The Vancouver games: Here’s the app for that

pdiv class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 270px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100212/NBC_Olympics_app_270×404.png” alt=”" width=”270″ height=”404″ / p class=”image-caption”Are you ready for some winter gaming?

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The return of a classic and survival shooter mayhem: iPhone apps of the week

div class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-left” style=”width: 159px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100129/iPhoneLogoShot.JPG” alt=”iPhone” width=”159″ height=”142″ / span class=”image-credit”(Credit: CNET)/span /div pUnless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you probably already know that the iPad, Apple’s new tablet, is on its way in less than 60 days.

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Corel shows HD love in photo, video apps

pOn Tuesday, Corel updated two of its multimedia apps for enthusiasts. Both a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Corel-Paint-Shop-Pro-Photo/3000-2192_4-10001995.html” Corel PaintShop Photo Pro/a and a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Corel-VideoStudio-Pro/3000-13631_4-10029706.html”Corel VideoStudio Pro/a have updated from version X2 to X3.

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Seesmic makes Twitter pretty, with Look

p a href=”http://www.seesmic.com”Seesmic/a, which makes Twitter and Facebook apps for AIR, Windows, and mobile platforms, on Thursday is launching Look, a new product designed for the Twitter watcher much more than the Twitter contributor or participant. The app lets you scan the feeds of popular Twitter celebrities, or show feeds for specific topics, like the NFL or Wall Street business.

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Using Facebook and Twitter safely

p You and just about everyone else, it seems, are spending more and more time on Facebook and Twitter, updating statuses and checking friends’ tweets. That’s all well and good, of course, but the amount of personal information that all of you share in real time, and the level of trust implicit with the social networking sites, do pose particular security and privacy problems./pp A recent a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10410257-2.html”study from Sophos/a found that Facebook users reveal a lot of personal information to new friends, including ones they really don’t even know or have never met. Using fake profiles, Sophos sent out friend requests to 100 random Facebook users, and more than 40 percent blindly accepted, giving the company access to birth dates, e-mail addresses, phone number and addresses–private information strangers shouldn’t have

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TweetDeck deal brings a Sherlock Holmes look

div class=”cnet-image-div image-regular float-right” style=”width: 330px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20091221/221b_column.jpg” alt=”TweetDeck gets promotional with a Sherlock Holmes movie theme.” width=”330″ height=”436″ / p class=”image-caption”TweetDeck gets promotional with a Sherlock Holmes movie theme./p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)/span /div p In a sign that both the movie industry and the Twitter industry are adapting to the times, TweetDeck released a promotional version of its Twitter-user software that sports a look and function tied to Warner Bros.’ Sherlock Holmes movie and related a href=”http://www.221b.sh/”221B video game/a. /pp The a href=”http://www.tweetdeck.com/sherlockholmes”Sherlock Holmes promotional version is called TweetDeck Telegram Co./a and sports black-and-white icons and a couple period touches that try, but don’t really succeed, to make you think you’re in the 19th century. It also adds a new column for 221B-related tweets that tie into the online video game

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