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We're into day 3 of Apple's 12 Days of Christmas freebies promotion. Today we have the first episode from the first season of the TV series Sherlock. The free episode, "A Study in Pink", is 1 hour and 28 minutes and is available in both HD and SD downloads. The show was created by Hartswood...

Checkout 51 was released in early December and looks to change the way coupons are redeemed, thanks to the iPhone. Here's how it works, as explained to us by Checkout 51's founder, Noah Godfrey: Every Thursday, the Checkout 51 mobile app gives its members a new list of offers on grocery store products. Members can...

Recently Eastlink released their Eastlink to Go iPhone/iPad app, to allow their customers to access a variety of multimedia from their Apple devices. Users have access to movies, TV shows, Eastlink TV programming, plus OnDemand entertainment plus live HD Eastlink TV too. The service is free with Eastlink Digital TV subscriptions and a simple login...

The number of iOS and Android device activations spikes on Christmas Day compared to any other day of the year, and this year was no exception. How many mobile devices have been activated during this Christmas? Flurry's Peter Farago has the numbers. (more…)

Instagram has just published a blog post revealing the top locations of images posted to the photo network from 2012. Can you guess where the top Instagrammed (that's a verb now?) location was? It was Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, which had over 100,000 pictures taken there in 2012. Here's the full list of 2012's top locations: Suvarnabhumi...

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…)