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You’ve all pre-ordered your iPad, right? Better get on that before the available stock is gone. And since you’re only about three weeks away from delivery, you should also stock on free apps to transfer to it when it arrives. This week’s list is all about driving games, Twitter and limited time freebies.  Half of this list won’t be free for long, so I’d better cut to the chase.

• Brizzly - There’s a new best Twitter app on the App Store every week, it seems. This week’s new best is called Brizzly.  It has most of the snazzy features like trends and news, lists, multiple Twitter account support, pics and more.  If you don’t already have a Twitter client, this is as a great app to take for a spin.
• Mini Desktop Racing Arcade - Take a toy car for a spin on your desktop.  You control the car entirely with your finger, just don’t hit anything.
• Transformers G1: Awakening Free - You ready to roll out?  Play as the classic Autobots against the Decepticons in this turn based strategy game.  Obviously you can transform and this is to your advatage when you want to travel faster.  And it’s all in 3D; not the red and blue 3D, this is the kind that stays in the screen.
• iCupertino - This app lets you know how far away you are from Cupertino, California.  Is that useful?  Probably not.
• Volkswagen Think Blue. Challenge - The first line of description for this game is so perfect that I just can’t bring myself to modify it at all, so here it is.  “Pure driving fun without the need of high speed!”  They want you to buy that the smartest—not the fastest—driver wins.  I personally thought driving far too fast for safety was the fun in virtual driving, hhmm.  In any event, this game at least looks pretty good on the iPhone, and it might keep you occupied for a fair amount of time.  Oh, and the app maps the closest VW dealerships so you can go buy whatever slow fuel sipping car their advertising with this game.
• Raging Thunder 2 Lite - Wait, another free driving game this week?  Yup. Difference is, contrary to whatever your elementary teachers told you, this one believes in winners.  And to win, you need to be the fastest, not the smartest.  Ricky Bobby wasn’t born to think, Ricky Bobby was born to go fast…
• Yield - Here’s a game that’s free until its lite version goes live on the App Store.  It’s a game of directing traffic around town.  I’m sure you can imagine that the cars will all go different speeds and there are plenty of intersections.  Should be quite a lot like your drive to work, a tad bit irritating but always a challenge.
• iBed - Another free for a limited time app.  This one aims to solve the problem that’s supposed to be a feature.  Imagine you’re in bed trying to read something on your iDevice and it keeps trying to figure out what orientation it’s in.  How irritating.  There should be a system setting for this sort of thing, but until then you can use this app to lock the rotation of the screen and access a number of online services such as Facebook, Gmail, Twitter or any other website, really.
• PhotoMix - You know the drill, it’s free, but not forever.  This takes your images, or the picture of the day on the net, and slices it up for you to slide back to how it’s supposed to look.  Simple yet fun.
• 1Password - The app that keeps all of your sensitive information safe is free on the App Store again.  There’s still the Pro version, but if you have 1Password for Mac, then you’ll probably want one of the companion apps for your iDevice.