If you’re a Stephen King fan — or a fan of graphic novels — you’ll really enjoy Stephen King’s N. You can download the first five episodes of the new animated graphic novel series from iTunes when you purchase a season pass for just $3.99. Then, each Monday over the next four weeks, iTunes will automatically download new episodes, five at a time, as they become available.

Watch collectors, astronomers, and those who simply admire a beautiful feat of engineering have been waxing enthusiastic over the Emerald Chronometer. A $4.99 application, Emerald Chronometer models seven “high-end mechanical watches,” offering such “complications” as sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, longitude, latitude, and others.

Readers of PC Magazine once again awarded top scores to Apple products. iPhone (8.9 out of 10), Mac desktops, (9.1/10), Mac laptops (9.2/10), iPod (8.4/10), and AirPort Base Stations (9.0/10) all achieved Readers’ Choice status and performed “Significantly better than average” in the annual reader survey. Respondents named iPhone the “ultimate smartphone,” and say PC Mag editors of Mac desktops: “No Windows vendor can touch the favorable scores Apple received across the board.”

On iTunes U, John Boudreau (siliconvalley.com) explains, “a series of lectures by renowned University of California-Berkeley philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus is absolutely free.” No tuition costs at all. In fact, iTunes U offers “more than 50,000 audio and video tracks — course lectures, language lessons, speeches — from scores of universities and colleges.” What would you like to learn about today?