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New to iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and curious how to set up a new ringtone, change a wallpaper, or arrange your app icons and folders, and otherwise personalize it and make it your own? Luckily these tasks can be completed quite simply, so let’s take a look at how they are done.

• How to change your wallpaper
• How to set a ringtone
• How to move icons
• How to create a folder

While this only covers some of the basics, it gives you a way to personalize your device and begin the process of making it your very own. Be sure to hop into the forums and show off your Home screen as well!

Easy Spending Expense Tracker: An easy to use expense tracker for iPhone. It comes with a beautiful and clutter free user interface.

• $0.99 for iPhone – App Store link

New Year Motivation 2012: Every day for a month New Year Motivation will bring you specially selected motivational and inspirational wisdom from some of the most admired individuals on earth – Dale Carnegie, Anthony Robbins, Norman Vincent Peale, and more.

• $0.99 for iPhone and iPad – App Store link

Vroom!: Drive your big blue truck around three zombie-infested tracks, boosting up half-pipes, catching mad air, and revelling in your extermination of the loathsome undead.

• $0.99 for iPhone and iPad – App Store link

Cartoonizeme: Lets you add funny elements such as glasses, hats, mustaches and many more theme-based elements to your photos.

• App Store link

Hungry Turtle: The cute little turtle is always hungry. And its favorite food is apples! On its journey our adventurous little turtle finds itself in the strangest of places where apples are really tricky to reach. Can you help the Hungry Turtle get to its delicious apples?

• $0.99 for iPhone – App Store link

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

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Apple has created a new section on their website to give a better breakdown into how the new iTunes Match service works.

With iTunes in the Cloud, the music you buy from the iTunes Store automatically appears on all your devices.1 And for music you haven't purchased from iTunes, iTunes Match is the perfect solution. iTunes Match is built right into iTunes on your computer and the Music app on your iOS devices.2 It lets you store your entire collection in iCloud, even music you've imported from CDs or purchased somewhere other than iTunes. When it's in iCloud, it's available on all your devices. So you can enjoy all your music anywhere, anytime — on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, PC, or Apple TV.

Ally has already put together a great How To on getting started with iTunes Match, but in case we missed anything, it’s good to know that Apple has something setup that TiPb readers can fall back on. Check it out via the link below.

Source: Apple

Apple's iPhone 4S Santa Siri ad was the most effective advertisement for the holiday season according to ad analysis company Ace Metrix.

Ace Metrix scores ads based on perceived effectiveness by a selection of randomly selected viewers, which it says are "representative of the U.S. TV viewing audience."

Apple's ad scored 652 points out of a total of 950 and beat other huge manufacturers like Coca Cola, Nintendo and Duracell. The ad shows Santa using Siri on an iPhone 4S to help him with his annual task of delivering presents all over the world.

Source: Gigaom

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Ashley’s year-end Failsies. Enjoy!

Apple has launched its 12 Days of Christmas app for the third year running. The app offers free content from iTunes for twelve days between December 26^th and January 6^th. Today you can access three live audio tracks and three live videos from Coldplay's recent appearance at the iTunes Festival in London earlier this year.

Each day between now and January 6^th, when you open the app, new content will be available for free. Last year this included music, movies, books and apps. It is offered by Apple as an introduction for new iOS users to get to know how iTunes works and also as a thank you for existing users too.

Apple's 12 Days of Christmas is only available in Canada and most parts of Europe; strangely the United States is not part of the promotion. The app is compatible with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.

• App Store – link