No fewer than 18 world-class athletes are fuming over a Facebook app that lets users see how closely they are connected to stars of the Olympic games. The app, powered by Samsung, ties in its products and services to the upcoming 2012 games. It is essentially like Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, but instead of Kevin Bacon it’s professional athletes who have won in the Olympics. Now, a dozen and a half of those athletes are suing.

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While it may soon be worth a gazillion dollars, there are many out there still scared to death by Facebook and certain privacy issues, not to mention the large numbers of apps and sites across the web that use your Facebook as a passport of sorts. PrivacyChoice is hoping to alleviate such fears, today launching a Privacyscore app for Facebook. The app will let users see which Facebook apps protect their privacy, and which don’t.

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Algoriddim has released an upgraded version of its djay for iPad to support the Retina Display on the new iPad. If you’ve got the new iPad now, the enhanced djay for iPad is one of the first apps out there which you can use to test how good the display of your new iPad is.

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The AntiCrop app for iOS is what you need to “reverse engineer” those cropped images. You should be familiar with image cropping app which allows you to crop out unwanted parts of the pictures you’ve taken with your iPhone or iPad 2. But what if you want those removed parts back? The AntiCrop app will come in handy on your iOS devices.

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