If you’re looking for a good scare that extends beyond the sofa on a Saturday night, you might want to take a look at Haunting Melissa, a new horror story app from Hooked Digital Media. Conceived, directed and produced by Neal Edelstein—the producer behind The Ring—Haunting Melissa uses push notifications in an unpredictable manner to keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

Your iPhone 5 has been a boat adrift long enough. Time to bring it to port, and the iLuv Aud 5 Lightning speaker dock is now open. Originally unveiled at CES 2013 in January, the Aud 5 is iLuv’s first audio dock designed specifically for Apple’s Lightning iDevices.

There are other cloud storage and synching services: Apple’s own iCloud, Box, iDolly, Google Cloud, Microsoft SkyDrive, and more. However, while they all have their virtues, none of them matches Dropbox for no hassle, transparent, “just works” functionality in the context of keeping work in progress—along with recently archived files—on several work platform laptops and my iPad harmoniously synchronized.

With the Creative Cloud news from Adobe and the brouhaha that followed, we completely forgot to let you know about their update to Adobe Connect Mobile this week. Available for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch (and now optimized for iPad mini and iPhone 5), Adobe Connect Mobile lets users host, join, collaborate and share in Adobe Connect Meetings.

With a name like the Mi-T Grip, you expect this dash mount from Bracketron to be either A.) sold on some late night TV commercial, or B.) …actually, no. You just expect A. Thankfully, the Mi-T Grip Dash Mount rises above its name, and is the first to successfully address each of my dash mount needs.

This week on the Free Apps Roundup: Are you looking for some new games to play? If you like Angry Birds, there’s a good chance you’ll enjoy Bombcats. It’s a physics puzzler with explosive cats. It’s no weirder than Angry Birds. If you’re looking for something else, then you’ll be happy to see all of the limited time freebie games available this week. Also, UPS released an official iPad app and Google released Hangouts for iOS. It’s a good week.

Ready for some action-packed games? Quick! Head to the App Store now and download Gameloft’s Gangstar Rio and N.O.V.A. 3 for free for a limited time. These two high-end iOS mobile games are universal apps originally tagged at $4.99 (Gangstar Rio) and $6.99 (N.O.V.A. 3) – you’ll save nearly $12.

It is way past my bedtime, but I’ve been caught off-guard by an addiction Mosaique. This minimalist puzzle game brings you to another dimension of sands and blocks. It’s a must-have game you’ll definitely be fond of.

Codito Development’s games (all of which are published by Sage Board Games) will be on sale this weekend, so board game players can check out some of their new games at a pretty steep discount. Starting May 16th and running through Math 20th, five of the company’s titles will be on sale for only 99¢, which is a substantial savings over their normal prices, ranging from $1.99 to $4.99.

Pull the moon boots out of storage, strap on your jet pack, and get ready to run. Oh, and don’t worry if you crash—Gravity Guy 2 has the clones lined up and ready. This endless runner for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch sets you out across platforms, collecting gems and jumping chasms. The goals of the game are pretty simple: don’t fall down between towers, avoid hazards, and collect as many valuables as possible.