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Angry Birds Costumes Will Be All the Rage This Halloween

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Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise is by far the most successful game title to make it in the App Store. The game has been downloaded in its various forms over 350 million times, and there’s all kinds of Angry Birds merchandise out there to buy.

So, what’s next for the money makers at Rovio? You guessed it: Halloween costumes.

Adobe Releases Photoshop and Premiere Elements 10 for Mac

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Adobe has released the latest version of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements for the Mac.

Both programs have reached version 10 and are available for a bundled price of only $149.99 to new customers. Photoshop Elements 10 allows users to “continue to expand the possibilities for organizing, editing and sharing photo creations.” Premiere Elements 10 continues to “deliver innovative new features” to those interested in consumer-level video editing.

Final Cut Pro X Gets A Free 30 Day Trial, XML Import And A Lot Of Other Fixes

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Responding to mass rioting amongst its users, Apple promised as far back as July that they would eventually be restoring XML support in Final Cut Pro X. Now it’s finally here, along with numerous other improvements… but will this update finally drown out all the criticism?

Maybe not, but at least the addition of a 30-day free trial means no more users will drop $300 on Apple’s pro video editing software and be caught unaware by its omissions.

The iPod Touch Will Go Albino This Year… But Don’t Expect Other Big Changes

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We’ve heard before that while Apple will steroid charge the iPhone 5 in October, the iPod Touch isn’t likely to see a serious update. After all, short of doubling its storage space (an idea obviated by iCloud) or 3G support (which would make the iPod Touch more expensive and — yep — about as thick as an iPhone), the iPod Touch is pretty much a perfect product for the money. What more can you do to it?

The answer: not much. You just make it white and pretty much call it a day.

Readers Ask Cult of Mac Answers: How Do I Access The Task Switcher? [OS X Tips]

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I was checking for new mail in my Cult of Mac mailbox the other day and ran into a new message from Cult of Mac reader Justin Kurian.  He wrote:

…’Apple iMac Users Experience More Graphic Anomalies

Hi David,

I was reading your article and noticed the picture of the task switcher in Lion. How do I access that? I hate how they got rid of the swipe function for it.  Thanks!

– Justin

Accessing the Task Switcher in Mac OS X Lion is easy and I’ll show you how to do that today. Plus we’ll look at using swiping gestures while the Task Switcher is active.

TruConnect Mobile Gives You Pay As You Go Internet on Your MacBook and iPad

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In a world of heavy data consumption, TruConnect Mobile is partnering with Sprint to offer pay as you go internet for as little as $4.99/month.

Instead of adopting a set in stone pricing structure like the carriers do for smartphone and tablet usage, TruConnect Mobile is offering a true ‘pay as you go’ internet service to subscribers. Customers will only pay for the data they use.

It’s Playing 2.0 Might Just Be The Best Answer To VLC On Your iPad

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When I recommend an iPad video player, I tend to recommend CineXPlayer, which will throw pretty much any format you throw at it without converting it. It does have one crucial issue, though: it can’t handle AC3 sound.

Enter the rather awkwardly named app “It’s Playing 2.0.” Like CineXPlayer, it’ll play any video on your system, including FLV, AVI, MKV, OGG and WMV. It can load subtitles. You can scrub through a movie using variable speed controls. And it does AC3 sound! Hurrah.