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Archive for December, 2010

The clock is ticking toward midnight in the US, and in fact our colleague Chris Rawson has already begun 2011 (he's in New Zealand, on the other side of the International Date Line).

To count all the ways we're thankful to have spent the past 12 months with all of you would take more time than we have left in the year, but as a small token of our appreciation -- here's the last app giveaway of 2010, five promo codes for the essential iPhone and iPad calculator Digits.

In the recent 2.0 release, developer Joshua Distler added multi-tape management to the capable computation app, allowing you to share, sync, email and print your calculator tapes. It's currently on sale for US $0.99, but if you'd like to win a license, just share a comment below with your New Year's resolution (keep it clean!). We'll pick five winners next week.

Best wishes from all of us for a happy, healthy and safe 2011!

• Open to legal US residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 18 and older.
• To enter leave a comment on this post telling us your New Year's resolution.
• The comment must be left before January 3, 2011 at 11:59PM Eastern Time.
• You may enter only once.
• 5 winners will be selected in a random drawing.
• Prize: One copy of Digits for iPhone/iPad. (ARV $0.99)
• Click Here for complete Official Rules.

Final app giveaway of 2010: Digits for iOS originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Here's some more evidence that the App Store had a really amazing holiday weekend last week. OpenFeint has announced that it saw a 184% spike in new users on Christmas Day last week, the largest single day in the service's history for new users. Over the four days around the holiday, OpenFeint reportedly added more than 1.4 million new users to the service.

Downloads were also really high, with five million OpenFeint-enabled games downloaded over the holiday weekend. That includes Android games, which saw 73% growth, and iOS games, which spiked by 187% over the weekend. That's a lot of new games and new players.

We've heard other evidence already that last weekend was really busy for the App Store. Apple hasn't released any stats so far (and we've got a line in to EA to try and find out if it can share any of its download figures from the weekend), but we can tell you with some certainty that last weekend saw plenty of new traffic for the App Store and its apps.

OpenFeint sees giant spike in Christmas users and downloads originally appeared on TUAW on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.