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Objective Development, makers of such great utilities as LaunchBar (my personal fave) and Little Snitch, are offering their addictive new iPhone/iPod touch game, Pebbles, absolutely free until the end of August. Furthermore, you can get both the Mac version and iPhone/iPod version free!

It’s a great little game, clever and quite addictive. You should definitely check one or both versions out. You just can’t beat the price (both are free).

To download Pebbles for the iPhone and iPod touch (free), click HERE.

To download Pebbles for the Mac (free), click HERE.

If you’ve been reading my Dr. Mac column in the Houston Chronicle for a while you’ve probably noticed that I love music. I love listening to music, and though I’m not particularly talented at it, I love playing music. So this week I have a few music-oriented goodies (namely Chords for iTunes, Chordmaster, Bloom, and iToner) that I’d like to share with you.

To read the rest of the column: click here.

To watch the video of me demonstrating Chords for iTunes: click here.

This just in:

Apple’s App Store downloads top 1.5 billion in first year with than 65,000 apps and over 100,000 developers.

I’ve got to get back to work on Mac OS X Snow Leopard For Dummies so I’m going to take the easy way out and just provide you with the press release copy here:

Apple® today announced that customers have downloaded more than 1.5 billion applications in just one year from its revolutionary App Store, the largest applications store in the world. The App Store is also growing at an incredible pace with more than 65,000 apps and more than 100,000 developers in the iPhone™ Developer Program.

“The App Store is like nothing the industry has ever seen before in both scale and quality,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “With 1.5 billion apps downloaded, it is going to be very hard for others to catch up.”

The revolutionary App Store has more than 65,000 apps available to consumers in 77 countries, allowing developers to reach tens of millions of iPhone and iPod® touch users around the world. The App Store works with both iPod touch and iPhone including the new iPhone 3GS, the fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. Apple has shipped over 40 million of these devices that run apps from the App Store.

That’s all for now.

Touch Arcade has done it again. Here’s a link to their article pointing out four games – Return to Mysterious Island, Galcon, Radio Flare, and Mecho Wars — currently on sale for a fraction of their “list” prices.

The only one I’m familiar with is the adventure game Return to Mysterious Island, which I’m reviewing for iPod Observer and happen to like a lot. I’ve recommended it when it was $4.99; at $0.99 it should be a no-brainer if you like puzzle/adventure style games.

Read about it (with links to the iTunes App store) here: $0.99 Sales | Touch Arcade.

To read all about how losing your iPhone isn’t fun, check out my latest Dr. Mac column for the Houston Chronicle by clicking here.

Touch Arcade, one of my favorite Web sites, reported that Sega’s Columns Deluxe game is available for free over the 4th of July weekend!

Read about it here.

Download it here.

Read what I had to say about Touch Arcade in this blog a few week ago here.

The 88 Use iPhone to Record New Single | iPhone | iPodObserver.

Pretty darn cool, eh?

My “feature length” illustrated review of the iPhone 3G is done! Read it here:

Special Report: Living with iPhone 3GS AKA Episode #88 | Dr. Macs Rants and Raves | The Mac Observer.

Dr. Mac reviews the iPhone 3G S…

Click here to read all about it…

Peggle facts:

1. MSNBC named it one of the “Top 5 most addictive computer games of all time.”
2. It’s usually $4.99.
3. It’s now priced at just $0.99 until June 14.
4. It’s one of my favorite games… I’ve played it on my iPod Classic so much it’s wearing out.
5. You really should buy a copy at this price.

Read more here: Peggle Drops to $0.99 until June 14th | Touch Arcade

Buy it here: Peggle @ the iTunes App Store