The holiday season is all about giving but now it’s time to cash in. We are going to hook up one lucky COED reader with a slick Jack Spade dopp kit ($155 value) filled with three AXE Hold+Touch styling products and a $50 iTunes gift card. This way you could look like a stud when the family stops by to drop off gifts. It’s really easy to enter, check the details after the jump!

Sports Illustrated will announce the winner of their model search on Friday, March 11th. In preparation for this historic declaration, we’re giving one lucky COED reader an autographed poster featuring all eight finalists, and iTunes gift card, and an iPad. For the chance to win, watch a series of videos, answer questions about the videos, and email them to us. The deadline to enter is Friday, March 11 at 2pm EST. You can find details after the jump!

Have you ever been driving and had the feeling you weren’t distracted enough? Apparently executives at Ford have had the same feeling and have come up with new ways to keep drivers’ eyes off the road. Ford recently announced upgrades to its SYNC vehicles due to be released in 2010 that include WiFi connectivity and HD radio with iTunes tagging.

Despite the fact that you’ve been looking at porn on your iPhone for years, Apple has now approved the first app to be sold in iTunes that contains nudity! Called Hottest Girls (iTunes download) the $2 app features more than 2,200 pictures of super-smokin’ girls, like Lucy Pinder, Megan Fox and Bree Olson, in everything from skimpy outfits to, well, nothing at all.

Today, Apple implemented their latest iTunes tweek: tiered pricing. WTF is that, you ask? Well, on paper, it means that more popular songs will now go for $1.29, up from $0.99, and other, less in-demand songs will go for only $0.69. Seems reasonable enough…

As if you needed another reason to drink, Foursquare iPhone application developers have created an iPhone app, which lets your friends know at which watering hole you’re downing some cold ones, and then awards you points for every additional bar you go to.

These days, there’s an iPhone (or iPod Touch) application for everything. So many, in fact, that everything you’ll ever need is now in your pocket, just a click away. And that goes for getting your daily dose of hottness, too! So to keep you from having to spend precious time navigating iTunesfor, we’ve put all the sexiest iPhone apps all in one place, just a click away from download. Enjoy!

Downloading ringtones for your iPhone might not be the most expensive item on your budget, but that doesn’t mean making your own doesn’t totally rule!
Using only iTunes (no gimmicks or downloads here), you can make ringtones for your iPhone from any part of any (DRM-free) song in your library.
Now, I’m not particularly tech-savvy, but I… Click to read more

So you’re tired of spending your valuable bucks on $.99 downloads from the iTunes store? Me too! (Stupid economy…) MySpace Music Store is set to launch later this week, but even there you’re going to have to pay close to $1 per song.
Lemme throw this controversial questions up against the wall – what happened to good ole pirating? I m… Click to read more

Apple released a brand new iPod on Tuesday and while the rest of the nation was captivated by all the pretty colors and the new gizmo’s shake-to-shuffle feature, I was a little busy geeking out about the other announcement: iTunes 8.
Unlike previous incarnations, iTunes 8 is shaking up the application for the first time in years, this time with the intr… Click to read more

Sure, terrible things happen around the world every day. But the sight of so much wasted beer makes a man just not want to get out of bed in the morning. But since you’re already out of bed, it’s time to caption this.
The Rules:
Submit your best caption editor@coedmagazine.com, and the winner (based purely on our bias) will receive a $15 iTunes gift… Click to read more

Within the next month a major change may be coming to Apple’s digital music strategy with Steve Jobs reportedly about to unveil a subscription-based service connected to the iTunes store.
Although Jobs has blasted subscription-based music services in the past saying,”the subscription services are not succeeding… People want to own their… Click to read more

iTunes U. Where College Lectures and Pop Stars Unite
At Apple’s iTunes online store, Britney Spears and Shakespeare are separated by just a few clicks.
While an episode of “Desperate Housewives” will cost $1.99, a series of lectures by renowned University of California-Berkeley philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus is absolutely fr… Click to read more

It’s that time of the year again, if you live in San Diego. On Sunday night the annual San Diego Comic-Con wrapped up and so did the announcements about where pop culture is going in the coming year. Since we were not able to attend this year, here is a run down of significant announcements from the show.
•    For Batman fans, The Dark Knight was only the beginning.… Click to read more

We found pictures of this Turkish smokeshow floating around the internet but they didn’t include a name.
Help us ID this mystery babe and win yourself a $15 iTunes giftcard!
Submit your guesses to COED’s Facebook Group discussion board topic “Mystery Miss COED,” or in the comments, below.  First person to ID the mystery babe corr… Click to read more