Choosing a Bluetooth earpiece can be difficult. You want one that will work seamlessly, as well as look good, and the options out there don’t always combine those factors in an affordable package. Plus, who wants to have the same earpiece that everyone else has? The creative team behind Earloomz saw this challenge and rose to the occasion, designing a Bluetooth earpiece with style and functionality all wrapped up in one. With hundreds of designs to choose from, you’re sure to find one that will suit your personality. Each image is mechanically painted onto the earpiece and finished with a moisture resistant coating, guaranteeing quality and durability.

Each Earloomz earpiece comes with 2 earhooks and 4 earbuds as well as a lanyard holder so you always have it handy. Compatible with most mobile phones, set-up is a breeze and took less than a minute when I paired mine. Multipoint technology allows you to stay connected with 2 devices at once, and the earpiece has a range of 33′. Headset controls include call/answer, last number redial, and call waiting, all in one button. Keep reading for technical specs of the earpieces, contest details, and information about Earloomz campaign for a national Hands-Free Initiative.

Technical Specifications:

• Bluetooth Version v2.1+EDR
• Headset & Hands Free Profiles
• Rechargeable Lithium Polymer Battery
• Video Game Compatible
• Voice Prompt
• Connects To Two Phones
• Noise Reduction
• Weight: Approx. 10g
• Talk Time: 5 Hours
• Standby Time: 120 Hours
• Charging Time: 30-60 minutes
• Dimensions: 53[L] x 18[W] x 9[H] mm

Earloomz is asking consumers, car dealerships, cellular phone retailers, non-profit organizations, corporations, small business owners, medical professionals, and municipalities to join the campaign “Be Aware” and encourage anyone that is mobile to go hands-free – regardless of state laws. Whether, it’s encouraging someone to use a Bluetooth that conveys a personal interest, requiring an employee to wear a custom logo Bluetooth while driving a company vehicle, or setting an example for a child, Earloomz is helping keep cell phone users hands-free.

Contest: Earloomz is giving away two Bluetooth earpieces to iMore readers! The first thing you’ll want to do is head over to their website at the link below. Check out all the designs (there are a lot, approximately 400!), then come back here and leave a comment letting us know which one is your favorite. The contest ends Sunday at midnight PST. Good luck! (Please note, the contest is only for Bluetooth earpieces on Earloomz that retail for $59.99.)

More information/check out all the designs at Earloomz

Case-Mate POP! Case with Stand for iPad 2

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Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2

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Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2

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• February is fitness month at iMore and Mobile Nations! [iPad 3 giveaway!]

Every week a few of us from team iMore will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

The White House — @andrewwray

Looking for a great way to keep tabs on the Obama administration? The White House for iPhone is your best pick, giving you access to news, photos and video of what’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.

Not only will you have direct access to their blog, which is more of a news source than anything else, but you’ll also be able to browse through archived photos, video and more. I was able to watch the State of the Union address in its entirety earlier this week without strapping myself down to a desk or television. Instead, I just whipped out my iPhone and within a few minutes I was watching the livestream — no questions asked.

Next to the plethora of content, media and information about The White House at your fingertips, you can also setup push notifications to be notified of any major news stories going on in the political realm. Overall, it’s a great resource and the livestream feature is a lifesaver.

• Free — App Store Link

Zite Personalized Magazine – @sethclifford

Flipboard is the app that everyone likes talking about, but there’s actually a few new apps that are doing stylish news aggregation pretty well. One that I’ve really been enjoying lately is Zite, which takes a similar approach to Flipboard, but allows you to customize your reading experience over time by voting stories up or down and then learning what it is you prefer to read and giving you more tailored content.

The setup for the app is pretty simple, and I really like the clean UI. There’s really not much to get in the way and the content really takes center stage. I feel like it’s easier to browse than Flipboard, and while the Flipboard UI conventions are cool, don’t get me wrong – after a while, I feel like I’m really working to see new content, and I don’t feel like I can scan as quickly on my phone (which is a prime criteria for consuming news on the go). Zite feels like it allows me to do that more easily.

The customization aspects are cool too – you basically give stories a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, and Zite will remember what it is you liked and in the future return more content like it. There’s a lot of detail here as to how this is all accomplished, and since I’ve only been using it a short time, I can’t speak to its accuracy yet. Also, the type of feeds I’m looking at (tech stuff) usually have a bit of overlap, so it’s hard for me to tell right now. I’m less concerned with teaching the app though, and more concerned with the quickness of information and scanning, and it definitely succeeds there. But the app’s main draw is the personalization of content, so don’t let my particular use-case dissuade you from trying it out. It’s free and a really nice way to get your news.

Zite Personalized Magazine – Free – iTunes link

Messages+ – @iMuggle

I can not explain how happy I am to have a jailbreak on my iPhone 4S. Along with a new jailbreak comes tons of updated utilities and applications for iOS 5. I’ve been using IntelliscreenX and with it comes Messages+. I’ve been a long time fan of BiteSMS but I’m really loving the tight integration Messages+ has with iOS. There’s no separate application or icon, it just works. There’s really nothing to configure. Just set up a quick reply action via Activator and you’re good to go.

You can view images and files right from the quick reply window and then dismiss them. The UI blends perfectly with the default UI of iOS so it looks like something Apple themselves would have made. If you’re jailbroken and haven’t checked out Messages+ yet, I’d give it a try! If you already have IntelliscreenX, you already have a license for it and it comes built-in. If you don’t, you can buy Messages+ separately.

$7.99 – Cydia Search Link

Going back to a #TeamPure iPhone – @chrisoldroyd

This week I decided to give the new Absinthe Jailbreak a go on my iPhone 4S. I have always tinkered around with jailbroken devovces and do love apps like BiteSMS and SBSettings. This time the experience has been awful for me.

Installing the jailbreak was simple enough, I had to wait a bit longer as I am a Windows user. Anyway, to cut a long story short, my phone is all jailbroken in minutes and I installed BiteSMS and SBSettings and nothing more. A few days later and I try and listen to my music in the car and things start to go terribly wrong. Album artwork shows the wrong song playing and most songs start to play then stop or don’t play at all.

I turned iTunes Match on and off, and even synced again with iTunes, transferring all my music back on manually, still the same issue. Only option I had was to go back to a stock install and lose my jailbreak. That is where I am at now and guess what? Yep my music is now perfect again!

Squrl – @Bla1ze

I don’t watch a lot of TV and the shows I do want to watch are usually found on iTunes or Netflix but there isn’t a lot of good stuff out there these days any how in my opinion. For filling that void, I often scour the web looking for good online content to watch when I have some spare time but keeping track of that stuff has proven to be a difficult task over time. For Christmas I got an AppleTV and found Squrl. Squrl basically aggregates a lot of popular online video sites and various other content providers and provides a beautiful UI that allows for tracking videos, saving them for later viewing. Couple that with an AppleTV and you can amass plenty of content to watch in place of television shows. Social network integration as well as netflix, it has become a key resource of entertainment for me and it’s available for free in the iTunes App Store.

• Free – App Store link

Rdio – @jdipane

Music is a huge part of my life, and the ability to have almost any song at my fingertips without eating up all the space on my iPhone is a huge plus for me. Rdio is a subscription based service similar to Spotify, but I find that more songs that I enjoy to listen to are available through Rdio. Whether I want to select a certain song, album or just listen to a particular artists stations I can do so with a few simple clicks from within the application. I have various playlist’s set up, one for work out, one to relax, and I can add and remove songs with ease. Rdio also ties in with my home Sonos system which is great as I can listen to the music through my headphones, the speaker of the device or through the Sonos to keep me motivated. The application is free, but the service is paid, hit the link below to start your free 7 day trial!

• Free – App Store link

Puzzle Juice – @JorjLim

Tetris? Boggle? If you can’t decide which game to play, then Puzzle Juice is a sure winner.

The game starts as a standard game of Tetris; coloured blocks fall from the top of the screen, and you have to form a line at the bottom to score points.

However, unlike traditional Tetris, once you’ve completed a line, it won’t disappear. Instead, every block will turn into a letter and you’ll have to form words to score even more points. Here’s the fun part; while you’re looking for words, the next Tetris block has started falling. If you need more letters to form a word, tap on 3 same-colour blocks that are adjacent to one another to reveal more letters. There is also an optional Zen Mode, which challenges you to score as many points as you can in 90 seconds.

The game itself is well designed and even the menu screens have a pinch of character. You won’t see a “Ok”, or “Start” button throughout the game, instead you’ll see phrases like “Sounds Peachy” and “Totally Got It”, just to add that extra flare to the game.

The game is a mind-game, a fun-game and a challenging game all wrapped into one neat parcel, and will keep you busy for hours!

• $0.99 – App Store link

Doodlecast Pro

My day job is teaching two Intermediate Algebra courses at my local community college and this semester I’m experimenting with making videos for my students on new or difficult topics. Doodlecast Pro for iPad has turned out to be the best app to help me accomplish this. It records both my voice and handwriting and allows me to export and upload my videos directly to YouTube. If I made some mistakes along the way that I want to edit out, I can export to my Camera Roll instead and edit in another application like Avid Studio or iMovie. My only complaint is that the handwriting strokes are not really that great. I would love to see Doodlecast match the quality of handwriting to apps like Penultimate and Noteshelf.

• $3.99 – App Store link

LabTimer – Joe (Reader’s Choice winner – Comment #22)

My favorite right now is Lab Timer. It’s a free universal app that gives you 16 timers. They’ll count up or down and will sound an alarm. It’s handy for work so I can have a break timer, a lunch timer and can time how long a process is taking all from the same app. It’s especially handy for the iPad since there is no built-in clock app.

• Free – App Store link

Tell us your pick, enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!

Those were our picks, iMore Nation, so now it’s your turn! Tell us your pick of the week below. Give us the name of your favorite app, site, or accessory, and tell us why it made your life more productive, more informed, more entertaining, or just plain more fun. We’ll pick one of you and send you a shiny $10 iTunes gift certificate so you can start stocking up for future picks! Contest starts now and ends next Friday, January 13 at 12pm PT.

So what are you waiting for? Jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

“The OverBoard waterproof case for iPad is a must-have for everything from the bath to the beach, but can be a little tough to close if your hands are covered in suds or tanning lotion.”

I absolutely love waterproof cases like the OverBoard for when I’m traveling. They work exceptionally well to keep your iPad or iPad 2 clean and dry, and can double as a handy place to store some cash and credit cards as well. They also work great at home, letting you enjoy a relaxing soak in the tub while reading, surfing the web, or playing your favorite iPad game.

OverBoard for iPad has a crystal clear front. Seriously, it's screen-protector clear.

The OverBoard waterproof case for iPad is exceptionally clear on one side and padded on the other. It might be nice to have it clear on both sides, so you could use the rear-facing camera for when you’re out and about. However, when you realize beaches, bathtubs, hiking trips, rafting excursions, and pretty much any place you’d like to use it is also not a place you’d want to drop it, you start to appreciate the padding more.

The handy hand strap lets you hold your iPad one handed, reducing the chance of it slipping out of your grip

To further protect against dropping your iPad, the OverBoard case has a hand strap conveniently located on the back. Not only does this let you easily use your iPad one handed, but if you are in the bathtub, it leaves the other hand free for a beverage as well. Decadent, but oh so worth it!

Now, the closures on this particular OverBoard case were more difficult to line up and seal than previous ones I’ve reviewed. Take your time, align everything carefully, apply sufficient force (use those guns, bikini chicks!), and you should be okay.

You can choose to use the OverBoard by itself, which is ideal for the bath, or you can use the included shoulder strap — water-murse, anyone? — or carabiner if you’re traveling or hiking.

To see how well waterproof cases in general, and the OverBoard in specific hold up to everything from the deep end of the pool and a car wash to a dishwasher and RC boat race, check out these torture tests;

• TiPb TV 20: Bond boat bash
• Overboard vs Aquapac in iPhone 4 water torture test

The good

• Crystal clear plastic on the front
• Protective padding on the rear
• Hand strap for one-handed use
• Shoulder strap and carabiner options

The bad

• Requires a little too much strength to close
• Padding covers up rear camera

The conclusion

The OverBoard waterproof case for iPad is a must-have for everything from the bath to the beach, but can be a little tough to close if your hands are covered in suds or tanning lotion.

- $44.95 – Buy now

The giveaway

Simply leave a comment below telling us where you’d most like to use an OverBoard waterproof case for iPad of your very own! Giveaway starts now and ends Sunday, February 5 at midnight PT. (U.S. shipping address required for delivery. Sorry!)

“As a case and app combo Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 is great for letting kids learn art and have fun on the iPad, though it’s not something parents to just leave on a family device.”

The Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 review brings together the classic crayon and marker maker with one of the biggest names in iPad accessories for a double-threat case and app combo that’s sure to delight kids of all ages. It required a screen protector, comes with a large enclosure and a marker, but put it all together and you get the best of old world art thanks to the latest in Apple tech!

It's not small or subtle, but the Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 is durable enough for kids

The Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw is a contraption that fits over your iPad 2 like a case. A really big, really durable case. You need a screen protector, which I’m not a huge fan of, but your child will be drawing on paper on top of the screen and really, better safe than sorry.

The case holds the paper in place while the iPad 2 provides the light-box effect. And it holds your paper in place well. If your child is fortunate to have an iPad of their very own, having the Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 on all the time won’t be a problem. It will probably help protect it immensely. If it’s a family iPad 2, however, you won’t want to keep this case on any longer than you have to. It’s just too big and bulky, and toy-styled to suit regular adult use.

And that presents a small problem — once your kids get used to drawing or tracing on the iPad 2 with the Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw case on, once you take it off, I worry they’ll find a way to keep drawing anyway, which would be no fun. (Keep a lot of washable markers handy).

Easy to set up and fun to use, your young artist will love it

The Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 needs to be paired with the matching app from the App Store. It has a fair amount of content, including:

• On the Go – Connect the dots to create planes, trains and more
• Under the Sea – Animated friends guide you through undersea adventures
• Jungle Frenzy – Trace, draw and color a jungle full of fun
• Bot Builder – Swap bottoms and tops to make your own ‘bots
• Magical Mashup – Mix and match dragons, wizards and other magical characters to make a silly creation
• Superhero Swap – Swap tops and bottoms to create your own superheroes
• Family Fun – Trace and color fun family members, even the cat
• Sports Scramble – Use the clues to guess the game

So you’re likely to find something your child — and you! — might enjoy.

The good

• Fun to use
• Great way to get your kids drawing
• Easy to set up and use

The bad

• Requires a screen protector
• Could make kids think it’s okay to draw on iPad even without the case
• Not a case you can/want to leave on all the time

The conclusion

As a case and app combo Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 is great for letting kids learn art and have fun on the iPad, though it’s not something parents to just leave on a family device. You do need a screen protector to use it, which is a drag, and it’s not the slimmest, prettiest case in the world, so you’ll be taking it on and off a lot, but if your child is learning to draw I can’t think of a funner, easier way to get them started than with the Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2

• Case – $32.75+ – Amazon Store link
• App – Free – App Store link

The giveaway

Simply leave a comment below telling us your most favorite thing your son or daughter, or child in your life, has drawn for you and you’re entered to win a Griffin Crayola Trace & Draw for iPad 2 of your very own! Giveaway starts now and ends Sunday, February 5 at midnight PT. U.S. shipping address required for delivery.

Paper Monsters is a new platformer game for iPhone and iPad. In the game’s world, everything is made out of paper and cardboard, including your character. It’s a classic 2d side-scrolling platformer placed in a 3d environment.

I am loving this game! Paper Monsters has great graphics that are also very fun. My favorite little feature of the graphics is that sometimes things like trees and bushes pop up in front of or behind you in the 3d atmosphere.

Dive into the world of Paper Monsters and watch a living world made out of paper, cardboard, and a few cotton balls unfold right before your eyes.

Paper Monsters takes all of the classic 2d platforming elements, combines them with cutting edge graphics and then packs it onto your iPhone or iPad.

• Classic 2d sidescrolling gameplay with gorgeous 3d environments.
• Original and adorable characters
• Awesome original soundtrack – headphones recommended!
• Fun under water and flying powerups.
• Two control types: “floating” Joystick or classic touchpad
• Game Center Leaderboards
• Adventure and Hunt for hidden Game Center Achievements
• 16 Large Levels across 4 unique worlds
• Tons of secret areas!
• High score dash mode for endless replay value!
• Airplay Mirroring
• Fun for all ages
• Universal for iPhone, iPod, and iPad

Giveaway

We’re a big fan of cute platformer games, here at iMore, so we’re giving away Paper Monsters to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must have a US iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours!

Paper Monsters is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

• App Store link

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Get thinner, get stronger, get faster, get healthier with iMore and Mobile Nations in February!

New Years is over, January has come and gone, and for many of us, our get fit and get healthy resolutions have come and gone with it. Rather than leaving them lying in ruin with what’s left of our waist lines and good intentions, however, we want to do something about it. And we want you to do something about it with us!

Whether CrackBerry challenged Android Central, WPCentral threw down the gauntlet on webOS Nation, or iMore called them all out, who remembers? The important thing is this — we’re using February to get off our collective apps and get into shape.

Think about it — mobile is where it’s increasingly at for health and fitness. Our iPhone go everywhere we go and are the perfect way to record everything from our activity to our diet to our sleep cycles. And our iPads let us look at all that data on a bigger screen and really see where we are and where we need to be. Mobile has become lifestyle.

So… Want to eat better? iMore is with you! Want to get stronger? We’re spotting! Want to get into better cardio shape? We’re so there!

Each week we’re each going to set reasonable, attainable goals, and each week we’re going to take advantage of our awesome community to make sure we attain them. We’re going to have special editions of our ZEN and TECH and Superfunctional podcasts to help us get going and stay going, and we’re going to use our brand new Health and Fitness Forum to keep us focused, keep us accountable, and keep us keeping on!

Oh, and you could win an iPad 3!

You, the iMore Nation, are our motivation. And to keep you motivated, we have some great prizes lined up. Anyone and everyone who participates, who shares their goals and keeps us up-to-date with their regular progress will be automatically entered to into our:

• Weekly drawings for an iPod nano. We’re giving away 4 total, one each week!
• Grand prize drawing for an iPad 3 IOU! (You’ll get it when Apple launches it!)

There will also be some great app and accessory giveaways along the way to keep everyone on their toes.

Sound good? Sound great? Sound like you just can’t wait to get fit? Good! Jump into our new Health and Fitness Forum now and pick your goal for week 1.

Mobile Nations fitness month has begun!

“The Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 looks interesting and feels great but it doesn’t fit exceptionally well around the edges, ruining the overall affect.”

The first thing you’ll notice about the The Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 is the look. It’s covered in more hexagons that a Dungeons & Dragons map. This honeycomb texture isn’t superficial either — it’s thick and structural and designed to absorb shock and keep your precious iPad from being hurt by accidental bumps or drops.

The hexagram design will stand out from a crowd -- if that's what you want!

The hexagons are a bold look for Incipio, something you’re either going to love or hate. I like that they’re taking risks and doing something different.

The feel is wonderful. The Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 is soft but not slippery or slimy. It almost feels like it’s been covered in baby powder, but that’s probably just the anti-static coating.

The major flaw in the design, however, is that the Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 is too soft to stand up to the long vertical edge of the iPad 2. It lacks both the elasticity to stay tight and the structure to keep position. And so the Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 hangs from the mid-point and makes me feel like it could just slide off at any moment. I don’t know if the case is too big or they just need a better material.

The same material that makes it soft and easy to put on also makes it more difficult to stay on

On the bright side, the Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 comes in black, red, and gray, slips on and off easily, and exposes all the ports. It also comes with screen cleaner and a screen protector to keep the front safe and sound.

The Good

• Excellent grip
• No stickiness
• Screen protector included

The Bad

• Side edges aren’t snug enough
• Highly distinctive look

The conclusion

The Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 looks interesting and feels great but it doesn’t fit exceptionally well around the edges, ruining the overall affect. It was just too loose.

• $29.95 – Buy Now

The giveaway

Simply leave a comment below telling us how the Incipio Hive Honeycomb dermaSHOT Silicone Case for iPad 2 could make your life easier and you’re entered to win one of your very own! Giveaway starts now and ends Sunday, February 5 at midnight PT. U.S. shipping address required for delivery.

If Tetris were to wed a matching game, their resulting child may be something similar Revertis. The goal of this casual puzzle game is to draw 4 dots at a time in such a way that matches identical colors. The objective is simple, but execution may not always be.

I’m enjoying playing Revertis. It’s relaxing, has nice music, but isn’t mindless.

Are you on your way home from the work? May be in a subway or in a bus? Do you have 5 minutes? Would you like to shut down those thoughts in your head? Just for 5 minutes? Try Revertis! It is like meditation! It helps you to relax and trains your brain at the same time.

• 10 different game modes
• Competitive modes with limited time per turn
• Post your results on Facebook
• Game Center integrated
• Unique animation
• local leaderboards
• option for color-blind people
• soundtracks
• achievements
• German & Russian localizations

Giveaway

The makers of Revertis have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Revertis is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

• App Store link

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“If you want your iPad 2 to finally be able to stand on its own, then the Case-Mate Pop! Case is for you. “

The Case-Mate Pop! Case with Stand for the iPad 2 brings the same blend of protection and kickstand-enabled performance to the iPad 2 as it’s younger, smaller sibling does for the iPhone 4S. And like with the iPhone version, that’s a very good thing.

Available in two-tone black or white, the Case-Mate Pop! Case with Stand for the iPhone 2 is composed of hard, protective rubber shell and soft, easy-to-grip rubberized sides. The shell feels strong and can handle any minor impact that might otherwise scratch or dent your precious iPad. The sides are what make the difference for me, however, as they really let you grab a hold, and keep a hold, on what’s sometimes a slippery device.

Unlike it's smaller iPhone sibling, the Case-Mate Pop! Case for iPad 2 is either open or closed -- there are no gradations.

The stand folds out from the back and does a great job either staying open or being closed. However, unlike the iPhone version, there’s no ability to set an angle in between. You either have to keep it closed, set it open, or watch it flap about. Awkward.

When open, the stand is a winner. It keeps your iPad 2 up and at attention in either landscape or portrait mode

The Case-Mate Pop! Case for iPad 2 does a great job protecting the back but the sides feel a little loose at times. I’ve seen this on numerous iPad cases and while it might just be that these materials don’t hold up well over long surfaces like the edges around the iPad’s 9.7-inch screen, I still wish they’d figure that out.

The front looks good, protects well, and yet I can't stop wishing the side were just a little less loose.

But this case is really about the kick stand, and how it lets you put your iPad 2 down yet keep watching your movies, following your recipes, reading your books, typing your notes, or any other of a dozen activities.

The Good

• Offers good protection for the back and sides
• Material provides for excellent grip
• Stand works in either portrait or landscape mode
• Rubberized edge keep the stand in place

The Bad

• Edges could be slightly more form-fitting
• No angle adjustments options for stand

The conclusion

If you want your iPad 2 to finally be able to stand up on its own, then the Case-Mate Pop! Case is for you. Wonderfully grippy, nicely protective, the Case-Mate Pop! Case for iPad 2 is everything you could want in a movie-watching, note-typing, kickstand-packing accessory.

• ###$39.95 – Buy Now

The giveaway

Simply leave a comment below telling us how the Case-Mate Pop! Case for iPad 2 could make your life easier and you’re entered to win one of your very own! Giveaway starts now and ends Sunday, February 5 at midnight PT. U.S. shipping address required for delivery.

What would you do with $97 billion in the Apple bank?

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Review + giveaway: Choiix Wake Up Folio for iPad 2

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Review + giveaway: Spiderarm articulated stand for iPad

• David Ferrandino

3 Deluxe licenses for iPad/iPad 2 video tutorials by Made Simple Learning

• enlightened
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• smmiami

Giveaway: Inside Apple: New book aims to expose old secrets

• Colin Pye
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Inside Otterbox: How iPhone and iPad cases are designed, tested, and made awesome

Gunmetal Grey / Envy Green Defender Series

• Jeeves

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Giveaway: Apple Store Headphone Stand Replica

• anthonyrt
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App Giveaway: SOULCALIBUR for iPhone and iPad

• Aaron Wee
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• Laszlo
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Review: Mujjo capacitive touchscreen gloves for iPhone and iPad

• Alison Lurie
• Ame
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Following their Q1 2012 results, Apple now has a staggering, mind-boggling, almost unbelievable $97 billion dollars in the bank. That’s cash reserves bigger than most other companies and countries… combined. That’s a money bin even Scrooge McDuck could drown in.

What would you do if it were your money? Return it to the shareholders? (Pfft, what fun is that?) Buy all of Apple’s competitors? Buy a Hollywood studio or carrier network? Buy your own subcontinent? Buy the moon? Or just blow it all on candy and dancers?

Seriously — or at least as seriously as such a question could be posed! — what would you do with Apple’s $97 billion in the bank?

Leave a comment below with your best, most comedic, most tragic, most utterly entertaining answer and you’ll be entered to win a $97 gift certificate for the iMore Store. (Yeah, $97 dollars, not $97 billion — we’re not made of Apple bucks!) Contest starts now and ends Sunday, Jan. 29 at midnight PT.

Enter now!

Inside Apple is a new book from Adam Lashinsky that aims to reveal some of the secrets behind the success of America’s premiere consumer electronics company — Apple. Lashinsky wasn’t given the access that Walter Issacson was given for the Steve Jobs biography, but he did lots of interviews and paints a compelling portrait of one of the most secret companies in recent history. How much of the Apple magic he ultimate manages to expose is anyone’s guess, but for Apple enthusiasts and business students alike, it certainly looks like a must read.

Check out the full description — and giveaway! — after the break, and pre-order now to avoid the virtual rush. (We’ll also be discussing this in the iMore book club, so head on over!)

• $12.99 – iBooks link
• $12.99 and up – Amazon link

INSIDE APPLE reveals the secret systems, tactics and leadership strategies that allowed Steve Jobs and his company to churn out hit after hit and inspire a cult-like following for its products.

If Apple is Silicon Valley’s answer to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, then author Adam Lashinsky provides readers with a golden ticket to step inside. In this primer on leadership and innovation, the author will introduce readers to concepts like the “DRI” (Apple’s practice of assigning a Directly Responsible Individual to every task) and the Top 100 (an annual ritual in which 100 up-and-coming executives are tapped a la Skull & Bones for a secret retreat with company founder Steve Jobs).

Based on numerous interviews, the book offers exclusive new information about how Apple innovates, deals with its suppliers and is handling the transition into the Post Jobs Era. Lashinsky, a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune, knows the subject cold: In a 2008 cover story for the magazine entitled The Genius Behind Steve: Could Operations Whiz Tim Cook Run The Company Someday he predicted that Tim Cook, then an unknown, would eventually succeed Steve Jobs as CEO.

While Inside Apple is ostensibly a deep dive into one, unique company (and its ecosystem of suppliers, investors, employees and competitors), the lessons about Jobs, leadership, product design and marketing are universal. They should appeal to anyone hoping to bring some of that Apple magic to their own company, career, or creative endeavor.

The Giveaway

Leave a comment below telling us what secret you’d most like to learn about Apple and you’re automatically entered to win one of three (3) copies of Inside Apple, courtesy of your friends here at iMore! (Must have a U.S Apple Store account to redeem — Apple’s rule, not ours!). Contests starts now and ends Sunday, January 29 at midnight PST.

Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case for iPhone

• Paul Costello

System Monitor with Battery Max

• Brecht
• Brian Scholder
• Derek Scott
• gooner21
• heatwave316
• Jorge Diaz
• midnght69
• pst
• Roger Reid
• smmiami

Movies HD for iPad

• Delano
• Jason Vick
• John
• RevTucher
• snowbutterfly

Frequencies for iPhone

• Austin
• Enzo83
• Jimny
• Ray Norris
• suzannesstud

Run Roo Run HD for iPad

• Cuilo
• Douse
• Eric
• josh
• Songsak

New Year Diet Month

• Allen
• enlightened
• Paul Bunzey
• Steven
• Zarrar

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• Reminder: Follow iMore to win a Jawbone JAMBOX and $200 in iTunes gifts
• Review: Mujjo capacitive touchscreen gloves for iPhone and iPad
• Inside Otterbox: How iPhone and iPad cases are designed, tested, and made awesome
• Pick of the Week: Enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!
• Giveaway: Apple Store Headphone Stand Replica
• App Giveaway: SOULCALIBUR for iPhone and iPad
• Review + giveaway: Spiderarm articulated stand for iPad
• Giveaway: 3 Deluxe licenses for iPad/iPad 2 video tutorials by Made Simple Learning
• Review + giveaway: Choiix Wake Up Folio for iPad 2

Every week a few of us from team iMore will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants – @chrisoldroyd

I have just booked our family holiday for the summer and decided to have a nose around the App Store to see if I could find any apps that could recommend places to visit and where to eat. Luckily I stumbled upon an app called TripAdvisor Hotels Flights Restaurants. The app covers all sorts or areas and does cover Pollenca Mallorca where we are heading.

You can look at hotels, restaurants and visitor attractions, read reviews and ratings left by other visitors to the area too. It is very comprehensive, has links to Google Maps for guidance and he ability to leave your own reviews too. The app has been recently updated and is now optimized for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and is completely free. If you are planning vacation, check it out, it gives you some local knowledge right in your pocket.

• Free – App Store link

Idea Sketch – @Alli_Flowers

If you like graphic organizers, you’ll love Idea Sketch. We love stuff like this in education, from K-12, but mind mapping is a concept that can be used in any profession.

If you’re unfamiliar with the basic premise, you are literally mapping ideas. Drop your idea into a shape – round, square, oblong, diamond, and link it to other ideas. Expand your thoughts until you have filled in all those loose threads.

Idea Sketch allows you unlimited canvas space, so your ideas can’t be constrained. You can pinch and zoom to see whatever you want, and you can change the colors to suit your whim. You can view in a list format as well as the “idea” format, and you can share it all via email or via Box.

This is a must for students and educators, and a great idea for anyone just trying to organize his thoughts.

• Free – App Store link

Sonic 4 Episode 1 – @jorjLim

Ever since I was younger, I have been a huge fan of the Sonic franchise. I owned the 3 main games, Sonic 1, 2 and 3, on original megadrive cartridge (remember them?). When I learnt that Sonic 4 Episode 1 would be coming to iOS, I got really excited. I got so excited that I bought the game for its full £6.99 price at midnight the day it came out.

The one thing I could never achieve on the older games, was collecting all the Chaos Emeralds. Collecting all 7, would unlock Super Sonic, a invincible, faster, yellow version of Sonic.

So when I downloaded Sonic 4 Episode 1, my one goal was to unlock Super Sonic, for the first time, ever. After months of struggling, having to re-do each level to play the special stages over and over again. I finally collected the last Chaos Emeralds.

My 8 year old self would have been so proud of this moment, finally being able to play as Super Sonic that I unlocked myself, and to achieve this on a updated version of the game, made it ever better. I got to have the thrill of nostalgia, side by side with awesome modern 2.5D graphics, on my phone!

If you are a fan of the Sonic franchise, you should check out Sonic 4 Episode 1. Its packed full of homages, references and levels from the original games and really does bring back the franchise with a modern look.

• $3.99 for iPhone – App Store link
• $4.99 for iPad – App Store link

Jelly Defense – @skeetobite

My pick of the week is a new tower defense game called Jelly Defense. This is a fun, light hearted casual game to play. This game takes the traditional tower defense game and doesn’t change the formula too much. It does add a bit of an ongoing story, includes towers that are only effective against enemies of the same color (so blue towers can’t shoot against red enemies), and includes various aspects like needing to “learn” how to make new types of towers. Where it shines, however, is with the mix of background sounds/soundtrack, and the really nice, clean graphics. The stark color contrast (red and blue jelly towers and enemies, a grey background) really give the game some character, which is needed to stand out from all the other tower defense games out there. Best of all, this is a universal binary, so you can play it on any device you have!

• $2.99 – App Store link

Birdhouse – @sethclifford

I sometimes like to revisit apps that I haven’t used in a while by browsing my purchased apps on my iPhone. One that I recently rediscovered is Birdhouse. Now the thing about Birdhouse is that it hasn’t been updated in a long time. Like since the summer of 2010. But it runs fine on iOS 5 and does exactly what it’s supposed to. Which is to act as a notepad for your tweets. You can log in with multiple accounts, save drafts of your potential tweets, publish directly from the app, and back everything up via email. It’s not a Twitter client per se, as there’s no timeline to view, but it’s more of a partner to your favorite Twitter app. And yeah, lots of apps save drafts now, but the nice thing about Birdhouse is that sometimes you have an idea you want to capture quickly and don’t feel like opening up your main app and loading it, and then getting sidetracked and eating up time. It’s a single purpose app for a simpler time.

• $1.99 – App Store link

Delivery Status – @Bla1ze

Keeping track of packages for me is a big issue, not because I get a lot of them but because I live an apartment. For some reason, if I’m not watching my package delivery dates — I tend to miss a lot of packages that are scheduled to be delivered. To help keep my eye on things and ensure I get my deliveries I make use of Delivery Status Touch by JuneCloud. It supports a wide array of services such as Amazon, USPS, UPS and more importantly for me — Canada Post plus it includes Google Map integration. JuneCloud also offers a desktop solution for tracking so your iOS device is always in sync with your desktop and the cloud.

• $4.99 – App Store link

Kinotopic – @phishgirl3

I’m always looking for new ways to make pictures and videos into something more than they are, and this week stumbled on an app called Kinotopic. This simple to use app turns 3-4 second videos into a kino, or cinemagraph. If you haven’t heard of cinemagraph, it’s a photo with a small repeated movement usually confined to one detail in the image.

All you need to do to make your own kino is shoot a quick video or pick one from your library, choose your anchor frame, then highlight the portion of the image you want to show movement. The app processes it and sends your created kino to you via email. You can share on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr as well as publish your finished creation to the public stream or mark it as private. All in all it’s a fun app to use, and in my opinion worth the $1.99 price tag.

• $1.99 – App Store link

Big Lens – @reneritchie

Sometimes you just need to fake it to get it done. For all the multiple layers of glass, remarkable aperture, and overall image quality of the otherwise I-can’t-believe-it’s-a-phone camera on the iPhone 4S, it just can’t give you the depth of field — or bokeh if you’re fancy — of a fast 50 on a DSLR. Enter Big Lens, which attempts to do in post what Apple can’t — yet — do in camera. Like most post-process depth of field utilities, it’s a trick and there’s no getting around it. Just look for the tell-tale halo around the non-blurred portions — for example, around a webOS editor and his brief flirtation with a BlackBerry Playbook on a big-ass gold chain at CES 2012. But with automatic and manual modes, aperture, filter, lens, focus, and blur controls, Big Lens fakes it well. If you’re ever in one of those awkward moments where you just have to fake it to get it done, give Big Lens a go. It might just get you to good enough.

• $0.99 – App Store link

iBooks Author – @llofte

iBooks Author is the iBooks creation tool that was announced at Apple’s education event. I’ve done a little playing around with it and am really excited to start seriously using it. I’d be impressed if a simple book was easy to create, but so are books filled with animations and interactive material. I’m a college math instructor and hope to use iBooks Author to write short, supplementary books to offer to my students for free.

• Free – Mac App Store link

The Recipe Box – Jackie Wyan (Reader’s Choice Winner)

The Recipe Box is one of my favorite “hidden gem” finds. I had been looking for an app that I could easily transfer all of my old, greasy, hand-written index card recipes to, that didn’t cost me an arm and a leg, require me to ‘create an account’ online, or force me to show my admiration for an unknown cook and their favorite recipes. The Recipe Box is it. And they have a great app developer, as the thing just keeps on getting better and better. You can easil search through all your entries by all sorts of means – a search field, a ‘type’ field, an ingredient field, etc. Plus, with the use of Dropbox, I quickly copy and pasted all of my Text file recipes over to the app.

It does come with a couple of recipes to begin with, but not so many that cleaning them out is a task, and a few worth keeping to try out. Plus, as you cook your own recipes, you can easily add photos of the results to the app, resulting in a fully customized experience!

I could continue to gush on about this app, but it is definitely worth your time and the small expense. And if you have other kitchen-savvy friends, the app gives you an easy way to share with them as well!

• $3.99 – App Store link

Tell us your pick, enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!

Those were our picks, iMore Nation, so now it’s your turn! Tell us your pick of the week below. Give us the name of your favorite app, site, or accessory, and tell us why it made your life more productive, more informed, more entertaining, or just plain more fun. We’ll pick one of you and send you a shiny $10 iTunes gift certificate so you can start stocking up for future picks! Contest starts now and ends next Friday, January 13 at 12pm PT.

So what are you waiting for? Jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

Slacker Radio is one of the most popular internet radio services available in the US and Canada. It is available for free, but has limitations such as ads and a limited number song skips. Users can subscribe to Slacker Plus Radio or Slacker Premium Radio and receive the following additional features (bolded features are exclusive to Slacker Premium):

• No ads
• Unlimited song skips
• Mobile station caching
• ABC news
• ESPN radio
• Complete song lyrics
• Play songs on demand
• Play albums on demand
• Play single artist stations
• Cache albums and playlists
• Create playlists

Giveaway

The good folks at Slacker, Inc have have given us some subscription codes for Slacker Premium to give away! We’ve got three 1-year subscriptions and two 3-month subscriptions. For a chance to win, just let us know your favorite song in the comments below!

Slacker Radio is available on the iPhone and iPad for free. Slacker Plus is available for $3.99/month and Slacker Premium is $9.99/month.

• App Store link

Have an app you’d love to see featured on iMore? Email us at iosapps@imore.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Just a friendly #FollowFriday reminder — we have a couple of amazing prizes, including a Jawbone JAMBOX and a $200 iTunes gift card just waiting to be won by the always awesome members of our iMore Nations. All you have to do to enter is:

• Friend iMore on Facebook
• Subscribe to iMore on YouTube

And that’s it! Though while you’re at it, you may as well hook yourself up here as well, for random promo codes and other giveaways.

• Follow iMore on Twitter
• Circle iMore on Google+

Done and done? Good, because you won’t believe the next batch of contests we have coming your way!

“If you like the Smart Cover but don’t like its propensity to fall off or the lack of protection it provides the back plate, you’ll love the Choiix Wake Up Folio for iPad 2.”

The Choiix Wake Up Folio for iPad 2 is just like Apple’s Smart Cover but includes a back plate to protect the aluminum backing of your iPhone. That extra back case also means it won’t fall off the way Apple’s Smart Cover often does. In fact, the iPad 2 snaps right in and fits snuggly and securely enough that you can lift it by the cover, something impossible with Apple’s original.

Unlike Smart Covers, you can dangle your iPad by the Choiix Wake Up Folio

Since the Choiix Wake Up Folio includes the back case along with the cover, it is heavier and bulkier than Apple’s Smart Cover, but there’s always a trade-off between profile and protection. Like Apple’s Smart Cover, magnets in the iPad 2 and in the case allow it to turn your iPad 2 on when you open the cover, and off when you close it again.

Open the Choiix Wake Up Folio and -- surprise! -- your iPad 2 wakes up!

Also like Apple’s Smart Cover, you can fold the Choiix Wake Up Folio’s cover up to work as a stand in either flat mode for typing or stand-up mode for watching videos and movies. It’s perhaps not quite as bendable as Apple’s, but it’s close enough not to matter. The cover is polyurethane with a soft, plush inside to protect against scratches. It comes in just about every color you’d expect — white, gray, blue, green, orange, pink, and black.

Folding the cover back into itself can give a subtle boost for typing or a major tilt for video viewing

Cutouts provide access to all the usual ports and while most won’t cause a problem, they are cut close enough that some of the chunkier media cables or automotive chargers might have a tough time squeezing in. There’s also a grid over the back speaker and while minor, the more sound sensitive among you might notice the difference.

Source: Cooler Master

The giveaway

Leave a comment below and you’ll be entered to win a Choiix Wake Up Folio of you very own!

Got a new iPad, and still not sure of all the ins and outs that come with it? Or, are you in charge of your company’s iPad rollout and puzzled over how to get everyone trained easily and efficiently? Made Simple Learning has compiled 65 video tutorials for your iPad/iPad 2 with topics ranging from what the buttons do, to battery life tips, typing tips, and tons more. They can deploy videos to your servers behind your firewall, and to your mobile device so you can view them while on the go. They offer multiple licensing options to fit your needs:

• $39 Standard – 1 user view on your computer for up to 1 year
• $49 Deluxe – 1 user view on your computer & ipad for up to 1 year
• $1,295 Corporate – unlimited users – install on one server
• $3,395 Enterprise – unlimited users – install on multiple servers

Giveaway

Courtesy of Made Simple Learning we have 3 Deluxe licenses to give away this week. To enter, leave a comment below and tell us why you want to win. How would these videos help you or someone you know with their iPad or iPad 2?

“From kitchen to office to bedroom, the Spiderarm holds your iPad in almost any position, at almost any angle, making it the perfect companion for reading, watching, and working.”

The Spiderarm is an enormously cool articulated stand for the iPad. While it might look like something out of Terminator, this decidedly non-robotic stand is composed of several sections, combined together with a ball joints that is both easy to move and solid enough to stay in place.

The Spiderarm is ideal for everything from holding up your recipes to serving as teleprompter for video recording.

I love the spiderarm and use it all the time. I even use it to keep track of the chat room during our live podcast shows. You can vary the amount of sections you use to change the length of the Spriderarm. You can also choose between clamping it somewhere convenient but non-permanent, or screwing it into a wall for the long term.

The clamp is ideal for securing the Spiderarm to a desk, shelf, or other thin, flat surface

The ball joint connects to the frame that holds your iPad in place and offers pretty much 360 degrees of movement so not only can you get the arm itself positioned just the way you want, your can angle the iPad to avoid reflections and create the best reading or viewing angle possible. Just tighten the joint to hold it in place, loosen to get it moving again.

The well-constructed ball joint allows for a remarkable range of motion

The giveaway

Leave a comment below to enter to win a FREE Spiderarm of your very own!

The popular arcade fighting game, SOULCALIBUR, has just hit the App Store! It is a universal app for iPhone and iPad and includes all 19 characters with all the original moves recreated as well as six games modes: arcade battle, time attack, survival, extra survival, museum, and practice.

• $11.99 – App Store link

“SOULCALIBUR” series is available on theiOS. Enjoythe memorable characters and non-stop action SOULCALIBUR is famed for with complete arcade fidelity in the comfort of your own home!

Relive the eternal tale of swords and souls transcending time and space.

• 19 characters in total!
• All character moves faithfully recreated!

Game Modes

• ARCADE BATTLE – The original battle mode from the arcade version of “Soul Calibur.” Defeat all enemies to make it to the end of the game.
• TIME ATTACK – How fast can you beat the game?
• SURVIVAL – With only a limited amount of life, how many opponents can you defeat?
• EXTRA SURVIVAL – How many opponents can you can defeat with single-hit kills?
• MUSEUM – Enjoy viewing a variety of artwork.
• PRACTICE – Learn the game’s basic system and techniques.

Giveaway

The folks here at iMore are just as excited about SOULCALIBUR as you, so in celebration of its release, we’re gifting the game to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! (Must have US iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours!)

SOULCALIBUR is available on the iPhone and iPad and is launching on sale for $11.99.

• App Store link

Have an app you’d love to see featured on iMore? Email us at iosapps@imore.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

The style of the Apple store is unmistakeable. With wooden tables and mostly clear acrylic displays, all the shiny Macs and iPads and iPhones on display can be seen in all their glory. Why not bring a bit of that simplistic display home with you so your gadgets can look just as awesome? Of course, I’m not encouraging you to steal from the Apple store. NewMacgadets.com has some really neat display options that mimic those found in the Apple store.

Not long ago we showed you the iPad 2 display docks, and gave a few away to some lucky iMore readers. Today we wanted to show you the Headphone Stand, created to look identical to the ones at your favorite store. Constructed from 1/2″ clear acrylic with non-slip feet and a stainless steel arm, you can conveniently hold your headphones where they will always be easily accessible. Reduce clutter on your desk without adding anything obtrusive. You can pick these up for $29.95 at newMacgadgets.com.

Giveaway

We have five Apple Store Headphone Stands to give away this week courtesy of newMacgadgets.com. To enter, leave a comment below letting us know where you would put one if you won. One entry per person please! Good luck!

Giveaway: Watch the video then leave a comment letting us know which of the Otterbox cases you’d love to win!

Last month, I had the pleasure of visiting the OtterBox headquarters in Fort Collins, CO and talk with Jordan about the history of the OtterBox name, the design and testing process, and get a closer look and description for each case series for the iPhone and iPad.

In addition to the interview, Jordan also passed on one of each case series to give away to our readers! Specifically, we have the following:

• Gunmetal Grey / Envy Green Defender Series
• Victory Commuter Series
• Gunmetal Reflex Series
• Black Impact Series

For a chance to win, just let us know which of these cases you would like to win in the comments below!

“Mujjo capacitive touchscreen gloves are amust-have for any serious iPhone or iPad user caught in a cold, wintery climate.”

Why have I instantly fallen in love with Mujjo’s capacitive touchscreen gloves for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad? It’s simple, really. I live in Canada where it’s routinely been -20 celsius for the last couple of weeks — so cold that when you go outside your face freezes and the last thing you want to do is pull off your nice warm gloves just to use your iPhone while out and about. You’d rather miss a call, wait to answer a text, or forget about looking something up on the web than risk the frostbite inducing winds and bone chilling snow. But with Mujjo, I don’t have to give up my multitouch just to stay warm — thanks to the capacitive carry-through, I can slide to unlock and tap away all from within the comfort of my gloves.

Unlike some iPhone-friendly gloves, Mujjo doesn’t just weave capacitive thread into the thumb and forefinger, but they’re made of high-quality silver-coated nylon fibers knitted into the fabric of the glove. The entire gloves! You can tap away with any finger you like. You can tap away with your knuckles, palm, ridge of your hand — literally any part of the glove. That makes it so much easier to use in the cold weather and is a huge advantage over other gloves. The only downside is that they made two-sizes fits all, and I have fairly small hands so even the smaller size is a little loose on me, and I need to push a little harder to make the capacitive connection than I expect someone with larger hands might.

Wearing the Mujjo, I could do everything I needed to do with my iPhone, including making and answering phone calls, texting, and surfing the web at about 80% of my normal speed.

The giveaway

Leave a comment below to enter to win one of 10 free pairs of Mujjo capacitive touchscreen gloves for iPhone and iPad!

If there’s one thing iMore loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

Griffin Woogie plush toy case for iPhone and iPod touch

• Judith Scott

Triple Entendre for iPhone and iPad

• arthur talansky
• Bill56
• bmrdave
• DonS50
• lopezjayp

• App Store link

GoodReader for iPhone and iPad

iPhone winners:

• Cody
• Kenny
• Mary
• Oxleyrd
• Pugalenthi

• App Store link

iPad winners:

• Aaron Cheah
• Bjorn
• Kristine R
• Michael S.
• Steve R

• App Store link

Safety Photo+Video for iPhone and iPad

• Amelia
• irateb
• Kareem
• Mungoflea
• Sue Stinnett

• App Store link

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• $200 Giveaway: Subscribe to our new iMore YouTube account!
• App Giveaway: System Monitor with Battery Max
• App Giveaway: Movies HD for iPad
• Pick of the Week: enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!
• App Giveaway: Frequencies for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Run Roo Run HD for iPad
• App Giveaway: New Year Diet Month
• Giveaway: Jawbone JAMBOX

Every week a few of us from team iMore will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Airplay – @iMuggle

I never found TOO much of a need for AirPlay at home (unless I was bored and wanted to play Angry Birds on a 50″ TV). I’ve recently started doing iOS and other various types of workshops for PXLFIX and AirPlay has been great. Instead of just showing people slides (which we all know is beat your head into a desk boring) they can actually see “how” to do things. I have an AppleTV set up and I just mirror whatever I want to explain right to the TV from my iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. The best part is that they can follow along on their own devices.

I’ve gotten great feedback by doing this and plan on continuing to teach workshops this way as I find it a much more interactive way to teach. Before AirPlay, teaching certain topics took a lot of extra prep work if it was possible at all.

AppShopper – @sethclifford

I think I can safely say that one of the most excellent things about iOS as a platform is the enormous availability of interesting software to try. I’m a self-avowed app nut, always trying a million things, studying different interface choices and observing design decisions, but keeping the best of the best on my phone. The AppShopper app is a great way to stay apprised of both new releases and sales on apps every day in the App Store.

Using data from the excellent AppShopper site, the app is a universal binary that has a nice clean interface and some cool ways to customize it for a more personal experience. The app is free, and for a buck you can remove ads. I’d recommend it heartily, both because it cleans up the screen and gives you a little more room to browse, and also because Arn is a great guy and you should totally support his efforts. In addition to that, a while back the site released a tool with which you can upload your app list from your computer directly to AppShopper, and then the site will keep track of updates to your own apps without you having to open up the App Store app a million times a day to check yourself. This is also really helpful if you have a notable update to an app that’s not on your phone right now, so you can possibly give it another look and see what’s changed.

Granted, you’ll have to occasionally update the list on the site by re-running the app and re-uploading the app list to keep it current (as there’s no way for the app to track your purchases in iTunes otherwise), but the whole process takes about 30 seconds in total, so it’s not exactly a hardship. You can set up push notifications to alert you to sales or changes, create a wish list, and manage everything from a standard browser at home, syncing everything down to the app. If you’re into apps as much as I think you might be, it’s a nice addition to your devices that can snag you some great deals and keep you up on what’s going on in the App Store.

• Free – App Store link

Meme Design – @Bla1ze

Yup! I’m a sucker for meme apps but that’s ok because they allow me to create such glorious images like the the one above of our fearless leader of Mobile Nations, Kevin Michaluk. For them, I use Meme Design. It’s available free in the iTunes App Store and just in case you’re not into making your own meme’s directly, it also offers all your favorite ones as templates as well. Now you too, can share your memes across email, facebook and Twitter.

Uhh.. no one tell Kevin I posted this here.

• Free – App Store link

Foursquare — @reneritchie

I use location check-in apps for one thing and one thing only — keeping a record of trips I’ve made. I don’t care for the idea of people in general knowing where I am because privacy really does matter and anyone I want to meet knows where I’ll be or knows how to find out. On a trip, however, whether it’s a trade show like CES or conference like WWDC, I’m visiting a lot of places and need a quick and easy way to record them in case I’m ever there again and want to go back, or just want to quickly remember where I visited while I was away.

I used to use Gowalla for this, preferring their general look and take on the genre, but since Facebook will most likely suck their data dry and then dump them in a swamp, I’ve switched to Foursquare and it did the job well.

It’s more utility for me than location-based check in gaming, and while that might make it less exciting it makes it far more useful.

• Free – App Store link

FastCustomer — @andrewwray

Need to call customer service for something, but don’t want to be put on hold for 10 minutes before actually speaking with a live person? I’ve been in that situation many of times, but not anymore. With FastCustomer, you can skip the wait and have the app call you when its reached a live representative.

They have over 2,000 companies in their database, it hasn’t failed me yet when I’ve needed to call up customer service for whatever reason. Most customer service IVRs are long, annoying and not very fun. Never wait on hold or go through a lengthy customer service tree again — just have FastCustomer give you a call once it has a live rep waiting for you!

• Free – App Store Link

Mugtuk Monsters – @llofte

By itself, this app of cute little interactive monster faces is just too adorable and make my daughter smile from ear to ear when they respond to her touch. But while at CES 2012, I had the chance to meet with Mugtuk and pick up one of their accessory cases that turn these monsters into actual stuffed animals! It’s seriously one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen and I love how excited my daughter gets at every opportunity to play with it.

• Free – App Store link

Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker by MyFitnessPal – Kristy_Lyn (Reader’s Choice winner)

My pick of the week is MyFitnessPal. As a new years resolution to myself I decided to get healthy. A friend recommended myfitnesspal.com, and so I searched the app store and – badda bing badda boom!

This app has all the essentials for starting out your new work out regime. I entered in my age, sex, height, weight, activity level, and goal of weight loss and it gave me a net calorie target range. Then you can add in your workouts and activity and easily customize the duration and calories burned.

For food intake, you can manually search food items that seem to be organized by users inputting their own food items which as resulted in a large data base. Upon further testing, I found the bar code scanner which makes adding eaten food as easy as a scan of a bar code.

The app graphs your workouts and food intake and shows you how much work you need to do to reach your goals. The best part is that it shows you on your daily totals exactly how much of everything you have consumed, for example, your daily total of calories, carbs, proteins, fats, sodium vitamins and so on. It shows you what you have over consumed or what you have left to consume.

Overall – a great app for my New Year’s resolution!

• Free – App Store link

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Those were our picks, iMore Nation, so now it’s your turn! Tell us your pick of the week below. Give us the name of your favorite app, site, or accessory, and tell us why it made your life more productive, more informed, more entertaining, or just plain more fun. We’ll pick one of you and send you a shiny $10 iTunes gift certificate so you can start stocking up for future picks! Contest starts now and ends next Friday, January 20 at 12pm PT.

So what are you waiting for? Jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

New Year Diet Month is an iPhone app that inspires and motivates you to meet your weight loss goals of 2012. Each day has a new idea, tip, insight, or direction to help you on your quest to become thinner and healthier.

This year KEEP your new year’s resolution to lose weight with the help of New Year Diet Month – a month of advice and motivation to help you on your quest for a slimmer, healthier body.

New Year Diet Month starts from when you first use the app – not from Jan 1st! – so it’s not too late to start your New Year Diet Month today! You can also unlock all days early if you’re feeling really eager – though to get the benefit of small continuous changes leading to large improvement (which is what New Year Diet Month is designed to do), try to resist that temptation and really get the best from each day!

New Year Diet Month is a collection of ideas to inspire you, insights into where you’ve gone wrong in the past, and directions to take. It presents one clear point every day to get you thinking, which, over the course of the month, will all come together to help make a new you.

Giveaway

The good folks at Breaking Art have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, let us know how much weight you hope to lose is 2012 in the comments below!

New Year Diet Month is available on the iPhone and on sale for $3.99.

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Run Roo Run HD is a platformer game where you, a kangaroo, must avoid obstacles by jumping, swinging, riding clouds, and launching from cannons. Each level is a single screen, not scrolling.

This is a great little game, but the main levels are not very challenging. It took me less than an hour to complete the main levels in all 20 chapters. The extreme levels, however, are very difficult – some even too difficult, in my opinion. Even though I didn’t feel particularly challenged, I enjoyed playing the game – I was able to casually play while watching an episode of Battlestar Galactica!

Your joey has been captured and you need to get him back!

Hop, skip, and jump your way across tons of unique and interesting obstacles in the Australian outback! Run Roo Run is a micro-platformer featuring single screen levels filled with unique, fun obstacles and easy to learn one-touch gameplay. Play for a few minutes, or a few hours; your journey to Sydney always picks up where you left off!

• Over 420 Levels!
• Get 10 new free levels every week!
• Over 100 extreme levels!
• Leaderboards
• Achievements
• Full Retina Graphics Support!
• GameCenter Support
• Easy to learn one-touch gameplay
• Fun power-ups including – human cannons, tire swings, ridable clouds, gravity defying umbrellas, invisibility, and much more!

Giveaway

There’s no such thing as too many casual games, so iMore is giving away 5 copies of Run Roo Run HD to you, our awesome readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Run Roo Run HD is available on the iPad for $1.99.

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Frequencies is an iPhone app that let’s you look up and store the frequencies to your favorite radio stations.

There have been plenty of times where I left the dome light in my car turned-on overnight and killed the battery. The most annoying part of this wasn’t jump or push-starting my car, rather it was finding all my favorite radio stations to save in my stereo. I wish I had this app. Next time, I’ll be prepared!

Frequencies is a simple app to find out your favourite radio station’s frequency where-ever you are. Frequencies saves you having to search for your station and lets you get back to listening.

Frequencies employs a simplistic interface so you’re never more than a tap away from finding the station you need.

• Quick and easy listing of all available stations
• Locally stored database
• Image preview of available stations
• Fast searching – don’t spend ages finding the station you’re looking for!


Giveaway

The good folks at Yoshimi Robotics have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers. For a chance to win, let us know where your from and the frequency of your favorite radio station in the comments below!

Frequencies is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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Movies HD is an iPad app that provides you with a way to catalogue your movies. It will also look up data about your movies so that instead of just movie and TV series titles, you have access to all details. Additionally, if you lend a movie to a friend, this too can be catalogued so that you can easily keep track of who has your movies.

Movies HD is a movie and TV series catalog application with stunning graphics. It allows you to quickly add, find and view movies in your library (with the ability to add new movies by seeking by title using lots of data sources – so all movie details are filled in for you!). It also allows to lend movies to friends, so you can easily keep track of who you gave that copy of “Quantum of Solace” to.

• Shelf view or list view
• Custom genres
• Coverflow movie browsing
• Add movies by barcode scanning (on iPad2)
• Supports major bluetooth barcode scanners to quickly add movies to your library (like the Opticon OPN-2002) (all iPad models)
• Quickfind ™ your movies (based on director, author, title, location, …)
• Filter movies by media, lend-to, genres, director and actors
• Email your movie list
• Random movie selection by shaking the iPad
• Fully customizable movie catalog
• Small labels to identify sorting details (based on sorting mode)
• Handles all modern media (DVD, Blu-Ray, HD-DVD) as well as oldfashioned media (VHS, 35mm, 16mm) + ability to add custom media
• Movies are shown using their cover (and optionally their title)
• Movies can be lend to Contacts
• Backup & restore

Giveaway

The gold folks at Netwalk have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, let us know how many movies you have in your home collection in the comments below!

Movies HD is available on the iPad for $4.99.

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System Monitor with Battery Max is an iPhone app that aims to speed up your iPhone on free memory, CPU and battery life. It’s your one-stop health check for your iPhone.

The System Monitor with Battery Max, is the most comprehensive all in one health check app on the App store that frees memory, boosts battery performance, and monitors your system memory, CPU utilization and disk utilization.

• Double Tap Memory speedometer view to rotate to a 3D bar chart view.
• Double tap battery or open it to see the battery capacity for your favorite apps.
• Double tap the CPU speedometer view, to view a 3D CPU utilization.
• Shows the used and free space.
• Shows the IP address acquired, and hardware address of your device.

Giveaway

The good folks at Tekton Technologies have given us promo codes to give away to 10 lucky readers! For a chance to win, let us know how many times a day you need to charge your iPhone in the comments below!

System Monitor with Battery Max is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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The Woogie by Griffin is a soft, plush, huggable, toy that doubles as an iPhone or iPod touch case. It’s meant for children, to give them something to hold up their iPod touch for easy game playing or video watching, or to protect your iPhone if you’re letting them use it.

With big round body and five legs, the Woogie is easy to position whether it’s on the floor, a table, in a car, or on a lap. It comes in either pink or blue and the big round body is soft and fuzzy/furry to the touch. Even on its own could be a fun toy for a young child but what makes it even better is the clear, capacitive window in the front that holds an iPod touch or iPhone. Kids can cuddle the toy and play with the device right through the window, and if they drop it or knock it or kick it, the plushie offers a lot of protection.

The good

• Soft, cute, and cuddly
• Weighted feet so stays in place
• Makes an iPhone or iPod touch harder to lose
• Hold up to the bumps and drops kids are likely to put it through.

The bad

• Larger to pack and carry than a regular case
• Would be nice to have strap/backpack option
• Don’t feed it after midnight.

The conclusion

The Woogie is great for young children, wether around the house or to take on a trip. It’s huggable, luggable, and colorful for them, and easy to find and safer to keep an iPhone or iPod touch in for you. That’s a really smart combination.

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Leave a comment below telling us why you’d like a Woogie of you very own. Only one comment per person, please! Make sure you leave a real email address. We won’t share it but we’ll need it to contact you if you win! Contest starts now and ends Friday, January 13 at 12pm PT. Now hurry up and enter!

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Safety Photo+Video is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you protect your photos and videos from prying eyes. It’s equipped with a dot pattern lock system for extra security, and in addition to being able to lock the entire app, you can lock individual albums.

You can now keep your most private photos and videos away form unauthorized access. Introducing the Safety Photo+Video. Used the most advanced security system to protect your photos and videos. You can then browse, organize, share, and manage your photos and videos right on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

• Dot pattern lock style for higher security. (New)
• Universality : This app is developed for both iPhone and iPad, you need to purchase only once. (New)
• Photo Geotag and EXIF data viewing. (New)
• Support Video. (New)
• Passcode lock for individual album. (New)
• Passcode locking style. (combination, keypad lock)
• Selectable stylish theme, yet easy to use interface
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• Take private photos and videos from within the app.
• Extremely simple to import photos and videos from photo library
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• Export photos to your iPhone/iPod Touch.
• Create albums for your photos.
• Passcode protect individual album.
• Supports move, copy & paste.
• Full Retina display support.
• Upload/download from PC to iPhone via web browser/iTunes file sharing.
• Share photos and videos within 2 iOS devices with Safety Photo+Video installed via Bluetooth/Wi-Fi.


Giveaway

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Safety Photo+Video is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

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Every week a few of us from team iMore will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

Talkatone – @Alli_Flowers

I was so excited this week – I was going to pick CloudOn. But it was pulled from the App Store within hours of my installing it. Big bummer!

So my number two choice this week is Talkatone, a free app that works with your GoogleVoice account. Talkatone leverages some of the most useful features from GV and brings them to your iPad.

Yes, with Talkatone, you can make and receive calls directly on Your iPad. If you were hesitant to start using GV, this is a good reason to start, and if you were using it before, this will help you take advantage of all the features and get even more use from it.

You can text and talk using your WiFi connection (or data if you have a 3G iPad). So your iPad finally really becomes a big iPhone! You do, of course, have to use the speakerphone when using Talkatone on your iPad. And in case I neglected to mention this before, you can use Talkatone on your iPhone too. (It’s just cooler on the iPad!)

While Talkatone is free, there are several tiers of in-app purchases that will allow you to do things like add multiple Google accounts. This is something that I particularly like since you can’t use the same phone number for multiple GV accounts, so only one of my accounts ever rings/texts through – the others always go to voicemail/email.

This is a great, GREAT utility for any GV user.

• Free – App Store link

Emit – @sethclifford

Rene and I are both huge fans of Air Video [$2.99 - App Store link] for streaming all manner of differently formatted (read: non-iTunes) visual content around our homes. It’s a fantastic app, and can handle almost anything you can throw at it. Except using it with non-iOS devices. Since I also have a few other things I like to toy around with (most recently the Kindle Fire), I was looking for a similar solution that would work across multiple devices. I found it in Emit.

Emit is very similar to Air Video in that it relies on a streaming component loaded onto a Mac/PC and then outputs video to your mobile device. The big difference here is that it also works with Android devices, and soon Windows Phone 7 devices too. The server software can run on Mac OS X, Windows or Linux, so it’s as equal-opportunity as you’re going to get right now. I downloaded the free server app and the Amazon Appstore version of the mobile app as well as the universal iOS app to test out.

Interface-wise, it’s pretty barebones. Not exactly the kind of eye candy we’re often accustomed to on iOS. But when it comes to watching videos, quite frankly, I’ll put up with a lot less in terms of app design if it does the one thing I want it to do (stream my videos however and wherever I choose) successfully. Emit got that part right. Videos over my home wi-fi network on both iOS and the Kindle Fire were streamed very smoothly and I didn’t run into any connection issues. I’ve yet to set up the internet access (to watch videos away from home), and I’m hoping that it’s a similarly good experience.

Whoa, hold up… just realized something else. One additional really cool feature is that there is also a built-in web app at the app’s site that allows you to watch videos right in the browser! That’s pretty awesome. If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to have to go and try this out. If you’ve got a lot of different content to watch, and more than just iOS devices on which to do it, give it a look. There’s a free version available on Android too if you’re not sure about ponying up right away.

• $1.99 – App Store link
• $3.54 – Android Market link
• $3.50 – Amazon Appstore link

iCloud Backup – @chrisoldroyd

Not going for an app this week but the backup feature of iCloud. I try and backup my iPhone 4S every night when I plug it in to charge so my backup file is always reasonably up to date. Today, I went to the Apple Store to try and get a replacement iPhone 4S as mine was behaving a little strangely.

Everything went well as usual at the Apple Store and I got my new iPhone. This time instead of taking it home to sync with iTunes I just input my iCloud information and used the Apple Store WiFi connection. Half an hour later I was all set up with a new iPhone that had everything that the old one did. All of my apps installed and all in the correct folders. All of my text messages, emails, contacts, you name it. It just worked!

The only negative was my music, I have iTunes Match and all my music is stored on iTunes in the Cloud. To get that back I had to download everything again manually. That is not the Apple way and I expect that to be automated very soon too.

Zombieville USA 2 – @skeetobite

My pick of the week is the sequel to one of my favorite causal games of all times – Zombieville USA 2. Zombieville USA 2 brings back the same basic game play (side scrolling action, killing zombies) but adds a few unique twists from the first game to make it an entirely new experience. Zombieville USA 2 allows you to have three weapons at a time (with different buttons controlling each one), and there are plenty of weapons to choose from. You can also upgrade weapons, as well as upgrading skills with the money you earn. The side scrolling action has been expanded somewhat, so allow a 3-d movement. Lastly, and perhaps most important of all, you can now have multiplayer action! Two people can team up to shoot, stab, blow up, and obliterate zombies before they have a chance to eat your brains!

• $0.99 – App Store link

2012 International CES App – @iMuggle

With CES upon us, I’ve been looking for a good way to browse through all the different exhibits and events at CES to figure out which ones I want to check out. Then comes the organizing them part. While I have most of my stuff in iCal, the official app allows me to add tracks easily and share them with other friends that are attending.

Besides just adding tracks you can view maps, photos, videos, and even see who is tweeting about CES. It’s a great way to actively stay up to date with what’s going on around you. I plan to really test it out this week while in Vegas.

• Free – App Store Link

AccuWeather for iPhone – @bla1ze

Yeah, it’s a weather app. There is a lot of weather apps in the iTunes App Store, many are free and many are paid. AccuWeather for iPhone is a free, ad supported app with a lot of features and a few, you’d not really expect from a simple weather app but are included in this one:

• iCloud Support – Settings and saved locations sync to AccuWeather apps through iCloud.
• Notification Center Support – View today’s forecast in the Notification Center drop-down.
• Calendar Integration – View 15-day forecasts in your calendar.
• Social Sharing – Share weather information with friends and family through Facebook, Twitter and email messages.
• View Contacts on weather maps – Place contacts of your choice on the radar weather display and “pin” them on the map to see current conditions for that contact.

Normally, I tend to not bother with Weather apps because well, I find it easier to look out the window but with the added features of AccuWeather for iPhone, I’ve learned to enjoy both — looking out the window and checking in the app to see a longer forecast.

• Free – App Store link

Google Translate – @andrewwray

Want to know how to say something in another language on-the-fly? Well, Google Translate won’t do exactly that, but it comes pretty darn close. Just speak what you need translated and tap ‘GO’ and, well, it’ll translate your input into whatever language you desire! You can even have it speak the phrase aloud to you to help make sure you’re saying it correctly.

Google Translate has some other really great options as well. For starters, you can star specific phrases for quick reference, change the language input selection (Chinese, English and Spanish are all supported with regional variations included) or type out your phrase instead of using voice input if you’re so inclined.

If you’ve been trying to learn a new language, or even if you’re heading on a trip to another country, then it’s almost guaranteed that Google Translate will come in quite handy! Google Translate is available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch as a universal binary app.

• Free – App Store Link

Triple Entendre – @llofte

Triple Entendre is a very difficult riddle game and I am so addicted! I’ve literally lost sleep over it. It’s hard to really say much about it in terms of a description, except that each level contains clues and photos for either the answer or question to the riddle. You cannot progress until you get the answer right.

Most of these levels are extremely difficult and will likely drive you mad. However, we’ve got a thread in the forums dedicated to offering hints to fellow players. So go pick up the app and join in! If you think you can handle it – that is.

• $0.99 for full version – App Store link
• Free for lite version – App Store link

Tripit – @reneritchie

So begins a the annual cycle of trade shows, with CES 2012, pretty much the biggest, baddest one of them all, starting the year off with a bang. Since it’s far from home and I’m far from organized, I need every little app and accessory I can to get me through it.

If you haven’t already, go watch or listen to Georgia and Phil Nickinson’s fantastic ZENandTECH episode this week for a ton of useful tips and picks for frequent travelers, because I’m only going to echo one of them here — Tripit.

Tripit is a web service with a universal app for iPhone and iPad that helps take the tedium and trepidation out of travel. You make a reservation for a flight or a hotel, Tripit takes it in, breaks it down, and gives you back a humanized agenda that clean on the surface but jam packed with details just a tap away. You can either manually forward confirmation emails to Tripit or set it up to monitor your Gmail address for instant updates (enter security vs. convenience argument here).

There are social networking features, so I can see where, for example, where friends and co-workers are going, and if you pay for a pro membership, which I do, you can create an inner circle for those closest to you so they automatically have all your travel info at hand. Tripit Pro will also email and/or SMS you any changes to flight schedules, gates, etc. which pretty much makes it worth it’s weight in gold. (If binary bits had weight, that is.)

If you or those around you travel frequently or even occasionally, get Tripit.

• $3.99 – App Store link

Tell us your pick, enter to win a $10 iTunes gift certificate!

Those were our picks, iMore Nation, so now it’s your turn! Tell us your pick of the week below. Give us the name of your favorite app, site, or accessory, and tell us why it made your life more productive, more informed, more entertaining, or just plain more fun. We’ll pick one of you and send you a shiny $10 iTunes gift certificate so you can start stocking up for future picks! Contest starts now and ends next Friday, January 13 at 12pm PT.

So what are you waiting for? Jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

GoodReader is a family of iPhone and iPad apps for editing an managing PDF files. You can add annotations, including freehand drawings, and manage, transfer, and sync your files.

GoodReader® is the super-robust highly-rated PDF reader with advanced reading and annotating capabilities.

ANNOTATE! Annotation is a feature long sought after by users who want to add their own mark-ups to PDFs, especially those collaborating as a team on shared documents. The types of annotations that can be created and edited in GoodReader include typewriter text boxes, popup comments (“sticky notes”), text highlights, freehand drawings, lines, arrows, rectangles, ovals, cloudy shapes, text underlines, strikeouts, text insertion marks.

REFLOW PDF TEXT! With the PDF Reflow feature, reading your documents is a pleasure because it extracts pure text from PDF files and automatically wraps words. This amazing feature fits all of the text to your screen perfectly. That means you never have to scroll left and right to read the text. For a better idea of how on-the-fly reflow works, sneak a peek at the Reflow screenshot down below.

MANAGE FILES! GoodReader lets you create folders, move, copy and rename your files; zip, email and unzip them; plus send your files to other apps.

TRANSFER FILES! Within moments of downloading GoodReader, you’ll be transferring files in a number of ways: directly from your computer over a USB cable or WiFi connection, from the Internet or from email attachments. It also easily integrates with iDisk, Google Docs, Dropbox, SugarSync, box.net and other WebDAV, AFP, FTP and SFTP servers.

SYNC YOUR FILES AND FOLDERS! The amazing Auto Sync feature will work with MobileMe iDisk, Dropbox, SugarSync, box.net, and any other WebDAV, AFP, FTP or SFTP server.

Giveaway

The good folks at Good.iWare Ltd. have given us promo codes to give away to 10 lucky winners. For a chance to win, just leave a comment below letting us know which device you would like to use GoodReader on – iPhone or iPad (or both!). We have 5 codes for each!

• $4.99 for iPhone – App Store link
• $4.99 for iPad – App Store link

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Triple Entendre is a riddle and puzzle game for iPhone and iPad. Each level is a combination of text, photos, and other clues that provide hints to the answer or even the question. Most questions are intended to require some research, so there’s a built-in browser that makes it easy to switch between the web and the game.

I’m a total sucker for riddles and totally addicted to Triple Entendre. It’s extremely challenging and half the time I’m cursing my iPad for my wrong answers, but boy does it feel good to pass a level.

If you’re looking for hints on the levels, we’ve got a thread in our forums dedicated to asking and giving hints for Triple Entendre.

If you’ve ever played an online riddle like notpr0n, godtower or qwyzzle, you’ll love this game. The first riddle game of its kind for your ios devices. Triple Entendre is a riddle, a puzzle, a quiz, and a trivia game all rolled into one. Each level includes a combination of clues and photos where you need to figure out not just what the answer is… but what the question is. Unlike traditional trivia games where a simple internet search will give you a correct answer, your problem solving skills will be needed to even start a web search. Web searching is encouraged in Triple Entendre and we have even taken advantage of your 3g or WiFi connection by building in an internal web search. We hope that your brain power and useless trivia knowledge will be truly tested.

Currently 50 puzzles long, but we have frequent updates planned with more puzzles. Triple Entendre supports Game Center with achievements and a leaderboard. Who will be the first to finish Triple Entendre?

Giveaway

The good folks at The Van Buren Boys have given us some promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just solve the following riddle and leave your answer in the comments below: Which two days in a week starts with “T” other than tuesday and thursday? Go!

Triple Entendre is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99. There is also a lite version available for free.

• Full version – App Store link
• Lite version – App Store link

Have an app you’d love to see featured on iMore? Email us at iosapps@imore.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

The hard part about New Year’s resolutions is following through and we often need a little (or a lot) of help to stay motivated in the pursuit of our goals. New Year Motivation 2012 is here to help with inspirational quotes from some of the most admired individuals.

Begin 2012 inspired and motivated with New Year Motivation!

Every day for a month New Year Motivation will bring you specially selected motivational and inspirational wisdom from some of the most admired individuals on earth – Dale Carnegie, Anthony Robbins, Norman Vincent Peale, and more. Their words will forms seeds of ideas in your mind, help focus your direction and thoughts for 2012, and ultimately empower and support you to make this new year your best yet.

Your month starts from when you first open New Year Motivation – so you’re not limited to starting on Jan 1st – and you can review your past days at any time. New Year Motivation runs on all your iOS devices at no extra charge- iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch – without requiring a data connection, making it easy for you to fit New Year Motivation into your busy life.

This year, start the year in the right frame of mind – with the power and inspiration to make 2012 your best year ever!

Giveaway

The good folks at Breaking Art have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just let us know one of your goals for 2012 in the comments below!

New Year Motivation 2012 is available on the iPhone and iPad and on sale for $0.99.

• App Store link

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You’ve made a New Year resolution to lose weight and intelli-Diet App | Weight Loss App is here to help! Just tell intelli-Diet what food you have at home, and it’ll build a healthy well-balanced diet for you. Leave the meal planning up to intelli-Diet!

The app takes the foods you have, and then creates a well-balanced diet of whole, natural foods. And… your diet’s customized by your gender, weight, activity level, and more. It’s like having a Dietician in your pocket!

HOW IT WORKS:

1. Select your weight loss goals and food preferences.
2. Determine which foods you have in your kitchen.
3. Let the system automatically create you a well-balanced diet.
4. Watch the pounds come off. It thinks, you eat!™

FEATURES:

• Receive an automatically generated shopping list.
• Customize any meal with easy food swaps.
• Track your weight loss progress in charts and tables.
• Use it anywhere, anytime! No internet connection required.
• Meal reminders, water trackers, and much more.

Giveaway

The folks at Barracuda Partners have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just let us know how much weight you hope to lose this year.

intelli-Diet App | Weight Loss App is available on the iPhone and on sale for $3.99.

• App Store link

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If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad devices, accessories, and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have a HUGE winner to announce — the winner of our iOS dream device contest! And that winner is…

$600 Apple Gift Certificate for the iOS device of your dreams

• dloveprod

Congratulations!!!

Custom iPhone back plate

• slls
• djayme7
• rodger3gs
• babyjsmom
• rockdog97

Courtesy: unyousual.net

Twittelator Neue

• Martin P
• Mike
• ginbill
• Arfranklin
• Anonymous

App Store link: Twittelator Neue

Kinectimals

• Mike
• Snowy737
• George Sabourin
• Christopherglisson
• HelloKit

App Store link: Kinectimals

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• $100 giveaway: Vote now for the 2011 TiPb Readers Choice Awards!
• Review + Giveaway: Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4
• App Giveaway: LostWinds for iPhone and iPad
• App Giveaway: flickr hd for iPhone and iPad

Have you voted in the 2011 TiPb Readers Choice Awards yet? They’re your awards, after all, your chance to pick the very best iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Apple TV stories, devices, features, apps, and accessories of the year. If by some chance you haven’t, if you were previously frozen in cabronite or had to cross the candy cane forest and make your way through the Lincoln Tunnel, then here’s your chance to make it right.

Vote in the polls below, and then tell us your absolute favorite iOS happenings of 2011 in the comments.

$100 iTunes Gift Card giveaway

As a way to say thanks to you, the TiPb Nation, for being our absolute favorite thing about 2011, we’re going to pick one of you from the comments and give you a $100 iTunes Gift Card. That’s cold, hard, digital Apple media cash money, people. And it could be yours. How better to top off the holidays, and the awards? So get voting and get commenting. Like, NOW!

In case you hadn’t heard — and really, there’s no helping you at this point! — TiPb wants to give you the iOS device — or devices! — of your dreams. That’s right, a brand new iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch, or Apple TV, or even iPad 3 in 2012, could be yours!

And this is week 4 so you now have a third chance to win!

The Prize: A $600 Apple gift certificate to put towards the iOS device — or devices — of your dreams. An iPhone or iPad for you or your special someone, a couple of iPod touches for the kids, a handful of Apple TVs for the whole family — you could even save it for an iPad 3 when Apple releases it! — whatever you choose!

How to enter: Each week we’ll have a special thread in a different TiPb iOS device forum. Just leave one (1) reply in each thread telling us why you’d love to have that week’s device. You can enter once per week, each week, for a total of four (4) chances to enter over the course of the contest.

The contest is on now and the winner will be announced on the iPhone Live podcast on December 28, 2011.

So what are you waiting for? Enter already!

• TiPb iOS Dream Device Giveaway: Week 4 thread!

The popular platform/adventure game from WiiWare, LostWinds, is now available on the iPhone and iPad.

LostWinds has fantastic graphics and very intuitive controls – this is how platformers should be done on iOS. Fun. Beautiful. Intuitive. Addicting.

An innovative, fresh platform-adventure bursting with gameplay ideas – wield the awesome elemental powers of Enril the Wind Spirit, from raging tornados to the subtlest breeze, in a stunningly presented combination of combat, exploration and puzzle solving.

Guide and protect Toku, a young boy and the only one who can help you release the curse placed upon the enchanting world of Mistralis and its people by evil Balasar.

• Power Toku’s jumps and glides through Mistralis’ different regions
• Buffet and smash enemies
• Solve puzzles as you journey to a dramatic showdown
• Richly interactive: Mistralis rewards experimentation and bursts to life with your every action and exploration
• Includes Game Centre integration and Achievements
• The ‘Snapshot’ feature lets you add game characters to your own photos and share with friends

Giveaway

We know you love a great game, so TiPb is giving away LostWinds to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

LostWinds is available on the iPhone and iPad for $3.99.

• App Store link

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View Flickr in style with flickr hd for iPhone and iPad! This app will display your photostream, another user’s public photostream, favorites, or a custom search as a slideshow in intervals of 10, 15, 30, or 60 seconds. It also supports VGA and AV output to display on your TV, monitor, or projector.

flickr hd turns your Apple device into a simple and elegant photoframe that looks great next to your keyboard at work, propped up against the sugar bowl in a coffee shop, or sitting in the dock! Get flickr hd now and discover a new way to enjoy your photos!

• Displays a new photo from your public flickr photostream, your flickr.com favourites, or a custom flickr search every minute
• For a faster display, the app can change photos every 30, 15, or 10 seconds instead of just on the minute – and with Instaswitch™, photos change instantly with no delay
• Can also be used with other people’s public flickr photostreams, such as family members
• Since it uses your public photos, you never have to enter your flickr.com password, and it will never show private images – it’s safe and secure
• Works with both free and pro flickr accounts
• Start with the latest photo in your feed – great for viewing photos you’ve uploaded to flickr but not yet sync’d to your iPad or iPhone
• Or start at a random photo and enjoy a trip down memory lane
• Or show every photo at random and jump through time!
• Choose between High Quality HD display and faster data-saving Non-HD quality. HD mode shows your photos in stunning detail on the iPad and on Retina displays
• Supports VGA and AV out via Apple cables for connecting your iPad to a TV, monitor, or projector! (See below)
• 12/24 hour digital clocks
• Change clock size or hide click
• Choose between 4 background shades for the clock and title of the photo (touch background then the flickr hd logo to change shades), or hide them for complete minimalism!
• View the original photo page on flickr
• Twit or mail the pics you like
• Save photos to your local photo album for use as wallpapers or in Pages
• Impatient? Skip to the next photo – you don’t have to wait!
• A fraction of the cost of a dedicated photoframe

Giveaway

The good folks at Breaking Art have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

flickr hd is available on the iPhone and iPad and on sale for $0.99.

• App Store link

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The Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 adds some color, some texture, and some design tweaks to make one of the hottest cases of last year just that much hotter!

• Available at store.tipb.com for U.S shoppers
• Available at bluestore.ca for Canadian shoppers

Design wise, the Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case is just as the name describes — barely there. It’s about as close a fit and slim a case as the materials and laws of physics allow. The new colors, silver, black, pink, red, and gold are really nice looking, and as always all the ports and buttons are cut extra wide so you don’t have to worry about your 3.5mm headset jack or dock connector fitting. I tried it on both a black and a white iPhone, both the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S, and it looked absolutely amazing on both.

Now because the Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum is such a slim and fitting case, and while they say it’s impact resistant — and show a picture of a hammer hitting it to drive the point home! — you’re not getting the same level of protection as you would from a bigger, bulkier case. It will, however, stop any scratches, bumps, and light impact along the back and sides. It also doesn’t protect the front, and there’s no screen protector included, so if that’s a concern you’ll need to pick up a BodyGuardz, InvisibleShield, or similar product separately.

Also, you need to know what you’re doing to remove it, especially if you’re a girl and don’t want to break a nail. I flipped it over and peeled the volume-control side off first, the popped my iPhone out. It took some practice to get good at, but if you plan on putting it on and leaving it on, you won’t need to worry about it much.

Overall I really like the look and feel of the Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4. I’ve always been a fan of Case-Mate’s Barely There line, and their metallic finishes, and this one is no exception. If you’re looking for something that’s stylish and sophisticated, give the Case-Mate a try.

• Available at store.tipb.com for U.S shoppers
• Available at bluestore.ca for Canadian shoppers

Giveaway

Would you like to win a Case-Mate Barely There Brushed Aluminum case for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 of your very own? Wait, why am I even asking? Of course you would! Just leave a comment below telling us why this would be the perfect case for you. We’ll pick a winner, and you’ll get a case!

Giveaway starts now and ends December 29, 2011 at 9pm PT. So what are you waiting for? Enter now!!

Ally’s new series of weekly iPhone and iPad mods and repairs inspired me to try and see how well a total beginner like myself could tackle her projects. So, playing n00b to her ninja, the first thing I thought I’d try was a simple backplate swap.

And the folks at unyousual.net were kind of enough to supply me with a custom backplate to get me going. I picked the classic 6-colors Apple logo on a nice, dark wood textured background, uploaded it to their site, submitted it, then waited by the mailbox for it to arrive.

Swapping out the backplate was a little nerve-wracking, I’m not even going to lie. My iPhone 4 is out of warranty, so that wasn’t a concern. Seeing everything open, with the battery and components exposed, took a few deep breaths to get used to.

unyousual.net provided both types of screwdrivers, both regular and pentalobe, and they were magnetized so I didn’t have to worry about losing the screws — at least as much as I might have otherwise. Once the screws were out, swapping the backplate was quick and easy. Slide the original one out, slide the new one in, refasten the screws.

The results were super sweet too. The new custom backplate looks stunning — so stunning I had to immediately protect it from those around me who tried to make off with it!

If you’re at all interested in mods for your iPhone, a backplate swap is a really nice, simple way to get started. Just pick up your own custom kit from unyousual.net and give it a try!

Giveaway

The awesome team over at unyousual.net are giving our equally awesome readers a chance to win one of five (5!) free custom iPhone backplates! Here’s what you need to do to enter:

1. Go to unyousual.net and upload the custom picture you want to use.
2. Take a screen capture or picture of your custom backplate and
3. Post the screenshot in the official contest thread
4. We’ll pick 5 (five!) of you and unyousual.net will send you your backplate!

What are you waiting for? Enter now!

• Official custom iPhone backplate mod giveaway entry thread

If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

Element Case Vapor COMP Epiphany for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S

• White: Offensive Bias
• Blue: BrindawithanI

Courtesy: Element Case

Om Nom plushie giveaway!

• schmooie – 16″ Om Nom
• jfmorenom – 8″ Om Nom
• stevethomp – 5″ Om Nom

Courtesy of ZeptoLab

iPad 2 Display Dock

• billjohnson
• Dave01568
• Fox1207
• futurecode
• JeremyHD
• KristyLyn
• nsquared
• Shashmundar
• techmom
• thereal_gmo

Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone and iPad

• Carolyn Hayes

Courtesy: TiPb Accessory Store

Save the Pencil

• Alex  TC
• Jennell Marie Lester
• Mel
• Dreeves76
• Kevin Hsiao

App Store link – Save the Pencil

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

• TheRealBatman
• Mike Weber
• John Gibboney
• DoubleAron
• Trevor Hirst

App Store link: Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• Win the iOS device of your dreams in the TiPb holiday giveaway! [Week 3]
• App Giveaway: PDF Quick Sign for iPad
• App Giveaway: Kinectimals for iPhone and iPad
• App Giveaway: Twittelator Neue for iPhone

Ever wished you could take home a bit of the Apple store, with their cool displays that showcase the iPads and iPhones in all their glory? Well, now you can, with the iPad 2 Display Dock from newMacgadgets. Whether you place it on your desk at work for quick reference, on the kitchen counter to keep recipes close at hand, or on the coffee table at home for late night browsing, this high quality base will keep your iPad safe and functional.

Each one is made of high-quality clear acrylic with slots for headphones and charging cables and non-skid feet so you can route the charging cable underneath. Normally retailing for $69.95, newMacgadgets is running a holiday special on these for $29.95, making them a great last minute gift for the iPad lover in your life.

We have 10 iPad 2 Display Docks to give away this weekend, courtesy of newMacgadgets! To enter, leave a comment in the forum thread at the link below telling us how you would put this dock to use. One entry per person please. The contest is open until midnight Sunday, so hurry and leave your comment!

• Enter to win a free iPad 2 Display Dock

In case you hadn’t heard — and really, ask somebody next time! — TiPb wants to give you the iOS device — or devices! — of your dreams. That’s right, a brand new iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch, or Apple TV, or even iPad 3 in 2012, could be yours!

And this is week 3 so you now have a third chance to win!

The Prize: A $600 Apple gift certificate to put towards the iOS device — or devices — of your dreams. An iPhone or iPad for you or your special someone, a couple of iPod touches for the kids, a handful of Apple TVs for the whole family — you could even save it for an iPad 3 when Apple releases it! — whatever you choose!

How to enter: Each week we’ll have a special thread in a different TiPb iOS device forum. Just leave one (1) reply in each thread telling us why you’d love to have that week’s device. You can enter once per week, each week, for a total of four (4) chances to enter over the course of the contest.

The contest is on now and the winner will be announced on the iPhone Live podcast on December 28, 2011.

So what are you waiting for? Enter already!

• TiPb iOS Dream Device Giveaway: Week 3 thread!

PDF Quick Sign is an iPad app for signing PDF documents. You can also fill out forms, split long PDFs into multiple files, and sync with DropBox.

PDF Quick Sign is a powerful software tool for work with PDF documents and forms which allows commenting on ready PDF documents, filling forms, signing legal documents such as contracts or notices and sharing processed PDF documents via email or Dropbox.

• Get PDF documents from any application using Open In, from iTunes or Dropbox folders
• Manage PDF documents using folders
• Sign legal documents (contracts, notices, etc.)
• Fill out various forms
• Mark and comment any text or image in any PDF document
• Split any PDF documents into separate PDF files
• Share ready PDFs via e-mail or Dropbox

Giveaway

The good folks at Dar-Soft have given us some promo codes to giveaway to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

PDF Quick Sign is available on the iPad for $9.99

• App Store link

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The popular Kinect for Xbox 360 game Kinectimals by Microsoft is now available for iPhone and iPad. This iOS version can be used as a standalone app or you can bring your pet that you already have on the Xbox version with you wherever you go and also unlock 5 new cubs on the console.

• $2.99 – App Store link

This irresistible mobile experience gives you the chance to use your phone to visit the island of Lemuria and play with, care for and fall in love with your very own cub. Bring your pet with you wherever you go! If you’ve already experienced Kinectimals on Kinect for Xbox 360, your phone becomes the key to unlocking five new cubs on your console. Stand-alone mobile game features Kinectimals’ signature visual quality, delightful animation and brand new ways to play with your cub!

Giveaway

We know that all of you would love your very own pet Tiger, so we’re gifting Kinectimals to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below letting us know what you’ll name your tiger!

Kinectimals is available on the iPhone and iPad for $2.99.

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

Twittelator Neue is a gorgeous Twitter client for iPhone. We have listed Twittelator Neue as one of the Top 10 best alternative Twitter apps for iPhone and we’re excited to give it away!

As Rene said, Twittelator Neue is pure eye candy. Everything about it is just gorgeous and it’s by far my favorite app for browsing Twitter. One of my favorite features is the way it displays in-line photos. Most twitter apps show a tiny thumbnail of the photo, but Twittelator Neue shows a slice of the photo that’s just as wide as your timeline and as you scroll through your timeline, the image also scrolls in the background so that you slowly pan through the image through that slice. My description doesn’t give it justice – it really is beautiful. Even the sounds are cool.

Twittelator Neue is lacking in a few features like native push, but it’s only at version 1.0.5 and I look forward to what’s to come.

Where other Twitter clients think alike, we chose to think different. There’s the all-new Timeline Photos, which actually lets you see what your friends are tweeting about. Then there’s Multiple Timelines, which lets you easily keep up with what’s up. Perhaps you have a blog, band, or other alter-ego that has tweets of its very own. Multiple Accounts in Twittelator Neue will handle them all with ease; SimulTweet makes posting the same tweet from all of your multiple-personalities a breeze. The innovative features in Twittelator Neue are sure to delight.

• Timeline Photos
• Multiple Timelines – Add lists, searches, and other tweets alongside your Main Timeline.
• Multiple Accounts
• SimulTweet
• Conversation View
• Website Previews
• Drafts
• ReadItLater, OmniFocus, and Instapaper support
• Post images and movies to your choice of media host
• Tweet with your location
• Support for Tweet Marker
• And a whole lot more!

Giveaway

The good folks at Big Stone Phone have given us promo codes to give away Twittelator Neue to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Twittelator Neue is available on the iPhone for $1.99.

• App Store link

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If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

Choiix Wave Stand for iPad

• ginbill

Courtesy: Choiix

TAB Rests

• arthurinrsa
• bergman
• christianikner
• dmt316
• ffsteward
• Ginbill
• JonCloddy12
• kmiahali
• Littledino2112
• mfm77

Courtesy: NewPCGadgets

Infinity Blade II

• Homing
• Praneeth
• Dave
• David
• Bruce

App Store link: Infinity Blade II

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• Win the iOS device of your dreams in the TiPb holiday giveaway! [Week 2]
• Om Nom plushie giveaway!
• Review and giveaway: Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone and iPad
• App Giveaway: Save the Pencil for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Fliks for Netflix
• App Giveaway: TouchPad for iPhone and iPad
• App Giveaway: Batman: Arkham City Lockdown for iPhone, iPad

Here’s a cute little video, called Om Nom Stories, of the candy-eating little creature from the popular iPhone and iPad game Cut the Rope. Admit it, this video makes you want a pet Om Nom!

Speaking of Om Nom and his cuteness, ZeptoLab has given us some Om Nom plush toys to give away! Specifically, we’ve got one 5″, one 8″, and one whopping 16″ Om Nom to put into your Om Nom loving hands! For a chance to win, head on over to our forums and let us know what you love about Om Nom.

Seriously, how could you not love this face?

ENTER NOW!

In the mean time, if you haven’t already, go pick up Cut the Rope for iPhone or iPad and feed Om Nom some candy. He’s hungry.

• Cut the Rope, $0.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope HD, $1.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope: Experiments, $0.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, $1.99 – App Store link

ENTER NOW!

Whether you’re using an iPad or another kind of tablet, holding it for an extended period of time while playing games, reading, watching movies, or web browsing will make your arms tired. And typing out long emails can prove difficult if you’re using one hand to hold your pad while trying to type with the other. Laying the tablet down flat on your lap or table isn’t much better.

Enter TAB Rests. Designed to work with any tablet, this simple foam base provides wrist support and holds your tablet at an angle ideal for typing, reading, gaming, and more! You can use TAB Rests on your lap or a table/desk, and it’s great for kids and adults alike. They aren’t super bulky, so you can easily pack one in a bag for travel or stow one in the car for the kids on those long road trips. I like that if you have a case on your tablet, you don’t have to remove it to use the TAB Rest, they can work together! You can pick up a TAB Rest for just $14.95 (plus s&h), and at that price why not get one to keep and one to give away as a gift?

We have 10 TAB Rests to give away this weekend, courtesy of newPCgadgets. To enter, leave a comment in the forum thread letting us know how you plan to use a TAB Rest if you win, or if you plan to give it as a gift let us know who in your life can benefit from having one of these in theirs!

We’re keeping this one short and sweet, so you’ll want to get your entries in before midnight Sunday. One entry per person please!

So what are you still doing here? Enter now!

Save the Pencil is a new, fun, little iPhone game. The goal is to guide HB, the pencil, through all the dots while collecting stars and avoiding the mean paper clips, rulers, and erasers.

This is a fantastic little puzzle game! You can only pass through the blue dots once, and the yellow dots as many time as you wish, but you must pass through them all before landing on the red dot. Throw in the obsessional part of you that insists on collecting all the stars and the stress of being chased by paper clips, and you have a real challenge on your hands! Not to mention, the graphics are just adorable.

You are HB; young, sharp and full of lead. A pencil on a mission to join the dots but there’s a rebellion in the stationery cupboard! The paper clips, rulers, erasers and their friends are angry, and they’ll do anything to stop you. Guide HB to safety and collect the bonus stars to unlock more challenging levels!

• Fun, addictive gameplay with plenty of variety. Tap the dots to move HB safely through each level.
• 60 challenging puzzles across 4 chapters will keep you tapping away.
• Full Game Center integration, with chapter leaderboards and over 20 achievements to earn.
• Collect three stars on every level. Some may be simple, but others are perplexing!
• Regular updates providing new levels and new enemies.
• End of chapter bosses offer a unique challenge.
• Different enemies interact with gameplay in different ways. Dodge paperclips, avoid spinning rulers, race erasers, and more!
• All your favourite stationery characters in one game!
• Full Retina Display support.

Giveaway

The good folks at Perfect Dimension have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky winners. For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Save the Pencil is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

• App Store link

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In case you hadn’t heard — blame your friends! — TiPb wants to give you the iOS device — or devices! — of your dreams. That’s right, a brand new iPhone 4S, iPad 2, iPod touch, or Apple TV, or even iPad 3 in 2012, could be yours!

And this is week 2 so you now have a second chance to win!

The Prize: A $600 Apple gift certificate to put towards the iOS device — or devices — of your dreams. An iPhone or iPad for you or your special someone, a couple of iPod touches for the kids, a handful of Apple TVs for the whole family — you could even save it for an iPad 3 when Apple releases it! — whatever you choose!

How to enter: Each week we’ll have a special thread in a different TiPb iOS device forum. Just leave one (1) reply in each thread telling us why you’d love to have that week’s device. You can enter once per week, each week, for a total of four (4) chances to enter over the course of the contest.

The contest is on now and the winner will be announced on the iPhone Live podcast on December 28, 2011.

So what are you waiting for? Enter already!

• TiPb iOS Dream Device Giveaway: Week 2 thread!

Fliks for Netflix is a new iPhone app that provides an alternative method of experiencing Netflix. You can customize your home feed, search and manage Instant and DVD titles, and play Instant titles.

Fliks for Netflix provides an immersive, beautiful way to browse, customize, discover, watch, and manage Netflix from your iPhone.

• Customizable Home Feed
• “Endless” Genre Sliders (hundreds-thousands of titles per genre)
• Search BOTH Instant/DVD Titles
• Manage BOTH Instant/DVD Titles
• Play Instant Titles from Fliks for Netflix
• iOS 5 Twitter Integration

Giveaway

The good folks at Digital Beluga have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below letting us know your favorite movie or TV show on Netflix!

Flicks for Netflix is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

• App Store link

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

The fine folks at Element Case have offered to give away a couple of their super sweet new Vapor Comp Epiphany cases to our very own members of the TiPb Nation. The Vapor Comp Epiphany is the latest in their line of stunning looking, high-end aluminum and poly carbonate iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S bumper cases, and this one does look especially good.

What say we take them up on that giveaway then? All you have to do to win is:

1. Head on over to ElementCase.com
2. Check out the Vapor Comp Epiphany specs.
3. Come back here and leave a (1) reply in the contest forum thread telling us what you like best about the Vapor Comp Epiphany.
4. Oh, mention what color you want as well!

That’s it! We’ll pick the winners and Element will ship you your beautiful new iPhone 4S or iPhone 4 case!

Ready, set… Enter now!

Last week, TouchPad 4.0 for iPhone and iPad hit the App Store. This app works as a secondary trackpad and keyboard for your computer. One of the cool new features of the update is that you can use Siri to input text to the keyboard, and thus your computer.

Giveaway

Because we love you so much, TiPb is gifting copies of TouchPad to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Must have a US iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours!

• $4.99 – App Store link]

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

The Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch lets you charge two iOS devices — even the power-hungry iPad! — at the same time. If you’re going on a long family trip, or even an extended drive for the holidays, this can make all the difference between peacefully playing children and happily tapping significant others, and the agony and pain of bored passengers with dead devices turning their angry gazes in your direction.

The Qmadix includes the twin-charging USB hub made out of “rugged” (rugged they say!) polycarbonate, advanced circuitry to prevent overheating/overcharging, and 10W (2.1 amps) of charging power. There’s also a 4-foot USB dock cable included for good measure.

There’s really not much more to say — the Qmadix performs as advertised and if you’re planning to be in the car with more than one iOS device for more than a couple of hours, you owe it to your collective family’s sanity to pack a couple of these babies with you!

• Get the Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch from the TiPb Store

Giveaway

Want to win a Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch of your very own? Just leave a comment letting us know how this little beauty might save your car trip this holiday season, and we’ll pick one of you to win!

Ready… set… post!

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown, a spin off of the hugely popular Batman: Arkham City console franchise optimized for iPhone and iPad, has begun hitting the iTunes App Store.

It’s live in Australia/New Zealand already and should become available in the US later today.

The inmates have escaped and Batman has his hands full defeating an army of henchmen and some of his most iconic villains. Scour the rooftops and the seedy underbelly of Gotham City through a series of one-on-one battles with the Joker, Two-Face and more, as well as the Batman: Arkham City Lockdown exclusive – Deathstroke. Choose from several Batman skins and power-ups as you punch, kick and combo your way to cleaning up Gotham City.

UPDATE: It’s live in the U.S. App Store now!

• $5.99 – App Store link

Giveaway

As you can see from the picture up top, we’re huge Batman fans here so, while we’re all waiting for Batman: Arkham City Lockdown to hit the U.S. App Store, we figured… why not gift it away to the TiPb Nation? We’ll gift Batman: Arkham City Lockdown to 5 lucky readers, all you have to do to enter is leave a comment telling us which was your favorite Batman story ever. One of the recent Christopher Nolan movies? The older Tim Burton franchise? One of the Batman: The Animated series? A Frank Miller, Alan Moore, or Grant Morrison comic perhaps? One of the Adam West camp shows? Which one?

Must have a U.S. iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours!

HoursTracker is an app for keeping track of your time and earnings at your hourly job or as an independent contractor. You can clock-in and out to as many jobs as you need, and HoursTracker will do all the work and even calculate your earnings, including overtime, so you can view them by day, week, month, or job.

I must say, the iPhone version looks quite beautiful.

Keep track of your time and earnings at your hourly job, or track time as an independent contractor. HoursTracker makes it simple and easy. Jump in and start a timer with two taps of the finger. Or, track your time by entering in your punch times manually. View your earnings (even overtime!) in the app, or export via e-mail in text or CSV format and work with it however you need to.

• Tracks your time while you use other apps (or power off your phone!) without running in the background. No extra drain on your battery just because you are clocked in to your job in HoursTracker.
• Add as many jobs as you need to track, there’s no limit.
• Assign a pay rate and HoursTracker will calculate your earnings, even taking overtime into account.
• Supports daily and weekly overtime with two thresholds and rates for each. So if you get paid time and a half over 8 hours and double-time over 12 hours or by the week (or both!), HoursTracker has you covered.
• Track your time in real-time by clocking in/out while you work. Watch as time and earnings accumulate in real-time.
• Already working but forgot to clock in? No problem, use “Start Clock At…” and start counting time from when you started work.
• Clock in to any number of jobs at a time, or set it up to have only one timer running at a time automatically.
• Enter time manually — just choose a start date/time and an end date/time or duration. Add comments, change the hourly rate for that time, and easily subtract breaks.
• Flexible rounding options to automatically round your time worked can be configured per-job.
• Set up pay period details and view your time by weekly, bi-weekly, semi-monthly, or monthly pay period on the Pay Periods tab.
• View your time and earnings by day, or by calendar week or month, or by job, on the Entries tab.
• Date formats and currency symbols respect your device’s international settings.
• Export data via e-mail in text or CSV formats in the message body or attachment. Export all jobs, or any selection of jobs, for all-time or between any two dates. Combine all entries into one daily summary, or export each one including the clock in / out times.
• Full edit and delete of jobs and hours worked. Easily copy a job if a new job will have similar settings.
• Basic cloud data backup/restore included free with the app. Enhanced Backup services also available, including automatic backups and moving data between your iOS devices. iTunes File Sharing is enabled, so you can keep your data entirely under your control if you prefer.

Giveaway

Developer Carlos Ribas kindly gave us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave comment below telling us which version you want, iPhone or iPad, and about how many hours a week you expect to track with HoursTracker.

HoursTracker is available on the iPhone and iPad for $2.99 each.

[iPhone App Store link] [iPad - App Store link]

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• Danny Boy: Guide Danny Boy through 32 high quality levels collecting coins while avoiding obstacles and killing birds. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Weight Controller: an application that will allow you control your weight in an easy and simple way, giving you all the information you need to control how you lose or gain weight in an efficient and professional fashion. [$1.99 for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

• Nature Sounds(sleep and relax): Do you wish to get close to the nature and feel free from the problems that surround you? Do you feel that the stress of everyday life deprives you of your ability to focus, relax, sleep – in short, affects your overall well being? Then this app is the best one for you! All pictures and sounds in this app are professionally mastered! [$1.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• Photo Wallpapers: Put your Facebook, Instagram and personal photos in exclusively designed, custom wallpapers. [$0.99 for iPhone - App Store link]

• My Life In Numbers: Lets you measure and celebrate events in your life in unusual and different ways. Find out when you will be one billion seconds old, how far the earth has travelled today, how much the richest man in the world has earned since you started work. [Free for iPhone - App Store link]

Giveaway

The good folks at Reapptive LTD have given us four promo codes for Danny Boy to give away to our readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Any other big app or game releases or updates today?

Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

Pad & Quill Octavo and Contega for iPad

• Octavo: @krysty_lyn on Twitter, Alli Flowers on Facebook
• Contega: @troystaylor on Twitter, Daynah on Facebook

Courtesy: Pad & Quill

Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone

• JJJWicks

Get a Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone

Flick Quarterback for iPhone and iPad

• Erleichde
• Jasonfhall
• Pettyh216
• Wjtcustom
• expos1981

App Store link: Flick Quarterback for iPhone

App Store link: Flick Quarterback for iPad

Muud.io for iPhone

• Rich
• MRiatti
• KWider
• Bouhbouh
• Aaron r

App Store link: Muud.io

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• Win the iOS device of your dreams in the TiPb holiday giveaway!
• Review + Giveaway: Choiix Wave Stand for iPad
• App Giveaway: Infinity Blade II for iPhone and iPad

Have you been dreaming of a free iPhone 4S for the holidays? Wishing for an iPad 2 with your name on it? Hoping for iPod touches or Apple TVs for the whole house? Already saving for an iPad 3 in 2012?

Well you’re in luck! The TiPb Nation is by far the best community on the ‘net and we want to say thank you — and spread a little holiday cheer! — by giving you the iOS device of your dreams!

The Prize: A $600 Apple gift certificate to put towards the iOS device — or devices — of your dreams. An iPhone or iPad for you or your special someone, a couple of iPod touches for the kids, a handful of Apple TVs for the whole family — you could even save it for an iPad 3 when Apple releases it! — whatever you choose!

How to enter: Each week we’ll have a special thread in a different TiPb iOS device forum. Just leave one (1) reply in each thread telling us why you’d love to have that week’s device. You can enter once per week, each week, for a total of four (4) chances to enter over the course of the contest.

The giveaway starts now and the winner will be announced on the iPhone Live podcast on December 28, 2011.

So what are you waiting for? Enter already!

• TiPb iOS Dream Device Giveaway: Week 1 thread!

Infinity Blade II has hit the App Store and what a better way to celebrate than with a giveaway!

Follow along for the details.

Powered by Epic’s cutting-edge Unreal Engine 3 technology, Infinity Blade II takes handheld gaming to even greater heights with stunning visuals, new combat styles, and advanced character customization in a beautiful, fully 3D world.

The Award-Winning Infinity Blade Story Continues!

• The God King has been defeated, an unlikely hero has emerged and now you must discover the truth behind the secrets of the Infinity Blade. The continuing journey of young Siris unfolds as you delve deeper into the world of the Deathless tyrants and their legion of Titans. Can you unlock all the mysteries and successfully wield the power of the Infinity Blade in this timeless sword fighting adventure of champions and villains?

A Robust & Dynamic 3D World:

• Explore beautiful and immersive environments that dynamically change over time during your travels and venture to exotic locations such as the Asian themed Saydhi’s Estate or the medieval inspired Vault of Tears featuring multiple paths to explore.

Featuring 3 All-New Styles of Combat:

• Now you can choose from multiple classes of weapons, armor and spells, each with specialized capabilities such as Dual Wielding, Two-Handed and the standard Weapon & Shield class. Learn each discipline by using Infinity Blade II’s intuitive pick-up and play game play style that is easy to use, yet difficult to master!

Infinity Blade’s Trademark Character Customization Evolved:

• Create and forge even more powerful weapons with mystical objects you discover and collect along your journey, expanding your overall arsenal with all-new elemental powers & capabilities! The Secrets of Your Past Revealed: Delve deeper into the fantastical story of Infinity Blade as your journey leads you to the realm of the mysterious Deathless Saydhi and discover the truth about the Worker of Secrets and the powers he holds.

The Latest in iOS features Powered by Unreal Technology:

• The definitive visual experience in mobile gaming, complete with all-new iCloud support and HDMI output.

Universal App:

• Play Infinity Blade on iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, iPod Touch 3 (16 GB and above), or iPod Touch 4 for a single low price.

Optimized for iPhone 4S and iPad 2:

• Includes high-resolution graphics and lighting that utilize the enhanced visual capabilities of the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

Giveaway

TiPb has been a fan of Infinity Blade since the original was first announced and we know you have been too. So, we’re giving away Infinity Blade II to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must have a US iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours!

Infinity Blade II is available on the iPhone and iPad for $6.99.

[App Store link]

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The Choiix Wave Stand for iPad is an aluminum holder that will work for any tablet. It’s beautiful looking — almost Apple-esque — well-made, sturdy, and inexpensive, what’s not to love?

The Wave Stand has lots of nice touches like rubberized feet to keep it in place even when you’re tapping, typing and prodding at your iPad. The back of the stand is also rubberized and grooved to keep your iPad from slipping down or out. You can easily adjust angles and because it’s strong, it stays right where you want it. You can use it with your iPad in either portrait or landscape mode, though in landscape mode pushing the iPad home button does make it wiggle a bit. (You can use your iOS 5 multitasking gestures to get around that.)

I’ve been using it all the time and I find it absolutely amazing. I use it at the table so I can browse the web while eating, on the counter while cooking, and on the desk while typing.

Best of all, Choiix is going to give one away to a lucky TiPb reader, so if you want in all you have to do is leave a comment below telling me how you would use the Wave Stand.

Source: Choiix

If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

RF3 LIVE Natural Wood Stereo Earphones

• Dionte Love

Courtesy of the TiPb iPhone Accessory Store

SPY Mouse HD

• FasTerv
• Yongchaopeng
• J_madlock
• Matthew Muelver
• Makmalreza

App Store link: Spy Mouse HD

SugarSync 30GB subscription

• Grajasekar

App Store link: SugarSync

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation

• Dtorrado27
• Jorge Franqui20
• Max Varner
• Dextermorph
• Xeyad

App Store link: Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation

GarageBand for iPhone

• Mercerwrxer
• mbern1008
• cguilbeau
• ericthibo
• jcb718

App Store link: GarageBand

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• #FollowFriday Giveaway: Pad & Quill Octavo and Contega for iPad
• Review + Give Away: Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Muud.io for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Video Star for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Pod Odyssey
• App Giveaway: Flick Quarterback for iPhone and iPad

Muud.io is a new iPhone app that plays music to suit your mood. That’s right, let Muud.io know what kind of mood you’re in and it’ll automatically build a playlist to match it. If you like a little more control, you can save and edit your favorite playlist to fit your exact needs.

Making great mixes shouldn’t be a chore. Whether you’re out-and-about, or relaxing at home, you want the right music and you want it now.

Muud.io automatically builds playlists to suit any mood, at the touch of a button.

Simply pick a mood, and Muud.io will build a playlist for you, using the music that you love.

• Community-recommended playlists, based on a mood of your choice.
• Automatic rating of song moods via the Muud.io community.
• Manually rate song moods according to your own personal preference.
• Save and edit your favourite playlists to get them just right.
• Let your friends know what you’re listening to via Twitter and Facebook.
• Share your favourite playlists via Twitter and Facebook.

Giveaway

The good folks at App Sandwich Limited have given us 5 promo codes to give away to you, our awesome readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below telling us who your favorite artist is.

Muud.io is available on the iPhone for $3.99.

[App Store link]

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Video Star is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you record music videos to your favorite songs features – you! You can mix layouts, colors, action, and frames easily and even pause recording to make scene changes a breeze. Once your masterpiece is created, it can be shared on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.

Check out the video made with Video Star below!

Record an awesome music video, anytime, anywhere. Lip sync … dance cover … capture your friends in action. Now you are the Video Star!

Video Star comes with tons of built-in video effects and you can make your own. Mix amazing layouts, cool colors, awesome action, and fantastic frames. A video effects playground!

• dozens of video effects, thousands of combinations!
• instant upload to YouTube
• share published videos to Facebook, Twitter, and email
• full iPhone 4, iPod Touch Gen 4, and iPad 2 front & back camera support

Giveaway

The good folks at Frontier Design Group have given us 5 promo codes to give away to our awesome readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below letting us know which song you’ll make a music video to.

Video Star is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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Pad & Quill, purveyors of exquisitely hand-crafted cases for iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air are having a Black Friday sale for their Octavo for iPad today, and a Cyber Monday sale for their Contega on Monday. If you haven’t read our review yet, the short version is that when the latest in Apple aluminum and glass meets the best in old world Baltic birch and Italian leather, well… pure hipster heaven ensues.

Hurry over to padandquill.com to get the sale price while it lasts. Seriously, don’t wait on this one. And if you want a chance to win an Octavo and Contega of your very own, Pad & Quill will be giving each away to a lucky Twitter and Facebook follower today and Monday. All you have to do to enter is:

1. Follow @padandquill and @TiPb on Twitter
2. Friend Pad & Quill and TiPb on Facebook

We’ll notify the winners via Twitter DM and Facebook message, so make sure you’re following!

Now hurry up an enter!

Pod Odyssey is a new iPhone and iPad app by Coffee Pot Labs. The goal of the game is to guide a lost space POD though the levels while completing missions and avoiding danger.

I’ve enjoyed my short time playing Pod Odyssey. The tilt controls are difficult to master, but with time and practice, I believe they would be the best choice. I don’t that have kind of patience, however, so I chose one of the many different touch controls options and was able to instantly enjoy the game.

Check out the trailer for Pod Odyssey below.

Use your galactic pilot skills to guide a lost space POD through a series of jagged cosmic mazes, evil missile-shooting robots and homing space spiders.

• 27 unlockable levels
• Addictive & Challenging game play
• Tilt controls
• Touch controls (several alternatives)
• Dual mission goals
• Easy controls (a 6 year-old can play)
• Unique Sci-Fi graphics and artwork
• Custom soundtrack & SFX
• EMP to knock out enemies
• Power Shield

Giveaway

The gold folks at Coffee Pot Labs have given us 5 promo codes for Pod Odyssey to give away to you, our awesome readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Pod Odyssey is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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Full Fat, the creators of Flick Golf and Flick Soccer, have brought a new flicking game to their lineup – Flick Quarterback! In Flick Quarterback, you are the quarterback of your favorite football team and it’s your job to pass – er, flick – the football to receivers and dodge defenders.

NFL Flick Quarterback is the first game to put the guts and glory of offensive passing in your hands. Be the QB of your favorite team – pass to receivers, dodge defenders and make amazing trick shots.

The incredible flick and ‘after-touch’ controls that have made users across the world love Flick Golf and Flick Soccer are now powering this awesome football-throwing experience.

• Complete passes to try for the highest score in Playmaker
• Face your opponents, avoiding their intelligent movement and interception skills
• Juke oncoming defenders to avoid getting sacked
• Throw as many passes as you can into the trash can in Trick Shot
• Play during the day or night, and even take on the natural elements – can you stand up to the wind like the toughest of NFL QBs?
• Pick your favorite team and customize your jersey name and number to become the QB you’ve always dreamed of becoming
• Play among beautifully rendered 3D stadium environments
• More than 120 unique football player animations
• Dancing cheerleaders before the game
• Game Center leaderboards and achievements
• Stunning high resolution graphics
• Enhanced for iPad 2

Giveaway

TiPb knows how much our readers love football, games, and free stuff, so we’re gifting 5 copies of Flick Quarterback! For a chance to win, let us know which football team is your favorite and which version you prefer – iPhone or iPad.

Flick Quarterback is available on the iPhone for $2.99 and on the iPad for $4.99.

[iPhone App Store link] [iPad App Store link]

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Here it is, the Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone! In case it isn’t completely obvious by the video up top or the picture below, the POP is a really cool, really retro receiver that plugs right into the iPhone’s — or any device’s — 3.5 mm headphone jack.

You can not only take and make calls with them at the press of a button, but you can activate Siri and VoiceControl as well, and even listen to music, all while tucking Ma Bell’s classic phone easily under your chin and against your ear. While black has that Matrix-chic about it, the Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone comes in a ton of of colors, even camo, so you can find just the perfect one for you.

Sure, walking around with a giant receiver on your hip like you’re a gunslinger from the age of telephone’s past might seem a little out of the ordinary, but when has ordinary ever been fun?

I absolutely love the Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone, and they were kind enough to send over a couple for me to try out, I want to share that love with a giveaway! If you want a POP Phone for iPhone of your very own, just leave a comment below telling me what you like about them. If you get picked, I’ll box up one of the review units and send it your way (it’s still in perfect condition).

So what are you waiting for? Leave a comment already before Agent Smith swings that truck around again!

• Get a Native Union Moshi Moshi Retro POP Handset for iPhone from Amazon.com now!

Firemint’s popular game Spy Mouse is now available on the iPad! The exclusive features are, of course, bigger and better graphics, as well as secret dossiers that will help you complete dangerous missions.

Danger. Intrigue. Stealth. Cheese! It’s SPY mouse HD for iPad! With all new exclusive content, features and HD quality graphics, help Agent Squeak feed his need for cheese as he embarks on his biggest, bite-sized mission ever!

• BIGGER, BOLDER, AND BRIGHTER – Get more danger, more intrigue and, most importantly, more cheese with vivid HD quality graphics.

• COLLECT SUPER SECRET DOSSIERS – Gather clandestine information and clues that will help you complete dangerous missions.

SNEAK, SCAMPER AND SNACK THROUGH 70+ LEVELS.

• Complete 72 stages across 6 different worlds on your quest for cheese. Discover secret levels and hidden areas. Foil traps with fake mice and speed up with chili pepper boosts!

EVADE FELINE FOES

• Slip past cunning cats with zany gadgets, gizmos and power-ups. Craft sneaky strategies to avoid detection! Sharpen your subterfuge and survive 6 epic boss battles.

BE STEALTHY WITH COVERT CONTROLS

• Guide Agent Squeak through puzzling scenarios and complete missions with fingertip control. It’s easy to learn – but be warned! There’s enough strategy-based action to challenge the most seasoned spy mice.

Giveaway

TiPb is always looking for a good reason to give stuff away, so we we’re gifting Spy Mouse HD to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below.

Spy Mouse HD is available on the iPad for $2.99.

[App Store link]

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BallAHolic is a new game for the iPhone and iPad that claims to have the “biggest balls in the App Store”. In this game, you must guide Uberhero through a 3D world with a lazor beam. He’s stuck in this world filled with balls, keys, and monsters, and you’re the only one who can help him.

I am having so much fun playing BallAholic! The graphics are great and the gameplay is really fun. The game opens up with an fun intro that tells the story about who Uberhero is and how he got stuck in this strange world. BallAHolic is a game that I can technically pick up and play for just a few minutes, but end up playing for much longer.

Check out the video trailer below!

BallAHolic – the game with the biggest balls in the App Store introduces:

UBERHERO – beloved friend, attractive, admired by millions, made out of steel, loves frozen peperoni pizza, women want him, men want to be like him and some men even want him too… long story short, THE role model of our generation finally arrived on iOS.

Unfortunately, a small accident – nothing serious – has brought him into an uncomfortable situation. Uberscientists have worked hard to find a way to communicate with UBERHERO and bring him back to our world.

Now it’s your turn! Get up! Prepare for an incredible journey! Leave your lousy life behind and become a hero yourself. Of course not an UBERHERO, that would be beyond your capabilities. But if it makes you happier consider yourself as the chosen one… alone at home… when nobody’s watching. Well, back to the topic.

YOU are UBERHERO’s last chance to guide him out of this mess!

On your journey you will discover

• 59 stunning balls make you wanna scream
• true 3D GRAPHICS you have never seen before
• brand new AMBIENT OCCLUSION lighting system
• mean monsters whose sole purpose is making your life very hard down there

Get ready for a new gaming experience!

• 3 different game controls using every single feature an iPhone/iPod touch provides
• AWESOME GYROSCOPIC game controls – move around in 360 degrees for a totally new way to play
• TILT your device or SWIPE on the multitouch display to experience the 3D world
• PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE – worry about other things! Play in your preferred orientation or change it while playing
• use your brain to solve tricky puzzles and complete strategic levels
• destroy everything that stands in your way back from this hell!

BallAHolic provides

• highly varying level structures unifying different genres into one game
• amazing 3D menu with real time lighting for a new way of navigating
• Meteors, snowflakes, bubbles – the 3D particle system will make you wonder ‘how the hell did they do that?’

Giveaway

The good folks at A Local Chaos Project have given us promo codes for BallAHolic to giveaway to 5 lucky winners! For a chance to win, just leave comment below and let us know which version you would prefer to win – iPhone or iPad?

BallAHolic is available on the iPhone for $1.99 and on the iPad for $2.99.

[iPhone App Store link] [iPad App Store link]

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SugarSync is an online storage solution for your iPhone, iPad and computer. With SugarSync, you can store files, photos, and music to the cloud and access from any of your devices and you can even be stream your music and play in the background while using other apps.

Have you ever been away from home or the office and realized you need a file that is on your computer? SugarSync puts ALL of your data from all of your computers right at your fingertips…anytime, anywhere from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. With SugarSync, it is dead simple to sync and share your files online, giving you easy access to everything directly from your mobile device. If you like Dropbox, MobileMe, or Carbonite, you’ll love SugarSync.

• Get anytime, anywhere access to all of your files, photos, and music
• Share any file via email, or copy and paste links to share with another app
• Backup photos/videos taken on your iPhone/iPad to your computers (without wires!)
• Stream your entire music collection, even while you use other apps
• Download files or entire folders for fast, offline viewing
• Share, move, and even delete files saved on your computers
• View photos from all of your computers (and easily save any to your iPhone/iPad)
• Edit documents locally (using a document editor), then sync it your computers

Giveaway

The good folks at SugarSync have given us a code for a 30 GB/year account for one lucky winner! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must provide a valid email address to win.

SugarSync is available on the iPhone and iPad for free. A free account includes 5GB. Paid subscriptions are available for 30-250 GB and start at $4.99/mo.

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If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have…

Apogee Jam

• smileyboy

Amazon link; Apogee Jam

Farnsworth Video Communicator

• Molerat
• Mr & Mrs
• stevethomp
• johndhynes
• JayDjr

App Store link: Farnsworth Video Communicator

Ringtonium

• Riwri1
• michael_natale
• Vyrenee
• Brandon Smith
• Randy Ojeda

App Store link: Ringtonium

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• RF3 LIVE Natural Wood Stereo Earphones
• Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation
• GarageBand for iPhone and iPad
• Snapseed for iPhone and iPad

The popular FPS series, Modern Combat, has brought a new addition – Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation. It brings more intensity, better graphics, and a battle for freedom of the United States.

The best, most realistic smartphone FPS series returns with even higher intensity and an apocalyptic battle for the freedom of the United States, for one or more players.

BE THE HERO OF AN EXPLOSIVE SOLO CAMPAIGN

• Fight through a 13-mission campaign from Los Angeles to Pakistan.
• Witness multiple memorable moments thanks to AAA scenario-scripting.
• Experience different types of gameplay: escort, destroy, helicopter, 4×4 chase…

LIVE THE MOST IMMERSIVE REAL WAR EXPERIENCE

• The deepest and most intuitive FPS gameplay on smartphones improved once again, now with a sprint and slide feature.
• Gaze-upon next-gen GFX that allow for an unprecedented rendering of environments.
• Improved SFX and voice acting will immerse you in an apocalyptic scenario.

ENJOY WHAT IS SIMPLY THE BEST MULTIPLAYER ON SMARTPHONES

• Enter battles for up to 12 players in 6 exclusive maps and 7 different modes.
• Use your customized weapons to move up an addictive leaderboard with more than just ranks.

Giveaway

TiPb knows how much our readers love Modern Combat 3, so we’re gifting copies to 5 of you! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must provided a valid email address and have a valid US or Canadian iTunes account to win – Apple’s rule, not ours!

Modern Combat 3: Fallen Nation is available on the iPhone and iPad for $6.99.

[App Store link]

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Snapseed is a premium photo editing app for iPhone and iPad. You can make adjustments ranging from the basics to more creative things like tilt-shift and special filters.

One of my favorite features of Snapseed is the ability to make adjustments to specific areas of the photo with Nik Software’s U Point technology. Snapseed makes pro-level editing easy for the average user.

Snapseed is the only photo app you’ll want to use every day. It makes any photograph extraordinary with a fun, high-quality photo experience right at your fingertips.

Basic Adjustments:

• Auto Correct – Automatically analyzes your photo and adjusts color and exposure to perfection.
• Selective Adjust – Make precise selections and enhancements to specific areas of your photos in seconds with Nik Software’s revolutionary U Point technology.
• Tune Image – Use Ambience to create depth and vibrancy that uniquely adapts to colors and textures. Adjust White Balance, Saturation, Contrast, more.
• Straighten & Rotate – Rotate 90° and/or straighten photos with simple gesture controls.
• Crop – Easily crop images to remove distracting parts of your photo, now with standard aspect ratios.
• Take Photos – Open photos from the Camera Roll or take new photos.

Creative Enhancements

• Black & White – Get that classic Black and White look with this darkroom-inspired filter.
• Vintage Films – Make any photo look like a vintage color film photo from the 50’s, 60’s or 70’s.
• Drama – Add style with a custom effect specifically tailored to your photos, ranging from subtle textures to wildly artistic effects.
• Grunge – Give your photos a totally unique, hip, and dingy look.
• Tilt-Shift – Create a narrow in-focus area designed to simulate depth of field, common in a Miniature Scene look.
• Details – Enhance details with traditional sharpening or the unique Structure control found in the Nik Software professional products.
• Center Focus – Draw attention to the subject of your photo by blurring the surrounding background.
• Organic Frames – Add stylized borders to photos for the perfect finishing touch.

Sharing

• Email – Send images at original resolution.
• Social – Share on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter (using iOS5).
• Print – Print wirelessly using Apple’s AirPrint technology

Giveaway

The good folks at Nik Software are partnering with us to give away 5 copies of Snapseed to our readers! For a chance to win, let us know which country you’re from and how many photos you have in your library waiting to be edited with Snapseed. Must also provide a valid email address to win.

Snapseed is available on the iPhone and iPad for $4.99.

[App Store link]

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If you’re looking for a stylish pair of headphones without a hefty price tag – the RF3 LIVE natural wood stereo earphones may be worth taking a second look at. Everything from the design of the actual earbuds down to the elegant packaging makes these headphones stand out from a lot of others in the same price range. But what about the most important feature of a good pair of headphones? Sound quality. Follow along to see how we felt they performed.

When it came to sound quality I thought the RF3 headphones held up extremely well for the price. The headphones themselves are noise isolating and come with a few different sets of tips for a better fit. They were rather comfortable to wear but I wouldn’t suggest them as the best option for athletes or runners as I had them fall out of my ears a few times.

The 3.5MM headphone jack has a longer adapter which also allowed me to use them with virtually any case. One quirk I’ve never really gotten over with my Bose headphones is that the jack is shorter and some cases including bumpers don’t like to play nice with them. That isn’t the case here.

The headphones also have a built-in mic that you can interact with just like you can default Apple earbuds. This means iPhone 4S users can easily interact with Siri quickly and easily. I tested the mic on several occasions and had no issues with Siri picking up on what I was saying even in a semi-noisy environment.

As far as the acoustics and sound while listening to music, I thought they held their own against many other headphones in the same price range. They even performed better than some more expensive headphones I’ve used in the past. The only issue I did see was when it came to bass levels. I felt that they were rather shallow. Even with my iPod settings set to enhance the bass they didn’t seem to perform near as well as my Bose MIE2i headphones. That is not as fair of a comparison though since they are nowhere near the same price range.

Overall, I’d say they perform well for the price if you want a decent pair of headphones that stand out from the rest without breaking the bank. You can find the RF3 LIVE natural wood headphones in the TiPb accessory store for $34.95.

Pros

• Great price for a quality product
• A variety of ear tip pieces included
• Built-in mic works exceptionally well
• Noise cancellation works just as good as most expensive noise isolating headphones
• The sound doesn’t distort when at a high level like some lower priced ear buds
• The headphone jack seems to fit well with almost every case I have, bulky or not

Cons

• Not great for runners and athletes as the headphones don’t offer a very firm and secure fit (or I just have little ears)
• The bass levels seem to be rather shallow compared to other ear buds

Giveaway

Just leave a comment below telling us what you’d listen to if you were given a set of RF3 LIVE Natural Wood Stereo Earphones of your very own! A special song? A great audio book? A bunch of Mobile Nations podcasts? What?

Last week, Apple’s GarageBand was updated to be a universal application for iPhone and iPad. Also last week, TiPb introduced our new Music, DJ, and Jamming Forum. In celebration of these two events, TiPb is gifting 5 copies of GarageBand for iPhone and iPad!

For a chance to win, all you need to do is head to the official GarageBand contest thread in our Music, DJ, and Jamming Forum and tell us which artist inspired you most to get into music.

Ready, set… ENTER NOW!

[$4.99 - App Store link]

If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our awesome readers. This week we have

Pad & Quill Little Black Book for iPhone

• sprocket2107
• jakej914
• curve247
• RevJar
• jameslaz

Courtesy: Pad & Quill

Halloween Contest

• Check out all the winners!

Noteshelf

• Eric
• Ariq99
• Morliere
• Jivarro
• Tom Hearon

App Store link: Noteshelf

50 GB subscription for SOS iPhone Backup

• Melanie

App Store link: SOS iPhone Backup

More chances to win

Didn’t win anything this time? Never win anything? We know how you feel! Luckily, we have tons more chances for you to win, so hurry up and enter everything!

• Apogee Jam for iPhone and iPad!
• Farnsworth Video Communicator
• Ringtonium for iPhone
• Notability for iPad

Become an agent of Warehouse 13 and transform your iPhone into your very own Farnsworth with Farnsworth Video Communicator! You can send videos, audio and texts to other Farnsworth users, Facebook, and email.

If you couldn’t tell from the video above, I’m having fun with this app

Turn your iPhone into a working Farnsworth just like the agents use on Warehouse 13!

• Send and receive videos from fellow agents that look exactly like the messages do on Warehouse 13.
• Send messages fast over any Internet connection: WiFi, 3G, CDMA and even EDGE.
• Under deep cover or have an iDevice without a camera? You can send audio-only messages with an oscilloscope effect on-screen that matches your voice!
• Post messages directly to Facebook – or email them directly from your Farnsworth.
• Communicate securely. Only those you invite or those who have invited you can exchange messages with you.
• Receive notifications of new messages – even if the Farnsworth app isn’t active.
• Install the Farnsworth app on multiple devices and your messages will be automatically copied via our server to all devices as you receive them.
• Use the app on most iDevices, including the iPhone GS and up, iPad and iPad 2 (pixel-doubled graphics) and the iPod G4.
• Check out the real-time shadow effects: They move as your iDevice moves.
• Get messages directly from Warehouse 13! Artie has been known to check up on new agents in the field. And you never know when you might get an assignment from Claudia. Don’t be hurt if she calls you a noob. That’s a term of endearment. No, really.

Giveaway

TiPb is helping Mrs. Frederic recruit 5 new agents to Warehouse 13! To be considered, all you have to do is leave a comment below! Must provided a valid email address.

Farnsworth Video Communicator is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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Apple has just released GarageBand for iPhone and TiPb has just created an iPhone and iPad Music Makers Forum, and in honor of both events — we’re giving away an Apogee Jam! It’s a pocket-sized, plug-and-play music interface that lets you connect your guitar right into your iPhone or iPad (or Mac).

Want one for your very own? All you have to do is jump into the official contest thread in our new iPhone and iPad Music Making Forum and tell us what kind of music, DJ’ing, or jamming you do with your iPhone or iPad. (And I mean details! Rocking out with your guitar, getting the wedding crowds out on the dance floor, making crazy Ramen noodle loops, what?)

Ready, set… Enter now!

Hat tip: Thanks to Jim Dalrymple for the recommendation!

Ringtonium, the popular ringtone creation app, just got better. It now has a wheel for fine-tuning the beginning and end of the chosen clip for your ringtone. It also has a mic so that you can record your own sounds and effects.

I played around with Ringtonium, and it’s a fantastic little app. The UI looks nice and is super easy to use. The adjustment wheel is really what differentiates this app from being good to being great. Say goodbye to awkwardly cut off ringtones, now you can fine-tune them to end at just the perfect spot.

Way easier than you could expect interface, clean and slim HD design with super accurate ringtone start/end adjusting wheel. Meet new Ringtonium 2.0.

• Endless number of ringtones absolutely free
• Longest ringtone length time Apple ever allowed
• High quality ringtone sound from your favorite music
• HQ mic recording
• Best customer support video integrated in the app
• Super easy to use navigation

Update includes:

• iOS 5 retina redesign
• NEW help video added
• SoundCloud integration (approved by musicians)
• Store your ringtones right in the App
• View, listen, arrange ringtones without leaving the app
• Delete ringtones without syncing with iTunes
• Upload ringtones to the Cloud in just one tap
• Share ringtones via Facebook, Twitter, email

Giveaway

The good folks at Bamboo Group have given us 5 promo codes to give away to our readers! For a chance to win, let us know which songs or sounds you plan you use for your first ringtone! Must provide a valid email address to win.

Ringtonium is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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Notability, the note-taking app for iPad, received a big update that includes handwriting, PDF imports and annotations, and autosync to the cloud.

Handwriting is happiness! With this addition, Notability continues to provide the tools to capture ideas and information at school, work, or anywhere.

• Full-featured Handwriting: Pour your thoughts, ideas, and notes onto a personal canvas. Write wherever you desire with amazingly smooth digital ink. Use zoom-view to quickly record the smallest of details. Choose a paper to suit your style while using a variety of pen colors and widths to create beautiful notes.
• PDF Annotation: Import a class note, syllabus, lecture, presentation or book chapter, in PDF format. These documents provide great context for note taking. All of the tools are available for annotation, including pens and highlighters, writing blocks, images, type, and more.
• Advanced Word Processing: When speed and accuracy are essential to your notes, the advanced word processing features supply the perfect tools to assist you. A fully customizable tool bar places your favorite tools a touch away: font presets, bold, underline, italic, and cursor controls help you compose notes quickly. Create outlines easily using bullets or numbers. These are just a few of the tools that integrate seamlessly to support your note-taking style.
• Linked Audio Recording: Audio recordings automatically link to your notes. Confidently take notes, with the knowledge that linked recordings help with review. During playback, simply tap a word to hear what was said at that moment. Our unique audio amplification features create brilliant recordings in any setting.
• Media Insertion: Enhance your notes with pictures from your photo library or iPad 2 camera, web clips, figures and writing blocks. You can move and resize these, so they take the proper place in your notes.
• Library Organization: Your notes are important to you, so Notability makes it easy to organize, protect and share them. You can place notes in subjects, and can put subjects into categories. Notes can be kept safe by password protecting them. Auto Sync makes backing up notes easier than ever, as notes are automatically uploaded to Dropbox, iDisk or WebDAV in a format you choose. And the import feature makes it easy to retrieve your notes and PDF files from the cloud. Also email notes, export via iTunes File sharing, and AirPrint.

Giveaway

The good folks at Ginger Labs have given us 5 promo codes to give away to our readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Notability is available on the iPad and on sale for $0.99

[App Store link]

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Well happy Hallowe’en TiPb Nation! And Mobile Nations! Wow, what an awesome response to our No Tricks, Just Treats Halloween Costume Contest! The judges worked long and hard going through the 300+ submissions in the, and they have finally narrowed it down and chosen 15 winners! There were so many incredible entries, from funny to scary with everything in between, and all of them were so creative, it was a really hard contest to judge! We appreciate all the pictures that were submitted, and hope that you all had as much fun entering as we did getting to see everyone.

Watch the video above for all the fun and check out the winners — and some of your favorite, and might I say wonderful — ahem! — Mobile Nations staffers below and in our official Flickr Gallery!

Mobile Nations Halloween Costume Contest Winners!

Scariest costume

Cutest kid/family

Coolest pumpkin

Best couple outfit

Biggest fan of their platform

Most creative use of a phone/tablet

Funniest costume

Hottest costume

Best impersonation of a Mobile Nations writer/editor

Most stylish entry

Thanks again to everyone that participated! If you are one of the winners listed above, CONGRATULATIONS! Watch your email for your Hallowe’en treat from TiPb Mobile Nations.

If there’s one thing TiPb loves even more than iPhones and iPads, it’s giving cool iPhone and iPad accessories and apps to our fabulous readers. This week is no exception, as we’ve got the Jawbone ERA, the Lifeproof case, The Early Edition 2, and ReaddleDocs winners, and a ton of new giveaways — just for you!

Jawbone ERA

• clealsgirl

Lifeproof case

• Jezlyn

The Early Edition 2

• Kobyron
• Jvy Dyao
• Lremy22
• Maddin
• Marcus Harwell

ReaddleDocs for iPad

• Dinesh Arya
• Nickmykola
• Slickvic621
• Drew
• garylapointe

More chances to win

• Halloween Costume Contest: Email us a photo of you in costume with phone or tablet in hand and you could win!
• Giveaway: Pad & Quill Little Black Book for iPhone
• App Giveaway: SpookyTones for iPhone
• App Giveaway: Noteshelf for iPad
• App Giveaway: pwSafe – Password Safe for iOS

With Halloween falling on a Monday this year, we know a lot of you will be out this weekend in costume getting your party on. So to celebrate Halloween and the official launch of our new Mobile Nations network branding, we thought we’d have some fun with a cross-site mobile device + costume contest!

What You Need to Do

When you’re out at Halloween parties this weekend or out trick or treating on Monday, get a photo snapped of you in costume holding your smartphone and/or tablet visibly out in hand. Be scary, funny or do a crazy pose. Whatever you want is cool. Have fun with it. For brownie points, load up TiPb in the web browser or throw a TiPb.com wallpaper on. Group photos with friends and co-workers are welcome too. And hey, if you have a mix of phones in the group photo and want to go for extra-awesomeness, you can load up the appropriate Mobile Nations website onto each different type of phone: TiPb.com on iPhones/iPads; AndroidCentral.com on Android devices; PreCentral.net on webOS devices; WPCentral.com on Windows Phone.

Submit Your Photo

With your photo taken, all you need to do is email it in to halloween@mobilenations.com by midnight PST this Monday, October 31st.

How and What You’ll Win

On the morning of November 1st we’ll go through all the photos and pick out a bunch of winners in a variety of categories – scariest costume, funniest costume, sexiest costume, best group photo and more! We’ll put all the winners and other photos received into a video collage and post it up on the blogs Tuesday afternoon.

As for the prizes? Well… it’s Halloween – which means you might get a treat, or this could all be just a nasty trick. But you know us… we like treats. We’re going to keep the treates a surprise though, so take your photo this Halloween, email it in, and stay tuned.

From all of us at Mobile Nations, have a safe and happy Halloween!!

With SpookyTones, you can give your email alerts a creepy sound – just in time for Halloween! In order to change your email tone, you will need to have your email forwarded to a special email address and the SpookyTones will push your wailing alerts. You can choose to make all your email spooky, or just certain contacts.

When you run SpookyTones, we’ll give you a special email address @mailtones.net – forward A COPY of your email to that address and any mail you receive will make your iPhone howl with your chosen tone. You can choose to copy all your email to mailtones.net, or use filters to just forward some. When mail arrives at our server, we send a Push message to your iPhone – causing it to scream, wail, growl or bark! Please make sure you can forward a copy of your email to a second address – gmail and MobileMe users can do this, but we understand Yahoo Mail does not provide this facility. MailTones uses the Amazon EC2 platform, to allow for extreme reliability and stability.

• Pick a spooky new email tone
• Set custom tones for contacts
• Get quick alerts of incoming messages
• No need to share your email account details with us!
• Simple set-up from GMail, MobileMe and any server which supports “forward a copy” forwarding of email (sorry – NOT Yahoo! Mail)

Giveaway

The good folks at Electric Pocket have given us 5 promo codes for SpookyTones to giveaway to our Halloween-loving readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! We’ll choose the winners on Sunday night, so that they can have their spooky email on Halloween Day. Must provide a valid email address to win.

SpookyTones is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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We’re big fans of Pad & Quill so when they offered to give the TiPb Nation the chance to get one of five (5) of their gorgeous Little Black Book cases for iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 for FREE, we jumped on it! (Carefully, we didn’t want to risk damaging any of those Baltic Birch and Italian bonded leather beauties!). Like we said in our Little Black Book review:

If you’re an iPhone owner tired of iPad users getting all the moleskin hipster fun, you’re in luck. Pad&Quill have brought both to iPhone with the Little Black Book. From the beautiful binding to the snap of the elastic close to the smell and texture of the materials, it’s just perfectly realized.

And the new version is even better, with a pocket to keep some cards or some cash!

So you want one of your very own? Of course you do! And here’s all you have to do to get it:

1. Head over to Pad & Quill’s Little Black Book page and check out all the details.
2. Jump into the TiPb iPhone 4S Forum and leave us a response on the official contest thread telling us what you like most about the Little Black Book and why you want one.
3. That’s it, you’re entered!

So what are you waiting for? Enter now!

Courtesy: Pad & Quil

Noteshelf is a note-taking app for your iPad – or shall I say: a beautiful note-taking app for your iPad. It comes with 17 digital ink pens, 20 note templates, 15 covers, and much much more. It’s been making its way around the Mobile Nations back offices and let’s just say it’s a stylus-selling, device-draining, can’t-stop-gushing-about-it in meetings hit. Bottom line, a lot of smart people around here think Noteshelf is among the most productive tools they’ve ever used on iPad, and that’s saying a lot.

The most beautiful note taking app ever designed for the iPad. Noteshelf is the handwriting note taker that features super natural digital ink, a stunning UI and a comprehensive toolset that will increase the benefits of owning an iPad by leaps and bounds.

GET ORGANIZED

• Neatly organize all your notebooks on the shelf, each with a cover and title of your choosing.
• Group related notebooks together and label the groups appropriately for better organization.
• Password protect groups of notebooks on the shelf for privacy.
• Rearrange pages within a notebook or move them to different notebooks to reorganize your notes.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR NOTEBOOKS

• Choose from a collection of 20 note templates ranging from simple ruled/checked notebooks to a day planner, task manager, personal journal, music notes and shopping lists to name just a few.
• Create your own note templates in any paint program and import them into Noteshelf to create custom note templates.
• Mix different types of note templates within one notebook.
• Choose from a selection of 15 beautiful covers for the notebooks you create.
• Browse the in-app store for many more professionally designed templates and covers.

COMPREHENSIVE EDITING TOOLS

• 17 digital ink pens that provide the writing experience very close to real-life pen & paper.
• Full set of highlighter pens and erasers.
• Cut / Copy / Paste support to move or duplicate notes. You can even paste your notes from Noteshelf into other apps like email app, for example.
• Write comfortably with your finger or stylus using our special zoom and wrist protection modes.
• Embed and annotate photos. iPad 2 users can take a photo directly from Noteshelf and use it within notes without switching between apps.
• Unlimited undo/redo capabilities should you ever decide to change your mind while taking notes.

SHARE YOUR NOTES

• Email or print your notes directly from Noteshelf.
• Export your notes to EVERNOTE or DROPBOX as PDF or image files.
• Present your notes on an external display by using Apple’s VGA adapter. Use Noteshelf as a whiteboard tool to conduct seminars or facilitate brainstorming sessions.

Giveaway

TiPb is such a fan of Noteshelf for iPad that we’re gifting copies of the app to 5 lucky readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! (U.S. App Store account required to redeem gifts, Apple’s rule, not ours!)

Noteshelf is available on the iPad for $4.99.

[App Store link]

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Have an app you’d love to see featured on TiPb? Email us at iosapps@tipb.com, tell us about your app (include an iTunes link), and we’ll take a look.

pwSafe is a password management app for the iPhone and iPad. It has just been updated to support iCloud sync as well as introduced several new features.

Having secure passwords is becoming increasing important, but they are generally not very convenient. With pwSafe, a randomly generated password is no longer a burden – just make a quick copy of your secure password and paste it into whichever app you need.

Simple & secure password management across devices and computers. pwSafe uses iCloud or Dropbox to keep your password databases backed-up and synced between your iOS devices and computers. It is compatible with open source Password Safe.

• Dropbox sync, fully automatic and bi-directional
• iCloud sync, realtime and bi-directional
• Password generation
• Master password
• Universal binary – iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch optimized
• Compatible with the famous open source Password Safe desktop app
• Search in all fields
• Single tap password copy to clipboard
• Single tap password copy to clipboard and open website
• Multiple fields (title, username, password, URL, email and notes)
• Full unicode support
• iTunes file sharing
• Receives safes as e-mail attachments (please name your safes with a .psafe3 extension)
• Opens safes from Dropbox (free without sync)
• Multiple safes
• Unlimited passwords
• Unlimited password groups
• Open source

The update includes:

• iCloud sync support
• Master password
• Safe password change
• In-app settings menu
• Button to copy password and go to website with a single tap
• Password generation policy edition (safe- and entry-wise)
• Clear clipboard on lock
• Lock safe directly from any screen
• FAQ accessible from settings menu
• Performance improvements on open and save safe (no more short lockups)
• Small usability improvements everywhere
• Some bugs and crashes fixed

Giveaway

The good folks at App77 have given us 5 promo codes to give away to our awesome readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must provide a valid email address to win.

pwSafe – Password Safe for iOS is available on the iPhone and iPad for $0.99.

[App Store link]

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SOS iPhone Backup is a cloud service for storing documents and backing up your photos and contacts on your iPhone. Additionally, you can use your account to backup your computer and Facebook account.

SOS iPhone Backup comes with a free 5 GB account and 50 GB and 100 GB plans are available with a subscription.

SOS iPhone Backup is the ultimate personal protection solution designed to back up your iPhone and protect all your contacts and photos in the SOS cloud. It also lets you stream all of your music straight from your cloud to your device, giving you access to all of your music and photos from anywhere! Share your photos, stream video, access all your documents and more!

Backup your Mac or PC with SOS, and access your files anywhere using the SOS iPhone Backup app.

Giveaway

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While at the most recent Show Stoppers event, I had the opportunity to check out the LifeProof case for iPhone 4S (and iPhone 4). Protection is always key for any of our beloved electronics, and whether you are a mountain biker, a swim lover, or a karate king trying to keep your iPhone protected while doing your favorite event is a struggle — until you meet LifeProof. The folks at LifeProof have spent a lot of time (over two years) designing this case, and a whole lot of money (over two million dollars) into making sure that their product was the best to hit the market.

Whether in rain, snow, ice, dirt, sand, or any other horrid condition you can think of with your device the folks at LifeProof know that their case can protect your device without you needing to take any additional precautions. So, does the case really hold up to its name? Let’s take a look at some video action and check out some more images of the case on the device.

Pretty impressive stuff, huh? Not just everyday would you trust a case enough to just toss it in a tank of water, or drop it from six feet onto the ground without cringing in fear of what damage was just done to the device. We know, you understand that it can keep the device protected, but you want to know how much bulk it adds to your device, and if it is comfortable in the hand, right? Well, short answer, yes — and let’s take a look at why.

Personally I always fear the super protective cases because I know you need to add bulk to protect, and often times companies love to go overboard with the bulk, and it makes holding the device feel unnatural, and it no longer comfortably fits in your hand and pocket, but this case is different, very different. Adding only 1/16 of an inch, or 1.5mm, and adding less than an ounce of weight, to say the case is surprisingly small would be an understatement.

Featuring a two piece snap together design the case fits very snug over the device, making getting the case on and off a bit of a struggle, but that is their intentions for the waterproof seal that the case offers.  The top piece includes an attached scratch resistant and waterproof screen protector that still allows for complete operation of the touch screen, and with the waterproof seal around the edge of the case you don’t have to worry about any dirt or dust getting under there.

The headphone jack is sealed by a screw in cap that can be removed and they include a headphone extension that screws in for those of us who wish to use their headphones will keeping the device protected. The charging port is covered by a flip down piece that seals very tightly. The cut out will allow chargers to be plugged in to the device without the removal of the case, and LifeProof also offers a dock extender that plugs into the charging port and allows the device to be docked with the case on.

Overall the case does an extremely good job at protecting the device while adding minimal bulk to the slim profile of your iPhone 4S (or iPhone 4). The look of the case is quite plain, but they do offer a few different color selections such as black, white, pink, and purple, and the color covers the complete device, including the front so you can make it appear as though you have a totally different color iPhone than you really do!

Giveaway

We are giving away our review unit; it was used slightly (don’t worry it isn’t the one in the test video!) and it is in near perfect condition. Simply leave a comment letting us know what kind of abuse you put your iPhone through that requires LifeProof to protect it.

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