May 30th, 2010 by admin

With the power of the Apple promotion machine in constant full blast, it is easy to forget some of the straight “phone” goodies that are also on offer.

We have been happily reminded of this by the USA Network with their current invitation to join their White Collar Mobile Fan Club! Some of the goodies on offer include:

* iPhone Wallpapers: a new one each week!
* White Collar Watch to Win:  win customized White Collar  prize packs!
* Tune-in Reminders…etc

FYI:  The USA Network hit series, White Collar,  is produced by Fox Television Studios, Inc. - the TV production arm of the News Corporation’s Fox Entertainment Group. The show will start its second season in July 2010 (on July 13).

In the meantime, there are iPhone wallpapers, games, quizzes and other goodies on offer from the network.

Does it cost? Well these are sent as text messages so if you are on an unlimited plan - then NO. Otherwise, check your charges before you sign up!

And just for good measure, USA Networks are providing us with an opportunity to win an iPad each week till the end of June. USA Network are “powering” the  CharacterArcade site who are running the contest. Apart from being a USA resident, all you have to do is either play the “game of the week” once - or just email them with your name and address to go into the draw to win. There is no cost to entering this contest.

By the way, if you are a fan (and the iphonegizmo team are all devotees already!) then do their “profiler quiz” to find out which character you are most like! Here is my result:

He’s my favorite, somaybe that biased the results?!

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May 21st, 2010 by admin

We recently did a post revealing the huge range of free iPhone downloads that can now be downloaded to Ipad! Heaps of music (thousands), plus movies and TV shows. Check the post to find out all about it.

What’s more, 1477 Free Apps have been released for the iPad. This is across all genres with EzTweet Plus Friends being one of the first (released April 1st) and the Flickr Wallpaper app being one of the latest apps released for both iPad and iPhone .

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May 19th, 2010 by admin

There are already free iPad wallpaper apps in iTunes. In fact Photobucket had an App released on 1st April. But, despite beating Cool Wallpapers for iPad by a day, they have not been as popular with only 270 reviews (with average 3 star rating) compared to 2328 reviews  (also with average 3 star rating) for Cool wallpapers. It has also been pipped at the post by backgrounds HD which was released two weeks later but has had 1122 reviews (again 3 stars).

The fact that both these are the most popular wallpaper apps for iPhone has probably helped their acceptance with iPad owners.

Still, we suggest that both iPhone and iPad users can do better! There are some pretty exciting wallpapers on offer on other apps and outside iTunes. We suspect that these two apps have been so popular (the iPhone version of backgrounds HD has had over 179K reviews - with a whopping 3.5 star rating) because of the variety of wallpapers they offer. Single purpose wallpaper apps (eg, car wallpapers) have done poorly! Also, “do it yourself” wallpapers have not gone over well. It looks as if browse-select -click is what iPhone users, at least, are wanting.

So the release, yesterday, of the first Flickr wallpaper app (free, of course) for both iPhone and iPad may not get the attention it really deserves. This app allows us (iPhone and iPad users) to choose free wallpapers from some of the most stunning images from around the planet. How cool is this?

Of course, there are some web-based wallpaper sites that are also providing some stunning wallpapers for our iPhone and iPads. These are now often ignored as sources of wallpapers because of the simple browse-select -click action that apps allow us. But they do chew up less battery juice and give us extra options so are worth a look. Check this out:

Stretch yourselves folks - there are plenty of exciting images just waiting to be discovered and enjoyed!

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January 25th, 2010 by admin

Everyone knows that there is a lot of great - and sometimes truly marvelous - free downloads available for our iPhones in iTunes. Usually, the problem is finding them! Or even knowing about them!!

After one of the iPhonegizmo team saw this cute video on the YouTube, we decided to take a look and see just what free iPhone downloadswe could find for kids - music, videos (not likely), and stories. Happily for our readers,  we found some exceptional stuff!

We decided to do this post on one gold mine we found - literally hundreds of audio stories - suitable for pre-schoolers  as well as older kids. For example there are over 80 Aesop Fables, 19 Beatrix Potter stories, and half a dozen or so stories each by  The Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen

There are also some great stories for older kids.

The selection of Sherlock Holmes stories, for example, is bound to gladden many a heart! And there are heaps of other big-name choices.

So go check out the Lit2Go site and see just what is there.

You will have noticed by now that all the links in this post are to the site not to iTunes.  That’s because it is way easier to see just what is on offer on the web site (and some of the links in iTunes were incorrectly set) . But you can download your choices directly from Lit2Go on iTunes as well..

PS: We will be showing you more great free iPhone downloads for kids in the next post as well.

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December 23rd, 2009 by admin

 In our search for cool free iPhone downloads, the iPhonegizmo team has come up  with hundreds of thousands  of free MP3s and numerous ways to get free movies and TV shows.But we also found some other pretty cool iPhone downloads as we went about our search. As part of our continuing celebration of a million visitors, today’s post showcases the four best “non-mainstream” links that we found in 2009. They are:

1) Unlimited top-selling  free iPhone eBooks

2) 60 Free Comics for our iPhones

3) 27 Free - weird - iPhone wallpapers

4) Free make-it-yourself  iPhone ringtones

BTW - these are just the best - use our SEARCH feature to find others (you might like them better )

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October 29th, 2009 by admin

Its a while since we have done a post about wallpaper downloads for iPhones, but Halloween is always a good time to update our stock.

And we have some good ones for you:

First pick are the nine wallpapers on offer from  ismashphone (near the bottom of nthe post). All you have to do is click their image (to enlarge), then right-click the image, choose “save picture as”, and sync the photo to your iPhone via iTunes.

Second pick is from fondos10 - there is just the one, but we liked it. Just follow the same method given above to download the image to your iPhone.

Third pick: Saving the best till last, iPhlogger has given us 17 Halloween wallpapers to choose from!

So, depending on whether you go for scary or funny or attention grabbing - ya gonna find a good wallpaper from this lot, for sure.

Happy Halloween people!

And don’t forget to share!

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October 11th, 2009 by admin

So, as we have come to expect from Disney, Warner Bros etc - whenever a kids movies comes out, along comes a new iPhone App with all the usual freebies. We tend to only do a post on those we think are super cute, or have great graphics.

The team here at iPhonegizmo reckon the  soon-to-be-released movie Where The Wild Things Are, also has super cute graphics.

What’s more the Wild Thing App has a bit more than just the usual wallpaper (eg, left), trailers and clips from the film, clips of the  movie’s soundtrack and official movie posters. There is some fun animation of Carol - who the kids can have a dirt fight with, watch dance or eat “your photos and contacts”!

For good measure, Warner Bros also have a contest for the kids. All they have to do is sign up as a member! And, there is a sweepstake for the chance to win a wolf costume (cool Christmas presso)

Movie is due out on October 16th, 2009.

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