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The first free website builder I ever used was Geocities, and Zapd by PressPlane Inc., has helped me make a more beautiful website than Geocities ever could. Zapd is a unique way to share thoughts, links and photos, but you won’t be posting on walls or albums like other social sites. With Zapd you make...

A couple popular apps have been updated with iPhone 5 support: Sparrow and Real Racing 2. Sparrow ($2.99) has received an update for the larger iPhone 5 screen (as they promised in September) along with support to send .pkass files directly to Passbook. Aside from these updates, that's about all we're getting from the app. Google...

Electronic Arts is set to hold another big sale in time for American Thanksgiving. This time, their 'Big Thanks Sale' has up to 60+ iOS games at up to 90% off. Example titles on sale include Monopoly Millionaire and FIFA 13 on sale. EA holds numerous sales every year around the holidays. You can check...

The developers over at Rockstar Games have given us an early Christmas gift: the 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City for our iPhones and iPads. Available on December 6 (for the bargain price of $4.99), this new-to-iOS edition comes nearly 1 year to the day since we last enjoyed a title...

ShopWise Canada has been updated with iPhone 5 and iOS 6 support, along with Passbook integration. The app is an offering from Yellow Pages and implements the deep RedFlagDeals community to bring the best deals to Canadians. The biggest and most important part of this update is the new integration with Passbook for deals. With...

The Globe and Mail has updated their iOS app to bring iPhone 5 support and also some bug fixes and stability improvements. The app has had its moments with crashes in the past but this update seems to work quite well for us. What's New in Version 2.5.1- The app is now optimized for iPhone...

This week's Starbucks App Pick of the Week is Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episode II. The game is regularly priced at $6.99, so this week's free pick definitely has lots of 'value'. The game was rated as the iPhone/iPod game of the year in the 2012 iLounge Buyers Guide. The game features a collaborative play mode...

Square launched their mobile payments in Canada this October, their first expansion market outside of the USA. Now the company has notified us their mobile card reader is now available at retailers in Canada such as Apple, Best Buy and Future Shop. With Square, it allows you to accept credit cards anywhere as the card...

Facebook has started to roll out their Photo Sync feature for iOS users. What is Photo Sync? Here's how Facebook describes the feature: When you turn on photo syncing, your mobile photos will be saved to a private section of your Facebook Photos. You can easily share your synced photos on your timeline from desktop,...

For those looking for a quick iTunes Card sale, Food Basics currently has $10 off $50 iTunes Cards. Food Basics is based in Ontario so if there's a store near you, time to jump on this deal. The deal started on November 9th and is on until the 22nd.  For those that continue to fund...

LostWinds 2: Winter of the Melodias by Frontier Developments Ltd, is one of the most beautiful and elegant games I’ve seen on the App Store. You play as Toku, and your goal is to find and save your mother. At the same time, you’re trying to find out what happened to the Melodia people of...

Apple has unofficially surpassed the 1 million approved app milestone, according to the App Store discover company Appsfire as cited by The Next Web. (more…)