We have a great gift for all iPhone and iPod Touch users thanks to of the people from Shoot It!. If you sign up for Shoot It! New Year’s Eve Freebie you’ll get to send five free postcards to friends in America, as well as a chance to play with the free Shoot It! software. These aren’t email postcards or MMS postcards – they’re real physical postcards the postman will deliver to your recipients!

And if you have an iPod Touch or another device without a camera you can still take part – the Shoot It! software can grab any pictures you’ve synchronised from iPhoto and use those on your postcards. And for a change, this one isn’t just for iPhone and iPod Touch users – Shoot It! also works on Windows Mobile devices, Android devices, and the Blackberry!

If you want to send more than five postcards, you can purchase additional credits from the Shoot It! website and send as many as you like – it’s US$0.99 or less per postcard, depending how many credits you purchase at one time.

It’s the new year in New Zealand now, and it’s 10pm in Melbourne, Australia where I am so go sign up for Shoot It! New Year’s Eve Freebie and I’ll sign off now and go enjoy my own new year’s eve. Anybody want a postcard from me?

I hope your 2010 is everything you wish for.

- Ricky

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How could an iPhone app, help me solve the Rubiks Cube?

I, like I’m sure many people, have a box of Rubiks cubes that I play with now and then and every now and then I catch a glimmer of hope after trying a bunch of other solutions, including reading through page after page of instructions only to be disappointed. Not so with CubeCheater!

CubeCheater - the easy way to solve 3x3 Rubiks Cubes!

After downloading it from iTunes, the first thing you need to do is take photos of the 6 sides of your Rubiks Cube. The app will assist you as you take these shots, using the center square as the guide.

Once all sides are photographed. CubeCheater checks to make sure you don’t have more colors than others; if you do the app will give you a chance to eyeball, checking to see if the recognition failed and easily fix it by choosing a color on the palette and coloring a square the right color.

CubeCheater then sets about finding you a solution. There is a neat animation of a spinning cube to watch while it’s working it out. It doesn’t take long, just a few seconds and it’s done. My first one failed because I didn’t pay attention to which color was up in correlation to the facing color – doh! After my second attempt I figured it out and followed the 21 directions step by step and solved it in real life! It was really exciting to see how quickly CubeCheater can help you solve a Rubiks Cube without having to peel off the stickers or pry the squares apart (admit it – you’ve done it).

Aside from the standard features you can customize the color sets as well as the speed to where you follow to solve the cube. I found the default speed fine and only took a few seconds to adapt to to see the orientation for my Rubiks Cube and how to spin the cube.

Video

Check out this video of CubeCheater in action

Summary

This is certainly a fine App to have handy for parties as well as helping yourself learn how to solve a cube without having to rely on the CubeCheater.

Highly Recommended

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To use Teen Torture all you do is fire it up and selected which age group you want to annoy, and you are ready to go.

I’m not to sure how well this app will do as most of the users of the iPhone are relatively young and would be affected by this app making it useless to them. But for $.99 there will be some older users will get some kicks from it, so next time you hear an annoying ringing in your ears it may just be “Teen Torture“.

Get Teen Torture from the App Store

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Turn your iPhone into an iPhone Lie Detector. A very simple app that allows you to pretend to find out if someone you are talking to is telling the truth or not.

This one's a liar!

Set up the app by selecting if the user is Male or Female, enter their first name, age and hair colour (oh yeah this is really scientific). Finally enter the question you wish to test the person on. Hand them the phone and ask them to say Yes or No to the question.

This is a fun app, I went around and around asking people questions – got heaps of laughs.

Buy iPhone Lie Detector on iTunes App Store.

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With changing blips on the screen which are effectively your finger holes, you blow gently into your microphone and the application plays music. I don’t think we’ll see any in the symphony orchestra but it’s a great fun app to have. I could see kids getting a real kick out of this.

Why not grab Ocarina now for your iPhone or iPod Touch, or pick up Smule’s other instrument app, the Leaf Trombone.

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ReadScriptures advise that cross-references, highlighting, footnotes, bookmarking and more features will be coming soon.

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