Promo Code Giveaway – Scanner Pro and BookReader

Happy Friday! This afternoon, we will be giving away five promo codes in our twitter account… twitter.com/iphoneschool. There will be three promo codes for Scanner Pro, an application that transforms the iPhone into a portable PDF scanner (check out a review of Scanner Pro HERE) and there will be two promo codes for Book Reader, a sleek, well designed e-book reader (check out a review of BookReader HERE). Continue reading »

New Poll – Do you think the launch of the DROID will negatively affect iPhone sales?

It’s time for a new poll. The last poll was – What app do you use to get jailbroke applications onto your iPhone and/or iPod touch? Below are the results.

* Cydia (77.0%, 2,372 Votes)
* Icy (2.0%, 68 Votes)
* Rock Your iPhone RockApp (7.0%, 200 Votes)
* Installer (4.0%, 112 Votes)
* I’m not jailbroke. (10.0%, 309 Votes)
Total Voters: 3,061

Well, it seems that the majority of jailbroke iPhone and iPod touch users prefer Cydia which really doesn’t surprise me too much. What does surprise me is that 7% of the voters use Rock Your iPhone (RockApp). I didn’t expect it to be that many.

You can still vote on this Poll in our Poll Archive page. You can also vote/view all the past polls on the Poll Archive page as well.

The next poll was inspired by tomorrow’s launch of the Motorola DROID.

AiS Holiday Product Review Marathon

We are about to start a Product Review Marathon! With the Holiday season coming up, we thought we would start reviewing iPhone and iPod touch accessories. Hopefully it will help you with some of your Christmas shopping! Below is a list (not a complete one) of some of the accessories we will be reviewing over the next month or so. We will keep you posted as we add more to the list.

Some of the up-coming reviews include;

- Dry Case iPhone & iPod touch Case
- Distinctive Style iPhone Cases
- Otter Box Commuter iPhone case
- Otter Box Commuter TL iPhone case
- iSkin solo FX iPhone case
- iSkin solo iPhone case
- iSkin revo2 iPhone case
- iSkin touch Vibes iPod touch case
- mophie juice pack air iPhone Battery Pack
- Scosche kickBACK iPhone case
- Joby: Gorillamobile
- Ten One Design: Soundclip
- ZOFUNK iPhone Cases

The first review, of the Dry Case, will be coming soon!

trichome – WinterBoard Theme

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

trichome is a very nicely designed WinterBoard theme that contains 39 small icons (some are alternate icons), a wallpaper, dock, badges, pop-up mod, live clock mod and page indicators.

I really like the live clock mod implementation. You do not have to have the actual LiveClock app installed for the live clock to work with this theme… it is built into the theme. The theme also contains an icon mask which resizes all icons (besides web clip icons) so that they match the themed icons. It also contains a detailed .psd file allowing you to create your own icons for the theme. You can get trichrome via the modmyi source.
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Comprehensive Video Comparision of the iPhone 3GS vs. Motorola DROID

I don’t know if you guys have seen this yet or not but, TechnoBuffalo recently did a very nice video comparison of the iPhone 3GS vs. the Motorola Droid. The video is just over 17 minutes long and covers everything from browser usability and speed to customization to maps to app availability.

I’m sure all the Droid ads may have peeked your interest… so, take a look. Personally, I’m partial to the iPhone… obviously!

For more info about Google Androids check out GoogleAndroidSchool.com
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Woot Buzz – Get Notified When Your Keywords Are Available On Woot.com

Available In: App Store

Price: Free

Woot Buzz is a simple application that will notify you when your keywords come up for sale at Woot.com, kids.woot.com, sellout.woot.com, wine.woot.com and shirts.woot.com.

This app is very simple… enter keywords and you will be notified via a free text message when those items become available on one of the five woot sites.

“When you item is found Woot Buzz sends you a free text message to your phone. This text message is absolutely free and you will not be charged for it.

Follow the link at the bottom of the message to visit the website that has your item for sale and buy it at a discount.”

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Volume Buttons Disable Hack

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Volume Buttons Disable is a hack that does exactly what the title says… disables your volume buttons. As soon as you install the hack, and your device resprings, the volume buttons on the side of your device will no longer work. I’m not exactly sure why you would want this but… there’s a hack for that!

If for some reason you do install this hack, you can always adjust your volume using the SBSettings Volume Slider Widget which allows you to quickly adjust your volume via a slider in SBSettings.
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Waveboard – Google Wave iPhone App Now Available in App Store

Available In: App Store

Price: $0.99

We first told you about Waveboard, a very simple front end for Google Wave, a few weeks ago while it was still in review. It has now hit the App Store and is available for $0.99.

The application in itself does not have push notifications but Waveboard has been integrated into Prowl and you can get push notifications that way. For more info on setting up push notifications check out http://www.getwaveboard.com

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Creative Pack – Wallpaper Pack

Available In: Cydia

Price: Free

Creative Pack is a wallpaper pack that contains 15 abstract wallpapers. Check out the screen shots below. Remember, when you install this wallpaper pack, the wallpapers are added to your stock Settings application under Wallpapers. You can get Creative Pack via the MacCiti source.

Note: If you would like to manually delete some of the wallpapers once you install the pack, you can ssh into the Library/Wallpapers folder on your iPhone or iPod Touch and delete them from there.
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Tweetie 2.1 Coming Soon

Available In: App Store

Price: $2.99

There are a lot of twitter apps in the App Store actually, there are quite a few good twitter apps in the App Store. Personally, I have always been partial to Tweetie and like many people I was totally stoked about the release of Tweetie 2. I’m still a believer in the app, but lets just say it has it’s bugs. So, I was once again stoked to hear about the update to version 2.1 of the app.

The update to Tweetie 2 version 2.1 includes quite a few bug fixes (thank goodness) and also quite a few cool new features. According to TechCrunch, there are two features that they think we will like the most; “New-style retweets and geolocation support.”
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