Entering this contest counts as an entry in TiPb’s Birthday Bash grand-prize draw for an Unlocked ColorWare iPhone 3G!
Woohoo! The week is done, Saturday’s here and it’s time for… another Birthday Bash contest? Oh, yeah, and also fun!
This time the fabulous folks at ngmoco have given us not one, not two, but three (3!) of their astounding games to gift on to three (3) of you:
Topple 2: Enjoy the classic Topple experience, but master the new modes as well. Upside-down mode inverts gravity for a topsy-turvy play experience. Balance mode lets you weigh two towers against each other. Power Tower mode challenges you to build a power line using conductive blocks. Rescue mode uses your tower building skills to save the precious golden egg.
WordFu: Shake your letter dice and spell as many words as you can before the clock runs out. Build up your score by unleashing an endless word barrage! Freeze time, flick dice for better letters, and let loose a fiery spelling fury! Once you’ve mastered it on your own, take on your friends over WiFi. Dominate the leaderboard on your quest to earn WordFu Belts and become a true WordFu Grand Master. Once no worldly man can defeat you, play Shaolin Style for the highest WordFu challenge!
Rolando: Rolandoland has been invaded and the Rolandos need your help! Use innovative tilt, tap and Multi-Touch controls to solve physics puzzles, toy with interactive environments, and evade pesky enemies as you lead the Rolandos to victory.
But wait, there’s one more thing!
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UPDATE: DEADLINE PUSHED BACK TO TUESDAY, MAY 19! See below!
Entering this contest counts as an entry in TiPb’s Birthday Bash grand-prize draw for an Unlocked ColorWare iPhone 3G!
Hard as it may be to believe, not everyone in the ‘verse know about TiPb. Yet. Even some of our friends don’t really know us. That’s where we need your help. In the age of user generated content, in honor of our birthday, we need our users to generate us a little content! Namely:
Introduce us to the world. Not the iPhone hardware — everyone knows about that already! — but the actual blog and forums, the places where we talk and share and rumor and rant.
Yep, just that simple. What teaser would we see before the big budget TiPb sci fi movie? What entrance video would we use before TiPb fights Brock Lesnar for the heavyweight title? What walkthrough would you present for the TiPb iPhone app? (Check out the awesome Birdhouse intro for the current high-bar on that!). How would you tell people to leave Britney alone… but come visit TiPb?! That’s the video we want to see!
Funny, spoofy, dramatic, goofy — just shoot it off your webcam, iSight, camcorder — whatever’s handy — upload it to YouTube, and make sure you include “the iphone blog” in the keywords. Then copy the URL and paste it into our TiPb Birthday Bash: Make Us a Video – Win $100 iTunes Gift Card! forum thread.
We’ll check them out, love them all, and pick one to receive a big, honking $100 iTunes Gift Card thank you!
- Open to everyone with a US iTunes Store account (see here)
- Inappropriate content will not be considered for the contest at the sole discretion of the staff.
- Contest starts now and runs until Tuesday, May 19, at 12pm.
Slacker’s music catalog has reached well over 2 million tracks. If you’ve been living with your ears in the offline sand, here’s the skinny:
Slacker is an Internet radio service allowing users to create their own customized music stations starting with either Slacker’s preset stations or their own custom built stations. Slacker offers many traditional genre, specialty and artist stations pre-made by professional DJs like “Today’s Hits”, “80’s, 90’s and Today”, “Country”, etc. while also letting users build entire stations of specific artists just by typing in their name. Users can continue to evolve any of these stations by rating favorite songs and banning artists or songs. Stations can also be fine tuned to play older or newer music, more hits or more eclectic music all through the intuitive interface at Slacker.com.
To celebrate their achievement, and TiPb’s Birthday Bash, we’re teaming up together to not only offer 1 FREE YEAR of Slacker Plus service, but a brand new pair of iharmonix Platinum i-Series Stereo Earphones to listen with — courtesy of the TiPb iPhone Store.
How do you win this one-two-combo punch of prize-ness? Remember our Birdhouse Twitter Notebook give-away from earlier today? This is part two of the same contest. If you entered that, you entered this! If not, what are you waiting for?!
5 chances to win a great app, 1 chance to win a great Slacker Plus radio service AND great set of earphones for FREE! Get to ‘em!
- Must have a Slacker Radio account. They’re free, so if you don’t, go get one.
- Must be able to receive Slacker Radio service, which is US-only.
- Contest is already started! Finishes same time too! Go read them previous rules!
Confession: I bought my first PDA so I could work on some book projects while mobile. Several Palm PDAs, Treos, and Windows Mobiles later, and I was still looking for that holy grail: seamless back-and-forth compatibility between my desktop tools and my handset. Of course, the iPhone didn’t have any document editing features when it was launched, but flashforward to today, and Quickoffice is the first to fill that huge functionality gap. Quickoffice Mobile Suite ($19.99 – iTunes link) sets the bar:
Quickoffice’s integrated application is the essential high-performance mobile office productivity tool for anyone on the go. Experience enterprise-grade Microsoft® Word and Excel® Office functionality with leading-edge innovation and unparalleled ease-of-use. Edit important files with confidence; Quickoffice maintains 100% data integrity and guarantees Microsoft compatibility.
Is this my holy grail? Let’s find out: courtesy of Quickoffice, we’re giving away two (2) copies of the full Mobile Suite to two lucky forum members and all you have to do to win is help me finish my latest story:
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Entering this contest counts as an entry in TiPb’s Birthday Bash grand-prize draw for an Unlocked ColorWare iPhone 3G!
CrackBerry Nation. Trekkies (Trekkers?). Wu Tan Clan. Colbert Nation. TiPb… ???
Who are we? What are we?
We need an identity here folks! And we need you to come up with it!
Post your ideas in a reply to the TiPb Birthday Bash: Name the “Nation” forum thread! There’s a juicy $50 iTunes Gift Card up for grabs for the one we like best, so get with the collective naming!
- iTunes US (or Canada) account needed to redeem gift card. (Don’t have a US account, no problem, see here!)
- Contest runs from now until Monday, May 11, 12pm EDT
- Enter as often as you like
- In the event of similar suggestions, we’ll credit the one made first.
- For the above reason, edited posts will be disqualified. If you have a better idea, make a new post.
Good luck, TiPB… ???!
For NO PARTICULAR REASON, we just wanted to remind everyone that even if you don’t have a US credit card, Apple has helpfully provided a knowledge base article on how to create and use US App Store accounts. With these accounts, you can still download and use apps (and redeem promo codes).
The process involves making sure you’re not already logged in with another account, then choosing App Store from the menu, downloading a free app, choosing “none” for the payment type, and responding to the confirmation menu.
Downside is it requires you to download apps via iTunes — for now. iPhone 3.0 will let you manage multiple accounts on-device.
[Via iphoneincanada]
Entering this contest counts as an entry in TiPb’s Birthday Bash grand-prize draw for an Unlocked ColorWare iPhone 3G!
Courtesy of TiPb’s iPhone Store, our first accessory give-away is the mophie Juice Pack 3G! Designed to more than double the time you can Rock, Talk, Surf and Send with your iPhone 3G. The Juice Pack is a rechargeable lithium polymer battery in the form of a non-slip, soft grip case. It extends the time that you can use your iPhone 3G in these ways (additional hours):
- Standby Time – Up to 350 hours
- Talk Time – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 12 hours on 2G
- Internet Use – Up to 6 hours on 3G | Up to 7 hours on Wi-Fi
- Audio Playback – Up to 28 hours
- Video Playback – Up to 8 hours
What do you have to do to win one? Simple: tell us why you need one. Get on over to the forums, in the Win a mophie Juice Pack Battery Pack/Case for iPhone 3G thread and tell us what makes your day so long, so intense, so iPhone battery-draining that you need a mophie Juice Pack 3G to help get you through it? Give us your best iPhone Road Warrior story!
- One entry per person
- Contest ends tomorrow, Friday May 8, and 12pm EDT
- Need a real US shipping address to win (no international shipping, sorry!)
Entering this contest counts as an entry in TiPb’s Birthday Bash grand-prize draw for an Unlocked ColorWare iPhone 3G!
G-Map for iPhone, in both US East and West flavors ($24.99 each – iTunes link), is the current king of the iPhone roads. Chad’s already gone on record with his love for this app:
I have been using G-Map US East for the iPhone now for a couple of months. Why wait for FULL GPS Navigation with Turn-by-Turn with Software 3.0 when you can have it now. All that is lacking is the audible cue to turn, but it has excellent visual cues. Easy to use and fast calculations make this one a winner! The developer says they will add Audible Turn-by-Turn with Software 3.0. Did I mention that Internet access is not required? That’s right, all of the maps are on your hard drive with no subscription!
With slick features like real 3D junction view, there’s nothing else like it for short hauls or cross-country road trips alike. Which brings us neatly to our first, and maybe one of our most challenging TiPb Birthday Bash contests!
Inspired by babydol’s idea, head on over to the TiPb Birthday Bash: G-Map East & West Great American Give Away! thread in the forums and post a photo of your iPhone that best shows where it’s been, where you want it go, or just how you feel about traveling the United States. Be majestic, be funny, be creative. (And yes, Photoshop is fine too.)
Give us that EPIC moment of iPhone Americana, and we’ll pick five (5) of you to give promo codes for BOTH G-Map East & West (that’s $50 worth of apps!), courtesy of XROAD.
Contest details after the break!
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As previously announced, TiPb celebrates our one year anniversary on May 11, and as a giant thanks to you, our members, we’re celebrating in style. Birthday Bash style! Starting tomorrow, we begin a slew of daily give-aways including iPhone accessories, promo codes for some of our favorite apps, iTunes gift cards, and… our biggest grand-prize so far:
- A factory unlocked 8GB iPhone 3G in your choice of 35 different color options courtesy of the awesome folks at ColorWare.
That’s right. Your iPhone. Your way.
How can you win? Simple! Remember those daily give-aways we just mentioned? Enter them (this here Birthday Bash link will help you keep track!). Every time you enter one of the give-away contests, you are automagically entered to win the grand-prize.
Contests start tomorrow, May 7, 2009. Announcements will be here on the blog, but the contests themselves will take place on the TiPb iPhone Forums so if for some unimaginable reason you haven’t yet — register now!
Contest details after the break!
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May 11 marks the anniversary of the original Phone different and the iPhone blog’s transformation and merger into — the all new TiPb! To celebrate, we’ll be counting down and giving away fabulous prizes including iPhone accessories from the TiPb Store, promo codes for some of our favorite iPhone apps, gift certificates, and and grand prize big enough to blow our previous contests away!
The Birthday Bash officially kicks off Thursday, May 7, and will take place primarily on our TiPb iPhone Forums. If you haven’t already, get over there, register now and start posting. To help you get started we’re even going to run a little pre-celebration contest contest!
No, that’s not a typo. We’re going to be running so many contests next week, we’re running out of ideas for them! That’s where we can use your help:
- Go to the TiPb Birthday Bash: Pre-Celebration Contest Contest! thread on the forums
- Tell us your best, most favorite idea for a contest. (i.e. caption a funny photo, write an iPhone haiku, etc.)
- Keep it short, simple, and sweet. (We have the big stuff covered, but you can help us fill in the rest).
- If we pick your idea, we’ll thank you with a $20 iTunes Gift Card (US or Canada stores only).
- We may need several ideas, so don’t be shy! Bring ‘em on!
Whatcha waiting for? Get going! The countdown to the Birthday Bash Countdown starts now!
