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it's time to grab up some freebies from iTunes I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet updates it's been five years since Apple began selling apps for the iPhone and to mark the anniversary this week some popular pricey apps are free including the games Infinity Blade 2 where's my water and tiny wings there are also professional apps for free like traktor DJ which typically costs 20 books also free is the journaling app called day one and the app over puts words over your photos you can also get the best-selling cookbook how to cook everything and you can find a list of free apps on the show blog at cnet com / update garmin has announced a new in-car navigation device the HUD it projects turn-by-turn directions upward onto the windshield into the driver's line of sight there's no screen this projector just sits on the dashboard and automatically adjust the brightness of its projections so drivers can see it in direct sunlight and at night HUD which is short for heads-up display will sell for a hundred and thirty dollars when it goes on sale sometime in the summer and you'll need a thirty dollar app on your smartphone though to power it the HUD is meant to reduce driver distraction a time where many people are taking their eyes off the road by getting directions from their smartphone screens Facebook is rolling out graph search to all users in the US some were able to get an early peek in January but this new way of searching is rolling out to everyone now it lets you narrow down results with phrases such as searching for my friends from Florida who like pancakes if you're looking for a deal to popular mini tablets are cheaper than ever amazon just cut the price of the kindle fire HD tablet to 170 dollars and as for the competition at barnes and noble well the Nook HD+ is listed for a hundred and fifty dollars but don't be surprised if you see the nooks price go even lower because Barnes & Noble has said it will no longer design and produce color tablets it will instead partner with third-party manufacturers when it wants to make a color tablet in the future and if you want the popular samsung galaxy s4 without a contract metropcs is now selling it for five hundred and fifty dollars up front but it's only coming to a few big markets for the time being looking ahead this week you can expect Nokia to announce a new windows phone with a crazy good camera nokia is having an event in new york on thursday to show off the Lumia 1020 it has a 41 megapixel camera yeah 41 megapixels the camera will be similar to the one in the Nokia 808 PureView which was never marketed before to North America because it ran on the unpopular symbian operating system that's your tech news update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey