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A day doesn't go by where we aren't pummeled with new apps and uses for the iPhone. Some are good, some suck rotten lemons, some are stupid and then there are those that are admittedly just a little on the strange side.

For the newbies they are just the strange lines forming a square but once known they are an effective part of the marketing strategy to easily grab the attention of the potential customers.

Of all the strange, quirky stuff we've seen in the iPhone's App Store, this one takes the cake: An application that enables you to virtually spank your friends, family or coworkers.

Have you played Peggle? This iPhone game came out some time ago and was an immediate hit at the app store for it's strange and extremely addictive gameplay. The game just went on sale for 99 cents, but it will only last until midnight Sunday, June 14.

Just how do you fit a wrestling game on a gaming rig with no buttons? You refashion the experience into what essentially boils down to a story-driven game of paper-rock-suplex. Longtail Studios has certainly taken a unique approach to the TNA license and it's a strange outcome to see the story and RPG elements of the game outpace the actual wrestling action.

Whoops! Apple lawyers filed a biometric security patent application this week and an Engadget reader noticed something strange in the screen caps: Installer.app and SMBPrefs.