Want to take your coffee to the next level? Turn your iPhone into your own gourmet coffee coach with Barista [iTunes link]. With an awesome interface, step-by-step instructions, pro-level tips and tricks, an easy to understand explinations, Barista is currently on 66% off sale in the App Store [iTunes link] but what’s better than cheap? FREE!
The kind folks at BaristaApp have given us a couple (2) promo codes to give on to you. Just drop a comment below telling them — and us — your favorite coffee beverage!
(Drawing will be random and you’ll need access to the US App Store to redeem your promo code. Be sure to leave a valid email address, we won’t make it public but we’ll need it to contact you with your code).
Good luck, and more importantly… good coffee making!
BeeJive makes one of the best instant messenger clients on the iPhone — or any platform, see our review — and with version 2.1, it now includes:
Support for Facebook IM, including the ability to login from multiple locations, update your buddy picture and Facebook status updates
Wallpaper selection inside the application, giving you the ability to select your own wallpaper
Performance enhancements
But wait, there’s more. It also includes a very creative — and comedic! — way of dealing with iPhone App pirates. Sort of a carrot and stick (or baseball bat and axe kick) approach:
We have recently implemented new anti-piracy measures in BeejiveIM for iPhone. We have tried to keep our approach fun with an error message and a video. But we hope our message is clear: please respect the work of developers.
We agree. Go get BeeJiveIM now [iTunes link]. Or, if you really want it for FREE, BeeJive was awesome enough to give us two (2) promo codes to give to you, our equally awesome readers. How can you get your hands on them? Just head on over to our Forums and find out!
We can’t tell if twittkitteh (iTunes Link) is shrewd marketing or wicked satire at the state of the App Store and Twitter. We suspect it’s equal parts both, finished with a good shot of lulz.
Twitkitteh is, quite simply, the first Twitter application written specifically for cats.
For many years, cats have been unfairly excluded from this social networking phenomenon, but we at TLA Systems believe it is finally time to change that.
Designed from the ground up for the iPhone, and featuring a simple multi-paw interface, Twitkitteh allows your cat to post insightful comments to Twitter on a wide variety of subjects – all without the tiresome inconvenience of learning to type first.
Your cat deserves a voice on the Internet, and Twitkitteh is that voice.
Welcome to Cat 2.0.
Brilliant, and what’s even more brilliant is he’s giving away two (2) copies to our faithful TiPb readers. Just drop a twitkitteh-inspired comment (and be sure to include a real email address, we won’t make it public but we will use it to notify you if you win!). Get to it!
(Note: Unfortunately, Promo Codes only work in the US App Store, so if you don’t have access, you won’t be able to claim a prize.)
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®?
HanDBase should be familiar to the hardcore mobile data crunchers among us: it puts relational database management in your pocket. Now the fine folks at DDH Software have not only brought it to the iPhone, but they’re gracious enough to give it away FREE to 10 lucky TiPb readers!
But wait, there’s more: you can score not only the HandDBase iPhone App FREE, but your choice of either PC Desktop + Conduit or Mac Desktop and future conduit.
What do you have to do for a chance to win? Simple: just leave a comment below telling us, and HanDBase, why exactly you want to crunch all that data on your iPhone. Enter, search, sort, filter, print, and sync — what’cha going to do with all that mobile power?
NOTE: Be sure to leave a real email address in the comment field. It won’t be made public, but we will need it to contact you if you win!
The kind folks at Slacker have offered up 1 month of Slacker Radio Plus — their premium service that removes the ads and bolts on more personalization options — absolutely FREE to you, the TiPb faithful (or at least 10 of you!).
Here’s what you need to do:
Download and install the free Slacker App for iPhone
First, thanks again to Element Case for the awesome TiPb branded casing nirvana (see Jeremy’s review) they provided for us to pass along to you, our readers. Second, thanks very much to everyone who participated in our first 2 (of a total 3 — 1 more still to come!) Element Case give-away’s!
Give away #1 involved heading over to our forums and telling us why YOU needed Element Case-caliber for your iPhone. Many of you shared great, funny, sad, and in some cases inspiring stories. Everyone who shared got an entry, and from all those eligible entries we got our first winner:
Give away #2 was for those of you who joined us in the chat room for iPhone Live! We gave you a secret code word and you emailed it to us. Everyone who emailed the code word got an entry, and from those eligible entries, we got our second winner:
Matt Sawyers!
Congrats to both of you! We’ll contact you directly to arrange delivery of your custom TiPb Element Case, and everyone else — keep your eyes peeled because we still have one (1) case left to give away!
The kind folks over at Element Case have hooked TiPb up for the holidays! That’s right, they were generous enough to drop off a pack of custom tricked-out iPhone cases not just for us to review — but for us to give away to you, the best dang blog readers, forum posters, and podcast listeners on the interwebs.
These aren’t just any cases, mind you. These are the hardcore high-end rigs of cases. Jeremy’s already gotten his hands all over them (and took some time out of his hectic holiday schedule to snap the pics above and below) and he says they’re well made and built for gaming, with the special bonus of making sure you don’t cover up the speaker when holding them (nice touch!).
Thanks to everyone at Element Case for hooking us up, and stay tuned for your chance to take one of these custom TiPb cases home for the new year!
(To check out their whole selection, head on over to the Element Case Shop).
