In Stock: iSkin solo FX for iPhone 3GS/3G

In Stock: iSkin solo FX for iPhone 3GS

iSkin solo FX [$34.99 - TiPb Store link] instantly give your beloved iPhone 3GS or iPhone 3G a fashion makeover with bright, bold color and glamorous style.

Carefully crafted for a precise fit, the iSkin solo FX perfectly encapsulates the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS’ elegant contours in a beautiful, high-gloss bodysuit. The iSkin solo FX raises the style bar even further by adding an embossed designer pattern that demands attention, and a fabulous mirror film that you’ll wonder how you ever lived without.

Delivering fashionable everyday protection against impact, scratches, dirt, dust, and everyday hazards, the form-fitting solo FX is also hot/cold temperature resistant, odorless, and available in a range of stunning high-gloss color options.

The iSkin solo FX is thoughtfully designed to protect your iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS without sacrificing functionality. You’ll enjoy the optimal convenience of completely unhindered screen, docking port, headphone and camera access, while your essential volume and power buttons remain safely and snugly protected.

The iSkin solo FX arrives with an enhanced non-slip surface treatment that feels fantastic and helps you keep a confident grip on your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS. It also helps stabilize your beloved device when placing it on angled surfaces.

The solo FX sports a unique mirror film that will provide touch compatible screen protection that will help guard against scratches, dust, and other damage caused by everyday use.

iSkin solo FX for iPhone 3GS/3G are available now from TiPb’s iPhone accessory store…

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In Stock: iSkin solo FX for iPhone 3GS/3G

Plants vs. Zombies game coming to iPhone

Plants vs. Zombies, the hit casual game from Popcap Games, is headed to the iPhone and iPod touch. It's also available at retail stores including Apple Stores and big-box retailers.

Squeezer, a URL shortener app for iPhone

Squeezer allows you to shorten a long URL from Safari and sharing it quickly via Facebook, Twitter, SMS, or email. Just copy the URL from Safari, then launch Squeezer, hit the ‘Squeeze It’ button, and the long URL get magically shortened! The very nice looking app currently supports the following URL ...

iLike’s iPhone app to find nearby shows

iLike launched another iPhone application called “Local Concerts” [iTunes link] recently, enabling users to follow any artist and receive alerts whenever they are coming to town. And it's available free for iPhone and iPod Touch. This app's features including: Find local shows near your neighborhood. Access a huge, global database of concerts and ...

Palm Reportedly Rejected Jobs’ Proposal Not to Poach Each Others’ Employees

Bloomberg reveals that Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly approached then-Palm CEO Ed Colligan in August 2007 with a proposal that the two companies refrain from hiring each others' employees. Colligan rejected the proposal, claiming that the tactic wa...

AppJudgment Brings Mobile Application Reviews to Revision3 Network

Patrick Norton from Revision3 was gracious enough to join us last night on iPhone Live! and tell us about the new internet show he’s co-hosting, AppJudgement. According to Norton, many of the Revision3 staff were so passionate about their mobile devices they just couldn’t resist adding this show to their lineup. Check out the first episode, embedded above, and find out what Norton and friends think of iPhone twitter clients.

(They’ll also cover Android Apps, and when more are available, Palm Pre. Windows Mobile and BlackBerry should also be on the horizon).

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AppJudgment Brings Mobile Application Reviews to Revision3 Network

Your iPhone and iPhoto library are in sync with Simplify Photo

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

Many of us are forgetful in some form, and this trait is especially magnified when one proceeds to show others an "awesome photo" on your iPhone that, sadly, didn't get synced. Instead of telling your friends that you'll show or email them the photo later -- assuming you even remember to -- you can use Simplify Photo to view your entire iPhoto collection.

While increased megapixels in digital photography brings with it the promise of better picture quality, in most cases it comes at a file size premium. And because storage space on your iPhone is a finite resource, you can choose to set aside dedicated space for those really important photos and use Simplify Photo for those that are not as important but would nonetheless like to have access to just in case.

Simplify Photo is available for 99 cents on the iTunes App Store, while the required desktop client (available for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) is available as a free download at the Simplify Media site. The desktop app allows you to not only specify which iPhoto albums and events to sync, but the people as well -- via integration with the app's "Faces" facial detection feature. And if you're not exactly sure which album or event a photo is stored, you can use the app's search feature, which searches your photos' tags, titles and comments.

But the standout feature of Simplify Photo is its geolocation support. Like iPhoto '09's places feature, Simplify Photo displays a map with various dropped pins; and tapping on the pins will display the photos taken in the vicinity.

If a picture can say a thousand words, then Simplify Photo's desktop syncing capabilities have the potential to make your iPhone speechlessly filled with photos.

Your iPhone and iPhoto library are in sync with Simplify Photo originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Your iPhone and iPhoto library are in sync with Simplify Photo originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Steve Jobs Asked Palm’s Colligan to Stop Stealing Apple Employees?

Did Apple CEO Steve Jobs approach former Palm CEO Ed Colligan back in 2007 with a gentleman’s agreement to stop hiring each other’s employees? (Similar to the agreement allegedly just terminated between Apple and Google?)

Bloomberg, based on communications revealed by Palm’s Derick Mains, says indeed he did. The conversation reportedly took place in August 2007, after Apple unveiled the iPhone in January and shipped it in June — and after Apple had hired 2% of Palm’s workforce to do it. Palm then brought former Apple iPod executive Jon Rubinstein on board to reboot their smartphone efforts, and it’s at this point Steve Jobs apparently stepped in:

Jobs, Apple’s CEO, told Colligan he was concerned that Rubinstein was recruiting Apple employees. “We must do whatever we can to stop this,” Jobs said in the communications. [...] Jobs said Apple had patents and more money than Palm if the companies ended up in a legal fight, according to the communications.

Palm’s response?

“Your proposal that we agree that neither company will hire the other’s employees, regardless of the individual’s desires, is not only wrong, it is likely illegal,” Colligan said to Jobs, 54, according to the communications. Colligan said he thought about Jobs’s proposal and considered offering hiring concessions, before deciding against it, according to the exchanges.

Palm, of course, did go on to hire liberally from Apple’s iPhone engineer ranks. Still, it’s interesting to see Palm offering up this exchange on a silver platter during a time when tech companies in general, and Apple in particular, is coming under higher government scrutiny. It comes on the heels of other recent Palm vs. Apple scrapes, of course, including the ongoing jousting match over iTunes sync and USB access, the still simmering patent dispute Jobs hints at above and that Apple and Palm have played about in the media, and of course humorous comments from investor Roger McNamee and Colligan himself about how the iPhone is/was doomed.

[via Engadget]

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Steve Jobs Asked Palm’s Colligan to Stop Stealing Apple Employees?

Apple is Holding a Music Event - So Beatles on iTunes Rumors, Right?

Will the Beatles Arrive on iTunes this Year?(survey software)

As the typical timeframe for Apple’s annual Music Event — focused on iTunes and the iPod — draws close, rumors have once again turned to… the Beatles. Perhaps because no other band seems both as close to Apple founder Steve Jobs’ persona, and yet is still utterly missing from the digital download space.

This year, however, the Beatles do show up on Rock Band, and are releasing newly, digitally, remastered CDs, so will we finally get a Beatles on iTunes announcement this year to cap things off?

Ugh. Who knows? Why even bother to speculate any more, to track possible yellow iPod colors, to monitor McCartney’s California travel plans, to play last year’s Let’s Rock keynote backwards for clues. It’ll happen when it happens.

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Apple is Holding a Music Event - So Beatles on iTunes Rumors, Right?

Review: Rise of Lost Empires for iPhone

Gameloft has managed to strike the right balance between real-time strategy gameplay and lots of action with Rise of Lost Empires. The game does away with some of the more tedious aspects of the genre so that you can focus on the fast-moving though still strategic action.

Australia/Canada running low on iPhone supply?

The Globe and Mail reports that Rogers Wireless, the exclusive carrier for the iPhone in Canada has run out of stock of all iPhone models, notifying potential customers that they may have to wait several weeks before availability resumes. “Rogers is advising shoppers that it is out of stock of Apple’s latest device, the iPhone 3GS, [...]