App Store Weekend Blowout: Friday, May 25 2012 – [DIRECT LINKS]

With Memorial Day weekend now in full swing, we thought we’d bring you this week’s edition of Weekend Blowout a day early, so that you can catch up on app sales not just Saturday through Monday, but also apps which have already started to drop in price this afternoon, too!

The entire list (with direct links) right after this break. We promise you, it’s the largest (continually-updating) list of awesome you’ll find this weekend.

iPHONE / iPOD

- Just Task – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Special Characters – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- iSupr8 – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- PicturePalette – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Photo Slice – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Chopper 2 – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Skyfire Web Browser – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
- Mega Mall Story – (Was $3.99, Now $0.99)
- Tiny Tim – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Micro – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Real Racing – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Bean’s Quest – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- 3D Mini Golf Challenge – (Was $1.99, Now FREE)
- Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- Need For Speed™ Undercover – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- RISK – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Eliss – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Spirits – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- 1-bit Ninja – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Scalar: The Better Calculator – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)

iPAD / UNIVERSAL

- Dangerous – (Was $4.99, Now $1.99)
- Trainyard – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Zuma’s Revenge! HD – (Was $4.99, Now $1.99)
- Solar Walk – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
- Letterbox – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Groove 2 – Music Player – (Was $3.99, Now $1.99)
- Buenos Aires: Travel Guide – (Was $3.99, Now FREE)
- DreamWorks Dragons: TapDragonDrop – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- Sentinel 3: Homeworld – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Tiny ARPG – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Riptide GP – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- Edge – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- daWindci – (Was $3.99, Now $0.99)
- League of Evil 2 – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- BATTLEFIELD: BAD COMPANY™ 2 – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- FIFA SOCCER 12 by EA SPORTS – (Was $4.99, Now $1.99)
- Puzzlejuice – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- EDGE Extended – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Zen Bound® 2 Universal – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Samurai II: Vengeance – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Dream Track Nation – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Get Outta My Galaxy! HD – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- Rush City – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- Trenches II for iPad – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- SHIFT 2 Unleashed for iPad – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- SimCity™ Deluxe for iPad – (Was $6.99, Now $0.99)
- Flight Control HD – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- COMMAND & CONQUER™ RED ALERT – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- Reckless Racing HD – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- Time Sliders – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Dead Space™ for iPad – (Was $9.99, Now $1.99)
- Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars HD – (Was $9.99, Now $0.99)
- Grand Theft Auto 3 – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!!… – (Was $2.99, Now $1.99)
- Gunman Clive – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)
- Burnout™ CRASH! – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- THE GAME OF LIFE™ for iPad – (Was $4.99, Now $0.99)
- Real Racing 2 HD – (Was $6.99, Now $1.99)
- Osmos for iPad – (Was $6.99, Now $1.99)
- MONOPOLY for iPad – (Was $6.99, Now $1.99)
- Ski Champion – (Was $2.99, Now FREE)
- NEW ORBIT – (Was $2.99, Now $0.99)
- Optia – (Was $1.99, Now $0.99)

MAC

- Zuma’s Revenge – (Was $9.99, Now $2.99)
- Sentinel 3: Homeworld – (Was $4.99, Now FREE)
- FLACTunes – (Was $3.99, Now FREE)
- Unused – (Was $0.99, Now FREE)
- Bejeweled® 3 – (Was $19.99, Now $4.99)
- Plants vs. Zombies – (Was $9.99, Now $2.99)
- Gemini: The Duplicate Finder – (Was $9.99, Now $6.99 – HOT PICK!)
- Markdown Pro – (Was $9.99, Now $1.99 – HOT PICK!)
- Avadon: The Black Fortress – (Was $14.99, Now $4.99 – HOT PICK!)
- World of Goo – (Was $9.99, Now $2.99 – HOT PICK!)
- Grand Theft Auto 3 – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99 – HOT PICK!)
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City – (Was $9.99, Now $4.99 – HOT PICK!)
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas – (Was $14.99, Now $6.99 – HOT PICK!)

Want more? – Be sure to check out our new live-updating chart list of the iTunes® Top 100 Paid Apps for the latest on what apps are currently trending.

Found any sales we’ve missed? – tips[at]razorianfly.com.

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Grab CleanMyMac’s Little Brother, CleanMyDrive, For Free In The Mac App Store

CleanMyDrive monitors and spit-shines your external hard drives.

MacPaw, makers of CleanMyMac, released a new menubar Mac app today called CleanMyDrive. As a simplified version of CleanMyMac, CleanMyDrive lets you monitor and clean up external hard drives connected to your Mac. The app is super simplistic, and it’s free in the Mac App Store.

Main features:
★ Clean up drives from junk manually or automatically
★ Eject all external drives with one click
★ Access and eject your drives right from the main menu
★ Monitor free space on your drives
★ Works with external HDD, flash drives, DMG files and network volumes

How CleanMyDrive helps you in real life:
★ Cleans those annoying service files that your media player fails to play
★ Erases files from your drives, not just moves them to Trash like Finder
★ Removes thumbs.db and other Windows files that bring no value
★ Ejects all drives at once correctly when you hurry your Mac into sleep mode

The app will perform automated cleanups of ‘junk’ files on your external drives (Thumbs.db, .DS_Store, trash folders, etc.) and let you monitor the storage space on all connected drives. You can also eject all external drives at once. The app will default to only recognizing 64GB drives and under by default, but you can tweak that setting to support huge drive sizes in the app’s preferences.

Unfortunately, CleanMyDrive will not actually clean your Mac’s internal drive, but instead recommend you download its big brother, CleanMyMac. Clever marketing, MacPaw.

CleanMyDrive is available now for free in the Mac App Store.

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3-Ways Are So Passé, Participate In A 12-Way, Free Video Chat With ooVoo

Today, independent video chat provider ooVoo, announced a significant update across multiple platforms as well as adding a new Facebook application. ooVoo allows users to HD video chat, text, or make phone calls with up to 12 friends across Android, iPhone, PC, Mac and now also on Facebook. According to Yuval Baharav, Chief Executive Officer, today’s release was a direct result of their over 46 million users:

“This release was driven by our daily interactions with our users, and by our vision of an open communications platform that seamlessly becomes part of our users’ social lives.”

The newest version of ooVoo will allow users to:

• Experience 12-way, free video chat using the all-new Facebook application to connect to friends in and outside of Facebook on any device;
• Host a 12-way video chat on the iPad with the ability to view four simultaneous video streams at once;
• Connect to friends whether or not they have the ooVoo application by simply emailing, posting or texting an ooVoo Call Link;
• Enjoy ooVoo’s major enhancements to the iPhone and Android applications with a new user interface and simplified registration using Facebook;
• Engage with the new version of ooVoo’s PC application, packed with an all new user interface and providing the best video quality on the market from two to 12 simultaneous video streams;
• Create self-expressive videos: driven by users’ requests, ooVoo is making free the option to record and upload video chats to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

If ooVoo sound like a good time, head over to any of the following sources to download the latest version today.

Google Play Store Link: ooVoo

App Store Link: ooVoo

Web: ooVoo.com

Source: ooVoo Via: Android Central

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Glassboard 2.0

Brent Simmons:

We at Sepia Labs just released Glassboard 2.0 for iPhone and Android. There’s even a new web app — in beta (still suffers from cats). (All three apps are free.)

Two things.

First, Brent is a friend and someone whose work I’ve long admired. When Brent does something new, it’s a sure thing I’m going to check it out. I did that with Glassboard, and, I must admit, I didn’t get it at first. Just didn’t see how I’d use it. But then I went to a weekend-long conference where a dozen or so of my friends set up a board on Glassboard. We shared notes, jokes, links, and things like where we were going to eat and drink. All of it private, with instant SMS-like notification of new messages and comments. Now I don’t know what I’d do without Glassboard.

Second, the user interface in version 2.0 is so much improved over 1.0, I’m not even sure where to start. It’s a great update to what was already a great app and service.

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Fear Not: You Will Be Able To Keep Your Me.com Email Address After MobileMe Sunsets

With MobileMe’s publicly-touted June 30 sunset date looming, talk amongst the many customers who use and rely on the service has now turned to whether or not the Cupertino company has plans to still support me.com email addresses after the service is discontinued.

Well, the answer is – Yes, you will be able to keep your me.com email address despite MobileMe’s imminent demise. This fact was first uncovered by the guys at TidBITS (via Macworld, MacRumors), who note that Apple’s iCloud transition guide highlights the options users will have once the service goes into its final phases of discontinuation.

As noted by the FAQ, the ability to keep ones email address at me.com has, in fact, been an option since the beginning of this month.

What if I just want to keep using my email on all my devices?

As of May 1, you can choose to keep using your mail after MobileMe ends, even on devices that don’t meet the iCloud system requirements.

To tell Apple that you wish to keep your address you simply have to head to me.com/move and “select the option to keep using your email after MobileMe ends.”

TidBITS has also posted a workaround for bypassing Apple’s automatic iCloud e-mail set-up, for those of you that may wish to continue using your me.com address, versus your iCloud address.

In Mail, after moving your address to iCloud, delete your existing MobileMe account: Choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, select your MobileMe account in the list on the left, and click the – (minus) button. Then click the + (plus) button to add a new account and fill in your mac.com or me.com address and password. But now hold down Option while clicking Continue. This bypasses Mail’s automated setup process (which would configure the account for the MobileMe servers — not what you want). On the next screen, choose IMAP from the Account Type pop-up menu. Enter imap.mail.me.com for the incoming mail server address, click Continue, and enter smtp.mail.me.com for the outgoing mail server address. Once you’ve completed the process, Mail in Snow Leopard should be able to check your iCloud mail both now and after MobileMe is turned off.

Once you have completed all of this, Apple says that your mail will continue to work on devices that don’t meet the iCloud requirements after MobileMe ends on June 30th, 2012.

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Feature: Future U: Classroom tech doesn't mean handing out tablets

A couple of decades ago the most advanced technology to appear in an average classroom was a mini-cassette recorder and a calculator. For most students, however, typical classroom technology ran the gamut from yellow legal pads to theme books, from pencils to ballpoints.

Computers were restricted to the computer lab. There, the green blinking DOS cursor would excite and intimidate. Most of the thrill of the computer lab, aside from a few basic computer games, came from the fact that you could type up a paper without using Wite-Out.

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Bar Oasis 1.5 Released For Free For The iOS

The original Bar Oasis was a surprisingly solid iOS offering. It provided the novelty of 'serving' drinks to an eclectic collection of characters, a well-drawn cast and a half-decent story line. For the most part, people had seemed rather enamored of it. With the sequel slowly progressing towards completion, Corner Studios decided to surprise its fans with an unexpected addition to its growing franchise. The free-to-download Bar Oasis 1.5 will apparently feature a brand new plot, familiar mechanics and a new .. game mode?

If you need a pocket-sized distraction from your regular gaming habits, you can download the game here.

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Visualize Available Memory On Your iPhone Or iPad With Disc Space [iOS Tips]

Yes, you can plug your iOS device into iTunes and get a bar graph of the space available, but what if you’re out and about and want to download something? How do you know at a quick glance how much space is left? Today’s tip shows you one way to do that.

Disc Space is a free app available from developer Dominic Rodemer. While his website is clearly not in English, the app is simple enough to figure out and use.

I grabbed the app from the App Store on my iPhone, but you can also get it from the iTunes Store on your computer. Once launched from your iPhone, Disc Space creates a nice 3D pie chart showing you the Used and Available memory on your device. It also computes percentage, for those of us that like to think that way, and shows the full memory Capacity of the device at the top. It matches the info I get with iTunes, so all is well.

Next time you’re out and about and wondering what’s up with your iPhone memory, perhaps Disc Space is your answer.

Got an iOS tip of your own? Need help troubleshooting your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad ? (sorry, you need Javascript to see this e-mail address) or leave a comment below.

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Norton’s Free Identity Safe Remembers All Your Passwords So You Don’t Have To

Norton Identity Safe safely stores and syncs your passwords so that you have them with you wherever you go.

Remembering each and every password to each and every service you’ve ever signed up to is an incredibly difficult task. To make it easier, we create simple passwords that we’re less likely to forget, like the name of our favorite pet, our partner, or our car. The problem with that is, it’s not very secure.

Norton’s new Identity Safe is a free service that allows you to choose stronger passwords and keep your data safe while saving them all securely to your PC or smartphone to ensure that they’re never forgotten. You can then sync your passwords between your Mac, PC, Android and iOS devices so that you have them with you wherever you go.

Norton research has found that in the past month, 70% of us have forgotten at least one password. Which explains why many of us resort to weak and simple passwords that we know we’ll never forget, then use the same one for every service we use online. But this puts our sensitive data at risk.

Anyone who knows you well will know the name of your partner, the name of your dog, what car you drive, when your birthday is, the name of your child, and quite possibly even your mother’s name. That means they can probably guess your Facebook password, login to your favorite forum, or even gain access to things like your PayPal account and online banking.

With that in mind, Norton has designed Identity Safe, a simple and secure (and free!) service that keeps track of your passwords and ensures you have them with you no matter where you are or what device you’re using. Some of its features include:

• Multi-platform synchronization – Synchronizes information across platforms and devices, eliminating the hassle of remembering multiple user names, passwords, contact information, credit card numbers.  Norton Identity Safe allows users to access their credentials anywhere they go.
• Safe Search & Norton Safe Web – Help consumers protect their identities and avoid potentially risky sites by letting them know whether a site is safe to visit directly from their search results.
• Share – Allows users to safely share online content by sending URLs through email and social networking plugins, directly from Norton Identity Safe.

Norton Identity Safe is available on Mac, PC, Android and iOS from today, and you can sign up by visiting identitysafe.norton.com.

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Apple Offers Free Copy Of Snow Leopard To MobileMe Users

Open to all those who use MobileMe and haven’t yet purchased Snow Leopard, Apple today began issuing mailshots to MobileMe customers informing them that they are entitled to a FREE copy of its desktop operating system, OS X Snow Leopard.

Macgasm reports that the move appears to be a new effort for Apple to ease the move to iCloud for these customers.

The move is particularly clever as iCloud only works with OS X Lion (or later). This means that, (although Apple is offering a FREE copy of Snow Leopard to these customers), each MobileMe customer who qualifies will still be required to purchase a copy of Lion from the Mac App Store for $29.99, to upgrade their system – essentially covering the lost revenue Apple would have made on selling copies of Snow Leopard.

To claim your FREE copy of Snow Leopard, simply head over to this page on me.com. From there, you’ll be asked to login and then re-enter your MobileMe account password for authentication reasons.

Once you’ve successfully filled out your mailing information, Apple will then issue OS X Snow Leopard to you on a DVD through the post, FREE of charge. Neat, eh?

/ 9to5Mac (h/t)

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