Filed under: Deals Today’s deals are all generated from a friendly search-based robot courtesy DealNews. We didn’t pick ‘em this time, so no warranties expressed or implied. Aol uses a referral code for these deals. Apple Store : [iPods] Refurbished Apple iPod touch MP3 Players from $139 + free shipping iTunes Music Store : [iPhone / iPod Apps] App Store Price Drops: Pocket Heart, Diner Dash, Magellan RoadMate, more MacUpdate... 

Filed under: Developer , iPhone In a step towards transparency, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has made the entire iPhone Developer Program License Agreement available for the general public. This is the document that all iPhone developers must agree to when they become part of the iPhone developer program. As EFF points out, public copies of the license agreement are pretty scarce thanks to developers being locked under a non-disclosure... 

Filed under: App Store , iPad Wired noticed that there are some notable exceptions among the announced iPad apps, including Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather and Voice Memos. These apps could be available for download through the App Store. However, blogger Kevin Fox suggested last month that could hint toward a possible Dashboard implementation on the iPad. He argues that these apps, with the exception of Voice Memos, were originally Dashboard... 

Filed under: Odds and ends , TUAW Business The Reader’s View is our weekly roundup of some of the most upbeat, thoughtful, or just plain nice comments that have been published by TUAW readers. This week, we have discussions of Apple keyboards, Wi-Fi extenders, the iPad (no big surprise there…), Apple’s stock price, and iPhone programming languages. To begin with, reader efinkGr had a comment for Sang Tang’s post ”... 

Filed under: Switchers , Productivity , Mac 101 One of the adjustments those new to the Mac need to make is to familiarize themselves with the Command key. Although I switch hit and use Windows at work and a Mac when I’m not working, I’ve always preferred it over Control. Its proximity next to the space bar allows me to use my thumb, as opposed to my pinky finger with the Control key, for keyboard shortcuts. I find it particularly... 

Filed under: Hardware , Peripherals , Apple , iPhone The Square credit card reader for the iPhone has gotten most of the buzz around here, especially after we saw that impressive demo at Macworld a few weeks ago. But VeriFone’s competing reader has been given the green light by Apple itself: the unit has been granted a deal for shelf space . VeriFone will be selling its PAYware Mobile units inside Apple’s retail stores coming up... 

Filed under: Odds and ends , Airport , iPhone , iPod touch The makers of the TomTom app for the iPhone have let us know that they’ve submitted an updated version that adds real-time traffic information, Google local search, and even some secret features the company isn’t talking about yet. The TomTom app was eagerly sought out last year, but of late has fallen a bit behind market leader Navigon . This new release, with real-time... 

Filed under: Odds and ends , Freeware , iPhone , iPod touch Siri for the iPhone was quite a hit when it came out earlier this year. You could ask it questions like, “where is the best pizza nearby?” and Siri would find the answer. My favorite response was when I asked if there was a God, and Siri gave me directions to the nearest churches. As much as people loved the app, iPod touch owners were left out in the cold. Not now. The... 

Filed under: iPhone , iPod touch , App Review The iPhone is shaped a little bit like a deck of cards. Like a deck of cards, Apple’s little magic toy device can be used to play any one of a number of different games. Unlike standard cards though, the iPhone can easily transform into specific decks of cards from the Eurogame world. We recently took a look at the iPhone version of Reiner Knizia’s card game Poison and there are a slew... 

Filed under: Accessories , iPhone It was a little less than a month ago when news broke of a South Korean company called CJ Corporation noticing a sharp increase in sales of their frozen sausages. CJ did some digging around and it turned out the good people of South Korea were using their sausages as iPhone styluses . Someone who was sick of taking their gloves off in the cold Korean winter to use their iPhone found out that the sausages were... 

Filed under: Gaming , Portables , iPod touch While Sony appears concerned about its eroding share of the mobile gaming market since the phenomenal success of Apple’s App Store, gaming giant Nintendo isn’t worried about Apple at all. In an interview with VentureBeat, Nintendo of America’s Cammie Dunaway said that with 11.2 million DS units sold last year, and 125 million DS sales in total thus far, Apple’s mobile platform... 

Filed under: Gaming , Portables , Rumors In terms of sales, Sony ’s PSP has been getting trounced by the various incarnations of Nintendo ’s DS since day one. Despite the PSP’s better graphics and flexibility as a mobile media platform, the DS has grabbed hold of the handheld gaming market and shows no sign of letting go. Since the introduction of the App Store in 2008, a new mobile gaming juggernaut has emerged, seemingly... 

Filed under: iPhone , App Store , iPod touch Developer Fraser Speirs came across an unexpected iTunes dialog earlier today that could be a hint of a new, long-sought App Store feature: the ability to offer for-fee upgrades to apps, complete with discounts for those who bought older versions. Up until now, App Store vendors have worked around the lack of a paid upgrade feature by offering different “versions” of their apps, but this... 

Filed under: Accessories , Humor , iPhone , iPod touch That headline is probably a bit of an overstatement, since this is probably the only iPhone stand made out of cutlery. ForkedUpArt of North Salt Lake, Utah, is actually selling two different stands. ForkHead , who you see standing at attention at your right, and SpoonHead , ForkHead’s smarter brother. Sold through our favorite iPhone accessory store, Etsy.com , the ForkedUpArt iPhone... 

Filed under: Gaming , Software Even I was dubious about the rumor the other day of Steam coming to the Mac , but now here’s something straight from Valve hinting that it might actually happen. MacRumors got an image of Half-Life’s Gordon Freeman via email… with an Apple logo on his chest . MacNN got another picture, this one showing turrets from Portal and…  Read More →