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MONDAY GIVEAWAYS: Mystery iPhone Apps on Facebook and Twitter

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We’ve got some GREAT iPhone apps to give away, but we’re keeping it a surprise as to which ones they are! Let’s just put it this way, we’ve got games, utilities, GPS apps, and much more. Here’s how it will work:

  1. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. (this is a must or else you won’t know when we drop the codes).
  2. I will randomly drop the codes in a tweet or as a wall post on Facebook throughout the day until 12:00am EST
  3. The codes are a free-for-all, so the first one to redeem it, claims it. If you want to be nice, @mention us or post a comment on the Facebook page with the one you took so people don’t bother going for that one.
  4. To redeem the codes, either log in to the iTunes store from iTunes on your desktop and look for the “redeem” link, or open up the “app store” app on your iPhone, and scroll all the way down to the bottom. Push the “Redeem” button, and type in the code.
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**We don’t have time to go through every code and verify that it’s still good, so if they are expired, just let us know. There are numerous reasons why they expire. Some just expire after 30 days, and others expire if a new version of the app has come out. Codes are good only for those that have access to the U.S. iTunes store. Keep following us throughout the day, so you don’t miss out!

These apps are brought to you by a great PR and Marketing firm for iPhone app developers:

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MONDAY GIVEAWAY: 4 SWEET Apps To Trick Out Your iPad

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Over 1 million iPads have been sold since it first came out almost a month ago, and we’re guessing that many of our readers have one, am I right? If you don’t, sorry to rub it in your face, but we’ll be giving away 4 iPad apps today as part of our ongoing Monday Giveaway series. We want to thank Brian from Appular for putting this app bundle together. If you’re an iPhone or iPad app developer, make sure you consider Appular for all of your marketing efforts. First, let’s go through how to enter to win the apps:

  1. Become a Fan of our Facebook page.
  2. Find your favorite article from the past week or two, and copy the link to it.
  3. Log in to your Facebook profile, go to your status messaging box, and tag our Facebook page in your status, and write a sweet message to us. Then, attach a link to your favorite CoM article, and click “Share”.
  4. We’ll pick 5 profiles that tagged us in their status at random and you’ll win 4 iPad app codes!

We’ve done the status tagging thing in the past, and some of you have had issues with it. So, I’ve taken the precious time out of my day to put together a short demonstration on how to do it. Remember, the privacy settings of the status message must be set to “Everyone” or else the status tag won’t show up on our page, and we’ll have no idea that you tagged us.

Monday Giveaways: Touch Pad for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad

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The Touch Pad App is in my opinion, Edovia’s best application for your mobile Mac devices and now the iPad. For those of you who use a Mac Mini for your home entertainment and digital storage set up in your living room or bedroom, you must get this application. Basically, it turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a touch pad similar to the one on the Macbook. It can also act as an Apple remote. There have been some glitches and movements that didn’t work like the touch pads on the Macbooks, but Edovia just came out with their latest version of the app (3.1), and they cleaned up a lot of those issues. Still, this is a great app to have, and guess what, we’re giving it away for FREE today!

We’re doing something a little different today. In order to get this app, you gotta be on your “A” game with your Cult of Mac knowledge. We’re going to ask you trivia from articles published since last Tuesday (April 13th). Make note that the app codes we’re giving away are only good for the United States version of iTunes. Sorry to all of our international readers, but when we get sent promo codes, they’re usually always the U.S. version. We’ll try to ask for some international codes in the future.

  1. Become a fan of our Facebook page if you aren’t already.
  2. Throughout the day, we’ll post a trivia question, and the first person that answers correctly will win one of the Touch Pad app codes. We have six codes to give away, so we’ll be doing six different trivia questions.
  3. To redeem the app code, you can do so through iTunes or directly no the device you want to install it on. For instance, on the iPhone, you can go to the “App Store” app, scroll down, and tap on the “Redeem” button, then type the code in that we provide you and it will automatically download on your phone.

This is a $3.99 app, and if you’re like me, I hate paying for anything over a $1, so have some fun with this one, make sure you’re up to speed on what was going on with Cult of Mac last week, and keep refreshing our Facebook page every now and then today. Good luck!

Monday Giveaways: Mystery iPhone Apps on Twitter

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We’ve got some miscellaneous iPhone apps to give away, but this time we’re going to keep it a surpirse! We did it last week on Facebook, and if you were following us that day on the Facebook page, then you know that I hooked you up! Today will be no different, except we’re doing it on Twitter. Here’s how it will work:

  1. Follow us on Twitter. (this is a must or else you won’t know when we drop the codes).
  2. I will randomly drop the codes in a tweet throughout the day until 12:00am EST
  3. The codes are a free-for-all, so the first one to redeem it, claims it. If you want to be nice, @mention us with the one you took so people don’t bother going for that one.
  4. To redeem the codes, either log in to the iTunes store from iTunes on your desktop and look for the “redeem” link, or open up the “app store” app on your iPhone, and scroll all the way down the bottom. Push the “Redeem” button, and type in the code.

We don’t have time to go through every code and verify that it’s still good, so they are expired, just let us know. There are numerous reasons why they expire. Some just expire after 30 days, and others expire if a new version of the app has come out. Keep following us throughout the day, so you don’t miss out!

Monday Giveaways: Mystery iPhone Apps On Facebook

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We’re doing a little spring cleaning, and we have a bunch of iPhone Apps to unload. I don’t have enough of each one to make a big giveaway, so I am just going to randomly unload iPhone Apps on our Facebook page throughout the day. Some of them will be iPhone apps that we’ve given away in the past couple of weeks, and others will be apps that didn’t make the cut the first couple of giveaways, but we don’t want them to go to waste! We can’t guarantee that every app code will work, and if it doesn’t just let me know on the Facebook comments, and I’ll help you out.

Here’s what you gotta do to score some of these apps today:

  1. Become a fan of our Facebook Page!
  2. Suggest all of your other Mac friends to our page!
  3. Monitor our Facebook page throughout the day. There will be no rhyme or reason to when I post them, and they will be up for grabs to anyone who can redeem them first. It’s a free-for-all!

We’re currently working on getting some fresh iPhone apps to giveaway and hopefully some iPad apps as well! We may even have a BIG giveaway up our sleeve in the near future, and we’ll give you details on it soon. Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend, now get back to work!

MONDAY GIVEAWAYS: Win An Assortment of Helpful Productivity and Utility Apps

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Our Monday giveaways for this week are shaping up to be a great one! This week we’re giving away 8 apps aimed at making you more productive and getting the most out of your iPhone experience.

Make sure you follow @cultofmac on Twitter and re-tweet your favorite article of the past week, and make sure you include the hash tag: #cultofmac <— very important, because that's how we filter out the tweets that are entering the giveaway. We'll pick five random winners on Tuesday and DM you on Twitter, plus we’ll @reply you, just in case you don’t monitor your DM’s very often.

Now, here are the apps we’re giving away this week:

Smooth Movie: Do your iPhone movies have “the shakes”? Smooth Movie is a video processing utility app that smooths out shaky videos taken on your iPhone 3GS.

2D barcode generator

QR + Emoji: QR+Emoji is an unique and elegant 2D Barcode Generator, which provides a quick and easy way to create 2D Barcode (QR Code) with Emoji icon hints. You can send hidden messages to your lover with a kiss, exchange phone numbers at the bar with a smiley, or post locations to friends with memorizable icons.

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Smart Groups: A pretty good organized address book is possible. Introducing Smart Groups, a powerful app enabling support for “smart” groups and effortless organization of your contacts. Just the perfect companion for the bundled Address Book application.

Battery Go iphone app

Battery Go!: a utility which helps you determine the amount of talk, internet, video, and music time you have remaining on your current battery charge. They also show your current charge percent and let you play around with the number using a slider to see what your hypothetical battery life would be if you were to keep using your phone for a while.

CNotes: short for Contact Notes, is the ultimate extension to the built in Contacts and Notes applications on the iPhone. With CNotes, you can write notes and associate them with the contacts in your iPhone (or iPod touch) address book.

Currencies: Convert more than 130 currencies on your iPhone and iPod touch. Sleek design, easy to use. Who ever said a currency converter had to be boring and ugly?

TouchPad: Tired of having a keyboard and mouse laying around in your living room? Get rid of that lousy setup with TouchPad! Use your iPhone or your iPod touch to remotely control your computer through WiFi (wireless network). With TouchPad’s intuitive use, you’ll feel right at home if you have already used a track pad on a MacBook. It’s almost like having a micro laptop in your hands!

Feathers: Decorate your tweets with Feathers!

FACEBOOK GIVEAWAY: The PCalc iPhone App

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When the default iPhone/iPod Touch calculator just won’t cut it for your computational needs, PCalc is there to help. PCalc is great, because you won’t need to carry around the TI-83 anymore, and chicks won’t know that you’re solving a complex math equation your iPhone. They’ll just assume you’re updating your Facebook Status.

Here are some features of PCalc:

  • Switchable button layouts – choose from many different horizontal and vertical layouts to suit your needs.
  • Calculator themes – pick your look, all the way from minimalist to striking.
  • An RPN mode with one button access to the stack and optional two, three, or four-line display.
  • Hexadecimal, octal and binary modes, complete with a variety of bitwise operators.
  • All the extensive unit conversions and constants from the desktop PCalc.
  • A simulated paper tape to keep track of your calculations.
  • Multiple undo and redo. Just flick the LCD to the right and left to reveal the past and future.
  • Stylish, consistent user interface.
  • Supports copy and paste on iPhone OS 3.0.

About The Giveaway

Step One: Become A Facebook Fan of Cult of Mac

Step Two: Tell us why you want the PCalc and what you’ll use it for

Step Three: Monitor our Facebook page between 12:00pm PST (3:00 EST) and 12:15pm (3:15pm)

Step Four: We post the codes within the above timeframe, and you try to grab one before they are taken! We’ve got 10 codes, and they expire in a few days, so make sure you redeem them IMMEDIATELY.

Good Luck!