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!

Family Feud (& Friends) – @Alli_Flowers

If you’re a fan of the tv game show, you’ll probably enjoy this version on your iPhone or iPad. The sound and colors are just beautiful.

Game play is fast, and proceeds pretty much like it does on tv – without the kissing host. Some of the answers are pretty dumb, but then you have to remind yourself that of 100 people surveyed, some of them are bound to be pretty dumb.

You are matched against random people on Facebook – not necessarily your own Facebook friends. It just brings a feeling of competition. The hook into Facebook also means that when you go for the “Lightning round” you can request assistance from one of your actual Facebook contacts. Unfortunately, there is really no way of knowing which of your friends play.

• Free – App Store link

Cleartune – @sethclifford

This week’s pick isn’t going to be a very long one, but it’s a good one, especially if you play an instrument. I’ve used many iOS app tuners through the years, but the one I’m using now is likely to be the last, simply because it is so good and so well-designed, my eyes are forever blinded to other tuner apps.

Cleartune is a chromatic tuner that comes as a gorgeous universal app with a range of options for different settings and instruments. It’s both visually striking and shockingly accurate, compared to some of the other apps I’ve used. To tune, you can use the built-in mic on most iOS devices, or an external one on devices like the 2nd and 3rd gen iPod touch. The interface is clean and easy to understand, and what’s really nice is that you can launch and instantly tune using the most standard setting, or make any number of adjustments to modify the tuning to suit your needs. It supports some very advanced pro-level options, but you don’t need to use them to get value out of the app.

Since I got my Apogee Jam a few weeks ago, I’ve been trying out a lot of music apps, and this is one that’s earned a permanent slot on my iPhone and iPad. I only fire it up for short periods of time before I jump into other apps, but every time I do, I really enjoy its elegant design and simplicity.

• $3.99 – App Store link

IntelliscreenX (Jailbreak) – @andrewwray

IntelliscreenX brings unique enhancements to Facebook, Twitter, RSS, enhanced Mail and the iOS 5 Notification Center/Lock Screen. The app requires you to jailbreak your iPhone in order to get the additional functionality into your Lock Screen and Notification Center, but the added value is totally worth the effort.

IntelliscreenX is extremely powerful, letting users instantly access useful information on-the-go without having to jump into individual apps to retrieve information and perform tasks and status updates. As an example of some of the awesome things you can do, imagine pulling your iPhone out of your pocket and quickly [read: instantly] glancing at your Facebook newsfeed, sending a quick update and then making a passing comment on a friend’s post — all without even opening the Facebook for iPhone app. You can view inline comments on your friends Facebook status updates, as well as ‘Like’ anything you see on-the-fly with no delay whatsoever.

Same goes for Twitter, where IntelliscreenX lets you tweet, retweet and even @ reply someone without having to jump into any of the many Twitter clients available in the App Store. For Twitter, you can either view your regular timeline or drill down to only mentions of you, so you’re never left lacking on what’s currently going on with your Twitter friends and followers. The great thing about the Twitter integration is that you can set it to refresh every few minutes, so you’re never left waiting for your stream to update.

Adding RSS feeds is a breeze, and checking/clearing unread email items is extremely handy when you’re not able to take the time to check individual emails outside of the Mail app itself. One of the best features of IntelliscreenX, however, is the ability to collapse sections in Notification Center. Far too often am I left with an endless list of notifications in Notification Center, and the ability to collapse individual sections is a life saver for organizational freaks like myself.

In addition to the things I’ve mentioned above, IntelliscreenX also comes with a handy Notification Center widget called ISX QuickSettings — similar to SbSettings — that gives you instant access to toggles like Bluetooth, WiFi, Data, Orientation Lock, Respring, Brightness and more.

The app is $9.99 in Cydia, but trust me when I say it’s well worth the money. If you’ve been looking for a way to customize your Notification Center and Lockscreen, look no further than IntelliscreenX in Cydia — it’s hands-down the best option currently out there.

• $9.99 – Cydia Link

PhotoStudio – @jdipane

Taking pictures is a ton of fun on a device that has a great camera, and what I find to be even more fun at times is editing them in various ways. I don’t always want to have to break out my computer to edit a photo, or make a change, and that is why I like PhotoStudio. Sure, there are a lot of applications that allow you to change the image, some allow black & white, some with other affects, but this seems to put them all in one easy to access place.

With 194 different affects to add along with text labels and much more, this application is great for those of us who love to take a photo and make it look completely different. Integrated right with most of your favorite social networks like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and more the application makes sharing your new creations a breeze. Give it a shot, I bet you like it!

• $1.99 – App Store link

Twittelator Neue – @reneritchie

I use a lot of Twitter apps because a) I use Twitter a lot and b) I run an iPhone website so I have to, but I tended to always go back to Twitter for iPhone because it was simple, elegant and it fit the way I use Twitter and how my brain works. That’s an important consideration. For an end user, the user interface (UI) is the app. You can change a lot of things behind the scenes and as long as the UI remains pretty much the same, the app stays pretty much the same for the end user. Change the UI, however, and even if everything else stays the same behind it, it might as well be a whole new app.

So it was that when Twitter for iPhone went 4.0 and the interface changed significantly, it felt like I was no longer using Twitter for iPhone, and if I’m no longer using that app, I might as well check out a bunch of others. As I said, I’m familiar with a lot of them, have spent a great deal of time with some, but hadn’t touched others since they launched.

Twittelator Neue was one of those and in trying it out again this week, I was reminded how delightful it was. Pure eye candy. There’s a new wave of apps that are trying out new layering effects and physics, new animations and interactions. Twittelator Neue is one of those leading the way. This is not Apple’s Twitter client. It’s not flat an utilitarian like Mail or overly skeumorphic like Find my Friends. It’s glossy, it’s polished, it’s fresh, and it’s refreshing.

It doesn’t have the functionality of some other clients. It picks and chooses its battles carefully. More functionality will likely follow in future updates but I hope they keep curating it, keep it simple.

Either way, if you’re testing out new Twitter clients and you want to give your eyes a treat and your face a chance to smile, check out Twittelator Neue.

• $1.99 – App Store link

Save the Pencil -@llofte

One thing you may not know about me – I love puzzle games. I love all range of puzzle games, from the easy, relaxing games to the extremely difficult, brain-stretching ones. Save the Pencil is right in the middle. It’s fun, cute, a bit stress-inducing, and challenging.

The point of the game is to help the pencil, HB, draw lines between all the dots. Easy enough, right? Well, you must go through every blue dot once, and only once. The yellows dots must also be connected to, but can be used as many times as you want. The red dot? This is the dot that you must end on. That’s not all, though! You must also stay clear of the slew of enemies trying to break your lead, including paper clips, rulers, and erasers. As if that wasn’t enough, for those of with OCD, there are up to 3 stars you can collect along the way.

Seriously, this game is great. Oh, and did I mention? TiPb is giving away 5 promo codes! So go enter, or better yet, grab it now!

• $0.99 – App Store link

Diptic – @andy_mellor (Reader’s Choice)

Diptic is a really cool, simple app for creating photo montages.

The thing I love most about it is the simplicity! Choose from a pre-built layout (or amend one to suit) choose your pictures from your camera, library, Flickr or Facebook. Zoom and move it to fit the box and move onto the next pic. Theres a few effects you can use, like rotating and mirroring, change the borders etc. too. Then just export to your favourite social network or just save to your library.

I mainly use it for twitter to get more pics in one tweet and give a much better feel for what is going on. I recently went to see Coldplay and by the time I left the arena I’d tweeted this pic, gives such a good impression of the variety that was in the gig, much better than just one photo.

• $0.99 – App Store link

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 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!

EA is running a series of Daily Deals that includes discounts on many of their popular titles for iPhone and iPad. Many of these discounts are even offering the games for free! Now, we know how much our readers love a good deal, so we’ve gathered them all up for you – here they are!

• Saturday, 12/10: Flight Control for iPhone, Free – App Store link
• Sunday, 12/11: Dead Space for iPad, 50% off ($4.99) – App Store link
• Monday, 12/12: Mirror’s Edge for iPad, Free – App Store link
• Tuesday, 12/13: Scrabble for iPhone, $0.99 – App Store link
• Wednesday, 12/14: TETRIS for iPhone, 30% off select in-game content – App Store link
• Thursday, 12/15: Flight Control HD, Free – App Store link
• Friday, 12/16: Mirror’s Edge for iPhone, Free – App Store link
• Saturday, 12/17: Scrabble for iPad, 50% off ($4.99) – App Store link
• Sunday, 12/18: TETRIS for iPad, 60% off ($2.99) – App Store link

I’m going to be honest and say I’m a little confused about how EA is running these deals. They’ve implied that it’s one app per day, but all of these deals are available now! So go grab them all!

Source: EA Mobile

Here’s a cute little video, called Om Nom Stories, of the candy-eating little creature from the popular iPhone and iPad game Cut the Rope. Admit it, this video makes you want a pet Om Nom!

Speaking of Om Nom and his cuteness, ZeptoLab has given us some Om Nom plush toys to give away! Specifically, we’ve got one 5″, one 8″, and one whopping 16″ Om Nom to put into your Om Nom loving hands! For a chance to win, head on over to our forums and let us know what you love about Om Nom.

Seriously, how could you not love this face?

ENTER NOW!

In the mean time, if you haven’t already, go pick up Cut the Rope for iPhone or iPad and feed Om Nom some candy. He’s hungry.

• Cut the Rope, $0.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope HD, $1.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope: Experiments, $0.99 – App Store link
• Cut the Rope: Experiments HD, $1.99 – App Store link

ENTER NOW!

Last year Apple introduced a new product category with the original iPad, redesigned their signature handset with iPhone 4, refreshed the iPod touch, and unveiled the all new Apple TV 2.

This year they didn’t introduce a new iPod touch — though they did add white — or Apple TV — at least not yet. They also kept the same design for the iPhone 4S, but did make the iPad 2 thinner, lighter, and faster.

In addition to the new casing, iPad 2 got two new cameras (low-end as they may be), and was first to get the new, dual-core, Apple A5 system-on-a-chip.

iPhone 4S also got the powerful A5 SoC, a new, intelligently switching antenna, and a much better rear camera at 8mp and 1080p.

While visions of Retina display tablets, 4-inch phones, and full on televisions, this year you need to choose from what we got.

• iPhone 4S
• iPad 2
• iPod touch (white)

Vote up top and tell us why you voted they way you did in the comments! These are your awards, so get to it!

Apple Stores always have interesting displays around the holiday season and 2011 is no exception. While it might not be as fancy as the FaceTime Santa and elf chat from last year, the iPad side does show off a lot of what you can do to with your Apple tech this winter.

Kenu Highline is a unique accessory that looks to provide an element of safety when using your iPhone or iPod touch in extreme situations. If you are not adverse to taking your iPhone out with you when doing extreme sports such as climbing mountains or even bungee jumping then one of these could make everything that much safer.

Highline is a custom-engineered iPhone and iPod leash designed to let you capture that epic shot, stay connected with friends, and listen to tunes without worry of dropping your mobile device in extreme situations. Naturally, Highline is ideal for those absent-minded moments or a case of the butter fingers.

The Highline connects to your device via the 30 pin dock connector. It then has a 5" coil which extends up to a length of 30" if you drop your device. The device can be connected to your person via a strong loop system which can connect to belt loops, zips, carabiners etc.

If you are into extreme sports or just want that extra bit of insurance while using your device outdoors, this could be a very useful accessory. The Kenu Highline costs $19.95.

• Get a Kenu Highline from Amazon.com

 

Whether you’re using an iPad or another kind of tablet, holding it for an extended period of time while playing games, reading, watching movies, or web browsing will make your arms tired. And typing out long emails can prove difficult if you’re using one hand to hold your pad while trying to type with the other. Laying the tablet down flat on your lap or table isn’t much better.

Enter TAB Rests. Designed to work with any tablet, this simple foam base provides wrist support and holds your tablet at an angle ideal for typing, reading, gaming, and more! You can use TAB Rests on your lap or a table/desk, and it’s great for kids and adults alike. They aren’t super bulky, so you can easily pack one in a bag for travel or stow one in the car for the kids on those long road trips. I like that if you have a case on your tablet, you don’t have to remove it to use the TAB Rest, they can work together! You can pick up a TAB Rest for just $14.95 (plus s&h), and at that price why not get one to keep and one to give away as a gift?

We have 10 TAB Rests to give away this weekend, courtesy of newPCgadgets. To enter, leave a comment in the forum thread letting us know how you plan to use a TAB Rest if you win, or if you plan to give it as a gift let us know who in your life can benefit from having one of these in theirs!

We’re keeping this one short and sweet, so you’ll want to get your entries in before midnight Sunday. One entry per person please!

So what are you still doing here? Enter now!

Save the Pencil is a new, fun, little iPhone game. The goal is to guide HB, the pencil, through all the dots while collecting stars and avoiding the mean paper clips, rulers, and erasers.

This is a fantastic little puzzle game! You can only pass through the blue dots once, and the yellow dots as many time as you wish, but you must pass through them all before landing on the red dot. Throw in the obsessional part of you that insists on collecting all the stars and the stress of being chased by paper clips, and you have a real challenge on your hands! Not to mention, the graphics are just adorable.

You are HB; young, sharp and full of lead. A pencil on a mission to join the dots but there's a rebellion in the stationery cupboard! The paper clips, rulers, erasers and their friends are angry, and they'll do anything to stop you. Guide HB to safety and collect the bonus stars to unlock more challenging levels!

• Fun, addictive gameplay with plenty of variety. Tap the dots to move HB safely through each level.
• 60 challenging puzzles across 4 chapters will keep you tapping away.
• Full Game Center integration, with chapter leaderboards and over 20 achievements to earn.
• Collect three stars on every level. Some may be simple, but others are perplexing!
• Regular updates providing new levels and new enemies.
• End of chapter bosses offer a unique challenge.
• Different enemies interact with gameplay in different ways. Dodge paperclips, avoid spinning rulers, race erasers, and more!
• All your favourite stationery characters in one game!
• Full Retina Display support.

Giveaway

The good folks at Perfect Dimension have given us promo codes to give away to 5 lucky winners. For a chance to win, just leave a comment below!

Save the Pencil is available on the iPhone for $0.99.

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• iOS Accessories Forum: Giveaway: Element Case Vapor COMP Epiphany for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S
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