Hulu for iPad Likely to Be a Paid Subscription Service

Last week, a report that video site Hulu might be making its way to the iPad generated a significant amount of interest, with many users excited about the prospect of free access to television content on Apple's forthcoming tablet device. MediaMemo ...

Sling Player gets 3G streaming, AT&T iPhone mess, Cisco voice-over-WiFi app

The Sling Player app on the iPhone has been missing one key feature for many users -- 3G streaming. That missing feature has now been added back with testing of a new 3G streaming version of the app underway. BusinessWeek is talking about the mess that is the AT&T network and ...

TiPb Give-away: HAVA Titanium HD WIFI + iPhone App

The fine folks at HAVA have a top-of-the-line, factory sealed, $250 Hava Titanium HD WIFI box, along with a $15 iTunes gift card to purchase HAVA Player for iPhone/iPod touch from the App Store [iTunes link], and they want to give it to a lucky TiPb reader!

All you have to do to enter the give-away is to head on over to the TiPb Forums and tell us what TV show, event, or movie you most want to watch via HAVA on your iPhone! We’ll pick one reader at random and HAVA will send you your box and gift card. (US shipping address required for delivery). Give-away starts now and ends Monday, Feb. 22 at 12pm PT.

For more info on HAVA, keep reading after the break!

Hava Titanium HD WIFI WiFi is the latest addition to our HAVA family. It sports 2 USB ports and allows you to connect the included USB 802.11g wireless dongle giving you the wireless capability of the HAVA Wireless HD but more flexibility. You can connect a USB hard drive to HAVA Titanium’s USB port and record and play back any show using the HAVA PC Player. You can also schedule a recording to occur unattended, so that your PC does not have to be connected when the recording starts.

Like our other HAVA products, you can watch your home TV content in any room in the house or in your hotel room on your PC or mobile phone. The video streaming in the house is through a wireless connection through the home router, and in the hotel room its over the Internet. There is a bundled remote control on the PC screen that allows you to control your set top box, TIVO or any other video source. You can also use HAVA’s recording functionality to record your favorite channels.

• Wireless TV viewing around the house
• External USB hard disk support
• 802.11g
• Pause, rewind, fast forward and record favorite live TV shows
• Burn TV shows to DVD
• Stream TV programs to multiple PCs simultaneously around your home
• Use Microsoft Media Center PCs to watch TV wirelessly throughout your home
• Watch TV on PCs in your home and from abroad at the same time
• Connect any HD video source

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Apple Planning Smoother Transitions Between Graphics Processors in Upcoming MacBook Pros?

AppleInsider reports that it has received information that Apple is planning an enhancement to its next-generation MacBook Pros that will allow for automatic switching between integrated and discrete graphics processors based on whichever is the more...

App Store launches in 13 new countries

From Armenia to Uganda, iPhone developers can now reach customers in 13 new countries across the globe.

Ninja Tips: Alpha-numeric Passcode for iPhone, iPod touch

The shinobi-smart folks over at 9to5mac have posted a way for iPhone and iPod touch users to switch away from the retro 4 number pin passcodes that Apple implements, and into a secure alpha-numeric key:

We’ve built a profile from Apple’s corporate developement kit that allows alphanumeric passcodes. All you have to do is open this link (On your iDevice only!) and you will be prompted to pick a new passcode. You will be required to make a passcode with a mix of letters and numbers and you cannot put numbers in a consecutive order. For example you cannot choose “max1234″ you would have to do something such as “max2746.” If you ever want to remove this feature simply go to Settings/General/Profiles/9to5mac/ then click remove and confirm. Then change your code back to something numeric.

You can grab the link from their site (above), and they remind you they’re not responsible for you putting a hyper-secure passcode in place… then forgetting it. If you do give it a try, let us know how it works for you!

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Review: Just Mobile Xtand Go

The Xtand Go is a multipurpose mount for holding your iPhone, GPS receiver, or other device in the car.

TiPb Apps #1.6 — Farm Frenzy 2 for iPhone (Macworld 2010)

Live from Macworld 2010, Leanna and Rene of TiPb talk to Hilary Wall and Maren Faulkender of Appency about Farm Frenzy 2 [$2.99 - iTunes link] for the iPhone, and the future of games on the iPad.

Watch along after the break!

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Near Field Communication, Multipoint Screen, Video Conferencing, Multitouch Bezel — Apple Patent Watch

Apple patent applications and awards are so voluminous they could fill an entire blog all by themselves — enter Patently Apple, just such a blog, which brings word of several new and interesting iPhone and iPad patents including near field communication, multipoint screen, video conferencing, and multitouch bezels.

Near field communication would allow incredibly simple, incredibly fast data transfer from an iPhone to a MacBook. It also looks like it would allow an iPhone to control a Mac or unlock a door.

Multipoint screen is all about allowing an iPad to detect multiple touches at the same time via a “transparent capacitive sensing medium”.

Video conferencing has been teased for a long — long — time, but now it’s also being looked at in the context of a location aware social network.

The touch sensitive bezel, when added to the previous touch sensitive back casing patent and the current touch sensitive screen would make a fully capacitive iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad! It could also add Palm Pre and Pixi-style gesture areas.

As always, Apple files for and obtains a large amount of patents, and we never know when, if ever, we’ll see them in actual products. That being said, any of these make your want list?

[Thanks to Duvi for the tip!]

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Review: Fallen EP-1 for iPhone

Opening with a nerve-wracking sequence in which a group of soldiers are killed by a mysterious dark creature, Fallen EP-1 is every bit as creepy and edgy as Silent Hill or Resident Evil.