Say Hello to TiPb: The iPhone, iPod, and iPad Blog!

We’re proud to say that The iPhone Blog is now TiPb: your #1 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad blog!

A little SPE network news before we get to our weekly list o’links. We’ve been calling TiPb ‘TiPb’ instead of ‘The iPhone Blog’ for so long now, we figured we may as well make it official. Add in that the iPhone platform now encompasses the iPhone, iPod Touch, and the newly announced iPad and renaming the site pretty much became a foregone conclusion. Same great content, new shorter URL to type in!

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Foursquare on Nokia N900 Slacker Radio Music Streaming on Nokia N900 Ovi Store Easier to Browse	Verizon and Palm Advertising Palm Pre …to Mom Not So Fast? Mobile Hotspot on Verizon Mozilla Weave Sync Coming to webOS
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Macworld San Francisco 2010 Kicks Off This Week

Macworld Expo 2010 kicks off this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California. The significance of this year's Macworld Expo has been significantly reduced due to Apple's decision not to participate. Apple cited the diminished i...

Review: Hive board game app offers all sorts of buggy fun

Filed under: iPhone, iPod touch, App Review

As a tabletop board game, Hive has been around since 2001. It draws inspiration from classic abstract strategy games like chess and shogi but does away with that pesky board (see also: Tile Chess). The iPhone/iPod touch app [US$1.99, iTunes link] brings everything from the physical version to your pocket, and if clever placement of bug-decorated pieces is your thing, the game is well worth the download - at least for a short while.

The Game

The rules of this two-player game are entirely simple. Each turn, you either add a piece to the hive (you can think of the hive as the board) or, if you've already placed your queen bee, you can move a piece in the hive. The object of the game is to surround your opponent's bee and, like in chess, each type of piece (different kinds of bugs) has its own movement abilities, so knowing when to move where is a challenge and certainly part of the fun. Beetles climb on other bugs, the ant runs around the hive, and so on.The full rules are detailed in the app's tutorial, or you can watch a video review after the jump (or get the rules PDF). Read on to discover if these bugs are the kind you want invading your iPhone.

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Review: Hive board game app offers all sorts of buggy fun originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Touch Mouse iPhone App - Turn Your iPhone Into a Wireless Keyboard And Mouse For Free

Hands-on with the OWLE bubo: Better photos and video from your iPhone

Filed under: iPhone, Road Tested

A while back, we had a product announcement about the OWLE bubo (US$129.95). That bizarre name is actually a play on words: OWLE stands for "Optical Widget for Life Enhancement" (the company's name) and bubo is the genus for American horned owls and old world eagle owls. The device, if you have an imagination, even looks like a cartoonists idea of a horned owl.

So, now that we've got the name all figured out, what the heck is an OWLE bubo? You could call it the ultimate iPhone case for photographers, and you'd be pretty darned close. The current bubo is a sleek, machined piece of aluminum that is designed to be held with both hands for better stability when shooting photos or video with the iPhone. The bubo does a great job of making it easier to shoot video, but that's just scraping the surface of the feature set.

bubo also has a 37mm .45x wide-angle/macro combo lens that is awesome for doing close-ups of objects, taking crowd or landscape photos, or doing interviews. In fact, it's this last use case that finally convinced me to purchase a bubo. Since TUAW is going to be doing a lot of video and other photography at Macworld Expo during the this week, I want to see if I can make my iPhone 3GS my primary tool for capturing imagery since I'd prefer to pack light. The lens accommodates screw-in filters at a standard 49mm size, so UV haze or polarizing filters can be added to further improve image quality.

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Review: Onslaught from Space for iPhone

Onslaught from Space looks very much like something you would’ve played in a video arcade 20 years ago, and that’s exactly what developer Jake O’Brien had in mind.

Spray on Glass — Could this be the future of iTechnology ?

Could spray-on liquid glass be the future of the iPhone and iPad? It is thin, flexible, transparent and even anti-bacterial. This liquid glass was invented in Turkey and held by the company Nanopool.

For more about this new technology, stay with us after the break.

The liquid glass is incredibly thin, only about 100 nanometers thick (a penny is 1550000 nm, thanks nanozone) and when used in this thickness is flexible and breathable. Easy to clean with only a damp cloth and it repels bacteria, water and dirt. So this layer could be used to keep your iPhone clean and antibacterial (Germophobes look away, your phone is one of the most bacteria infested objects you own). It also repels UV light and is acid resistant (Oh no, diabolical Mr. Evil you can not destroy my iPhone by dropping it into that vat of acid, but one step closer and Mr. Bigglesworth gets it!).

I can see how this could be useful in a multitude of iPhone, iPod and iPad technolology. One of the ways I see it being used, is in order to make the iPhone waterproof. It could be sprayed all over the phone and seal off any small holes and mesh, allowing sound waves to travel.

My own futuristic wish is that one day I have a flexible easy to store and carry iPad. Now that glass can be made in a flexible manner this opens up a wide range of possibilities.

To find out more about this new discovery, head on over to Nanopools website.

What do you think ?

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Review: iPhone apps for the Super Bowl

We look at nine apps that will either help you enjoy Super Bowl XLIV... or give you a worthwhile distraction should the game not live up to the hype.

Review: Pantech Impact mobile phone

The Pantech Impact sits awkwardly between text-friendly phones, many of which offer a better design for messaging, and touchscreen powerhouses, all of which are more capable of handling multimedia.

Analyst: 75% Probability That AT&T’s iPhone Exclusivity Will Prevail in 2010

Intrinsity (Formerly Exponential Technology) Now Speeding Up ARM CPUs

One of the major announcements alongside the Apple iPad launch was the fact that Apple is now in the chipmaking business. The Apple A4 is a system-on-chip that includes an ARM based processor that is believed to have been designed by the engineers A...

Sn0wbreeze 1.4 Released to Jailbreak and Unlock iPhone OS 3.1.3