFranco is a compendium of speeches, messages, videos and audio El Caudillo made during his 36-year reign.
It also appears that, like the others, the $0.99 app was approved from a non-US iTunes store [...:]

Apple to Release Second-Quarter Numbers Tuesday

Apple will release its first quarter financial results Tuesday, April 20 at 5 p.m. Eastern (2 p.m. Pacific), the Cupertino, Calif. company announced Friday.
The iPhone maker is expected to announce it sold between 6 million and 7.5 million, according to Wall Street analysts. On Thursday, Apple was ranked in 56th place on Fortune magazine's [...:]