Holy crap

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I just notified a whole lotta developers about IAR’s free promo code giveaways and about 25 new submissions have come in over the past 3 hours! Stay tuned for a ton of codes starting this weekend. Here’s a preview of some of the apps that will be up for grabs in the coming days:

Hocus Pocus (Entertainment)
Facebook & Twitter iGift4U (Social Networking)
Strips Web Comic Reader (Entertainment)
State Spin (Reference)
CompareMe – Shopping Utility (Finance)
Match 3D Flick Puzzle (Games)
Kibosh (Games)
iMemento Flashcards (Education)
KidWords Spanish Learning Game (Education)
gUnit – Unit Converter (Productivity)

IAR’s 6 Random Halloween Freebies

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Get your inner Pagan ready… Halloween is two weeks from tomorrow!

Free Halloween Sounds by Pixel Narrative: Make a whole bunch o’ scary sounds including Howling Wolf, Deadly Scream, and Croaking Frog. Huh… croaking frog? Eh, ok!

Halloween Music by nuTsie: Looks like this app gets updated for Christmas as well, at which point it will probably be renamed Christmas Music! Free music that you can buy or just listen to in-app (must play in shuffle mode to hear the full songs).

Halloween Deluxe by Schatzisoft: This one’s a jack of all trades… spooky sounds, days until Halloween countdown, costume ideas, and scary facts.

Halloween Quick Turn by Portable Zoo: There’s a crazy jack-o-lantern bouncing around your screen… don’t ask me why! Turn your iPhone like a steering wheel to keep him (or her?) moving towards the correct color.

AdLibs Lite: Halloween Edition by E.E. Flobes: I reviewed this app last year… not bad! If you remember MadLibs from when you were little, this app will feel very familiar.

Halloween Photo Free by ObjectGraph: Take pictures and dress ‘em up with Halloween silliness.

Free Codes: SpeedNote

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If you suck at typing on that touch screen, maybe SpeedNote is what you’re looking for! It provides up to 14 suggested words at a time, so just put in a letter or two and select the word you want, then move on to the next one. Notes can be sent via email or Twitter.

iTunes Link – SpeedNote

On deck: Bulletin (News)

Free Codes: Street Skills Premium

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Wanna learn to bend it like Beckham? Street Skills teaches you all kinds of skills and tricks you can do with a football, and by football I mean soccer ball if you’re American. Tricks are divided into three categories: air, dribbling, and ground.

iTunes Link – Street Skills Premium

On deck: Speednote (Productivity)

Free Codes: Mused

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Museums, museums, everywhere! Find them wherever you are.

iTunes Link – Mused

On deck: Street Skills Premium (Sports)

Postage & Halloween Postage

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What’s this… a competent greeting card app not called C@rds? I’ve only tried a couple of other apps in this category and, until now, C@rds was the only one that was truly worthwhile.

Postage by RogueSheep oozes quality in most areas and it also does things a bit differently. While Hot Chili Apps sells extensive greeting card sets both a la carte and via C@rds Master, Postage sports a collection of e-cards that span a bunch of different genres and all can be had for a single price. There are over 60 cards spread out over 12 card genres: Simple, Halloween, Frames, Cards (as in stationery-style), Love, Cutouts, Travel, Comic, Announcements, Organic, Letters (also similar to stationery), and Moms and Dads.

There’s a lot of variety in Postage and, even though the text handling isn’t all that versatile compared to what Hot Chili offers, it’s still a very good app that’s worth considering if this is what you’re in the market for.

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Free Codes: The Bite Buddy

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Helpful dieting tip of the day: stop inhaling your food! The Bite Buddy’s purpose is to tell you when it’s ok to take another bite, thereby forcing you to eat at a normal human pace rather than trying to set a Guinness Record.

Will it work? I dunno, but if you’re fat and sick of being fat you should be willing to try anything, right?!

iTunes Link – The Bite Buddy

On deck: Mused (Lifestyle)

Free Codes: sdk IQ for iPhone

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I’ve never tried making an iPhone app, but judging by the number of crappy garbage apps out there I’m guessing it ain’t easy. sdk IQ for iPhone is a reference manual (no internet needed!) that provides guidance on topics ranging from iPhone Development 101 to getting your app in the App Store.

You can even ask for advice from the support team if you get stumped on your way to making your App Store fortune!

iTunes Link – sdk IQ for iPhone

On deck: The Bite Buddy (Healthcare & Fitness)

Q&F: Amp Up Before Your Score

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This is the app that, over the past week, has been written about over and over and over again… and now Pepsi is apologizing for it.

Apologizing is definitely the right move from a PR standpoint, but I’m just gonna come out and say what everyone else is apparently afraid to… AMP UP BEFORE YOUR SCORE IS FUNNY! Sorry ladies, I know it probably pisses off some of you, but for the rest who can see this app for the joke that it’s clearly intended to be, it’s pretty hilarious.

AMP UP Before Your Score is a very tongue-in-cheek guide to “scoring” with 24 different types of women who range from Aspiring Actress to Indie Girl to Trouble and everything in between. For each type there are numerous ways of engaging the lady that include pickup lines and various conversation starters that are customized for each personality. If you’re talking to Goth Girl, Before Your Score provides a list of vampires and goth bands. If you’re talking to Political Girl, the app launches an in-app browser and loads Obama’s Twitter account and some recent political news items. Pepsi went the distance here and actually put some thought into each content item and the result, although unfortunate for feminism, is an app that’s packed with some hysterically crude humor.

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Free Codes: Boat Ramps

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Umm… got a boat? If you use one of the free codes for this app I certainly hope you do!

Boat Ramps is a user-driven database of more than 10,000 boat ramps in the U.S. App requires OS3.x to run.

iTunes Link – Boat Ramps

On deck: sdk IQ for iPhone (Reference)

WTF: I’mma Let U Finish

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LOL!!!! I’mma Let U Finish is a pretty funny dig on the world’s biggest tool, Kanye West. If you don’t know what the name of this app is referring to then you’re either too young, too old, or living in some weird parallel universe!

Press the button to hear a pretty good Kanye impersonator rattle off a bunch of variations on his moronic interruption of Taylor Swift’s VMA acceptance speech such as I’mma let you finish, but this app is betta’ than bacon! and …that is one of the dumbest ideas of all time! There are 11 one-liners in all.

BigSprocket even made the app smart enough to remind you to turn up the sound if you launch the app while the volume is turned down. All in all it’s still a pretty dumb app, but it’s funny and maybe worth a buck if you truly enjoy reliving Kanye’s utter stupidity.

iTunes Link – I’mma Let U Finish

Free Codes: iDrinKings

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I think I’ve played the drinking game Kings before, but I can’t remember… probably because I was too hammered to know what was going on! iDrinKings is a reference tool for use when you’re playing the game. It’s not a game in itself, but if you like playing Kings then maybe you could give this app a try.

iTunes Link – iDrinKings

On deck: Boat Ramps (Lifestyle)