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iPhone Apps Weekly Digest: Color Wheels, Vintage Videos, Games and Flying Monkeys

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 Action Bowling Free, Advent Annihilation, Alien Glyphs, Color Expert, Cross Fingers, Fingerzilla, Minigame Party, Monkey Flight, Sound Warp Free, Super KO Boxing 2 Free, and Vintage Video Maker.

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Trapster iPhone Speeding App Attracts the Most Unlikely Users

Trapster is a popular iPhone app that alerts drivers to police speed traps, red light cameras and DUI checkpoints. It's attracting between 15,000 and 50,000 new users a day. Among those new users are are some of the most unlikely – the police themselves.
Trapster is partnering with several police departments to get cops to add [...:]

Extract Gives Web Video A Place To Call Its Own

So you're browsing around and doing your stuff, and you see some video on a web page that you want to watch.
Most of us will just watch it in situ, but what if it's something special? What if it deserves to be displayed with a little more respect for the medium?
Enter Extract from [...:]

Auteurist: A Quick Peek Inside The iPhone Dev Process

Auteurist is an all-purpose multitool for writers with iPhones, boasting an impressive array of features and different writing modes.
Its developer has been keeping users up to date with progress at the Auteurist Posterous, and in the latest post looks in detail at the challenges of creating a decent scriptwriting mode.
One interesting approach is to make [...:]

Project Gutenberg Is Coming to Apple's iPad iBookstore

Fans of classical literature rejoice. Project Gutenberg – the publisher of thousands of free, public domain eBooks – is coming to Apple's iBookstore. Having previewed Apple's iBookstore, AppAdvice.com reported this morning that the iPad book store will include free access to more than 30,000 public domain titles, including Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Conan Doyle's Sherlock [...:]

Amazon's Kindle Gets Undercut by $150 Kobo E-Reader

The iPad certainly hasn't made the once-untouchable Kindle look cutting edge, but let's not get ahead of ourselves: the Kindle's still got some advantages on Apple's e-reading tablet. For one, the Kindle's e-ink screen is much easier for long reading sessions than the iPad's LED-backlit LCD display… and because of the power efficiency of e-ink, [...:]

Apple's One-Time Nemesis, the Commodore 64, Returns!

According to tech apocrypha, after Commodore International released their revolutionary PET 2001 home PC, a couple of scruffy young men named Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak plopped down in Commodore's offices with a cardboard box full of circuit boards and tried to pitch the more established electronics company the first Apple II prototype, a revolutionary [...:]

Magazine iPad Ads a Hot Commodity

Brick-and-mortar media may seem tepid about the iPad, but their sales people are not.
According to the Wall Street Journal,  interactive iPad ads are selling for figures reminiscent of their paper counterparts, back before magazines made the endangered species watch.
Both Time and The Wall Street Journal are charging — and have sold — iPad ads costing [...:]

Daily Deals: 2.8GHz MacBook Pro, App Store Price Drops, Free at iTunes

Today we have another batch of bargains for Mac fans. First up is a fully-loaded MacBook Pro running a Core 2 at 2.8GHz. The laptop is $2,787 and includes a 15-inch screen. Next is more App Store price drops, including "ElementalMonster TD," a tower defense game. We round out our top trio with a free [...:]

Alarm Clock App Hollers Out Time-Check

I have ridiculously sensitive eyes; the kind of eyes that feel like they're being repeatedly stabbed with chopsticks if more than just the slightest bit of light hits them before they've had time to adjust.
So when I ran across the press release for Wake Up Now? describing an app that makes the iPhone call [...:]