Video Review #97: Richard Solo Backup Battery Pack

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Rating: 9 out of 10
Pros: Slim and lightweight design, comes with wall charger and retractable USB cord.
Cons: It’s a bit awkward when attached to the bottom of the iPhone
Verdict: The Richard Solo Smart Backup Battery Pack is the sleek and sexy accessory that every iPhone owner should have on hand. For only $50, you can guarantee that your power hungry iPhone or iPhone 3G will have enough battery to make it to it’s next charge. I love this product so much that I’m going to bestow our Editors’ Choice Award for this product.

You can purchase this product directly from Richard Solo for $49.95.

Using your touchscreen in cold weather

Like most of you already know, you cannot use your iPhone’s touch screen with gloves on. This can be annoying for many who live in areas that get pretty cold in the Winter and you’re forced to wear gloves. Well Dots Gloves have come up with a solution that might work for some:

Perfect for winter usage and keeping touchscreen devices smudge-free, New York-made Dots Gloves offers simple affordable gloves adorned with metal dots enabling use of iPhone, iPod and other touchscreen phones and devices without direct finger contact. The dots’ smooth curved surface provides safe scratchless use.

These gloves are available in Knit ($15) and Ragg Wool ($20) in Regular and Large sizes.

40% off Invisible Shield

Invisible shield if offering 40% off on all their products on Halloween day.
Just use coupon code “scary40″. Invisible shield makes one of the best screen protectors and full body protectors for the iPhone. If you haven’t check one out yet, you should do so now.

App Review: Juxtaposer

The iPhone is becoming more and more advanced with its creativity applications. For a minor amount spent in the app store, one can create numerous cool photoshop-like projects with the plethora of creativity apps available. I have installed numerous photoshop-like applications on my iPhone and “Juxtaposer” easily beats them all with its phenomenal interface and brilliant capabilities to create numerous fun and cool projects. Juxtaposer basically allows you to combine your pictures, either from your camera or library, easily and efficiently. Essentially, the concept of this app is to take any element or component from one picture and add it to another. For example, have you ever wanted to put your face on the guy standing next to a celebrity to show off that you met that celebrity? Or perhaps you wanted to make it funny and add your dog or cat’s head to someone else’s body? The possibilities with this app are endless. Not only can you change “heads” but you too can change the background. Read the rest of this entry »

iPhone Firmware 2.2 Beta 2

Apple has seeded tonight firmware 2.2 BETA 2 to developers. One of the things found so far in this update is the ability to view Google maps in street view. This was originally found in BETA 1 although it was not enabled. You guys think this is a good idea?

Video Review #96: Vaja ivolution Top SP

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Rating: 8 out of 10
Pros: Completely customizable
Cons: High price tag
Verdict: If you visit BMAi often, it’s no secret that Vaja is my favorite leather case maker. The ivolution Top SP is no exception and if you can afford it, I think you’ll have a case that you’ll enjoy for a while.

You can purchase this product directly from Vaja for $85.

Do you want MMS on the iPhone?

You know you do! I’ll admit that I’ve gotten used to the idea of not being able to send picture messages and having to resort to email, but still there are those times that I wish I could send a quick snapshot to my wife or friend of some random image. Well I found this petition floating around the Blogosphere and I thought I’d post it on my site as well. I doubt that it will speed things up with Apple, but it can’t hurt to try

synthPond Music Toy

The app should become available in the App Store in the next few weeks for $1.99.

HanDBase coming to the iPhone

HanDBase, a longtime favorite on all other major smartphone platforms, has been modified to fit the unique characteristics of the iPhone platform. Finger-friendly navigation enables users to easily move between fields and records by swiping left or right on the screen. Also unique to this version is the ability to email records and integration of the popular HanDBase Gallery, an online repository of over 2,000 database designs that can be installed right from the device.

The company aimed to offer a full-featured version of HanDBase that does not require their full-featured  desktop component, which could not (for technical reasons) be bundled on the App Store.  Desktop versions for both Windows and Mac users are available at DDHSoftware.com, but the mobile version comes with a feature called “Desktop Connect” that enables users to access databases wirelessly through any browser. This feature lets users load and save HanDBase files to and from their desktops, import/export CSV files, and even transfer HanDBase files and sync between wirelessly connected iPhone users.

Video Review #95: Black Jack Pro App

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Rating: 7 out of 10
Pros: Cool graphics, endless game play
Cons: It’s not free
Verdict: I’m not a big fan of Black Jack (I’m a Texas Hold’em kinda guy) but if do like Black Jack, then I think you’ll be satisfied with Black Jack Pro for the iPhone.

You can purchase this product directly from the App Store for $5.99.