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BBC America Shop Holiday Sweepstakes

While you’re dashing about attempting to take advantage of all those great Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals, why not pause to pick up a little something for yourself? Our friends at BBC America are currently hosting a big holiday sweepstakes. The grand prize is a $500 BBC America Shop gift card for you and another for a friend or family member of your choosing, with second and third place winners receiving pairs of $250 and $100 cards respectively.

The BBC America Shop is the best place for us Yanks to take home amazing series like Doctor Who and Being Human, so you’ll likely be at the site perusing their uniquely British wares anyway. From there it’s just a quick jump over to their Facebook page for sweepstakes registration and official contest rules.

So stop by and toss your name in the proverbial hat. And, um, mind the gap.

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The folks over at Once Upon an App have decided that given it is the start of the holiday season and all, they want to share a bit of app love. So, they announced via email and Twitter yesterday that tomorrow, November 26,  all of their apps will be free to download for the day.

That’s right: no strings attached. Free apps.

I recommend at least going along and downloading Peepers if you have a child that is just at that beginning to read stage. It is a nice little app that allows children to drag words to finish rhyming sentences. The functionality I love, and can’t wait to see Once Upon an App, or other developers use the ability to move words around the screen in increasingly more interesting and engaging ways to support literacy development. I’m thinking a Motion Math style app, but with words, rather than numbers.