Five killer apps for your docked iPad

Magic Window turns your iPad into, well, a magic window, allowing you to look out on over a dozen dazzling animated scenes. (Credit: Jetson Creative LLC) Does your iPad pull a lot of desk duty? Does it adorn your kitchen counter or even your nightstand?

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Zombies, karting, a fiery Frogger, and more: New iPhone games of the week

Except for the much-ballyhooed arrival of Street Fighter IV , it’s been a fairly quiet week in iPhone gaming. That said, there’s always a steady stream of new and intriguing titles, as evidenced by this decidedly eclectic bunch: 1

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Buzz off: Disabling Google Buzz

pdiv class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-left” style=”width: 236px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100211/GoogleBuzz_logo.png” alt=”Google Buzz logo” width=”236″ height=”60″ / /div/p pMy colleague Molly Wood called it a a title=”Google Buzz: Privacy nightmare — Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html”privacy nightmare/a, but to many, Google’s new social-networking tool a title=”Google’s social side hopes to catch some Buzz — Tuesday, Feb 9, 2010″ href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10449662-265.html”Buzz/a is at its root an unwanted, unasked for pest.

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Multiple-shot photos and 3D Shuffleboard: iPhone apps of the week

pdiv class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-left” style=”width: 159px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100205/iPhoneLogoShot.JPG” alt=”iPhone” width=”159″ height=”142″ / span class=”image-credit”(Credit: CNET)/span /div /p pWith almost 150,000 apps in the iTunes App Store, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that some apps have slipped under my radar. Though it’s embarrassing to admit, some of my great app discoveries happened only because I read about them long after their release, or I had a friend pull out their iPhone and say, “You mean you’ve never tried ‘X’?” But I think that’s part of what is so fun about owning an iPhone: you virtually never stop discovering new things you can do with it even if the app isn’t brand new./p pWith that said, I’ve made a couple of recent app discoveries through friends that are worthy of checking out. Both have received recent upgrades, making them even better, so even if you have tried them, they may be worth a second look.

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PictureFox puts a little cover flow in your Amazon

pIf you’re a frequent user of a href=”http://www.Amazon.com”Amazon.com/a and find its product image viewer a little clunky, it’s worth checking out new Firefox add-on a href=”http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/72071″PictureFox/a. Once installed it grabs full-quality versions of each product shot, along with the photos provided by other customers, and puts them in a simple, Cover Flow-style image viewer./p pEach image is scaled to be as large as possible–that is, compared to the size of your monitor

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Trillian 4.1 for Windows gets more Twitter-social

div class=”cnet-image-div image-medium float-right” style=”width: 227px” img class=”cnet-image” src=”/i/bto/20100119/TrillianAstra_Tweet.png” alt=”Tweet from Trillian Astra” width=”227″ height=”285″ / p class=”image-caption”Tweet from Trillian Astra/p span class=”image-credit”(Credit: Trillian (Cerulean Studios))/span /div pDon’t let the small version update from Trillian 4.0 to a href=”http://download.cnet.com/Trillian-Astra/3000-2150_4-10047473.html”Trillian Astra 4.1 for Windows/a fool you. Though the version may have bumped up one tiny integer, there are enough changes to this venerable multinetwork chat app to make it worth your notice; particularly if you’re into social networking.

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