It’s almost the end of 2011, and I say let’s wrap up the year with just a few more free apps to keep that home screen of yours full. Yes, it’s been quite the year for the App Store, the kind of year that has reminded you why app folders are necessary. I found one more »

EA is placing all of their games on sale for $0.99 as part of their EA Daily Deals campaign. If your holiday bank cash reserve have dwindled with all the Christmas shopping, here’s a great, inexpensive way to reward yourself. And if you happen to be one of the lucky ones given a new iOS more »

This has been an interesting week for Black Friday deals, and app developers got into the spirit of Black Friday this year by bringing their own mega sales. The biggest titles from the biggest game publishers on the iOS platform are still on sale during this weekend. Gameloft, EA, Telltale, Sega, Chair and others are offering their games are great prices, and you’ve still got time to download your favorites before they get back to their regular price.

Cydia developers have been hard at work bringing their apps, tweaks, themes and other packages up to date with iOS 5, and more are becoming compatible with the new iOS version every day. A compiled list of compatible, partially compatible, incompatible and unknown Cydia packages from what is known right now follows.

The music mobile discovery provider Shazam has given an update to its application that brings back unlimited tagging for songs. Back in 2008 when Apple opened its doors to its first app store for the iPhone and iPod Touch, it was one of the most popular downloaded applications. The Shazam application was offered as a free download, and it had the ability to tag unlimited amount of songs that you wanted to listen to without any restrictions. That changed in 2009.

Although most of iCloud’s offerings won’t be available until this fall, Apple has decided to give iDevice owners a little taste with its release of Automatic Downloads for apps, music, and books, allowing users to have said content which has been purchased/downloaded on other devices to also be automatically downloaded on an iDevice with the feature enabled.

While Walt Disney World certainly is the place where dreams come true, it’s not the most tech friendly place; WiFi access runs $10 a day, which after three days would pay for your 3G access from AT&T for a month with a 3G iPad. Or, you could rough it with just your iPhone. I chose the latter, and these 3G friendly apps helped me do so without shaking in the corner as a result of my Internet addiction. I call them “My Essential Apps.”

Having moved into the music business, video distribution, and newspapers and books, Apple appears to have TicketMaster in its sights with a recently-discovered patent application for distributing tickets. The system, which could be used for personal events as well as commercial, also includes methods for using an “electronic device” (e.g., an iPhone) as the ticket itself (much like some airlines do), and for adding extra offers to the ticket.

The most romantic day of the year is just a week away. If you want to express your love in the digital style, these applications will help you to be the romantic that you should be. Let’s walk you through your enhanced romance with Valentines Countdown, Love Songs – The 100 Greatest of All Time, Valentines Day Recipes, and iKarmasutra Lite.

DaringFireball has an update for us on the OpenClip framework that was very promising in adding copy and paste functionality for conforming applications. It seems that our copy and paste hopes are about to be let down again.

Apparently, what was allowing OpenClip to work was a loophole.

The OpenClip framework, by Zac White, is a very clever implementation of a fundamentally unwise idea.

Details after the break.