Outbreak: An app that aggregates disease outbreak information into either a list or a map overlay, giving you just enough information to be nervous, but not quite enough to really do anything about it. Most useful for hypochondriacs and/or residents of Sub-Saharan Africa. Free.

Watchmen 2.0: Back around when Watchmen came out in theatres, there was a little iPhone game called Watchmen: Justice is Coming . It was one of the first 3D MMOs for the iPhone, but felt a little underdeveloped. Version 2.0, coinciding with the DVD release, is free if you’ve already got the first one, and comes with eight new episodes, a pile of new characters, a 360-degree battle mode, and new rooftop settings.

Robocop, Fargo, and Rocky Soundboards: This doesn’t even feel like part of an app roundup—it feels more like three beautiful gifts, from me to you. These are official soundboards, from eminently quotable movies, for free.

This Week’s App News on Giz:

• Gizmodo’s Essential iPhone Apps: Fall 2009

• I am T-Pain iPhone App Is Auto-Tuning Genius

• Top 10 Back to School iPhone Apps

• Apple Approves Line2, a Google Voice-esque Program For Toktumi

• Push Google Voice SMS and Twitter Messages to iPhone With Prowl, No Growl Required

• µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over to Cydia

• Bustedhot iPhone Application Makes Me Lose Faith In America

• Why We Can’t Have a Napster iPhone App (Or Android App, Or BlackBerry App…)

• Grand Theft Auto On the iPhone Will Be Wonderfully Old School

This list is in no way definitive. If you’ve spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here. Hope you had a great weekend, everybody.

Perhaps more disappointing is the fact that the version on sale in Australia on July 30 isn’t actually the Director’s Cut of the film – we only get a 2-Disc special edition, which doesn’t look like it includes the “Maximum Movie Mode” we’ve seen before either.

Despite the fact that this sucks for Watchmen fans, I’d still class the film as a “must-have” Blu-ray purchase when it hits shelves in just under two weeks. And as an added bonus, it’s good to know that the complete motion comic Blu-ray will also hit shelves the same day.

Most Blu-ray features leave me a little cold, but the Watchmen’s “Maximum Movie Mode” actually looks really cool. In it, director Zack Snyder uses two screens to visually show various behind-the-scenes snippets while the movie plays.

The setup, which is Snyder standing in front of a couple of screens, allows him to freeze the movie as it plays, show the scene being shot next to the final version and compare scenes to panels from the comic book. It’s the closest we’ve seen to actually having the director with you in your living room walking you through the movie. Great stuff.

The Watchmen BD hits on July 21st, and you can preorder it on Amazon for $US23. [Slashfilm]

In the interest of making Community Screenings a bit more practical (that BD Live function allowing users to watch a film in sync with friends over the network), Warner has teamed with Facebook in a cash-less deal to allow Community Screenings to sync with your Facebook friend lists.

It’s actually a great idea that’s far more progressive than using Warner’s current solution, a proprietary account system. Read more about the DVD and Blu-ray at these links: [Hollywood Reporter and Rope of Silicon via BluRayFreak]

An additional note to Watchmen fans: The Director’s Cut detailed here does not look to include interspersed moments from The Tales of the Black Freighter.

Sure, Wall-E had some dark overtones to it, but not as many as this fake trailer makes it seem. I want to see a movie-length remix like this. [Videosift via The Daily What]

It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that is avoiding the real horror. The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else. [Fresno Beehive via Kotaku]

The Fresno Beehive is giving away this geek-gorgeous Xbox to anyone (actually, just one person) who can write a 50-word review of the movie. (Sadly, that means our review is ineligible.)

It seems that the Watchmen film has pretty much cut audiences down the middle – half love the adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ masterpiece, while the other half think it deserves its own special place in hell for crimes against humanity. If you want a universal opinion on a Watchmen adaptation, then check out the fan-made Saturday morning cartoon. Hilarious because it’s fake, but if it was real, you just know that its creator would wind up just like Hollis Mason after the fanboys (and Alan Moore) were through with him…
[via CrunchGear]

The computer runs the classic Macintosh System in inverted video mode, white over black.

Update: VERY sorry for the spoilers. Took those out. – JC