Okay so the PreCentral.net PalmCast called again (I’d changed my number, but that darn Synergy just yanked the new one right off of Facebook. Thanks Zuck!) and they’re like:

“Hey, iPhony, we have your precious little slab in the Round Robin this week, why don’t you come on and watch us torture it with multitasking?”

“Sorry,” I said. “I just received the script via email while I was on this call and now I’m tapping through the web-links without having to hang up on you, what were you saying?”

“How great this Google Voice connection is.”

“Really, sync’ed it over from iTunes, did you?”

“Side-loaded. Now shut it and listen — you show up for 8pm ET/5pm PT at http://www.precentral.net/palmcast-live and Dieter, Derek, and Keith will make sure you’re taken care of.”

“Dieter’s our editor-in-chief as well,” I said. “He loves all his children equally. He swears it.”

“Keep believing that, virtual keyboard boy. Gotta Sprint.”

Then it hung up. Or it needed to connect to the ‘net. Whatev.

But seriously, the 3rd Annual Smartphone Round Robin is on. Don’t miss PalmCast Live.

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TiPb Invades PalmCast Live Tonight for Round Robin — 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am GMT)

Fake Steve Jobs has had enough of AT&T and their “bastardly behavior over bandwidth usage” and so is launching a crowd-sourced, flash-mobbed, Rickson Gracie-style assault on their network called “Operation Chokehold“:

Subject: Operation Chokehold

On Friday, December 18, at noon Pacific time, we will attempt to overwhelm the AT&T data network and bring it to its knees. The goal is to have every iPhone user (or as many as we can) turn on a data intensive app and run that app for one solid hour. Send the message to AT&T that we are sick of their substandard network and sick of their abusive comments. THe idea is we'll create a digital flash mob. We're calling it in Operation Chokehold. Join us and speak truth to power!

TiPb commented on Fake Steve’s previous, glorious AT&T flamefest and Ralph de la Vega’s statements that lit the latest match in this particular powder keg.

Let us know how you feel about Operation Chokehold in the comments. Are you warming up YouTube, standing next to a cell tower, and just waiting to press “play”? Or is it just kicking a network when it’s (quite often) down at this point?

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]

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Operation Chokehold: Help Fake Steve Help You Hurt AT&T?

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Pastebot [$1.99 - iTunes link], the delicious-looking new clipboard manager from Tapbots brings their flare for fantastic, and fantastically original user interface to iPhone and iPod touch cut, copy, and paste. (And, yes, insert — it took Apple 2 years and a 3.0 to give iPhone users the much-requested clipboard function to begin with — sarcasm here).

The usage case is simple and elegant — anything you’ve copied or cut to the iPhone clipboard is automatically added to Pastebot when you launch the app. Up to 99 such clippings can be stored at any one time, and inside Pastebot you can title them, organize them into folders (for example, keep email boilerplate handy), copy them back to the clipboard, share them (including via embedded email, which makes that boilerplate incredibly functional), search them (on Google), and even run some automated actions on them like changing case, decoding and encoding HTML, find and replace, quote, etc. Images can also be brightened, converted to B&W, inverted, etc. And Mac users can get the free desktop companion for sync’y goodness as well.

TiPb was able to try it out for a few days already, and I liked it enough to run out and buy it on launch (disclosure — I’m an easy mark for great design and functionality).

Like Weightbot and Convertbot before it, Pastebot is a powerhouse in a delightful robot candy shell. By the same token, some may argue Tapbots trades speed-of-use for joy-to-use and that’s certainly valid. If you didn’t appreciate the robotic gimmick of their previous fare, you likely won’t enjoy it here either. However, if you’re serious about your clipboard and love you some innovative interface, check out Pastebot and let us know what you think.

Gallery after the break!

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Pastebot Brings Robotic Clipboard Awesomeness to iPhone Cut, Copy, Paste

It's time for some good old forum action. From the Forums is a great way to see what all of the current hot topics are on the TiPb forums. In order to create any new threads of your own or reply to any of the existing threads, you must be a registered member. Becoming a member is a simple process that will only take a few minutes out of your day, so if you have not already already done so, head on over and register now.

• Our good friend from PreCentral.net, Dieter, needs your help. He’s been stuck using the Palm Pre for so long he’s forgotten all about his iPhone. Help answer some of his questions in this thread here!
• We’ve heard some rumblings of iPhone 3.1.3, so it made us wonder what Apple may have up their sleeves for us but an even bigger question is when will 3.1.3 actually be released?
• How many of you have left your iPhone to go to another platform just to eventually go running back to your lonely iPhone? Come on, we know you are out there… This is the thread for you.
• Jailbreaking is always a popular topic and lately it’s been on fire. That being said, be sure to visit our iPhone Jailbreak and Unlock forum for some great conversation.

See you on the forums!

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From the Forums: Help Dieter, iPhone 3.1.3, Returning to iPhone, Jailbreak & Unlock

Cellar [$2.99 - iTunes link] is a gorgeous app that lets you manage your wine collection on your iPhone or iPod touch, and with version 2.0 just now hitting the App Store, it’s pairing some interesting new features:

• Search (based on any data) and sort (type, region, vintage, price, or rating)
• Wishlist and trash (hey, you can’t have your wine and drink it too).
• Backups, restores, and merges for added data safety.
• Share bottles via Email (and others ways, not fully supported yet, but tweet-tastic none-the-less).
• A bunch of new bottle styles, labels, and fields like “drink by”, and “pairing”, and support for blends, name and wine type.

Truth be told, I’m more UI and function geek than wine aficionado, but the team behind Cellar continues to nail both niche and presentation to a degree I want to go buy more vino just to store it on my iPhone. TiPb was able to taste-test Cellar 2.0 for a few days already and it works as good as it looks. Bottles sent to us by email arrived in our cellar perfectly; whole backups were restored flawlessly, and yes we felt sad for those empties we kicked over to the trashy curb.

Cellar comes by way of the same finer-things-in-life folks who created Barista for coffee loves, so you know they enjoy their beverages. If you’re an iPhone user, wine is your passion, and you just love apps-as-art, check out Cellar 2.0. Then hoist a few bottles and let us know what you think.

Gallery after the break!

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Cellar 2.0 is iPhone Wine Management Aged Well

It was bound to happen, but with Toshiba announcing that it’s managed to cram 64GB of NAND flash memory onto a single chip, we can now officially start the rumors of a 64GB iPhone and 128GB iPod touch… perhaps as soon as next year’s 4th generation models if prices get low enough fast enough.

The iPod touch doesn’t have to worry about all the phone-related radios, and so has double the slots for memory, and will likely always get twice as much storage as the iPhone. Question is, at 128GB might Apple finally retire the veteran (and last) hard drive-based iPod classic?

9to5mac also posits those same chips would work mighty fine in a mythical iTablet in lieu of an SSD drive.

Apple typically releases new iPhones in June/July, new iPod touches in September, and hasn’t announced any iTablets… yet.

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64GB 4th Gen iPhone, 128GB 4th Gen iPod touch Next Year?

Ars Technica puts font to screen explaining how, even after the jump to version 10.6 Snow Leopard (and several updates), Apple’s own Mac OS X Server still fails to integrate push notification and other compatibility for the iPhone:

The iPhone’s e-mail, contact, and calendar features integrate poorly into a Mac OS X Server environment, and even after Snow Leopard Server’s (SLS) release, they continue to lack instant push delivery capabilities for e-mail, contacts, and calendars to an iPhone from a Mac server. Irony of ironies, the iPhone works better in a Microsoft Exchange world than with Apple's own server.

Mind boggling. Read the whole article for the technical details and if you’re Apple, let’s get that fixed, shall we?

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Apple’s Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Server Not Playing Nicely with iPhone?