A shareware title to pass the time between incredibly important work-related projects.

Another Mine is a Mac-native clone of Minesweeper. True to the meaning of the word “clone,” everything is exactly the same. Well, the icons are a little different, and we guess it might take true Minesweeper junkies about three rounds, give or take, to fully adjust to them. After that, they’ll be sweeping for mines till their fingers cramp up. Go ahead, email the link to all your recent (or wannabe) switcher friends who complain about the Mac’s lack of Minesweeper. They’ll appreciate it.

A shareware title to pass the time between incredibly important work-related projects.

Word Twist tasks you with solving a Wheel-of-Fortune-style puzzle by building words on the Boggle-like game board. You click the letters to make a word, and if the first letter of that word also appears in the puzzle, that letter will show up. You get 20 tries per round to uncover enough letters to solve the puzzle. Regular mode is 10 rounds, Quick mode is half that, and you can customize the board size, number of rounds, and puzzle categories in Free mode. Sound a little boring? If you’re not a huge fan of word games, it totally is. On the other hand, true fans of the genre will be appalled at the lack of keyboard controls—mouse-clicks only.
 

iUSBCam lets iChat work with webcams that might not otherwise be possible to use.

My dad and I both have Mac minis, and we want to use iChat for videochats with each other. The problem, however, is that Apple discontinued the iSight camera, and we can’t find any other FireWire webcams out there. We found a whole bunch of USB webcams, but none of them come with Mac drivers. Can you please tell us how we can use a USB webcam with Mac OS X?

Never fear—when Apple taketh away, it also giveth. Starting with Mac OS 10.4.9, Apple has included support for an open standard called UVC (USB video class), which many modern webcams support. If you’re running Mac OS 10.4.9 or later and your USB webcam is UVC-compliant, then it will instantly work with iChat, Skype, or any other program that can use a webcam.

If you’re running an older version of Mac OS X, or your USB webcam isn’t UVC-compliant, you still may be in luck. macam (free, webcam-osx.sourceforge.net) is a set of webcam drivers for Mac OS X that supports hundreds of USB webcams, old and new. After installing macam on your machine, you’ll most likely need to purchase and install iUSBCam ($9.95, www.ecamm.com/mac/iusbcam), which enables iChat to work with the webcam that you just installed the drivers for.

One other quick thing to note: If you own a FireWire DV camcorder, you can use it with iChat without having to install any additional software.

Word around the rumor mill is that the new Facebook iPhone app interface is difficult to navigate in comparison to its OG predecessor. Whether or not this is true is entirely relative, but we can definitely agree that the new Digg and Facebook love affair is adorable.

Digg announced that it will team up with the social networking giant to collaborate on a feature called Facebook Connect. The feature will allow Facebook users to log into Digg and digg stuff so that their hundreds of friends can digg in, too.

Overused puns aside, Facebook Connect will help Digg cement itself as the social aggregator, competing with sites like Twitter and del.ic.ous. iPhone users will especially benefit from this merger and will be able to Digg and post to their Facebook using just one app.

AT&T announced today they have developed software that allows iPhones to recognize voice commands.  The software is called AT&T WATSON Speech Mashups based on AT&T’s WATSON technology. WATSON is hosted on the web allowing iPhone access to the software “without the need to install, configure, and manage speech recognition software and equipment” according to AT&T.  

Check out the video after the jump.

The App Store is sure to have its share of bugs, in fact, here’s one time-consuming App Store-update bug that could lead to severe frustration. Some users are logging into the iTunes Store to download app updates to find that they have an "outstanding balance." This predicament could leave users with buggy, partially downloaded software or just won't allow you to download the updates at all.

Fear not, it is probable that there is no outstanding balance (unless you're purposely trying to cheat the system). It seems the iTunes App Store belives you're trying to download applications without adequate credit available on your credit card when you select "Download All Free Updates." Downloading each App update, one at a time, should remedy the situation.

The idea behind the iTunes credit hold is tp keep users from downloading beyond their credit’s spending limit, but the bug can be annoying for users who just need their App updates.

Newsweek recently examined whether the episodes of Seinfeld still hold up 10 years later. After I got over the shock that "yikes, that was 10 years ago? I am friggin' old," I thought it was a nice article -- everyone loves Seinfeld, it's fun to look back, yadda yadda yadda. But Mac|Life dares to ask the deeper, more important, and far, far geekier question:

Would the episodes of Seinfeld hold up if the characters had access to iPhones?

Find out after the jump.

This news shouldn't surprise anyone who stood in line and/or anxiously waited for their back-ordered iPhone to arrive from AT&T.  iPhone 3G sales are nearly double that of last years launch of the OG iPhone.

AT&T shared that bit of news in their quarterly results. The figure is from sales of the iPhone 3G during the first 12 days of its release.

If MobileMe is still giving you a headache, you can take solace in the fact that the service is now intertwined with the iLife suite.

Apple released the iLife suite update to combat the usual compatibility issues, and to improve overall performance. But the big fun is when you launch your newly updated apps and see the happy little cloud just waiting to make your world a living hell rock your world.

Online galleries are now MobileMe galleries, and they sport a shiny-happy sun to let you know, everything is gonna be okay.

iPhone game makes plumbing fun again.

Aqua Forest creatively combines a sketching program with physics. Players draw with water, stone, ice, and other objects in an effort to move an object to a goal. After placed, a line of water or any object becomes animated, cascading with gravity and iPhone movement. Even when the iPhone or iPod touch gets frequently overwhelmed by too much action on-screen—the frame-rate drips at about ten per-second—the unique game stays playful and engaging. But Aqua Forest only reveals glimpses of its brilliance, with its rules changing too frequently and the roster of objects with which you can paint overwhelming our palette.

Check out the entire review after the jump.