Doom Resurrection, iTunes Movies, Tap Tap Revenge, IM+, Appshopper.com, Autostich – TiPb Picks of the Week

Every week a few of us from team TiPb, bloggers and forum crew alike, will bring you our current favorite, funnest, most 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 (or iPod touch) related, they’re fair game.

So who’s on deck this week and what are our picks? Find out after the break!

Chad’s Pick: Doom Resurrection

I was a little apprehensive about this on-rails First Person Shooter (FPS) but id did a great job with it. It controls great, has a nice environment and all the weapons you love from the original. The ability to dodge adds an extra level of immersion as well. This is a fine hold-me-over until Doom Classic gets released soon…[$9.99 - iTunes link]

Chris’ Pick: iTunes Movie Rentals

I was just out in the field, and my hotel didn’t have a TV or anything. Luckilly I had planned in advance and rented some movies through iTunes, so I was able to watch them on my iPhone while in the hotel room. [Variable - iTunes link]

Jeremy’s Pick: Tap Tap Revenge 2.6

I scored 428,486 on Wrong by Depeche Mode, in Tap Tap Revenge 2, the hot music rhythm game for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you are on your iPhone or iPod touch and have Tap Tap Revenge 2 installed, click the link below: Open Tap Tap Revenge 2 and play the challenge! [free - iTunes link]

Leanna’s Pick: IM+

I’ve been hesitant to spend the money on an IM client, but IM+ won me over with the integration of Twitter push. Now, I’m not going to say that IM+ perfectly pushes Twitter, because it doesn’t, but it’s an impressive first attempt. Every direct message and @ mention gets pushed to me 1 to 4 minutes after it was sent. Every once in awhile some random tweet gets pushed through as well, but not often. What about normal IM? It’s works great! I will have a full review of IM+ soon, so stay tuned! {$9.99/month – iTunes link]

Matt’s Pick: Appshopper.com

Appshopper.com has recently updated their site so that you can now log
in to your own account and add apps that you have bought.
Appshopper.com will then notify you (optional) when updates come out
for your apps. You can also create a wish list for apps that you want
to purchase in the future (an also receive updates about price
changes). The website also allows different sorting options and
rankings of your apps in your collections. [Web link]

Rene’s Pick: Autostich

My photographic aspirations far exceed my talents, and while my experiments at iPhone 3GS HDR are still resulting in misaligned ghost worlds, my iPhone 3GS panoramas have taken a step towards… well, if not the better, at least the easier. Previously, I would take my shots and bring them into Photoshop to assemble a pano. Now, I just use Autostich right on the iPhone, and the results have been excellent. If they could add a cropping feature, my on-device workflow would be complete. [$1.99 - iTunes link]

Your Pick?

You’re part of team TiPb too, so what’s your pick? What app was your absolute fav last week? Let us — and everyone — know in the comments!

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Doom Resurrection, iTunes Movies, Tap Tap Revenge, IM+, Appshopper.com, Autostich – TiPb Picks of the Week

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This time it's a Free iMac

So I finally got used to the Apple way of life after receiving numerous free Apple products including iPods, iPhones, and a Mac Mini. Now I have fully embraced Apple products I’ve decided to grab myself a free iMac.

The iMac’s stats are actually lower than my current PC, but as I now know, things run much smoother on Apple gadgets and I’m assured that the free iMac will be the best thing I’ve ever not paid for!

As the iMac will be free, I have a choice of specifications depending on how many referrals I get over the next month or two. The more people that sign up for a free iMac, the higher the spec I will receive.

I would ideally like the 24″ model with a 3.06Ghz processor and 1TB HDD but at £1800 retail that would be 90 referrals which may take me a few months, although there are people who could easily get a free iMac every month they get so many sign ups! I’m not that succesful yet, but give me some time and I’ll be updating this blog from a shiny new free iMac, or perhaps I’ll be logging on from my free iPhone.

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iPhone and MobileMe: Apple’s Picks for Getting Your Best Pics

More a cameo than a starring role, never the less the iPhone and MobileMe feature in Apple’s latest marketing campaign “Get the most from your Mac: Our picks for getting your best pics”:

Let friends download full-resolution images. Enjoy your own online gallery where you can share photos and videos. Let friends download your photos and upload their best shots. You can even publish and view photos directly from your iPhone. Visit a live sample gallery now.

While thin on iPhone overall, it does showcase the incredible ecosystem Apple has plugged the iPhone into, including Mac’s for photo editing and organization, printing services for books, calendars, etc. sharing online and to devices from Apple TV in the living room to MobileMe online and iPhone and iPod on the go, and back up solutions like Time Capsule.

That 360 degrees of integration is one of Apple’s — and the iPhone’s — greatest strengths and one smartphone-only manufacturers have no short-term way of matching.

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iPhone and MobileMe: Apple’s Picks for Getting Your Best Pics

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Quick App: FileMaker’s Bento for iPhone

FileMaker was gracious enough to provide TiPb with a walkthrough of their just-released Bento for iPhone and iPod touch ($4.99 – iTunes link). Coming as it does from a wholly-owned Apple subsidiary, Bento shows every bit as much polish as the built-in iPhone apps. Features include:

• 25 pre-designed, ready-to-use templates that can be quickly customized with a few taps.
• Create your own forms to organize virtually any data on an iPhone or iPod touch.
• Tap to call a contact, view a Web site, send an email or display a map all while in a Bento library or collection.
• Manage anything from contacts and club members to projects, parties, medical bills and vehicle maintenance.
• View libraries and collections, create new records, edit details, sort data, modify forms – even use the iTunes-style search to find information quickly on the go.
• Select from 15 field types including text, numbers, choice, checkbox, media, time, date, durations, currency, rating, address, phone number, email, URL and IM Account.
• Wireless Synchronization between Bento for iPhone and iPod Touch and Bento 2 for Mac
• Works with built-in iPhone apps Contacts, Safari, Phone Dialing, Mail and Google Maps

An updated version of Bento 2 for the Mac is shipping at the same time, which is required for the sync to function. There’s no support for multiple iPhone to Bento 2 Mac sync yet, though you can manually sync one device after the other. Likewise, Apple doesn’t allow hooks into the Calendar (yet?!) but for things like Contacts, Bento for iPhone’s ability to mirror the built in Contacts database, and then transparently superset it with extra data (i.e. you could add a star rating to all your friends) is very impressive.

Most impressive, however, is the typical Apple-esque ease of use. Bento does a lot of heavy lifting so users, whether exclusively on the iPhone, or syncing between iPhone and desktop, don’t have to.

If you have any need at all to organize personal data on your iPhone, give Bento for iPhone a look and let us know what you think!

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Quick App: FileMaker’s Bento for iPhone

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Apple Getting Another AMD/ATI Graphics Guru in Raja Koduri?

Something seriously smoking be going on round Apple way if the latest story from The Inquirer (via MacRumors) is to be believed:

We’ve just heard from sources deep inside 1 Infinite Loop in Cupertino, California that [Raja Koduri, AMD/ATI Chief Technology Officer, Graphics Product Group] is heading there.

So for those keeping score at home, this adds to:

• PA Semi lower-power PPC chipset designer: bought
• ARM cpu: licensed
• PowerVR GPU graphics core: licensed
• Mark Papermaster, IBM chip guru: hired
• Bob Drebin, AMD/ATI graphics guru: hired

Steve Jobs has said Apple is working on their own systems-on-chip for future iPhones and iPod touches. Looks like that work has got some serious hardware, and talent behind it.

Our only question is, what’s going to melt the universe first, the Hadron Collider, or whatever Apple’s got cooking up in their basement?

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Apple Says Netbooks Cramped, Terrible, Junky, Not Mac-Worthy — Buy an iPhone Instead!

Also covered on today’s Apple Q2 2009 financial results call were Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook’s description of netbooks, as currently on the market, having:

cramped keyboards, terrible software, junky hardware, very small screens, and just not a consumer experience… that we would put the Mac brand on, quite frankly.

So where does that put all the rumors about an Apple netbook being all but imminent? Either once again shoved on the back burner like the iPhone nano, or — really imminent. (Apple has a history of trash talking product spaces and denying interest right up until they launch their own offering, like video on iPods, or, you know, smartphones).

Does this mean we’ll more likely see an Apple tablet? Mac OS X or iPhone OS X based? Opinions vary but Cook gave nothing away. Instead, to costumers who might want mobile web and email, he offered this advice:

They might want to look at an iPhone or iPod touch instead.

Okay, so I’ll admit that I leave my laptop at home now and just use an iPhone far more often than I ever would have guessed I would, but as a full on mobile replacement? Is it really there yet?

And what do you see, if anything, as Apple’s now near-mythical entry into the pseudo-netbook space? One of the above, or something else entirely?

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The Daily Roundup: here’s what you might’ve missed

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	Peek Pronto: Push email, Exchange support, multiple accounts Boy, Peek wasn’t kidding when it called its new device Pronto.		OnLive killed the game console star? What if you could stream games, any game, over a decent broadband connection to your PC or Atom-based netbook at the same quality as the PS3?
	‘Resident Evil 5′ Xbox 360 unboxing Here’s a note to humans of the future who may one day mail a limited edition Xbox 360 to someone at Engadget: stick it inside another box	Other news of import Pentax’s 30 megapixel 645 Digital on track for 2010 release Tesla Model S priced just under $50K, rest of car still shrouded in mystery Lenovo ThinkStation S20 / D20 sport new Xeon CPUs, Tesla C1060 GPU
	ZeeVee Zinc TV viewer hands-on and impressions ZeeVee just let loose its Zinc internet TV viewer, and we couldn’t help but give it an install on our Windows XP-based machine. While it can be said that this is a competitor to Hulu, it actually provides access to Hulu material.		Telstra’s Turbo 21 HSPA modem reviewed: not 21Mbps but still the world’s fastest Telstra loves to brag about being the “world’s fastest national mobile broadband network.” And they should after a recent 21Mbps (theoretical) upgrade to its Next G network in Australia’s major cities.
Mitsubishi affirms that LaserVue HDTV production is back on Pioneer outlines KURO plasma exit, insinuates that you should buy one now		Motorola i856 iDEN slider in the wild BlackBerry Niagara 9630 reviewed in all its prerelease glory

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New iPod Shuffle – it talks!

Apple have just released the 3rd generation iPod Shuffle…and it really is tiny.

The new iPod shuffle, the smallest ever, gets around that annoyance with previous versions that meant you had no idea what track was coming next, and no ability to browse the playlist.

This iPod talks to you.  With the press of a button, it tells you what song is playing and who’s performing it. It can even tell you the names of your playlists, giving you a new way to navigate your music

Not only is this new iPod Shuffle really small, it is also really big with a 4GB memory allowing you to store up to 1000 songs, and multiple songlists.

So just how small is it?

45.2 mm (1.8″) tall x 7.8 mm (0.3″) thin to be exact.

To create the world’s smallest music player, Apple have moved the controls from the iPod shuffle to the headphone cord. This allowed them to make the new iPod shuffle dramatically smaller, and also easier to use, with the controls located where you can access them quickly.

Oh, and yet another great new quirk is that the new iPod will actually tell you when the battery is low using the same speech technology it uses to tell you what track you are listening to!

At £58 it seems like an OK deal, but I’ll be getting a free iPod Shuffle for just 3 extra referrals when I get my next free iPhone.

Get yourself a free iPod Shuffle too.

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4G iPhone concept

Gizmodo have released this concept photo (by Rodolphe Desmare) of the iPhone 4G.

This beautiful concept has been inspired by the curves and tapering of the Macbook Air coupled with the iPod touch’s back.

Note the front mounted camera, useful for the anticipated iPhone video conferencing facility users seem so keen on seeing in the next iPhone. For this to work well the iPhone video conferencing facility would need to interact seamlessly with both PC and Mac software, and this is probably why we won’t see it for some time yet.

For those of you who haven’t already got a free iPhone, now’s the time to sign up. You may even end up with a free 4G iPhone!

Free, er…Wallpaper!

Well, it would appear that the most bizarre free item to date has been received by a member of eXceem. 

I suppose once you have received all the free gadgets and goodies you want and can sell for a profit, why not use your spare referrals to get a few essentials!

claire1234, a member if the online free stuff forum eXceem, decided that she would use her ‘custom order’ option rather than requesting the usual free iPod/iPhone/PS3/xBox360/Wii/Bank transfer/etc, and requested:

Quote:

custom order from incentives4u, thank you so much rob

not sure how to put photos on but i got:
5 rolls of wallpaper for my bedroom,
bucket of paste,
paste table,
rose tree,
all ordered from wilkinsons!

now just gotta convince the husband to put it all up

also got a buggy just before xmas from fj, thank you
and november a £100 amazon voucher from freepay, thanks!

It just goes to show how diverse the freebie hunting scene has become, and more importantly, how more and more people of all ages (not just teenagers getting free iPods) are embracing and accepting this as a legitimate way of receiving expensive goods.

Beat the credit crunch - get your freebies here:

Free iPhone | Free Macbook Air | Free iPods | Free PS3 | Free anything