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Apple's 12 Days of Christmas offers up free downloads and runs from December 26th until January 6th. Day 2's offering is the game Score! Classic Goals, an interesting football based puzzle game. The game allows you to recreate classic goals from the past 40 years of international football and features over 420 levels and 140...

This week's free Starbucks App Pick of the Week is the game Rayman Jungle Run by Ubisoft, which currently retails for $2.99 in the App Store. The app was part of App Store Best of 2012 and has an impressive average rating of 4.5 stars in iTunes. The legendary platforming hero is making the jump...

Google Maps for iOS has been one of the best app releases of 2012, and it appears the app could get better. Canadian iOS hacker Ryan Petrich has discovered the app contains a hidden topography mode, also known as 'terrain' view on the web: https://twitter.com/rpetrich/status/283551889990221825 Petrich has also released a tweak within Cydia to allow...

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas giveaway for 2012 has started and the first day's freebie is a Maroon 5 EP that features two songs and a short video: Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) [Soul Seekerz Club Mix] One More Night (Cutmore Club Mix) Moves Like Jagger (feat. Christina Aguilera) [The Making Of] You can...

If you're looking to make your iPhone 5 the talk of Christmas dinner, the app Cycloramic just might do that. The app utilizes the vibrator motor in the iPhone 5 (the same rotational motor with a counterweight from the iPhone 4) to spin your phone 360 degrees while recording video, allowing you to capture everyone...

Facebook launched their Poke app yesterday and in less than a day it has hit the top spot in the App Store under the top free iPhone apps: TechCrunch sources note Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a directly role in creating the app, in particular coding and the 'poke' sound you hear in the new app....

With smartphone owners surpassing feature phone owners for the first time this year, mobile app usage has also continued to grow. Nielsen's latest smartphone market report "Tops of 2012" (Via Macrumors) includes the top 10 iPhone apps of 2012, based on average unique users. (more…)

Five days ago AllThingsD reported Facebook was set to launch a competitor to Snapchat, an app that allows users to send self destructing messages to friends. That has now come to life as Facebook has just announced the release of Poke, a new messaging app for the iPhone: With the Poke app, you can poke...

Apple's free App of the Week is Marvel's Avengers Initiative, a winner of of IGN's People's Choice Award, which is part of the reason why the app is now free (it coincides with Apple's weekly pick it appears). The game comes in at a 1.54 GB download and is optimized for the iPad mini, Retina...

If you looking for a new way to find news and media in over 40,000 topics, you should take a look at Zite, which has recently been updated to 2.0.  Everyday Zite analyzes millions of articles it finds online, then it sorts them into topics for you to explore. You can find the new Explore...

Instagram has released an update just prior to the shutdown of iTunes Connect for the holidays. This new version introduces a new filter called "Mayfair", adds Facebook iOS 6 integration, more languages support and the ability to share photos from any album, plus some bug fixes. What's New in Version 3.4.0 - Instagram is now...

Just a quick note the RedFlagDeals.com iOS app has been updated to support the taller screen of the iPhone 5 and better compatibility with iOS 6. Also, with Boxing Day looming only six days away, the newly added Flyers section will make it even easier to keep track of those deals. What's New in Version...