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Appletellcast weekly Apple podcast, March 8th 2009 [updated]

We have quite the episode for you this week. We have our first sponsor (GoDaddy.com), a survey that gives you the chance to win an Xbox 360, a discount on Podium stands, and, to put the cherry on top of it all, we’re giving three of the Podium Stands away over the next three weeks! Oh yeah, there’s some stuff about the last week in Apple news too: Mac Minis, iMacs, Mac Pros and Airports…oh my!

Appletell review – Aurora Feint for iPhone

Aurora Feint is not an amazing game simply due to its features, but also due to the fact that it’s free. Either the Aurora Feint developers are really stupid or really nice, because the game I play the most (way more than Super Monkey Ball, Enigmo or Cro-Mag Rally) is free. It just blows my mind. But enough about that. What makes the game so mind-boggling? Let’s get right into it after the break.

Aurora Feint removed from App Store [Update: Back in place]

Aurora Feint, the free and popular iPhone game, has been removed from the App Store due to privacy concerns over its community feature, which allowed users to see which of their friends were playing the game at the same time. The concern surrounds the fact that Aurora Feint uploads your entire contacts list, unencrypted, to the developer’s server.

There was no malicious intent involved; having your contacts uploaded was just easier than typing in your friends’ data by hand, according to Danielle Cassley, one of the game’s developers. Casserly claims that they “… weren’t trying to be sneaky about how this worked,” and that a notification message of some sort was “… just overlooked.”

Details on the problem and, now, the subsequent fix, after the break.