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TiPb checks out the most must-have cases to best show off — and protect — your new white iPhone 4

Just get a new white iPhone 4 and curious as to which cases will better show it off? Want to protect that beautiful glass display (and glass back!) and keep that white looking bright? Well read on for the TiPb store’s top 10 most recommended, most must-have white iPhone cases to get your started.

BodyGuardz Protective Skins

What’s a better case than almost no case at all? With BodyGuardz protective skins you get the next best thing to naked, “made from the same material that is used to shield the front of automobiles from stones and other abrasive elements.” (And we’ve tested to prove it). If you want to enjoy your precious new white iPhone almost the way Jony Ive intended, this is the way to go. [TiPb store link]

Also try:

• InvisibleShield, for those who prefer this brand of film. [TiPb store link]
• Tat Skinz Carbon Fiber from the same people who make BodyGuardz with a great grip ad feel. [TiPb store link]
• DODOCase BookBack packs luxury leather into a super slim skin. [TiPb store link]

Apple Bumpers

While protective films cover the glass, bumpers cover and defend the antenna and give you enough of an edge you can put your iPhone down without having to worry about it coming in contact with any potentially damaging surfaces. If you’re in a low signal area they’ll also stop you from “holding it wrong“. Plus, the black, white, green, blue, orange, and pink colors look really sweet on the white iPhone — there’s a reason all of Apple’s initial bumper art was shown off on white. [Apple Store link]

Also try:

• Element Case Vapor Case for high end, hypercar style bumper-ing [Element Case link]
• Mobi Bumper is so inexpensive you can easily justify getting one each of the clear, gray, pink, and purple [TiPb store link]

Case-Mate Chrome Barely There Skin Case

You knew I had to pic this, right? If you’re worried about the white iPhone 4 being 0.2mm thicker than the black iPhone 4, stop. The Case-Mate Chrome fits the white iPhone 4 perfectly. And sure it covers up a lot of the back… but it does it with chrome and, frankly, it looks stunning! It remains one of my favorite all-time cases and with good reason — it protects my iPhone while giving me unconstrained use of the screen and big opening around the dock and other ports so all my other accessories, like car chargers, fit. [TiPb store link]

Also try:

Mobi Metal Back are inexpensive and look absolutely fabulous on the white iPhone 4. [TiPb store link]
White Diamonds and white iPhone 4 equals gorgeous. I’m not even joking. Swoon. [White Diamonds link]

Overboard Pro White Waterproof Case

Life’s a beach, but at least with Overboard you can take your beautiful new white iPhone 4 to one without worrying it will suffer water damage. It’s also great for long soaks in the tub, jogging in the rain, or even diving into the pool and going through the car wash! You can get it with matching earphones for the total water win. I don’t vacation without it. [TiPb store link]

Also try:

• Aquapac, if light blue is more your thing [TiPb store link]
• Golla bags are great if you hike more than splash. [TiPb store link]

Mophie juice pack air

Okay, this doesn’t really show off your white iPhone 4, but it will keep it charged up so you can show it off longer and to many more people. Charge it separately or charge both your iPhone and the case together and you’ll get up to double the amount of music, talking, gaming, and everything else you love doing on your iPhone. Great for road warriors, travelers, and serious shoppers alike! [TiPb store link]

• Mophie juice pak plus gives even more power for slightly more expense. [TiPb store link]

Your top case?

So there you have them, our top 5 best cases to get you showing off your white iPhone 4. For chargers, cables, headsets, Bluetooth, and more, check out our Top 10 accessories for your iPhone 4 list. Also check out our Picks of the Week and iPhone Accessories Forum for more recommendations, and if we missed any of your favorites leave them in the comments below!

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If you’ve jailbroken your Verizon iPhone 4 on iOS 4.2.7 with RedSn0w, you know that you’ve only got a tethered jailbreak. Lucky for you, there’s a new Cydia package that allows you to untether your currently tethered RedSn0w jailbreak.

Following the update to Sn0wBreeze for the Verizon iPhone, an untether solution has been pushed for RedSn0w users and is now available in Cydia.(…)
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Screens, the gorgeous VNC app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad by Edovia has just hit version 1.5 and it’s a great update. In addition to speed boosts for both Windows and Mac, and the usual bug fixes, it adds:

• Revamped and more responsive UI,
• Added Hebrew and Korean keyboard support,
• Fullscreen modes (full, partial and off). Use a 3 finger tap to toggle between modes,
• iPhone: Keyboard toggle button now exclusively on modifiers toolbar,
• iPad: New Grid view. Great for those who have a lot of screens to flick through,
• Privacy: Display a screenshot, a blank screen or an image from your photo albums when disconnecting from a remote computer,
• Screens Connect status now available in the settings,
• Now supports url schemes (see Getting Started Guide for details),

I’ve used a lot of VNC clients and while each has its strengths and weaknesses, the sheer thoughtfulness of Screens’ UI keeps bringing me back. There’s nothing that shuts up a neck-bearded iPad hater faster than whipping up Screens, connecting to a couple Mac, Windows, or Linux boxes, and doing it with style.

If you try out the update, let us know what you think.

[.99 - iTunes link]

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Apple is reportedly building two iPhone 5 models for a scheduled fall release.

According to an employee of an Apple part supplier, there is reason to believe that the iPhone 5 will actually be two devices: a ‘standard’ and ‘pro’ model.(…)
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Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!

4oD – @chrisoldroyd

This weeks pick is hot off the press and is a TV catchup application
for UK readers. Channel 4 has had an online catch up service for a
while now but it uses evil Flash technology!

Luckily Channel 4 has seen fit to launch an iPad app called 4oD that
now gives us access to the past 30 days of shows as well as select
complete seasons. As mentioned, this is UK only due to archaic media
laws; but let’s not get started with that one!

Anyway what more could you want from an app that currently has the second season
of “The Inbetweeners” ready to stream.

[Free - iTunes Link]

Word Search – @skeetobite

My pick of the week is actually my daughters pick of the week. At 7 years old (almost 8, as she reminds me) she enjoys playing with the iPad quite a bit. Some of the games I have reviewed are ones that she plays, but she also loves word search games. She used to play these all the time in restaurants, but when we saw this for the iPad, we just had to try it. She loves to choose the animal word lists, but you can choose from random “English” words, to SAT words, to names, weapons, and even foreign language words. I don’t know how large the actual dictionaries are, but we haven’t have much overlap.

The puzzles are fun, and selecting the words is easy (just using your finger to trace them). Unfortunately it isn’t a universal binary, but there is an iPhone version as well. I wish they had ways for people to complete the same puzzle (as a race) but they do time you to complete a puzzle. It’s a fun game for kids, that can also serve as a useful distract for adults.

[.99 - iTunes link]

Cadence and Cadence.FM – @andrewwray

Cadence is an incredibly brilliant music app that plays selected tracks at your desired BPM (beats per minute) rate. It’s the perfect app to fire up when you’re at the gym or working out because it knows which songs match up to your workout speed. Cadence allows you to use your own iPod library as well as the streaming radio station powered by SoundCloud. The app taps into Echonest to pull BPM data for your own music if you don’t already have the data in your iTunes library. They also have a nice BPM analyzer for Mac and Windows that will scan your iTunes library and update BPM information accordingly for syncing to your iPhone.

Additional features include a nice swipe-to-control screen that lets you navigate music using gestures. This is really convenient during heavy workouts where you can quickly jump to the next song or raise the BPM level when things start to get intense. When you use Echonest as the BPM data source you can even edit this information on-the-fly, right from your iPhone! They also offer a lower priced app called Cadence.FM that just streams music from SoundCloud without the option of using music stored on the iPhone itself. If you’ve been looking for a powerful workout app to help keep you going then this is the one for you. I’ll be giving out promo codes for Cadence and Cadence.FM throughout the day, so make sure you’re following both myself and @TiPb so you can get it for free!

[.99 - iTunes Link]

Comic Life – @reneritchie

If you’ve ever used Comic Life on the Mac, then you’re probably not even reading the rest of the sentence but have already leapt over the App Store and bought Comic Life for iPad. So we’ll just assume anyone left following these words hasn’t heard of the quintessential photo sequencing and captioning app, the one that put the fun in functional. You poor, joyless few, here it is in a nutshell:

You take your photos. You use them to create comic book-style panels and captions, effects and story flows, and then you show them off to your friends and family and make them think you are way more talented at sequential art than you have any right to claim.

Really, your kids, pets, and assorted photo subjects deserve to be the stars of the next Planetary, the next We3, the next Watchmen, the next Kickass (well, er, no, maybe not that but you get the idea.)

Go grab it true believers, and make with the mighty marvelous masterworks!

[.99 - iTunes link]

FaceTime for iPad 2 – @llofte

When FaceTime on the iPhone was released, I thought it was cool and all, but never used it. Even when my daughter was born and the grandparents wanted to see her over video chat, we always opted for iChat over FaceTime. Since the release of the iPad 2, however, I have yet to open iChat. Using FaceTime on the big screen makes it easy for my daughter to recognize faces and show genuine interest. It is also very easy to allow her to “chase” my parents around the room while I keep the iPad just barely out of her reach. The cameras on the iPad 2 have received a lot of bad rap, but I am so grateful they are there for FaceTime.

NBA Jam – @ch__ad (Reader’s Choice)

NBA Jam is a fun, fast-paced sport game. It is pretty over the top when it comes to slam dunks and the fact that you are able to shove the other players to steal the ball. In my personal opinion, it is my favorite 2-on-2 NBA game out there, although, it’s probably the least realistic.

You can unlock old NBA starters like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are in game challenges to unlock different things within the game such as players and balls, and it is not a game you can just blow right through because some teams are pretty difficult.

[.99 - iTunes link]

Infinity Blade – GeorgiaTiPb

If you’re not familiar with Infinity Blade… wait, everyone is familiar with Infinity Blade, right? It’s the hack and slash game with the Epic Unreal 3 Engine where you play succeeding generations of warriors, carving your way through enemy after enemy, mastering armor and swords and rings, until you stand victorious over the deathless kings themselves? Ring a bell?

Maybe not. I never really got into Infinity Blade until iPad 2 came out. Then I couldn’t put it down. The 3D graphics and textures are just flawless and while the game play is limited, the animations are incredibly smooth and the mastering all the gear is a nice addition, as is the generational element.

If you haven’t tried it yet, and have an iPad 2, give it a try and tell me what you think. (And if you don’t have an iPad, don’t worry — it’s a universal binary so you can buy once and play on all your iOS devices!)

[.99 - iTunes link]

BBC iPlayer for iPad (UK Only) – @JorjLim

BBC iPlayer for iPad is an amazing way of catching-up with BBC shows. The app has a complete list of all the shows available, which you can filter by ‘genre’, ‘date’ or ‘channel’. There is even a timeline view so you can check what show was on at the time.

After watching several programmes, the BBC suggests more shows you may enjoy as well. You can even save shows as favourites, and it will show you the latest episodes when they get released. Most shows come with subtitles and a high quality option.

Personally, I use the app for TV shows, but there is a Radio catch up option as well. It’s a perfect way to catch up on all your favourite BBC shows, when you don’t have a computer handy.

[FREE - [iTunes link](http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485?mt=80]

Your pick?

You’re part of the team as well, so we will be choosing one reader to make a submission each week! Just look for the announcement on [twitter](http://www.twitter.com/llofte] or our Facebook page each weekend for a chance to be picked! In the meantime, jump into the comments and let us know your pick of the week!

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MLB At Bat 11 for iPad – the superb official app from Major League Baseball – was updated yesterday, to Version 4.1.3.

The one notable change in the new update is HDMI Mirroring support, which was previously not allowed in the app. If you have the new Apple Digital AV Adapter and an HD TV you can mirror everything that is done on the iPad onto your TV screen, and now the MLB At Bat app is no longer an exception to that.

Now I just wish I could get it work with AirPlay.

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ih8sn0w has just released sn0wbreeze 2.6.1, an untethered Jailbreak for the Verizon iPhone 4 on the latest iOS 4.2.7 firmware.

I originally ordered a Verizon iPhone 4 for my upcoming SHSH blobs dumper. Then I + many others on twitter realized that an untether was not available for 4.2.7. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been sick and didn’t do much, but today I was finally able to get the strength to work on this Verizon untether. Since i0n1c’s payload is not easily reversible, I went to previous exploits. After trying, pod2g’s + posixninja’s kernel exploit for 4.2.x is STILL in 4.2.7! After some more work, I managed to get this thing untethered. So, this new release includes that new payload to untether + jailbreak 4.2.7.

So if you’re a Verizon iPhone 4 user on the latest 4.2.7 firmware, you can now jailbreak untethered thanks to ih8sn0w. If you go ahead and use this, let us know how it works out in the comments! If you need any help, head over to our jailbreak forum!

[ih8sn0w]

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A couple of weeks back I posted our first Show & Tell set of our iPad home and lock screens, and wallpaper choices. When I say ‘our’ I mean those submitted by readers of the site, and our writers.

The first set had some very nice screens – you can check them out in that original post or on our brand new Facebook page for iPad Insight.

I always find it fun seeing what people are doing with their iPad screens – and I’d like to make this a semi-regular feature, or as regular as interest allows – either here on the site or on the Facebook page, or both.

I really like the basketball image shown above and may soon use it as a lock screen background.

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It’s been a big week for my favorite iPad / iPhone / iOS / Mac forums site, everythingiCafe. The site has had a huge overhaul and now features a gorgeous new design and much tighter integration of its forums, front page, and community elements.

They’ve also updated their iOS app, which is now universal, so it is fully designed for both the iPad and iPhone.

The app looks good and works well on the iPad. It gives everyone (even non members) complete access to the site forums, while members get even more features – things like the ability to see subscribed topics, private messages, see unread posts, and upload images to the forum. 

EIC has been my favorite iOS related forum since the early days of the original iPhone and it’s great to see it continually improving. Its new look and new iPad app are especially welcome changes – the iPad app will help me be more active more often at the site.

Here’s an App Store link for the everythingiCafe app; it’s a free universal app, designed for both iPad and iPhone.

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More rumors have come to light about Apple and the iCloud brand, including DigitalDaily‘s sources confirming the name acquisition and AppleInsider hearing that it’s already being used internally for iOS 5 (and Mac OS X Lion).

According to people familiar with the matter, Apple is prepping beta versions of both iOS 5.0 and Mac OS X Lion ahead of its annual developers conference that integrate with a service dubbed “iCloud,” enabling users to sync and store much of the same information they currently can with the company’s existing MobileMe service, such as bookmarks, email, contacts and iCal events.

Regarding the name, Apple looked to be securing [http://www.tipb.com/tag/islate/] last year before ultimately announcing iPad, so as always we’ll only know for sure when Apple announces it. The service itself remains a mystery as well.

Would it subsume MobileMe? Would it include media? There have been strings found for a social-esque photo/media stream service, and rumors persist that Apple is entering the streaming music/digital locker space as well. Would you be able to store anything there, like Amazon Cloud Drive, DropBox, or Google Docs? Or would Apple restrict it to iTunes-purchased content only in order to appease the record labels and movie industry?

If it merely allowed media re-downloads the way the App Store allows app re-downloads it would be a good first step. Streaming would be a better one. Subscription would be the end-game.

For sync, allowing apps (especially games) to persist state across iOS (and potentially Mac) would be huge. The above-mentioned media/photo sync/sharing as well. And iDisk has demanded a Dropbox-style rejuvenation for years. Likewise, mirroring the Mac’s ability to backup and sync down Settings from the cloud could pave the way to iTunes tether-free device activation.

So what would all that, or any functional subset of that cost? AppleInsider thinks it could be free and used as a loss-leader to drive further iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and Mac sales. While Apple has done “just above break-even” businesses before, like iTunes and the App Store, it’s hard to see them doing anything for “free”. Perhaps, like Find My iPhone for MobileMe recently, there will be a base of free services and a set of paid, premium services on top of them (the Google or DropBox model).

If the free tier included iTunes media re-downloads and basic Settings sync, that could be compelling enough for most users. But what then would the premium version require to convert them to paying customers?

[AppleInsider, Digital Daily and TechCrunch]

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