Filed under: App Store , App Review Simply put: Star Wars: Trench Run [ iTunes link ] is awesome. The idea is fairly simple: you are re-enacting the final battle scene from the first Star Wars movie, and if you think that refers to The Phantom Menace , may God have mercy on your soul.

Filed under: Multimedia , Video , Internet Adobe’s Flash Player has long been a notorious CPU hog on Macs. Every time I hear my wife’s MacBook’s fans going off like a cyclone on the other side of the living room, I know it’s because she’s playing Bejeweled Blitz or some other crazy Flash-based game that’s pegging her poor machine’s CPU to infinity and beyond

Despite the number of cases where iPhone apps have been wrongly either accepted or rejected, there has apparently been one segment of iPhone apps, those that use private APIs, that managed to sneak in quite a few times even though Apple expressly forbids them. That could change now

If jailbreaking an iPhone alone does not make you happy enough and you are looking to pimp your iPhone much more, how about changing your carrier name? Here is a short guide that will help you customize the carrier name that is displayed on status bar of your iPhone.

Over time, the App Store has grown exponentially with an array of personal finance utilities for tracking expenses and budgeting. I’ve always been a firm believer that it is difficult to find a one-size-fits-all expense tracker because of the different styles of budgeting and organizing expenses. Much to my surprise, Cash Trails – Expense Tracker , by Vasyl Smyrnov, is pretty close to a one-size-fits-all deal

Uh, oh. Looks like there’s trouble in Android land. The rapid growth of Google’s smartphone OS is causing developers conniptions as they struggle to support multiple versions of the OS and different hardware configurations.

Beauty is skin deep and all you need to measure it is an iPhone app. If you have always been curious to know how attractive you actually look, here is an iPhone app that might be able to finally declare whether you are attractive or not

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion , Retail , Rumors , Holidays The boy geniuses over at Boy Genius Report are getting a lot of hits out of a story they ran late yesterday . Apparently, one of their contacts tipped them to a “shot of Apple’s yearly Black Friday deals” that is “reported to be something Apple will email out shortly.” The email (seen at right, pasted with an editorial comment from yours truly) shows alleged discounts of up to 30% on all iPods (excluding iPhone or iPod shuffle), up to 25% on all Macs, and up to 15% on all accessories, Apple software, and Apple hardware. This will only happen on November 27th and apparently “select” Apple stores will open at 6 AM.

Magellan today introduced its first GPS app for the iPhone. The app looks as if it has the bells and whistles of its standalone Roadmate brethren, like turn-by-turn directions, highway lane guidance and voice guidance with spoken street names

Threadless, the online tshirt company best known for its community-designed apparel, is expanding into iPhone cases. Threadless has teamed up with Griffin, the long-time maker of fine Apple accessories, to offer a pair of iPhone cases designed by members of its community

According to rumors on the Internet, Apple might be getting ready to offer some steep discounts on Black Friday that could save you hundreds of dollars on iPods, Mac computers, and Apple software.

Reader Diego sent this in: “This at a restaurant in New York last week,” he says. “No words needed.”

Apart from some quibbles and a few trade-offs, the feature-rich WritePad Pro is a very fine personal organizational tool.