Skype For iPhone Allowing Free 3G Calls For Now

If you are an avid Skype user like we are the Skype 2.0 update available today for iPhone is going to make you very happy.

I guess Apple, Skype and AT&T finally came to an agreement on allowing VoIP on the 3G. There is an ominous warning when you go to download Skype in the app store. It states, “Skype-to-Skype calls on 3G are free until at least the end of August 2010 after which there will be a small monthly fee.”

Well for the time being enjoy your free Skype-to-Skype calls over 3G. We are very excited for OS 4.0 and being able to leave Skype running.

Give it a spin and tell us what you think.

AmpliTube: The iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad app for practicing musicians

Are you a musician, gadget nerd, outdoorsy person, or gear head? Most of the time you’re either/or without much overlap. For the sake of this article, we’re going to look at gadget nerd/musician.

AmpliTube looks to be one of the easiest to use and fuller featured guitar/music apps for the iPhone platform that I’ve seen yet. Please, feel free to correct me. But what else could you call AmpliTube but “awesome” when you look at the specs.

• 11 stomps

• five amps

• five cabinets

• two mics

Mixing and matching effects and amps also adds to the novelty and versatility.

The AmpliTube app is free, however, the $39.99 adapter that actually allows you to plug in your guitar to your iPhone is not. But think about it, this app and hardware combo effectively turns your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad into a makeshift-almost-full amp simply by plugging your guitar! That I believe is worth the extra dough.

iPhone gets orientation lock, slide out iPod controls in latest Beta

Just when we were starting to thinking that the only new feature newest iPhone OS 4 Beta had over the one before it was that it.. you know.. works*, up popped this little gem.

As with all the OS 4 Betas that came before it, double tapping the home key bring’s up Apple’s app-switching drawer, offering up a list of recently used applications. In Beta 3, however, this drawer packs a few new tricks: iPod controls, and a much-clamored-for orientation lock option. This new page is accessed by swiping the drawer to the left from the first page, similar to how users go from Page 1 of the homescreen to the Spotlight search page.

Orientation locking is a feature that many users — primarily those who read in bed — have been asking for for ages. The iPad offered it up first, with the hardware switch near the volume keys locking the orientation rather than silencing the device.

* At least, it seems to work — there’s still no word as to why Apple just pulled it down