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For all TiPb readers who have dreamed of having their very own home theatre, we now have a solution for you and all that is needed is your iPhone, shoe box, and 1 to 2 hours of your time.
It’s a pretty clever idea, check out the videos after the break!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
Home Theatre Setup Using Your iPhone and Shoe Box is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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Anyone surprised that games are way more popular on the iPhone than on competing plaforms? Mplayit has put out some interesting stats, not only on what apps are popular with their Facebook sharing users, but what kinds of apps are popular on the various platforms they monitor. While on Android and BlackBerry, non-game apps account for 83% and 67% of popular titles, on the iPhone they’re only 36%. That leaves 64% for games.
That might be a concern, frankly, if the numbers weren’t north of 150,000 leaving plenty of room for great productivity, utility, social networking, and other apps in addition to the increasingly good games. Embarrassment of riches indeed.
Check out the graphic above for the full breakdown. Time for Android and BlackBerry to get their game on, or does Apple really enjoy the lead Steve Jobs keeps saying they do?
Games Way More Popular on iPhone than Other Smartphones is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone
iPhone photo of "ghost" makes UK tabloids look foolish originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
iPhone photo of "ghost" makes UK tabloids look foolish originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Vlingo 2.0 for iPhone [Free with in-app purchase - iTunes link] brings an all new, all prettier graphical user interface to the table, as well as Email and SMS Paste dictation — as an in-app purchase.
The new UI looks great and more importantly, works great. The icons are big and easy to hit and helpful tips are littered everywhere. You can tap to start recording and tap again to stop, or just hold down, talk, and release. For the various situations where you need to use voice instead of typing — like while driving (if it’s legal in your region!) — that kind of ease of use is priceless.
With the free app you get Maps, Search, Social (Facebook and Twitter), and Voice Dial. As mentioned, the Email and SMS Paste dictation are via in-app purchase. Note, it’s called SMS Paste because, unlike with Email, Apple won’t allow apps to send SMS so it just copies your text and launches the Messages apps. You have to paste the text and then hit send on your own. The Email and SMS Paste options are $6.99 separately or $9.99 if purchased together. Whether they’re worth or not depends entirely on how important voice email and SMS dictation are to you right now.
TiPb got our hands on the final version a couple of days early so we had a chance to try it out for a while already. All in all, Vlingo 2 works about as well as you’d expect a voice dictation app to work — usually quite well, with hilarious tragedy on occasion. It does learn, however, so if you enunciate well and keep at it, your results should improve.
I liked it and bought the release version and the Email and SMS Paste bundle. It’s bleeding edge technology that should get better and more elegant in the future. But I’m a sucker for the the Star Trek.
Screen shots and video after the break! If you try it out, let us know what you think!
Vlingo 2.0 for iPhone Brings Voice to Email, SMS is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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While Apple vs. HTC is getting a ton of press this week (TiPb a culpa!) the New York Times blogs provides the above graph to show us it’s just another strand in the growing web of mobile patent pugilism.
Although patent litigation is not new in the technology world, these suits, specifically around mobile, point to the drastically changing mobile landscape. Lawyers I spoke with explained that mobile technology was still in its infancy and these large computing companies were trying to stake their claim to the future of computing.
So far only Microsoft, Google, and Palm have remained uninvolved. (That’s actually quite a list of prominent names, isn’t it). Meanwhile:
Apple was sued by the Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics over alleged infringement of touch-screen patents. Nokia went on a lawsuit spree, suing Apple, Samsung, LG and a variety of other mobile handset companies. Kodak sued several companies over patents related to the companies’ digital-imaging technology.
And, of course, the aforementioned Apple vs. HTC. Here’s our question, and it’s one we’ve asked before — does it matter to consumers? Are we spectators watching Godzilla battle King Kong, or are we the city folks running for our lives as buildings drop around us?
Beyond Apple vs. HTC: Who’s Suing Who? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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AT&T CEO, Randall Stephenson, has been quoted in saying that the Apple iPad will be a “Wi-Fi driven product” so no customers should be concerned with poor 3G data. But it did not end there, he also went on to say the following.
“My expectation is that there’s not going to be a lot of people out there looking for another subscription.”
All of the above really makes those of us here at TiPb scratch our heads. Are those the type of statements you expect to hear from a company ready to successfully sell iPads in their corporate stores across the country? Or would you think AT&T’s CEO would really want to hype up the product with positive comments to try and spark more 3G data subscriptions?
Your thoughts?
AT&T Not Banking on Selling 3G Data Plans for iPad? is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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Live from Macworld 2010, Rene and Leanna talk with co-founder Dr. Ge Wang about Smule’s iPhone apps, including I Am T-Pain [$2.99 - iTunes link], and their plans for the iPad.
TiPb Apps 3.4 — Smule on iPhone and iPad is a story by TiPb. This feed is sponsored by The iPhone Blog Store.
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Filed under: Accessories, Humor, iPhone, iPod touch
That headline is probably a bit of an overstatement, since this is probably the only iPhone stand made out of cutlery. ForkedUpArt of North Salt Lake, Utah, is actually selling two different stands. ForkHead, who you see standing at attention at your right, and SpoonHead, ForkHead's smarter brother. The most awesome iPhone stand ever made out of cutlery originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
The most awesome iPhone stand ever made out of cutlery originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading New Potato's FLPR IR dongle gives your iPhone home automation capabilities
New Potato's FLPR IR dongle gives your iPhone home automation capabilities originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone gets a stainless steel clamshell case, we'll wait for the titanium version originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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