Outlook.com thanks early adopters with gifts.

A year already since Outlook.com was launched as Microsoft moved away from the the good old Hotmail.com. The designed from scratch metro based online service boasts 400 million users since it went public last year. To celebrate its first year of existence, the Outlook.com team is offering gifts to its early adopters in the form of an additional 3GB SkyDrive storage for one year and one month of free video on Skype. The latter lets you get up to 10 people together on the same video call; a feature available to premium skype users.

Early adopters may have already got email with these offers and accompanying code. So make sure to check your inbox. For the others check, watch the thank you video from the Outlook.com team.

Happy birthday Outlook.com.

Familiar looking "FallingBirds" game free for a limited time - new levels coming soon.

FallingsBirds is a funny puzzle game where you help a familiar blue bird reach his nest. To help you, there are a bunch of tools such as trampolines, walls, and rockets to help you progress towards the nest. Easy right? Nah, it would not be fun without some bombs to dodge as well as collecting some stars and points. Sounds like fun.

FallingBirds is currently free and runs on Windows phone 7.5 and 8. Hurry up and get your free copy. The publisher has already announced new levels to be added soon.

Really, doesn't that bird look familiar?

Download: Windows Phone Store

Deal: Fragger, Gravity Guy, iStunt 2 & Monster Island are free until Monday.

Not much to write about here as the title says it all. Four free games from Miniclip are temporarily free in the Windows Phone Store. Hurry up and start downloading and enjoy the games on your Windows Phone 7.x and 8 devices.

Gravity Guy

Monster Island

iStunt

Fragger

Source: Windows Phone Store

Calculator³, the 6-mode smart calculator temporarily free.

The built in calculator for Windows Phone is very basic and if you happen to be looking for a more advance, smart calculator, Calculator³ is exactly the tool you need. It's like a Swiss knife with its 6 mode: Basic, Scientific, Programmer, Currency Converter, and Unit Converter. Designed to use the Windows Phone modern UI, Calculator³, is currently free and will be so for the next three days. If you miss it, the tool is well worth $1.49. Each mode can be pinned to the start screen, taking advantage of Windows Phone 8 live tiles. 

Features:
• over 50 scientific functions
• 125 mathematical and physical constants
• statistical functions for memory values
• over 150 World currencies
• over 200 units for conversions across 17 categories
• searchable constants, currency, and units lists
• calculation history
• Undo function
• customisable Tax buttons
• customisable button layout
• Auto, Fixed point, Scientific, and Engineering display formats with choice of digit grouping
• enable or disable operator precedence
• copy/paste
• support for both light and dark themes, and use of the accent colour
• live tiles for each calculator showing the history or latest exchange rate
• background task to automatically update the exchange rate information and Currency Converter live tile
• 64, 32, 16 and 8 bit word lengths for the Programmer Calculator, including signed or unsigned integers

Calculator³ is currently free and available for download on the Windows Phone Store. The app works with Windows Phone 8, 7.5 and 7.8. The latter is not listed on the download page, but I confirm it works.

Free: Mehdoh - Twitter client for Windows phone with Instagram account support.

Mehdoh is a nice Twitter client for Windows Phone and Windows Phone 7.x. The app is currently free, so go get it now as I doubt it will  remain so for long. Mehdoh is fast compared to the other Twitter clients I use on my HTC 8X and supports Instagram account.

Features:

- Multiple twitter account support. 
- Instagram account support (feed/popular/profiles/searching). 
- Soundcloud account support (with background audio player!)
- Twitter Streaming (real-time feeds).
- Twitter Lists. 
- Lock screen notifications and live tile (WP8 only)
- Lock screen wallpaper (WP8 only)
- Voice commands (WP8 only)
- Inline media previews.
- Image / website previews in the app
- Fully customisable layout. An amazing new clutter-free photo timeline... the list goes on! 
- LOTS more features and fully configurable.

Download: Windows Phone Store

Get Assassin's Creed and Earthworm Jim for free.

I think the title of this post says it all. These two Xbox Live titles are currently free in the Windows Phone Store, waiting for you to download. Use the links below to get them.
Assassin's Creed                                                                                      
Earthworm Jim

Source: WMPoweruser.com

Nokia Drive+ Beta available for WP8 users in Canada, UK and the US.

Microsoft and Nokia made good on their promise to bring the free Nokia Drive+ app to all Windows Phone 8 devices. The app which was a Nokia Lumia exclusive until yesterday is still a beta version, so expect to see some bugs. If you do come across one or two, do not hesitate to bring it to the attention of the developers through the Windows Store or the app feedback tab

Nokia Drive+ beta can be downloaded free from the Store and will give you access to turn-by-turn navigation, offline maps, speed limit warnings, voice guided navigation etc. 

Download link.

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Learn more about Nokia Drive+ beta.

Free App Friday: Pocket Informant 2007

Today only, it's Free App Friday on Handango and today you get Pocket Informant 2007, a $34.95 value, completely free!
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And don't worry, if you miss getting the free download, you can at least visit the same page before next Friday and get a discount on the app.