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A New Kind Of Heist: Six Apps For Free

Those crazy MacHeisters are at it again, and this time the deal is even harder to resist.
The first ever MacHeist Nano won’t cost you a penny. You can download, without charge, fully licensed copies of ShoveBox, WriteRoom, Twitterific, TinyGrab, and Hordes of Orcs. If 500,000 people take part (which I think is a pretty safe [...]

Getting More iPhone Home Screens – And Keeping Them

A couple of weeks back, I wrote Temporarily Get More iPhone Home Screens Via Cunning Bug Exploit, but had heard staying away from the iTunes Applications tab within my iPhone was probably a Very Good Idea. Reader Larry Pressnell noted that since the most recent iTunes update, his extra screens have been accessible in iTunes.
Since [...]

Cult of Mac Favorite: MobileStacks Is the Best Reason To Jailbreak. Period.

I really like Stacks on my Mac. Stacks makes it fast and easy to find files, folders and apps right from the Dock. It makes managing a Mac pretty slick with all sorts of little UI tricks. That’s why I recently gave MobileStack a go on my jailbroken iPhone.
I must say that it lives up to the [...]

Gallery: Behind the Scenes From Two Classic Apple TV Ads

Is this Steve Jobs driving a tank in a classic Apple TV spot from the late 1990s? That was the rumor at the time: Jobs was making cameos in Apple commercials.
Ken Segall, the TBWA ad man responsible for naming the iMac and Think Different, reveals the truth after the jump. He also shares some rare [...]

Gadget Deals: AC/USB Charger, iSpeakers, Samsung LCD Display

Today’s deals include Belkin’s AC/USB wall charger for $8, the iPod/iPhone iSpeakers system and Samsung widescreen 20-inch LCD display.

Details of these and more deals can be found on the CoM Daily Deals page.

Belkin Universal AC / USB Wall Charger, $7.99 with free shipping. (That’s a $12 overnight drop and the lowest total price we’ve seen.) Works with any device that charges via USB, though you’ll need to supply your own USB cable. Deal ends July 15.

Today only – iSpeakers Speaker System for iPods/iPhone and MP3/MP4 Players, $2.99. (With $4.99 for shipping, it’s the lowest total price we could find by $9.)

Samsung 20-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor for $179.99 with free shipping. Add it to your cart and it falls to $115. This $20 mail-in rebate chops it further to $95. (That’s tied with last month’s mention and the lowest total price we could find by $25.) Sales tax is added where applicable. Features include a native resolution of 1600×900, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 cd/m² brightness, 5ms response time, and both DVI and VGA inputs. Deal ends July 10.

iHome Rotating Alarm Clock for iPod and iPod touch, $59.99 with free shipping. (That’s $2 under our May mention and the lowest total price we’ve seen.) Features include a rotatable orientation for movie viewing, battery backup, snooze, iPod dock, AM/FM tuner, auxiliary input for other audio players, and remote control.

Canon DC-310 DVD Camcorder, $149.99 plus $8.89 for shipping. Coupon code “EMCLVLX42″ chops it to $119.99. (That’s $16 under our April mention of a refurb and it’s $71 under the lowest total price we could find for a new, factory-sealed unit.) Features include a 2.7-inch LCD, 37x optical zoom, 1152×864 recording resolution, DIGIC DV II image processor, electronic image stabilization, SDHC card slot for still images, and more. Deal ends July 15.

Several iPhone and iPod touch applications available from the iTunes App Store have recently dropped in price. Each is the best deal we’ve seen on that title. The deals:

PunkStar Studios’s Panda Saver for 99 cents ($2 off): Accelerometer-based physics game
Sophiestication Software’s Groceries (Grocery Shopping List) for 99 cents ($3 off): List-maker
Amalgamated Coders’ TwinShot3D for 99 cents ($2 off): 3D Anaglyph image capture
WebArtisan’s Food Additives for $1.99 ($2 off): Food additive reference
Frontier Code’s Diary for $1.99 ($3 off): Password-protected diary software
Paramount Digital Entertainment’s TOP GUN for $1.99 (pictured, $1 off): Arcade flight simulator
Christopher Manouvrier’s Trady for $3.99 ($1 off): Handy-work assistant

BlackBerry 8300 Curve Chrome Desktop Charging Pod, $7.99 with free shipping. (That’s a buck under last week’s mention and tied for the lowest total price we’ve ever seen for this charging dock.) It combines with any travel or data cable charger to charge and/or sync a BlackBerry smartphone. Deal ends July 15.

Iogear Bluetooth Stereo Audio Transmitter, $43.24 with free shipping. (That’s $2 under our April mention and the lowest total price we could find by $5.) This transmitter plugs into any 3.5mm jack (found in most audio devices) and allows you to listen to music through most Bluetooth-capable headsets or audio systems.

Dane-Elec 4GB Capless zMate USB 2.0 Flash Drive, $10.77 with free shipping ($2.75/GB). (That’s the lowest total price we could find by $6.)

Lexmark P350 Portable Photo Printer for $29.99. (With free shipping, that’s $20 under our last mention in 2007 and the lowest total price we could find by far.) Features include a 2.4-inch color display, 4×6-inch borderless printing, and USB connectivity.

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Ed Sutherland

Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.

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One comment

    These gadget deals are really useful for European Mac-lovers. Not.

    You’ll lose readers. Fast.

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