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iPhone Live! Tonight 8pm EDT/5pm PDT

TiPb iPhone Live-Cast!

iPhone Live! hits the nets again tonight (Wednesday, April 15) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early. With iPhone 3.0 Beta 3 being released yesterday, more next gen iPhone rumors still hitting daily, and all sorts of other news, App, carrier, and Steve Jobs related, it looks to be a jam-packed show.

Oh, and Jeremy, our very own Bad Ash, might just be making his Live! debut as well.

Have any specific questions? Anything you really want us to talk about? As always, we’ll take your chat questions live on the show, or leave them for us any time in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!



TiPb Give Away: Convertbot and Weightbot for iPhone!

The totally titanic team at Tapbot have gone above and beyond for TiPb readers with this one!

First, they’ve given us five (5) Promo Codes for their latest greatest unit converter, Convertbot [iTunes link], a sweet app with a stunning interface, designed to make the admittedly tedious task of converting one measurement into a another a deliciously tactile, actually enjoyable experience.

But wait, there’s more! They’ve also given us five (5) Promo Codes for their classic weight tracker, Weightbot [iTunes link], a great app with a gorgeous interface, and just in time (again!) for bikini season (or whatever the rest of you wear to work…)

Want a chance to get either one of them — or if pure random luck comes your way — both of them, for FREE? Head on over to our forum and post your reply in the Convertbot Give Away and/or Weightbot Give Away threads.

(As always, to use Promo Codes, you need access to the US App Store).

iPhone Live! — No Fooling! Tonight 8pm EDT/5pm PDT

TiPb iPhone Live-Cast!

iPhone Live! hits the nets again tonight (Wednesday, April 1) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early. With iPhone 3.0 Beta 2 being released yesterday, more next gen iPhone rumors coming every day, and WWDC now officially dated, we’ll definitely have lots to talk about (maybe over that new Skype app!).

Have any specific questions? Anything you really want us to talk about? As always, we’ll take your chat questions live on the show, or leave them for us any time in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!

Twitkitteh Give Away Winners

Thanks to James Thomson at Twitkitteh [iTunes link] for helping our awesome readers help their amazing cats express their inner lulz on the Twitter. James was gracious enough to pass along two iTunes App Store Promo Codes for Twitkitteh to two lucky TiPb readers, and without further ado, those are:

Enjoy. And make sure your kitteh’s follow @twitkitteh and @theiphoneblog, b’okay?


iPhone Live! 3.0 Preview Tonight 8pm EDT/5pm PDT

TiPb iPhone Live-Cast!

iPhone Live! hits the nets again tonight (Wednesday, March 18) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT (yes, we’re on daylight savings time already in this part of the world, so check your local time carefully!).

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early because — you guessed it — we’ll be jammed packed with news, views, and analysis based on Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Preview Event (check out our Massive News Update Roundup for more if you haven’t already).

Have any specific questions? Anything you really want us to talk about? As always, we’ll take your chat questions live on the show, or leave them for us any time in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

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Apple iPhone 3.0 Preview Event — Live Meta-Blog this Tuesday!

Just making it official folks: Join me along with our editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn, and as many of our writers, fellow editors, and friends who can make it, for live meta-blog coverage of this Tuesday’s Apple iPhone 3.0 Preview event.

We’ll kick things off just before 1pm EDT/10am PDT with color, commentary, and you comments. We likely won’t get the actual firmware for download until later this summer, but we’ll get a chance to see what we’ll be getting.

Those who remember this time last year, at the iPhone 2.0 preview event, Apple focused first on ActiveSync, 802.1x, Cisco VPN, remote wipe for Enterprise, then shifted into the SDK and games like Super Monkey Ball, and social networking apps like AIM with the first hints of what became the App Store.

What will Apple have for Enterprise this year? Is it still a focus? How about the SDK? What will be new for developers? And App Store, will it go Premium? And what else will we get?

Join us in just over 48hrs to find out!

Apple Updates Shuffle: 4GB, VoiceOver

Apple Store goes down, Apple Store comes up with just what we expected: a new revision of the iPod Shuffle. It’s got 4 gigs of storage, comes in silver and black, and an all new feature: VoiceOver.

The new Shuffle is half the size of the previous — a feat achieved by removing nearly all of the controls off the device itself and onto the headphone cable. Only the Off/Repeat/Shuffle switch stays on device. In other words — don’t plan on using your own headphones with the Shuffle. While that’s a bit of a downer, the upside is that the headphone controls are very thoughtfully laid-out and easy to hit without looking.

VoiceOver and how the controls work — after the break!

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iPhone Live! — Kindled! Tonight at 8pm EST/5pm PST

TiPb iPhone Live-Cast!

iPhone Live! hits the nets again tonight (Wednesday, March 4) at 8pm EST/5pm PST. (Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early!)

If you hadn’t guessed already, we’ll be highlighting the new Kindle iPhone App, what it means for Apple, Amazon, and when it might go international.

As always, we’ll take your chat questions live on the show, or leave them for us any time in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live

Chat with you soon!

TiPb Give-Away: Movie Challenge (Oscars Special Edition!)

The great folks at Redwind Software have been gracious enough to provide TiPb readers with a fun Oscar day give-away. Know your trivia? Prove it right here and you’ll win promo codes (US only, sorry!) for BOTH their Movie Challenge AND their Movie Challenge: Oscars® Special.

UPDATED: We’ve opened it up with a new way to win, check it our here!

That’s right, 1 give-away, 2 games, 10 winners. And all you have to do to win is… answer some trivia questions!

We’ll post 1 set of questions at a time (10 sets total), and the first forum member to answer the set will win 1 copy of BOTH games. Then we’ll post the next question, until we’ve posted all 10, all 10 have been answered, and we have our 10 winners.

Ready for the first set of questions?

1a: What actor was cast as Marty McFly in “Back To The Future”, and even filmed for a few weeks, before ultimately being replaced by Michael J. Fox?

1b: For which movie did Steven Spielberg win his first Best Director Oscar®?

Know the answers? Head on over to our forums and win your promo codes now!


TiPb Readers’ Choice Awards: LAST CHANCE — VOTE NOW!

iPhone Award

Hugh Jackman may be hosting the Oscar announcements this Sunday, but TiPb will be announcing YOUR choice for the very best in all things iPhone. That’s right, the voting is almost done, the time is almost up. If you haven’t already, don’t walk — RUN — to our forums and make your voice heard for the TiPb Reader’s Choice Awards!

What are you still reading this for?! Go, VOTE!