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Our good friend Kris Meador sent this tip in! Right now you can get a $15 iTunes gift card 4 pack for $55 at Best Buy. This does not seem to be offered online, so it is an in-store offer only. That's only a five dollar savings but that's 5 free apps or songs, of...

  Just a quick note to let you know that this week's App Store App of the Week is Flick Kick Football. So, when you hear "football", you might be thinking CFL or NFL, but this is actually what we North Americans would call soccer. Basically, you use your finger to flick the ball into...

For Discovery Channel Canada fans, you'll be pleased to know there is now an official iOS app to download for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This app has a huge social feature where it will allow users to get interactive during select live broadcasts, such as moderated chat, along with polls and trivia games....

If you live in the Hamilton area you might want to check out the Hamilton Health Sciences app to arm yourself with information before and during your visit. The app covers info from their family of six hospitals and cancer centre, and details info such as maps and parking, services, locations and the latest news...

Geo-fencing. With their announcement of iOS 5 at WWDC 2011, Apple had everyone talking about it. Suddenly, being alerted to call home by the new Reminders app after leaving the office was reality. Unfortunately, when iOS 5 was released the reality was that while the feature worked (sometimes) it was cumbersome to use, and after...

We reported earlier that CTV was set to release their Olympics London 2012 iOS app for live streaming and now it is available for download. The app will include live video coverage from CTV, TSN and Sportsnet Olympic broadcasts along with 15 other events from their World Feed. Do note video is geo-restricted to locations...

Problems with your eye? Look to the “i”! Apparently it’s time to add ophthalmology to the iPhone’s already-impressive list of features. As reported in the July issue of “The Archives of Ophthalmology,” (yes, this exists,) there’s a new study that shows the iPhone may be better at viewing certain types of ophthalmological images than a...

Minecraft Pocket Edition received another major update Monday. I've been holding off including the game in the Time Waster of the Month for a while now until this update was released. The big changes in v.0.3.2 are you can now build a furnace and tree leaves will sometimes yield saplings as long as you break...

Last month, the official London 2012 Olympic games app was released as a free download in the App Store in anticipation of this year's Summer Olympics which are set to kick off on July 25th. Today, the Official London 2012 Results app for iOS has been revealed, that lets users stay up-to-date with the latest action LIVE across...

For this week's Starbucks Pick of the Week promo, we have New York singer Fiona Apple's single, Valentine. The song is from the album The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do, released on June 19th. You can find free cards at...

A new iPhone app called UMSkinCheck lets users self diagnose skin cancer as long as they're willing to take 23 nude photos of themselves (via The Atlantic). Developed by the University of Michigan, the app allows users to take photos of their skin, as a basis for comparison should suspicious moles or lesions be detected. The app also establishes a...

Time, there's never enough of it, and what we do have gets harder to manage with each passing day. With dozens of timer apps in the App Store, it's amazing that they all do the roughly the same thing. You set a time limit, the time passes, and an alarm triggers when time runs out....