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App Giveaway: TouchPad for iPhone and iPad

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Dec 8, 2011 a 3:25 am

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]

Forums: Deleted items, iPhone 5 is real, Contest Reminder

By Chris Parsons, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 6:30 pm

With this week now in full swing, we figured it was a good a time as any to remind you all of our Win the iOS device of your dreams contest! The week 1 thread can be found in the TiPb forums so if you're looking to get entered into the contest that is where you'll want to be headed as you'll need to post in there. You can register now for the forums and get started today! While you're in there entering, be sure to check out some of the other threads as well:

Evernote releases two new apps: Evernote Food and Evernote Hello

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 6:21 pm

Evernote has release two new apps today: Evernote Food and Evernote Hello.

Evernote Food is a food diary. You can takes photos of each part of your meal, take notes about each food item, and keep track of them by meal. Want to share your delicious food with your friends? No problem! It's a breeze to share with Twitter and Facebook.

Evernote Hello is an app for keeping track of people you've met - a replacement for business cards. When you meet someone, hand them your phone and have them fill out their information and snap a pic. After your meeting, add some notes regarding your encounter.

Evernote Food, free - App Store link
Evernote Hello, free - App Store link

The week in iPhone: Siri silly season, Apple topping charts, iOS vs. Android, AT&T crackdown, and more!

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 5:55 pm

Missed a compelling piece of iPhone news, a great review, or a killer how-to? We're not collecting absolutely everything in iPhone here -- you can hit up TiPb.com/iPhone for that! -- but we're carefully picking what we think is the best of the last 7 days and presenting it here for your review.

And hey! -- these double as show notes for our iPhone Live! podcast tonight at 6pm PT/9pm ET. So join us at TiPb.com/live and follow along!

Review and giveaway: Qmadix Dual Mobile Charging Kit for iPhone and iPad

By Georgia, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 5:07 pm

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.

Daily Apps: Diamond Dash, Calculus Auditus, Bleat, Twosift, Tick Tock Time to Stop

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 4:36 pm

Diamond Dash: Join your friends and compete in weekly tournaments. Connect with Facebook to unlock special features and play with your friends! [Free for iPhone and iPad - App Store link]

AT&T "Top 5%" data user throttled down to 2G speeds

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 11:53 am

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AT&T has been warning the top 5% of iPhone data users on their network for a while now that they'd start throttling their speeds. TiPb reader David, who previously got the infamous SMS nasty-gram, just received it again and since then can't seem to get download speeds any faster than an EDGE-like 150Kbps.

His friends and co-workers are still getting full speed, ruling out a tower problem.

App Giveaway: Batman: Arkham City Lockdown for iPhone, iPad

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 11:04 am

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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.

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!

Apple submits updated plans for new Cupertino campus

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 9:52 am

As reported by iPhoneincanada, Apple has submitted revised plans for the "mothership" campus they plan on building in Cupertino. The new renderings outline the internal layout and surroundings of the structure, and... They're absolutely gorgeous.

Apple originally sent Steve Jobs to the Cupertino City Council back in June to pitch the idea of building a new space for Apple employees since outgrowing their Palo Alto headquarters. They picked up the lot from HP back in 2010. The new plans detail the inner workings describing a restaurant and dining area, entrances and parking layout and more.

Check out some of the renderings below and let us know what you think in the comments!

Source: iPhoneincanada

Flipboard comes to iPhone, brings Cover Stories

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Dec 7, 2011 a 12:44 am

Flipboard, the renowned personal, social magazine for iPad, has just been updated to version 1.7 and brings with it universal support for iPhone and iPod touch as well. Flipboard is also giving the iPhone version a short term exclusive -- Cover Stories, a quick, smart way to keep up to date on the Facebook, Instagram and Twitter content most relevant to you.

Full update list and gallery after the break.

Note: While it's showing up in iTunes, Flipboard for iPhone is failing to load at the moment. Wait a while, get a beverage, try again, and hopefully it fixes itself asap.