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ngmoco:) has released a number of very popular games on the App Store, including Maze Finger, Topple, Dropship, and Doctor Awesome. On Thursday, the company releases its newest title, the eagerly awaited Rolando, which you can preview on the company’s website. And did you know that ngmoco:) has dropped the prices of its current game titles to celebrate Rolando’s impending arrival?

Spaces in Mac OS X Leopard makes it easy to create one space for iPhoto, one for Safari and Mail, and still another space for Pages and Numbers. Switching from one space to another helps you concentrate on one task at a time. But what happens if you decide to move an application from one space to another? Find out how to reorganize your Spaces in the latest Quick Tip of the Week.

Pangea Software’s Brian Greenstone has written Mac games for more than two decades, reports Dan Lyons (newsweek.com), but with $5 million in revenue this year alone, he may now focus his attention on iPhone. “In the last four and a half months we’ve made as much money off the retail sales of iPhone apps as we’ve made with retail sales of all of the apps that we’ve made in the past 21 years—combined.”

Mike Wendland (freep.com) is sold on the Mac in general and the MacBook in particular. In fact, as part of his “12 Days of Christmas Tech Gift Guide,” he says that “when it comes to a notebook computer with power that rivals a desktop and portable convenience that can do just about anything on any operating system platform, I have one suggestion that I truly believe fits everyone: Get a Mac.”

Watch the Treasure of The New York Pubic Library to sense the breadth of materials that New Yorkers can enjoy by visiting their Public Library. The videos available on iTunes U introduce you to the library’s Art Deco collection, offer a glimpse of The Katharine Hepburn Papers, and let you sample some of the delights in the library’s extensive collection of menus and cookbooks. What other treasures can you find?

Before it reaches theaters next Friday, you can enjoy multiple clips and the third trailer from Will Smith’s new film Seven Pounds on the Movie Trailers site. Directed by Gabriele Muccino (who directed The Pursuit of Happyness), the emotionally charged Seven Pounds also stars Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson.

Today, says Stephen H. Wildstrom, “apps are where the action is, and consumers are reaping the benefits.” Wildstrom points out that “before the iPhone, relatively few owners of any phones — smart or dumb — downloaded applications.” But “‘now everyone wants [an app store],’” he quotes Jim Balsillie, co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, as saying.

“Having downloaded a gaggle of programs,” Ed Baig (usatoday.com) believes more than ever that “the killer app for the iPhone is — drum roll, please — the iTunes App Store.” And he talks about some of his favorite apps, including Pandora, Ocarina, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 3D, Wurdle, Recorder, and numerous others.

Led by Paul Flicek, researchers at Cambridge University’s European Bioinformatics Institute depend on the Mac to work “on absolute state-of-the-art science,” including such projects as the 1000 Genome Project. From collecting data and handling huge datasets to making it available to the world’s scientists, the Mac helps them move from task to task by providing “the ideal human computer interface,” says Flicek.

Most developers will tell you that getting rich quickly through an iPhone App is the exception, but the stories of those who do continue to inspire many. Newsweek profiles some of the biggest winners of the App Store at this early stage.