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Rovio’s Angry Birds Space is a free download for the next week as it currently is Apple’s free App of the Week pick and not part of some magical or mysterious free daily download. The freebies are updated every Thursday afternoon in iTunes but our friends ahead of us in other parts of the world, such as BlogdoiPhone already confirmed this for us. Launched last spring, Angry Birds Space surpassed 20 million downloads in its first week. Both the iPhone version ($0.99) and HD versions ($2.99) are free and Angry Birds Space joins Angry Birds Seasons and more recently Angry Birds as free App of the Week picks. Not much to say here other than to get downloading. Download Links:  Angry Birds Space Angry Birds Space HD Let us know if you’re going to jump on this! Apple’s Free App of the Week: Rovio’s Angry Birds Space is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

Mailbox, the popular email management app that Dropbox acquired, was today updated with support for the iPad. The app, in case you’re not familiar, treats email inbox as a to-do list, letting you mark emails as “done” or snooze them for later. Continue reading →

You can say the following is a long time coming: Amazon has finally brought its Kindle Fire tablets to Canada. The company announced this morning the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ are now available for pre-order in Canada on Amazon.ca–the units will ship on June 13th. The company says customers will have access to over 1 million apps, games and books, which include over 300,000 exclusive titles in the Kindle Store. Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle said “Kindle Fire HD is the #1 best-selling item in the world for Amazon since its launch, and we’re thrilled to make it available to Canadian customers.” The Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ is available for pre-order starting at $284 and the Kindle Fire HD 7″ starts at $214 for 16GB models. The Source and Staples will also carry the devices. It was just yesterday Amazon Cloud Drive was launched in Canada and we alluded Kindle Fire HD tablets could make their way to Canada shortly after. This seems like a fast turnaround. Canada is part of a new wave of Kindle Fire launches around the globe, as the tablet is now available in over 170 countries. The Kindle Fire pricing looks to disrupt other Android tablets as Amazon has clearly stated it wants to make from selling content to customers, not on its hardware. When the second generation Kindle Fire HD launched last fall, you may recall Amazon targeted Apple’s iPad mini on its homepage as its direct competitor. Anyone going to pre-order a Kindle Fire? You can learn more about tablets over here at Amazon.ca. Amazon Launches Kindle Fire HD for Pre-Order in Canada, Coming June 13th is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

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When iFixit disassembled the iPhone 5 back in September, they found it easier to repair as it opened from front-to-back. Unfortunately that hasn’t helped to bring down the costs of repairing an iPhone 5, according to a report on MarketWatch. Continue reading →

Could it be that most of the upcoming movies this year will have their own iOS game? This is just an assumption based on what I’ve observed recently while browsing the App Store, which I think is trending. And of course, Turbo Racing League is just one of them that caught my attention. What the heck? PikPok’s universal game Turbo Racing League was inspired from the upcoming Dreamwork’s animation film Turbo, which is coming out this summer. With bragging rights of 4.5 stars in more than 500 ratings (as of this writing), it’s time to race in full throttle with the smartest and fastest snail ever. Turbo isn’t just the typical snail after all. How does it work? While everyone’s busy racing in their wheels, you might want to try something different like “driving like you’re shell on wheels,” that’s how PikPok calls its. Turbo Racing League game mechanics is somewhat similar to most of the racing games you had played. However, it has fun intuitive controls that you can choose before you begin the basic race in Tito’s garage. You don’t have to figure it out yourself; Tito will show you the ropes and how to race fast to collect the tomatoes. In this tomato-currency racing game, aside from collecting them (which, by the way, serves as virtual cash for power-ups and upgrades available in the tomato garden), players are encouraged to join and qualify for each weekly contest to race, drift, jump, and slide until they qualify in the winners’ circle. Currently, there is an underground racing phenomenon where players can win real cash prizes sponsored by Verizon. If you’re serious about it, head to the app’s description section for more details. How’s the app? If I have a checklist for this app, here’s what it would look like: Retina display graphics – Check Well-defined game mechanics – Check Intuitive controls – Check Interaction and social media integration – Check The graphics are well optimized for iPad 3/4 and iPhone 5. Although this game can attract children and teens because of its simple game concept, it is addictive, entertaining, and engaging for gamers of all ages. Nonetheless, there are age restrictions when it comes to the contests. Beat your highest score and friends’ score and check them out in the Game Center leaderboard. Overall, this app complements the upcoming movie; it could possibly become a blockbuster due to the traction from its mobile game. Turbo Racing League is available for download via iTunes direct link. I give it 4.5 stars. This article, App Review: Turbo Racing League for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, was originally published at simonblog.com.

Eight months into its September 2012 launch, Apple’s iPhone 5 is still a pricey gadget to service. Be it a smashed screen, an earpiece that needs replacing or its most unreliable iPhone component – the Home button - some replacement components for the handset remain pricey compared against prior iPhones. In an in-depth piece, MarketWatch looks at the iPhone aftermarket to conclude that the iPhone 5 repair costs remain high due to Apple’s tight control of Asian supply chain for components and replacement parts…(...)Read the rest of High iPhone 5 repair costs blamed on Apple’s tight components control "High iPhone 5 repair costs blamed on Apple’s tight components control" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

Apple’s offshore tax strategies, combined with Tim Cook’s testimony before a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday, has drawn the ire of Joe Nocera of the New York Times. In his column on the newspaper’s Op-Ed page, he goes as far as calling Tim Cook a liar. As Philip Elmer-DeWitt of Fortune recalls, Joe Nocera has a long history with Apple. Lately he has made it “his business to be the fiercest critic of what he sees as shady business dealings at the company’s highest levels.” Nocera accuses Tim Cook of telling a “whopper” and a “flat-out lie” while under oath. He backs up his claims with several documents and news articles. But according to Elmer-DeWitt, he is probably wrong. Here are some highlights of what Nocera thinks about Tim Cook’s testimony: Even though the company appears to pay about 10 percent of its pretax income in taxes — when the federal corporate tax rate is 35 percent — Cook said, “We pay all the taxes we owe — every single dollar.” He added that Apple had never shifted any of its American profits to an offshore tax haven when, in fact, that is basically what it has done, routing tens of billions in pretax profits to a shell corporation in Ireland that exists solely to avoid taxes in the United States. He even said that the low taxes Apple pays overseas is on the profits of its overseas sales. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this was a flat-out lie. Here is another whopper from Mr. Cook on Tuesday. He said that his company not only doesn’t violate the letter of the law, that it doesn’t even violate the spirit. He may be right on the first part, but he is wrong on the second. Question for the government of Ireland: Do you really want your country to be known as an offshore tax haven? Indeed, at a time when your citizens are dealing with the pain of an austerity program, how can you justify allowing Apple to pay virtually no taxes on a subsidiary established solely to avoid taxes in the United States? Just wondering. [The Irish government denies these claims. You can read about this here. ] In fact, the essence of Nocera’s relationship with Apple can be captured in two sentences, according to Elmer-DeWitt: “This is Steve Jobs,” [Jobs] began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.” Joe Nocera of NYT is Skeptical of Tim Cook’s Tuesday Testimony is a post from: iPhone in Canada Blog - Canada's #1 iPhone Resource

I love my Mac but sometimes it does some strange things, such as showing me duplicate entries in the “Open With” contextual menu you get when you right click on a document. While I’m not sure why it happens, I hear it’s due to the Launch Services database. Of course, there probably is a valid explanation as to why and how it happens. Some people might even be able to convince me it’s more of a feature rather than a bug, but the fact of the matter is that it drives me absolutely insane. If like me, you are annoyed by this, I’ll show you how to delete duplicate entries from the “Open With” menu on your Mac…(...)Read the rest of How to clear duplicates from “Open With” menu on OS X "How to clear duplicates from “Open With” menu on OS X" is an article by iDownloadBlog.com. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

Preschoolers and parents can enjoy hours of fun learning basic math skills through exciting arithmetic activities with the immediate launch of GazziliMath 1.0 on iOS, a new edutainment app that builds lifetime skills with fun math activities. Featuring colorful characters, vibrant animations and engaging games, GazziliMath is a unique interactive learning experience that lets children explore the countless ways that numbers and math play an important role in their lives all while discovering delightful surprises along the way.