Ever wished you could take home a bit of the Apple store, with their cool displays that showcase the iPads and iPhones in all their glory? Well, now you can, with the iPad 2 Display Dock from newMacgadgets. Whether you place it on your desk at work for quick reference, on the kitchen counter to keep recipes close at hand, or on the coffee table at home for late night browsing, this high quality base will keep your iPad safe and functional.

Each one is made of high-quality clear acrylic with slots for headphones and charging cables and non-skid feet so you can route the charging cable underneath. Normally retailing for $69.95, newMacgadgets is running a holiday special on these for $29.95, making them a great last minute gift for the iPad lover in your life.

We have 10 iPad 2 Display Docks to give away this weekend, courtesy of newMacgadgets! To enter, leave a comment in the forum thread at the link below telling us how you would put this dock to use. One entry per person please. The contest is open until midnight Sunday, so hurry and leave your comment!

• Enter to win a free iPad 2 Display Dock

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!

PhotoPad by Zagg – @Alli_Flowers

I realize Zagg has an ulterior motive behind their app. They want you to create original artwork to turn into Zagg skins. Nothing wrong with that – Zagg skins are awesome. But this app is pretty awesome on its own.

I originally downloaded PhotoPad because I had an email I wanted to share in a public way, but needed to remove all personal information. I figured it would be simple to just draw a line through the text with one of the many photo editing apps I already owned. Not so fast! While they could all adjust hue, saturation, and crop till you drop, not one could just draw a black line over some text. PhotoPad can do this.

But I discovered that PhotoPad can do a whole lot more. Using any photo on your iPhone or iPad (it’s a universal binary), you can easily remove red eye, adjust your colour, add a filter, rotate, crop, resize…you get the idea. This is a rather full featured photo editor, and once you’ve finished editing your masterpiece, you can email directly from PhotoPad.

And of course, you can order your Zagg skin directly from the app.

• Free – App Store link

Relax and Sleep Well – @chrisoldroyd

If you are like me and suffer from a bit of stress and have trouble getting to sleep at night, this app may be for you. Relax and Sleep Well is very simple to use, you basically lie in a comfortable bed, put on your headphones and listen to the voice and music which gently relaxes you and helps you off to sleep.

It starts with some deep breathing exercises then you just relax and slip off to sleep, it’s that simple. Well it is for me anyway, I have yet to hear the end of the sequence; which lasts just 27 minutes. It is so relaxing to listen too and better still it is absolutely free! If you want a helping hand to relax and drop off to sleep, give this amazing app a try!

• Free – App Store link

Tweetlogix for Twitter – @andrewwray

I’ve used TweetLogix in the past as my main Twitter client for the iPhone, but ended up defaulting to Echofon Pro. Ultimately, after running into issues with Echofon, I’ve decided to switch back to Tweetlogix full-time — and for good reason.

The app has so many features that are missing from other popular Twitter apps that I've stopped looking for the "best Twitter app" altogether at this point. Tweetlogix is polished, extremely snappy and takes up very little system resources (RAM) despite everything it can do. When testing against some of the other popular Twitter apps, I discovered the memory footprint of Tweetlogix is roughly half of apps like Tweetbot and Twitter for iPhone, which is great for power users and those who like heavy multi-tasking.

One awesome feature I find myself using on a daily basis is the 'Now Playing' option, which tweets what track the iPod app is currently playing and includes an iTunes link for anyone interested in checking out the tunes you're into. This is particularly useful for me whenever I'm listening to my favorite podcasts for the week.

The app also features light and dark themes, inline image previews, customizable tap-and-hold actions for links and so much more. The feature list is so long, I'd need an entire article by itself to go over everything it can do. If you're looking for a low-priced and feature-heavy Twitter app that's also extremely responsive and well thought out, check out Tweetlogix — you won't be disappointed!

• $1.99 – App Store Link

Twittelator Neue – @iMuggle

I have Twitter client ADD when it comes to my iPhone (I’ve yet to find a killer iPad Twitter app). Up until recently I’ve been switching between the official Twitter app and Tweetbot. I’ve now been using Twittelator Neue on my iPhone and it’s by far the most gorgeous Twitter client I’ve ever used.

Everything from the user interface to how little things like swiping from timeline to mentions is done incredibly well. It doesn’t really bother me that it doesn’t have push notifications either. But if you want them, you could always use Boxcar or another service that supports them in order to supplement it.

If you haven’t checked it out yet, give it a look and let us know what you think. It’s currently available at an introductory price of $1.99. My guess is eventually it’ll go up to Big Stone’s normal price point of $4.99, so get it while it’s on sale!

• $1.99 – App Store Link

GTA III: 10th Anniversary Edition – @JorjLim

If nostalgia is what you want, grab GTA III: 10th Anniversary Edition for the iPhone/iPad.

When I picked up this game, it really took me back to playing it on my PC: The blocky graphics, the terrible car handling, the inability to swim (that's annoying) and no one can forget, the terrible police AI. The only thing missing from the mobile version of the game, are the cheats, which is a shame but doesn't take away from the fun.

The controls have been truly optimised for the touchscreen, which dynamically change when you're either on foot or in a vehicle, and they work surprisingly well.

I've also noticed a slight improvement in graphics on the iPad 2, compared to the iPhone 4, which might be due to the A5 processor, but that doesn't stop it from making it the most played game on my iPhone.

Unlike the original, there is an autosave feature, which saves the game wherever you are, if you exit the game. Which is useful if you receive that all important text and you don't want to have to start again at the safe house.

It's ONLY $4.99! Bargain.

• $4.99 – App Store link

Consume – @reneritchie

Duke Nukem. Textmate. Consume. These are the sequels the inter-world has been waiting for. Well, okay, Consume is neither as high profile nor as late as either Duke Nukem or Textmate sequels, but Bjango’s Marc Edwards did give TiPb a sneak peak at it way back at WWDC 2010 before putting Consume 2 on a bit of a shelf while dashing off to work on other projects. But like Duke Nukem and Textmate, Consume 2 has finally seen the light of day — from App Store submission to release in almost record time. It’s a holiday miracle.

Consume 2 picks up right where Consume 1 left off — letting you track all your accounts and all your usage data in one, convenient, gorgeously styled place. And the big news is the big screen — the new version is a universal app for full on, full size iPad support. How much information Consume can track depends entirely on how much your carrier, ISP, loyalty program, or other service surfaces online, but the folks at Bjango are continually working to make it do more, better, and make it easy for you to help them out.

If you have a lot to keep track of, let Consume do the heavy lifting for you. Free upgrade to existing Consumer users, ridiculously cheap purchase for new users. Get it now.

• $2.99 – App Store link

Oink – @llofte

Oink is a new app for rating stuff. Yeah, I know, there’s already enought of those. But this one is different because instead of just rating the place, you rate the items in that place. I’ve only recently started using it, but it’s pretty cool and I’d love to see it take off. There are so many times that I go to a restaurant that I know has good reviews, but I have no idea what to order from the menu. With Oink, I can look for reviews and pictures of specific entries on the menu.

I think Oink is a really great twist the to tradition review/ratings systems out there, but like with every similar app, it’s worthless if people don’t use it. So please use it!

• Free – 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!

Many of the most popular casual iOS games in 2011 were, in some ways sadly, the same games that were popular in 2010 — the same Angry Birds and Cut the Rope and Smurf’s Village and various Farm/Village/City/World franchises. But there were a few new gems and tweaked up favorites to be found this year too.

Tiny Wings showed that greats looks, simple gameplay, and killer concept still make for the best iOS games. Tiny Tower showed that new time-management games could still grab attention if done with attention to detail.

SPY Mouse brought some Firemint flare to the platform puzzler. DragonVale took the farming genre back to the days of legend.

Cut the Rope: Experiments showed last year’s great new games could be this years great new sequels. Minecraft meanwhile finally showed up on iOS, and while limited, it’s still Minecraft on iOS.

That’s a half-dozen choices across almost as many genres, but you can only pick one. Vote up top and tell us why you voted they way you did in the comments! These are your awards, so get to it!

According to a find by Mark Gurman over at 9to5Mac, Apple will refresh the stock iPad wallpapers when it eventually gets round to releasing iOS 5.1 to the public. iOS 5.1 is currently in its second beta phase and as there is no sign of a Gold Master release we have no idea when it will become available to all.

The latest iOS 5.1 beta 2 reveals four new wallpapers for the iPad. These are pictures of water lapping a sandy beach, long dew laden grass, water rings and a calm ocean view. The new wallpapers are only included in the iPad version of iOS 5.1 beta 2.

Many are speculating that that these wallpapers could be for the iPad 3; which is set to be released early next year. Of course the resolution of the new wallpaper is currently 1024 x 768 and not the Retina size we are expecting with the next generation iPad.

If you don’t want to wait, you can get them now via the link below.

Source: 9to5Mac

Going on vacation or just to someplace new and curious how to print out Maps driving directions so you can keep a hard copy handy? While the built-in iOS Maps app lacks turn by turn navigation, it does give you a visual map of your route and a list of directions. If you’re driving through an area with dodgy data service, or you’re just old school and want a physical copy, it’s easy to print out that list of directions. They can then be handed to your passenger without the need for them to have your iPhone in their hand and it saves your battery life too.

• First of all, you must have a printer that supports AirPrint
• Open your Maps application and enter your start and end positions

• Press the Route button
• The route will then be calculated and displayed graphically

• Tap on the curled up map options icon in the bottom right corner of the screen

• Select Print

• Select your printer
• Select the number of copies you want

• Hit Print

That's it, you will now have a printed set of driving instructions for your intended journey.

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