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The great thing about Black Friday is that it’s not longer just for Friday. Pangea Software, Inc., has proven this by announcing the early start of their 2009 Black Friday sale, during which all their iPhone games are just 99 cents. Also, they’ve announced the release of a free holiday app called Jive Turkey Shoot. Because, you know, what says joy and togetherness more than shooting turkeys. And potatoes.

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I think I’m learning Japanese I think I’m learning Japanese I really think so! Which is good, because then I’ll have more fun with the Cure Visual-Kei app. For the Mac we’ve got a 3D Cullen Crest USB thumb drive. I’m told this has something to do with Twilight: New Moon. Which I’m told has something to do with vampires. Also, RapidWeaver themes, a new Asteroids-style game, and the usual bevy of iPhone apps.

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Some familiar Mac updates today, including Voila and A Better Finder Rename. The bulk of the updates are on the iPhone side, though, including a solitaire game that’s illegal in the NFL and WWE, apparently, but quietly accepted in Major League Baseball. Also, an air combat game that allows you to draw your own airplane, some Japanese apps I don’t fully understand, and an iPhone reality show.

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Can you boil down the history of Apple to two minutes? Sure you can! This is the era of communicating in 140 characters, so who needs those pesky books, what with their words and pages and weight. Who has the time and physical endurance required to read a book these days? Thankfully, we’ve got YouTube and good folks like applemctom who has given us the History of Apple, told in two minutes.

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It’s a huge update today, undoubtedly something for everyone: gamers, musicians, multipliers, Bill Gates haters, essay writers, poker players, bad drivers, wisdom seekers, amateur model stalkers, painters, Pangers, Daleks, DJs, ghost busters, and Twitterer…ers. And yet, all that really matters is the availability of Ravensword: The Fallen King for iPhone.

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There may be no atheists in foxholes, but there apparently are at WWDC. And if there are terrorists attending, there’s now an app to help you identify and report them. It gets worse, as we also have an app to determine whether you’re attractive or ugly. Thank goodness we’ve got Harry Potter and Canadians to help us through these dark times. The Mac updates are decidedly less derisive.

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Fluttr is a basic arcade action game with the seemingly gentle task of brushing away flowers, bees and such to save a butterfly “... from an explosive end ...” But you don’t control the butterfly; it does its own thing, slowly moving up and down the screen as the landscape flows from right to left. Rather, you control the objects that would be the butterfly’s demise. As these objects get in the way, you simply touch them and swipe them away to clear the butterfly’s path.

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Using Autograph with the Pogo Sketch input stylus, you can doodle on your MacBook multi-touch trackpad. Draw a little picture, if you like, but the main selling point here is the ability to quickly and easily add your signature to a document. Well, somewhat easily, anyway. The software lags behind your pen stroke, and looking at the screen while signing on the trackpad is a bit awkward. So although you can sign your name, it’ll be a pretty clumsy autograph you’re sending out there.

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We’re less than a week away from Black Friday, which I’ve now learned isn’t a sequel to Black Sunday, so many of you are likely already planning your shopping day. If you’re looking for some help navigating the inevitable sea of humanity, you may want to take a look at Retrevo’s new gadget shopping advisor that works over SMS & Twitter.

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A few weeks ago, I took a look at some hard shell cases for the iPhones 3G and 3GS. Those tend to be the pretty ones, since it’s easier to be fashionable when you’re not worried about bending. But there are many people out there who’d rather protect their $200 to $300 phone than show it off like a well-coifed purse poodle. It’s to you kings and queens of the road that I dedicate this review.

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