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There's no denying that Angry Birds is an addictive little game -- and an unbelievably popular one at that. Sales are still going strong in just about every mobile platform's app store and seasonal versions are have fans clamoring for more. Well, good news, Birds lovers! If you ponied up your hard-earned 99 cents for the iOS Halloween version you're getting a special gift in your digital stocking ...

There will be an Angry Birds Christmas edition, a Finnish TV station has just confirmed. No exact release date is known at this point, but it will obviously be out in time for -- you guessed it! -- Christmas. There's no information on pricing either, but we'd be very surprised if Rovio suddenly decided to change anything about its current pricing structure. As with the very successful ...

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The holidays are right around the corner, and we figured it's time to start coming up with some useful, thoughtful and hopefully interesting gift ideas for the geek (or geeks) in your life. Most of these are quite affordable, so you might not have to pick just one. Gifts that keep on giving: online subscriptions There are tons of great subscription-based online services. Picking out just a few ...

Don't want to spend more on shipping your gifts to arrive before Christmas than they're actually worth? Don't worry, there are lots of online sites where you can give some super gifts via download online certificates. Here are 14 places to check out to give some great gifts: E-Gift Cards: Amazon.com offers the ability to send gift cards via email in any denomination from $1-5,000. Your gift ...

Christmas is a week away. Have you finished (started) your holiday shopping yet? If you are a PROcrastinator (like myself) you've been planning on ordering everything online and having it speed-shipped in the Saint Nick of time. Well there is still time (or not). Check out the lists below for the last possible minute to order your gifts. Amazon Amazon order deadlines are: Thurs. 17th - ...

If you can muster the time to get your online shopping done today, you'll be among the last to take advantage of free super saver shipping from Amazon this holiday season; the same goes for many other large web merchant sites. A whole host of retailers have proclaimed today "Free Shipping Day," offering free shipping on certain items and delivery by 12/24 at certain stores (not all, check ...

I'm more of a Festivus guy, but apparently there are weird and wacky holidays every day of the year -- and that's just in the good ol' USA, where we can find a reason to "celebrate" anything. If you chart global weird holidays you have to zoom the chart out an order of magnitude. So in this holiday edition I'm going to stick to weird US holidays, the dates for which are lovingly curated by the ...

If you're doing a lot of holiday shopping online this year, and you're looking for a painless way to give something back to your favorite charity, consider installing the Browse for a Cause Firefox extension. Instead of asking for donations directly, Browse for a Cause adds affiliate codes to sites like Amazon, and then donates the affiliate fees to the charity or charities you select. That way, ...

Framed! is a fun photo app for iPhone/iPod touch that allows you to drop your photos in 34 different scenes such as taxi billboard, album cover, wanted poster, cereal box, TV, etc. After you select the scene and input the text, you can share your creation via email or Facebook. At .99, this 4 star rated app is a pretty good investment as it will probably keep kids and tweens occupied for ...

Typing on an iPhone can be a pain, even with auto-correct -- sometimes especially with auto-correct, actually -- but there hasn't been a truly great speech-to-text app for the device yet. Well, get ready to give your fingers a rest. If the demo of Dragon's new iPhone dictation app that I just saw over at Gear Diary is any indication, practically perfect speech-to-text is now available on the ...

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/03/christmas-giveaway-tales-of-monkey-island/'; The Secret of Monkey Island, published in 1990 by LucasArts, formed the basis of what would become one of the greatest adventure game series ever made. Playable on Ataris, PCs and Macintoshes, Monkey Island was the game that would turn every-day computer users into gamers. Followed up by Sam ...

Does your laptop sport a full-width keyboard but you wish it had a numeric keypad? For those who crunch a lot of numbers, Sure, you can pick up a USB keypad pretty cheaply, but why lug around one more piece of plastic and PCB if you don't have to? If you're already toting an iPhone or iPod touch, Balmuda Designs' free NumberKey app is up to the task. Install the server on your notebook or ...

Whether you like your savings up front or in the form of cashback, the major search engines would love to trade a little dough for your business. Microsoft has been trying to entice people into using Bing for their searches this holiday season by teaming up with retailers to offer cashback on purchases found through a Bing search. There are some pretty good Bing deals out there - 20% cashback, ...

This weekend signals the beginning of holiday shopping craziness in the U.S., and there's no shortage of deals to be had. We're scouring web sites around the 'net to find discount prices on games, apps, and operating systems - if you've found some, share them in the comments! Be sure to check back, we'll be updating this post as we find more savings to pass along! Applications and Operating ...